Aug 19 2008

Blogging is Internet Marketing Tool

Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s.  It used to be a way to comment an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice out one’s opinion on the said page.  What started as a single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages of personal take on just about anything and everything under the sun.  As it continues to move forward, online advertising has tapped into the blog’s potential.  Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging as an Internet marketing tool. 

1.Blogging is simple.  The simplest way to get your piece on the net is through blogging.  No skills are necessary… an average adult can read and type, or at least click a mouse.  It’s like having a virtual piece of paper and you just write your ideas, experiences, new products, and hope that the truth behind your articles comes out and entice your reader to also try your product.  If you have a PC and an Internet connection (who doesn’t?) then you can blog and advertise.

2. Blogging is authentic.  In this day and age where advertising saturate our lives, we question the credibility of promoters’ claims.  However, in blogs, real people share their real-life experiences, unscathed by paid advertising.  Reading blogs about first-hand product use is like talking to people about their first-hand experience.  You definitely want to buy a tried and tested product.

3. Blogging is free.  Because blogging is yet to be proven as a mainstream online advertising media, most sites see it as something to augment current marketing tools and thus offer it for free.   Any opportunity for free webtime is definitely a bonus especially to businesses that are starting up.  Needless to say, paid blog pages can generate more income for your seriously growing business.

4. Blogging builds credibility.  As you get more and more into writing your experiences on a particular product or industry, your readers come to realize that they can depend on your posts for their own information needs.  As such, you become an expert on it; as a consequence, more readers visit your site and more bloggers link to your blogs.  As companies and professional organizations notice the growth of your readership base, they may soon get in touch with you for advertising on your blog page, or make you an affiliate, which pays for every referral generated from your blog site.

5. Blogging builds your market.  Unless you are a Hollywood star, chances are, only your Mom reads your posts.  Mom has a lot of friends, so she lets her friends know how interesting your blog site is.  But you need not depend on Mom to increase your readership base.  Look into the following ways to build your market through blogging:

-By using your e-mail.  Today, blogging is overcoming the e-mail’s popularity in quickly and effectively reaching and expanding a market.  In this age of speed and quick access, logging in and downloading e-mail is simply taking longer than clicking into a blog site.  Let them explore your site by using a short e-mail message as teaser to your blog site.  If your e-mail is on an entirely different subject, use your e-mail signature to give a link to the site.

-By using subscription.  An easy way to get your readers e-mail is to give them an opportunity to subscribe to your blogsite.  Keep some exclusive information for your subscribers to entice readers to subscribe and give their e-mail address.  Just be responsible in using their e-mail address, as the last thing you want is a comment on your blog that you are a spammer.

-By understanding your readers.  Conduct a simple survey for your readers to understand their profile and advertising preferences.  Ask consumers to give you feedback on a post, an ad link, or a trial that you shared.  In this way, it is like interviewing your readers without the commitment and intrusion of a face-to-face interview.

-By joining a blog network –A network of blogs maybe a collection of blog sites that share the same industry, interest, readership base, payment mode, etc.  Consumers find credibility and convenience in clicking one link to several real bloggers about a single subject.  Clearly, more bloggers are better than one.

-By using RSS. RSS is the fastest growing technology on the Internet today.  As such, having RSS feeds to your blog is definitely another means of generating awareness for your readership base.  Having a variety of feeds can add interest to your blog site. 

Give your business a boost by effectively using blogging as an Internet marketing tool.

Aug 11 2008

Test Landing Page With Google Optimizer

Google Optimizer is free if you have a Google Adwords account (. Begin by signing in to your Adwords account and selecting the Campaign Management tab. Next, choose the Website Optimizer tab. The first time you access Google Optimizer you will need to click on the Get Started button to continue where you will be asked to sign up for an Analytics account (just a simple “I agree” to the terms and conditions). You will now find yourself on the Experiment List page, which will display summaries of your experiments (once you have created some). Click on Create New Experiment to begin your first test.

1. Choosing the page you want to test

The first thing you need to do is to identify a web page you want to test. For example, this may be your homepage or product detail page

2. Create alternate versions of your test page

You will need to have a unique URL up and running on your site for each different version of the page you wish to try. These should be similar and make sense since you will want to keep these URL’s active after testing to accommodate users who may have bookmarked your site at that URL. An example with the homepage would be www.yourwebsitehere.com/home for  one page and yourwebsitehere.com/homepage for another. Optimizer will randomly show different users the different pages and track the results

3. Identify your “THANK YOU” page

This is an established page on your site that your users reach when they have completed a conversion. A conversion might be making a purchase, signing up for a newsletter or whatever

Aug 7 2008

Google AdWords adding New enhancements on the Google content network

Google AdWords has announced that it is adding New enhancements on the Google content network it will be available in the coming months

what news ?

 

  1. Frequency Capping: Enables advertisers to control the number of times a user sees an ad. Users will have a better experience on Google content network sites because they will no longer see the same ad over and over again.
  2. Frequency Reporting: Provides insight into the number of people who have seen an ad campaign, and how many times, on average, people are seeing these ads.
  3. Improved Ads Quality: Brings performance improvements within the Google content network.
  4. View-Through Conversions: Enables advertisers to gain insights on how many users visited their sites after seeing an ad. This helps advertisers determine the best places to advertise so users will see more relevant ads.

this is great new .you can see how many ad viewers have visited your site from another site on which your ad was displayed and check real reporting

Aug 6 2008

Tips to Choosing a Affiliate Program

When selecting an affiliate program to join you need to know how to choose a successful affiliate program

Look at associateprograms.com This is the affiliate central of affiliate programs. You can virtually guarantee to find a successful program

Affiliate resource sites usually offer their best affiliate programs. As affiliate resources sites are specialists in affiliate programs you can be pretty sure of choosing a
successful affiliate program from them

Think of things that ALWAYS sell. Like web site design, ebooks, music and travel. Stick to proven online sellers and the affiliate program will have a much greater chance of being successful

Seek out articles on affiliate programs. There are many good writers out there who have been successful with affiliate programs. Try to find articles they have written to see what
has worked for them.

Many sites offer free online email courses for affiliates. Take some of these courses to learn more about what it takes to be a successful affiliate

Affiliate programs are a great way to make money but need choose the right program in the first place

Aug 4 2008

Using Yahoo Answer Generation Free Traffic

If you are an internet marketer then you should know by now that traffic is the lifeblood of your business and without it you stand no chance of surviving. There are literally hundreds of ways to get traffic to your website, but we don’t want any old traffic, we want free and targeted traffic so we can fully maximise the potential of our websites.

My favourite method of traffic generation is by utilizing the power of article writing and submission. It’s by no means a unique method, but it is highly effective. Not only does article submission generate traffic for your website through the use of an author resource box, it also boosts your search engine ranking because of an increased number of link backs to your site.

An article can be written in around 30-40 minutes and submitted to hundreds of directories with just a further 10 minutes work. There are many services around which will automatically submit your article and resource box and these come at very reasonable prices. The excellent thing about articles is there unpredictability. One article can generate you hundreds of visitors, while another can generate tens of thousands if they get picked up by other sites and list owners.

Another excellent method of free traffic generation is by answering questions on Yahoo Answers. This is a site where members ask questions they are struggling to find an answer to and fellow members answer as best they can.

In your answer, you are permitted to include a link to a website (your website if you like). Many people will read your answers and will follow your link.

This is also a great method to promote affiliate products. Many people will ask for help to do with a particular subject, I’m sure you could find a product that suits this need and answers their question. You can then become an affiliate of that product, post your link and perhaps the person who asked the question – and others who were reading the question and answers – go on to purchase the product.

this method excellent for boosting Yahoo search engine ranking and it generates many link backs in all of the major search engines.

Jul 31 2008

Find The Perfect Affiliate Product To Promote

How To Find The Perfect Affiliate Product To Promote      

Affiliate marketing is extremely hot right now. What could be better than having someone else create a product and you take 50% or more of all profits you generate for it.

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Selecting a profitable affiliate product is the most important thing that you will need to do as an affiliate marketer. Select the wrong product and your marketing efforts will be wasted on a product that fails to convert the traffic you generate into buyers, and therefore commissions for you.

The first thing you must consider is whether to promote physical or digital products. This decision depends on two things: your market and the products available to promote.

 

The other thing you should consider is the products available for promotion. In some niches there are no digital products to promote and therefore physical product promotion is the way forward. There will always be physical products available to promote because of the option to become an Amazon affiliate and promote any product on their market place.

Another thing you should consider when promoting an affiliate product is the price and commission that you will receive per referred sale. If the price is set too high, then the conversions may be poor. Remember, you aren’t paid for sending traffic you’re paid for sales. If your commission is too low then it may not be worth sending the traffic. For digital products, you should not promote if the commission is below 50%.

You should also consider the sales page for the item. If the sales page is untidy and does not present the product in its best light, then it’s not likely to convert visitors to sales and you’re not going to earn many commissions.

If the product’s sales page has an opt-in form, then you should try and avoid promoting these products. If a visitor you send to the sales page signs up for the sellers’ newsletter, then the seller will follow up using an eCourse and the buyer may purchase the product and you not credited for the sale.

The final thing you must consider is whether the product suits your customers’ needs. It must be related to your websites or products, but not be in direct competition with you.

Jul 30 2008

Setup Google Adwords Advertising Account

Google has a Sign-up Wizard that assists you in creating your very own ad campaign in just four easy steps. You will target customers, write your ad, choose your keywords, and set your spending limit

Here are the two basic premises of Adwords functioning

You only pay for visitors that click on your Google ad.If no-one clicks on your ad, you don’t pay, that’s it

Your ads are displayed in the search engines according to what people are searching for

how to actually sign up and set up your Adwords account

Go to: http://www.google.com/ads

click on the link that says Google Adwords. Then you’ll be taken to a page that looks like this:

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Once you click Start Now you will proceed to a couple of pages asking you how you want to set up your advertising group with Google

So once you have clicked on the Start Now link, you will  proceed to the page below which will ask you what type of Adwords account you want to create:

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Select Standard Edition or starter edition and then click Continue.

Create your first campaign

First, you will be asked to select the language you want to advertise:
Target Customers by Language. Simply make the selection of the language of the country you want to advertise in, which in most cases, will be English

you need to edit the Target Customers by Location section by hitting Change Targeting.

Once those are selected, hit Continue.

Once you hit the Continue button again, you will  be prompted to construct the advertisement for the website you are promoting.

Create Ads

You need fill all form

headline

Description 1

Description 2

display url and destination url (google allow direct link)

choose keyword

electing the right keywords for your campaign is the number one
factor that determines your success or failure.

Budget

Google now wants to know What is the most you would like to spend  per day?

 

If you are new i recommend start your daily budget at $5-$10.

In the next section, you will  be asked to consider: What is the maximum you are willing to pay each time someone clicks on your ad?

It’s probably best to set you maximum cost per click in the vicinity of $0.10 to $0.50 per click

After hitting the Continue button, you will proceed Signup Page

If you don’t have one, then simply select the second option on the page, and it will allow you to use an alternate email

Fill all form require and click create account

Google will then ask you to verify your email address. To do this, simply log into your email account and find the email Google just sent you

You then need to click on the activation link at the top

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Hit Continue’and login

When Login google will ask you review ads first or enter Billing information

Billing information

select the country or territory of your billing address, as well
as a time zone, and promotional code (if have it ), and then hit ‘Continue’:

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Select the appropriate payment method for you, and hit Continue  You will then proceed to a page where you enter all of your credit or   debit card details, and once you are done that, and confirmed
Your ads AdReady running

Jul 29 2008

make money with Youtube

Youtube.com is the world’s leading website to share videos with friends and the rest of the world. Youtube is also one of the top websites in the world, which means that it is one of the most visited on a daily basis. The service is free, you can upload a video and the system will automatically convert your video to flash system and the systems automatically assigns a unique url for your video

How do we make money with Youtube?

just create an online video about a niche website to promote. People watch it and if they are interested enough, they will click the link or type in the url you are promoting

We created a video to promote our ringtones website. We started showing how get ringtones or funny ringtones in the youtube video . At the end of the video, we displayed a message with the url address of our website. People who were interested automatically typed in the browser our website url or clicked the link you are allowed to insert into the video’s description

i received over 5,000 clicks/visits and made a profit of over $500 in just two weeks, and all that traffic was for Free

you will not only receiving traffic from not just youtube, traffic can come from google, msn, yahoo

Tools And Software Create Video

http://www.JumpCut.com
you can upload your video clips and you can edit them online, add music, photos, text, transitions and publish it.It is truly an amazing website

Video Editing Software

Final Cut Pro

Ulead Media Studio Pro

Adobe Premiere

Video Watermark Factory

Your profits will double and you don’t need to pay for clicks

Jul 25 2008

New Ad Network - Performancing Ads

PerformancingAds

Yesterday Performancing announced the launch of their new ad network PerformancingAds. The networks main focus is the 125×125 banner format this is the most popular ad size of  bloggers at this times

PerformancingAds is not like all the others. the program that make them unique

Publishers

The registration  is  easy. All you enter is your name, email and paypal email address and click submit

 

There are two features for Publishers

Create and book your own ads

In addition to selling ads, all blog publishers can book their own 125×125 ads. You can use PerformancingAds to promote affiliate offers on your site

 

Exchange Ads

this is a  banner exchange service.. You can create as many exchange ads as you want and target any category you want.Earn credits when advertisements are booked in your regions and Use those earned credits to have your own exchange ad displayed on other publisher sites

Advertisers

dvertisers have the option of using a text or image to advertise their website. Link text and image alt text are limited to 30 characters.At this time PerformancingAds are offering $25 off your first purchase of $100 or more

 

 

affiliates

You get $10 for each new publisher or advertiser you refer plus 5% recurring revenue on all advertiser.They have banners  4 ad sizes : 468×60, 728×90, 125×125 and 300×250

Payment

you get paid on the 1st of the month via PayPal immediately following the advertisers purchase

 

If you want make money or promote your site why not check PerformancingAds now

Jul 25 2008

Twitter Tools must have for Wordpress Blogs

 twitter-thumb Twitter Tools must have for Wordpress Blogs

Twitter is causing quite a buzz in the blogosphere. everyone is talking about it. Twitter is a social discovery and real-time status update service that allows members to inform each other about what they are doing

Here are some useful tools  for Twitter users

Twitter Badge - Official javascript codes that display badges showing what you are posting on Twitter

TwitterFeeds.com - This is an easy, simple and straight forward service which works with the feeds to publish to Twitter. Login to TwitterFeeds.com with an Open ID, add your twitter account details and add feeds which will be published on Twitter

Twitter Updater

Twitter Updater is a Wordpress plugin which connects the blog with your Twitter account. Once installed you an choose to

Update Twitter when a new post is created (saved but not published)

Update Twitter when the new post is edited (re-saved but not published)

Update Twitter when the new post is published

Update Twitter when the an old post has been edited

Twitter Wordpress Sidebar Widget - Customise the number of updates shown in your sidebar, individual links to each status update on Twitter

RSS to Twitter - is a PHP script to feed RSS to Twitter

Twitter Tools  - This plugin does not only send twitter updates when the blog is update but it also does it the other way round, it adds a new post to your blog every time there is a new Twitter Update

SimpleTwitter - is a plug-in for WordPress which enables WordPress blog owners to easily add Twitter messages to their templates

If you like Please   add me to your Twitter  : http://twitter.com/mrfighter

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