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Sometimes a Failed Affiliate Marketing Campaign Can Be Useful
Posted by: | CommentsThe true key to success in anything, affiliate marketing included, is persistence. The cases of “instant success” are the ones where some lucky Joe just blunders into an open niche and gets stupidly rich are – in all likelihood – preceded by a string of failures. Nobody really gets it right the first time.
Even if you have been at it a while and had a lot of successes, you’re bound to eventually encounter a failed start. Even though you’ve spent all kinds of time and energy during research and development, you sell a dud. Every so often, duds waiting to happen will get through. As long as it wasn’t such a spectacular failure that you’re off to the poor house, you can get something from it.
An Example: A Blocked Affiliate Link
Let’s say, for example, that you create an affiliate link that a person can post in their blog. During the testing phase, it makes bank. Everyone gets excited about the idea, and you decide to sell this product. At first, everything goes well. The next thing you know, your customer support desk starts sending up complaints that the program doesn’t work. Eventually, you find out that the blog server is blocking your software.
Now, since you promised a money back guarantee, you find yourself having to pay everyone back. You try to save the project, but Read More→
Bing and Twitter are Getting Traffic to Your Website
Posted by: | CommentsBing, the website that’s being touted as Google’s staunch competitor, has given you a new tool for getting traffic to your website. There are also plans for doing a similar thing with Facebook. Do a Bing search for “Twitter,” and see what I’m talking about.
The First Thing You See In the Bing Search
Once you’ve done this Bing search, what’s the first thing you see? You see Tweets given by Twitter. What’s more, you may get to see mentions of other Twitter members and hyperlinks to Twitter Tools and exterior websites.
Interested yet? Now do a Bing search on Ashton Kutcher. Now you’re seeing pictures along with his Tweets. Now, are you excited? Hang on a minute, there’s one more thing you should do. Bing search yourself and see what happens.
Wait…I’m not On Top of the Search Page
You’ll see one of two things. Either your Tweets are at the top of the search page, or they aren’t. More than likely Read More→
Technorati.com Is Good Stuff for Your Affiliate Marketing Blog
Posted by: | CommentsThere are many search engines out there that you have to consider in Affiliate Marketing. Some are more universal, while some are somewhat specialized. While the universal ones, such as Google.com, are good to view where you and the competition are at (in relation to each other) overall, sometimes it’s good to use specialized search engines to find out how you compare in certain, specific areas. Technorati.com is one such specialized search engine.
Technorati Is a Blog Search Engine
Technorati.com’s original intent was to be a search engine for blogs. It competes with Google.com and Yahoo.com’s search engines in this specific area. The way it has classically worked is that it searches blog tags and keywords and ranks the most recent ones first. This, as you may see, can make Technorati an invaluable tool. By this, it can essentially be a gauge to see how quickly your blog posts are going in relation to the competition. From a single search on Technorati, you can see if you need to increase your blogging frequency or if you’re doing just fine that way.
Keep On Top of Page Ranking Criteria
As with any search engine, it is best to keep abreast of the news on how page ranking is done. Technorati has made several changes throughout the years, and it’s good to know what’s going on so that you can be a step ahead in using this tool. In 2007, they had made a very controversial move towards listing thumbnail images, leading some to say that the company was departing from its original mission. Being on top of this information, some companies were able to adapt and optimize their thumbnail images and their usage accordingly, while others got left in the dust. It’s definitely good to keep in mind that the opposition is in all likelihood using this tool and keeping up-to-date as well. Vigilance is a key element whenever you play this kind of hardball.
Not only do your competitors use Technorati, but let’s also keep in mind that many average users are using it too. Otherwise, why would you particularly care where you rank in regard to your competition here? What you are ultimately Read More→
Getting Traffic to Your Website by Peer Pressure
Posted by: | CommentsThe party’s at your website, and everyone’s going to be there! Using peer pressure is a great technique for getting traffic to your website. This is one of the great benefits of using social media to drive traffic—that you can more easily explore different psychologies to move traffic.
Conformity is a Driving Need and Good for Driving Traffic
One need that everyone has is to fit in. It’s part of human nature, and you can use it for driving traffic to your website. Freebies are okay, being “the elite” is a good motivation, but nothing compares to doing what all the “cool kids are doing.”
This is especially pertinent in social media like Facebook. How many times do you think that people “like” something just because their friends do? By and large, as social animals, many people just like the same things out of habit.
Great, but Does Conformity Do Anything for Converting Traffic?
Yes, in fact, it does. If you play your cards right, Read More→
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