Archive for July, 2008

Affiliate Elite - Why it Should be Your Number One Investment This Year

Monday, July 7th, 2008

The internet marketing game, particularly affiliate marketing has become a very competitive game. A good percentage of the population may believe that it is over saturated (see my previous article at my blog on this topic) but luckily there is still plenty of maturity and growth in the industry. It would appear that previously in the early days of Google affiliate and product marketing seemed quite straight forward. You would build a web page with a unique and compelling offering and generate traffic. As internet marketing has grown the need for sophisticated marketing tools that provide an insight into where profits can be made has become a prerequisite. Enter Brad Callen’s Affiliate Elite.

Affiliate Elite (AF) is a piece of software that provides both the budding mogul and professional marketer with the advantage to take the lead in internet based business by lifting the covers off the mechanics that make the pro’s all the money. What keywords are they using on a website? What products do the guru’s promote? What keywords is the Rich Jerk using? These are all questions I had when starting out, now with AF I can answer these questions and implement the right internet strategy to build my own success. The great news is that so can you!

The great thing about AF is that it does not cost a great deal to get into, with a minimal initial investment and monthly fee internet marketers have insight into what the most profitable affiliate products on clickbank, to reverse Google search, Adwords analysis and even hints to the best Pay Per Click (PPC) campaigns. Given access to this perfect tool, you just need the right mindset and basic understanding to start making more money online using Affiliate Elite.

Affiliate Elite is extremely user friendly, you can visit my blog for screen shots. Once you connect, Affiliate Elite instantly imports the most up-to-date PayDotCom and Clickbank programs so that you can immediately determine trends, keywords and determine which programs are the most profitable to promote. One of the great features is that Affiliate Elite informs the user of the keywords that are really being clicked on the web, which keywords should you be including to ensuring your traffic and ultimately success online. Further Affiliate Elite lets the user know which products are the unprofitable ones that should be avoided so that you are not wasting precious money on keywords that are not going to generate a result. Further Affiliate Elite provides information on affiliates who are currently promoting similar products, so your own promotion becomes that much easier.

If you manage to check out the marketing page of Affiliate Elite you will see a large number of testimonials from Brad Callen’s very happy customers and how their income has increased exponentially over a short period of time thanks to Affiliate Elite. Along with the initial purchase of the software the ongoing monthly fees allows unlimited upgrades to the software so that you are always getting the best results possible. Once you purchase the product you also gain access to the Affiliate Elite Community forums and the Video Guide that will teach you the step-by-step process on how to optimize the use of Affiliate Elite to ensure you maximum success and profit.

If you have just started out in Affiliate marketing or are a seasoned professional looking for an advantage I strongly suggest taking a look at Affiliate Elite. For those that would like to dip the toe in the water before taking the full plunge there is a full 8 week 100% moneyback guarantee and let me tell you that within that two month period could easily pay for the software many times over and will not have to worry about seeking a refund as it will be one of your main tools to build a phenomenal online business.

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Affiliate Marketing - 3 Essential Tips For Success

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Do you need your own product and website to make a living on-line? Of course not it is possible to make unbelievable amounts of money on-line without having your own products or services by becoming an affiliate marketer.

The benefits that are conveyed to an affiliate include having no customer servicing issues, no refunds, product development costs or any major technical headaches. This leaves the prime objective of the affiliate to find effective methods of promoting their chosen product, and ways of maximising their income potential through commissions.

Here are my tips to selecting and succeeding in sending your commissions into orbit.

  1. It goes without saying that when recommending a product you want to be selective and choose only the best products and services to promote. Remember your reputation is at stake here.

  • What is your gut reaction about the product? (Would you buy it)

  • Does the sales page grab you and make you want to buy?

  • What is the commission structure of the product?

  • What time frame is involved in paying out commissions to affiliates?

  • Does the merchant have a good track record of paying out money to its affiliates?

Remember that there are no shortage of affiliate programs available to the affiliate in multiple niches so this allows you to be choosy about the products you promote. The decision on what to and not what to promote is based on your regard for your existing and future subscribers and the benefits that you can accrue, so be sure to choose wisely.

There are those who would have you believe that you can conduct affiliate marketing without a website of your own, although there is an element of truth in this if you follow this path you do so at a major disadvantage. The reason for this is tow fold 1) You are directing traffic that you have worked hard for to the merchants site and will not see this again 2) You have just successfully built the merchants list as well as gained them some sales.

The way to build long term success is in the building the foundations first, not unlike the building of an house and its foundations, followed by it’s walls, the same is true of affiliate marketing.

So lets move onto how you start to build upon those foundations. The first step is in the collecting of your sites visitors name and email address. The capturing of this information is going to allow you to build relationships and with it the potential for business for years to come.

2. Key to this is the building of a responsive subscribers list - In other words this will only take place if quality content and offers are made to your subscribers and hence the importance on choosing the products you promote and the relationship you build..

So what do you need to have in order to collect these names and email addresses:

  1. Your own squeeze page

  2. A free offering to in exchange for the visitors contact details.

  3. A system for collecting and recording the personal data, this incorporates the use of a auto responder service.

3. So how do you build your relationship with your subscribers:,

  1. A great way is to offer bonuses following the purchase of an affiliate product

    (No doubt you will have collected products that are either private label rights or Master resale rights that allow you to give bonuses with)

  2. Do you have a blog, invite your subscribers to interact with your blog

  3. Although you want to make sales, of course you do, don’t always be pitching a product get balance by offering something for nothing. In doing so the trust will grow.

If you show care for your subscribers, ultimately they will show care for you and will become responsive to your offers and trust your judgement.

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Affiliate Marketing: How to Hide Your Affiliate Links?

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Somehow people are less inclined to click on the affiliate links.

And there will be more chances of copying and pasting the first part of URL in to their browser. This certainly affects your click throughs and your affiliate commission.

www.affiliateproduct.com/youraffiliateid?12345
OR
www.yoursite.com/product.html

Which will get more click throughs? Certainly the second one. It looks like the product link is so integrated in to your site. People think that is one of your products.

Here are three methods that you can use to cover your affiliate links.

***METHOD ONE: By creating redirecting pages:

1. Open your note pad or html editor.

2. Copy and paste this code in your note pad and save as ‘.html’ file with a catchy name.

Redirecting to youraffiliatesite.com… You will be redirected to youraffiliatesite.com.

TIP: Second line of this code (”refresh” metatag) should be in SINGLE line. Take out all * characters from the html code.

3. Upload this file to your server. Send this URL in your emails or keep on your website.

4. When your subscriber or visitor clicks on the link they will be redirected to your affiliate page.

***METHOD TWO: A cool Html Trick that works on your webpages:

Usually you will keep your links in this format-

clickhere

In this way when you keep your cursor over the link, you can see your long affiliate link.

Instead of above code, you can keep this code-

Click here

(Take out all * characters from html code)

Whole of the above line should be in SINGLE line. When you keep cursor on the link, you can see the text that you put in the status bar.

***METHOD THREE: Producing Frame pages:

Actually your visitor sees a link like - http://www.yoursite.com/product/index.html.

But when he clicks on the link he will be taken to a page where top frame showing links to your site and lower frame showing your affiliate product page.

your title This page uses frames, but your browser doesn’t support them.

You can also use cgi scripts to make this happen - http://www.webmasters-central.com/Server_side_Coding/CGI_and_Perl/Redirection/Frame_based_Redirection/

Basically these scripts retain a link for your site but your visitor goes to your affiliate site. He can come back to your site anytime by clicking on the links in the top frame.

***METHOD FOUR:Affiliate commission Booster software:

Here is a great tool that:

= Cloaks, Conceals and Hides Your REAL Affiliate Links
= Looks Like The Affiliate Site Is On YOUR Site
= Places Anything You Want In The Title Bar
= Cloaks The Site Link Text In The Status Bar
= Securely Promote ANY ClickBank Merchant Product
= Instant Order Page Redirection
= Adds Security To Your Affiliate Promotions
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Why You Should Hide Your Affiliate URL

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

If you are new or experienced in affiliate marketing, you should know how to hide your affiliate url’s. This process is also known as link cloaking, and is a vital aspect of succeeding in affiliate marketing today. The instance of stolen commissions, while rarely reported, is a common occurrence - particularly on ClickBank, and the only way to protect from it is to implement some form of affiliate link cloaking to hide your affiliate URL from would be commission thieves.

Once upon a time affiliate marketing was a relatively new concept online. Competition was low, and those that were involved found it relatively easy to make profits. In 2008 there are over 100,000 ClickBank affiliate marketers and growing every day. With this competition and profits being made, dodgy affiliate’s have devised means to over-write an affiliates hoplink with their own- stealing the commission at point of sale.

Furthermore often merchant’s employ legitimate yet sneaky tactics where they lure your customer’s into another offer before purchase, which in turn result’s in the commission of the sale going to the merchant. For these reasons it has become vital to hide your affiliate URL.

Affiliate cloaking software or an affiliate cloaking script is the most efficient way to cloak or hide an affiliate URL. Personally I believe a cloaking script is a more effective way to hide an affiliate URL as it will allow for dynamic replacement of all your affiliate URL’s making it simpler and faster to implement your cloaked URL’s.

There are most certainly free methods of cloaking available; however these methods have been proven to be less reliable as the code is relatively straight forward to crack.

Whichever form of affiliate cloaking you utilise to hide affiliate URL’s make sure that you track results and monitor regularly to ensure your affiliate links are registering and working properly.

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