niche – Paul's Tech Talk

Misconceptions of Affiliate Marketing

PaulJuly 17, 2009

Earlier today I was chatting with Mike Smith, from Miketechshow.com. Mike was saying how unreliable it is to have links being displayed on his site. He also talked about how he wasn’t making a lot from those links. He also talked about wanting a sponsor and not affiliates. I say if he could affiliate market on his podcast he’d start earning money. So I figured I would offer some great tips to get the Click through conversion rates that work for me:

Cater to Your Nich market — If you don’t know you audience how can you know what they are looking for. Having a site for famous Gossip could cater to Clothes and Jewerly. This is the first thing you ned to do to start making some kind of money from affiliate marketing.

Keep reminding your Audience about your Market — Like Me I keep reminding people about all those good [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Anti-virus software[/intlink] that can be valuable. To get people to click on your link you sometimes have to remind them that it is there. This helps get a residue income from your niche audience.

Recommendations do create sales — if you recommend a product that creates click through and creating a trust between the writer and the Readers. This gives the readers a reason to come back and stay a while. If they start trusting you that means they will may click on other recommendations.

Create a affiliate sneeze page — This sounds nasty but having affiliate links on specials in your niche market helps drive traffic to your links. Like I have a page for [intlink id=”2740″ type=”page”]Cricket Specials[/intlink], it helps keep people coming back and buying through you because it makes it easy to find what they want.

These are just a few that have worked for me there are vast number of websites talking about Affiliates and why they will not work or they talk about making millions. There are truths in everything you read weather you read comments that affiliate don’t work but that is a misconception because those who say that are people who don’t really understand it or grasp it. If you aren’t seeing the big picture or thinking a few years down the road then you will never make any substantial amount of money from Affiliate marketing.

There are a lot of techneaks that people use to get more affiliate sales or commision but it is something you have to do and consider the reprocutions of some of these actions. I talk about email spam, although, 12 percent of people have opened this is bad practice for affiliates because this create a bad taste in consumers mouth. This also hurts other people who are trying to get clicks because of the bad taste that prevents those consumers from clicking and maybe create a negative public relations.

Do it right and you could create a great market place for your audience and also create income that keeps coming every month.

5 Steps in Finding the right Affiliates!

PaulMarch 9, 2009

So you want to make Money with your blog but don’t know how? I thought I would share with you what I’ve learned in the past few months to earn enough money to pay for the space and web address. I’ll go through each step talking about steps:

First you will need to explore all the great Affiliate programs like OpenX, TMIWireless, Adsense, Converseon, and Commision Junction. There is of course even more out on the Internet, but these are ones that I like and have given me some insight as to Commission and Affiliate marketing. I have been using TMIWIRELESS and Converseon more and more. I still have Adsense but you have to get a balance on Advertising and what people are wanting.

Find the right fit for you blog and talk about the products you like the most. I like TmiWireless because you give out free phones and still get money in return and Converseon for recommending Cell Phones. You should figure out what does better, and always keep looking. There are more than a few out that will work for you better. If you know one that I should look into let me know.

[ad#ad2-right]Remind readers about the affiliate programs so others can find them and blog about them. It can also help with people coming to your site because the will encourage other people to check out what you’ve written and your recommendations. You should come up with ways to promote your affiliates and encourage users to click on them and buy stuff from them. This has brought in money by having them searched and indexed by Google. You should find a niche that you have very little competition in, that way you get most of the traffic in for your self.

Create a Sneeze page, although this sounds rude, it is really a page talking about having helpful topics around your products or have them for people to find even more information about your affiliates. Just like I have a Malware Resource, and Cricket Resource, also Cricket Reviews. These will make it much easier for people to find what they are looking for and make it more enjoyable for the reader. It also encourages people to come back and stay a while.

Although this is overlooked it is sometimes necessary to remind your readers about affiliates and talk about a product in detail by asking them to comment on a articles and encourage them to link to you. This will bring in even more people to look at your blog and your reviews to get your page views higher and get more people to click your affiliate links.

I’ve not followed these steps very well in the beginning of starting my blog but I have learned a lot since then. I’ve also learned that you need to update your blog on a weekly or even daily to basis to keep readers to come back. You should always keep searching for even better affiliates to make your blog better. You can also start advertising your blog by yourself without the middle but that is of yet I’ve not done enough on. I will in the future when I get more experience under my belt. I hope this has helped you in some way.

Understanding Adsense for the Beginner

PaulFebruary 7, 2009

So you have a website and you’d like the site to pay for itself. That can be arranged it however depends on your website performance. You see you won’t make a lot of money if you don’t have several things going for you. I thought I share with you my experience with making money through Adsense. As you saw, I made enough money to pay for the website for 5 years. It isn’t hard to make money it is however very difficult to keep getting the money. Most people don’t know the tricks to making money with Google’s Adsense.

I’m here to help you out a little with understanding it and getting even more money from your adsense. So here we are 3 months into to putting Adsense seriously on my site and let’s take a look shall we:

As you can see I started off quite slowly as I figured out how to best do it but gained momentum after that. First Month I made $17.19 and the Second Month I made $45.57, the last month I made $64.99 totaling $127.75 leaving me with 16.75$ from the few previous months that I tinkered with Adsense. So where do you start? I found that to be the hardest part, because of the complexity of where I could put the ads. I tried having strips breaking up the text in my blog post that really didn’t get me hardly any clicks. Then I started to incorporate the Adsense into the posts. I learned how to do it through a great blog post and I’ll talk about that later. Here’s what you need to know right now though:

Create good content — This goes without saying that if you don’t have good content people will never find your site. There are a multitude of ways to create content. Some of the most useful for me is How-to, finding a Niche, and Also just blogging about what you passionate about. These will often draw people to your website.

Gjaylaramieet people to link to your post — This will help with search engines because they do some math to figure out if your a real site and how trustworthy your site is on the internet.

Use Microblogging — It is well known people use Twitter, Friendfeed, and others a like to tell people what they post about. It can be great place to help promote your blog and get people to come more and more to your site.

Try not to annoy the users with Ads — This is the most important if you want people to come back to your site you should make sure you don’t send people away from your site. People will not want to come back if you annoy them to much. So it is essential that you keep them happy.

Find a good blog theme — A good theme helps bring people to your site by making it easier to read and find what they are looking for. You might also consider making a sneeze page to keep people coming back to your site. This will help your readers and make it more of your own. You might also want to buy a theme for your blog sooner or later.

With These tips and tricks you too could be on your way to having a great blog. I would be willing to bet that soon I will be triple that amount if I keep up with what I am doing. I hope you tell people about this blog and let people know how good this blog is for you. Remember only you can prevent virus infections.