How to use Google to make money! (Free tips)
GetElastic has posted 3 EXCELLENT articles over the last 3 days. I mean, just amazing amount of detail. I’ve paid over $40 a piece for eBooks and courses that had less content than they have given away for free.
Linda and her team go into great detail about how to use Google Adwords for keyword research, how to apply that research to keep your blog/company/store working FOR you, and how to keep Google from doing evil things with your money.
The New Google Keyword Tool: How To Apply Keyword Research to Your Site | Get Elastic
Negative Keyword Research Tools & Tips | Get Elastic
Stop Google Analytics From Stealing Your Valuable AdWords Keyword Data | Get Elastic
Read or bookmark all 3 (in this order). Post your comments here or there, including any addition ideas or tips you have. I’ve printed them and will be going over them carefully and re-analyzing my sites.
Bed Jumping
From and For people with way too much time on their hands, Hotels By City brings us…
BedJump.com – Bed Jump – Hotel Bed Jumping
They say there’s a site on the internet for everything, and this makes me believe there may be. It’s a smart move though. It’s viral, fun content on a business site. And it’s appropriate.
Why not have fun with your content and your site, and it’s a great way to bring more visitors too. You may make a fortune. Or at least enough to pay for your bandwidth.
WordPress Theme Directory Opens
After years of requests from the community, the WordPress team has release a Theme Directory. They’ve had one for a long time for Plugins, but not themes. So this is cool. It’s organized into groupings so you can easily find the kind of theme you’re looking for. It’s pretty empty right now, but once word gets out, it won’t take long to fill it up.
Google Nemesis – Why do you need it? Part 3/3
You don’t have to be rich or have a lot of money to invest in order to start making money with the Google Nemesis system. When you subscribe, you will gain exclusive access to little-known methods and techniques of affiliate marketing which will generate a huge profit…but without having to spend a lot of money to implement them. You will learn tricks and short-cut ways of using Google Adwords to maximize your income while avoiding any potential losses in the process. In fact, you will have additional tools to make money from Google without having to risk as much as a single red cent in Adwords PPC advertising.
9) You get a fully illustrated step-by-step demonstration of the Google Nemesis software tool in action. Some people find it far more beneficial to re-inforce their learning by watching something visual. As a member of the exclusive Google Nemesis money-making club, you’ll not only receive detailed instructions on how to use all the powerful money-making techniques and how to apply them in your campaigns…but you can also see a sample of it in action for yourself so that you can fully internalize the methods and replicate them.
10) You will be entitled to upcoming updates (new software as they are added) to the Google Nemesis package. These techniques and tools are so hard-core and stealthy that they work phenomenally well in today’s affiliate marketplace. But of course, as we know, nothing on the internet ever stays the same forever. So, as and when these internet changes happen, the Google Nemesis will get updated to reflect them so that you continue to make money. And as a subscriber of the exclusive club, you will receive these updates to the program for free whenever they occur, no matter how long ago you subscribed to the package.
See – benefit 10 addresses the concerns I raised last time. This program is going to rock! My first campaign launched moments ago, and I’ll have some results to share with you shortly.
What Affiliate Marketing Mentors to Follow, and Why?
Affiliate marketing has been in the Internet industry for quite sometime now and it is among the most popular tools used by many online entrepreneurs today. It is a great option for those who want to put up an online business quickly and cheaply. However, there is still a large number of the population who knows a little or even nothing about it. And most of the people who have just discovered this business usually assume that they can easily make big bucks out of it. Well, they’re definitely wrong.
To be successful in affiliate marketing business is not an easy task and it will never happen overnight. It’s just like an ongoing assignment where you need to find out and try various advertising strategies and tactics. This may even require you to sign-up with numerous affiliate programs just to determine which merchants performs well.
Another misconception that affiliates have ‘bout this kind of business is that they expect to gain more if they place about 20 affiliated banners on just one niche. Well it will not really work the way you think it would because once your site is flooded with too many banners, it will look like a link farm and visitors won’t be interested and won’t even bother clicking on any of those banners. So if you really want to promote several affiliate programs in your website, make sure that they jive with the theme and topic of the rest of the content on your niche. Bear in mind that three or four affiliated links in your site are enough, depending on the size of the web page.
There are also some who think that if they add affiliate materials to their site, they can receive sales right away. Maybe they just don’t know that affiliate marketing is all about advertising. If there’s no traffic coming to your site, how can you expect to get any sales? Remember that the more you advertise your affiliate link or the site where the affiliate links are placed, the more clickthru’s these links are likely to receive.
If you want to be involved or you’ve already joined an affiliate program, but you have the above misconceptions regarding affiliate marketing, then, you might need a mentor to help you figure out where to start and what to do in order to succeed.
In the dictionary, the word mentor is defined as a wise and trusted teacher or counselor. Usually, these persons are experts in the field they are into. They can give expert advice and guidance as well as supervision to another person. So when we say affiliate marketing mentors, they are experienced counselors that have made affiliate marketing their specialty. Affiliate marketing mentors can be those persons that have already been successful in affiliate marketing and are always willing to share their experienced-based knowledge from the viewpoint of both the affiliates and the web merchants. And that’s the reason why we come up with this page. It is aimed to give you the stuffs that affiliate mentors should possess and follow and why do they need these things.
Of course, it is good for an affiliate marketing mentor to know and apply some theories and generalities regarding your business but there’s nothing more helpful and effective than telling the client what works today and what are the things that could probably work in the future and if the trend changes. As a mentor, you should be one of the sources of knowledge for your client and the first one to teach them on how to generate more affiliate income. You too, need to be knowledgeable and equipped with the keys to success for affiliate marketers as well as for merchants. And you should guide your clients as they try to do the things that can help boost their profit because once they do well in that business, it can be counted as one of your great achievements. This also makes you a successful mentor.
There are some articles on affiliate marketing that says, in order to be triumphant in affiliate marketing business, you need to encompass and develop these traits: persistence, patience and thirst for knowledge. And as a mentor, it is your job to help your clients take in these traits within themselves. Once they’ve already developed the abovementioned character, it’ll be very easy for you to explain to them that attaining success in affiliate marketing requires sweat, blood and of course, hefty time commitment. These traits will also teach them not to give up.
Moreover, before you train your client to be proficient in search engine optimization, link exchanges, email marketing, newsletter marketing, reciprocal exchanges and advertising in forums, you should first become expert on these fields. They will surely find it hard to learn these things alone and without supervision from the one who knows best. So make sure that you are knowledgeable on these things before you accept any invitation to be a mentor. Yes, being a mentor is way harder than succeeding in affiliate marketing but this task is very rewarding especially if your client become victorious. The failure of your client is your failure too so you must do your very best to be able to bring your client on the road to success. Again, it is never an easy task and there’s nothing you can do about it. After all, that’s what affiliate marketing mentors are for.
Google Nemesis – Why do you need it? Part 2
There’s a few limitations visible in the Google Nemesis program and I’m sure they’ll be addressed as we move forward (at $67/month, hopefully they are addressed quickly. For example, it’s targeted at Clickbank and Google. Although it’s only locked to Clickbank so you can use other ad networks. It also has only 2 templates and a limited selection of graphics to use within them. Hope that doesn’t give anything away.
Here’s the next 4 benefits to Google Nemesis.
4) Apart from the super-profitable software package, a membership to the Google Nemesis program gets you access to the most powerful step-by-step blueprints to making money from Google…without having to lose your hard-earned money paying for expensive Pay-Per-Click Google Adwords. You’ll see exactly how Chris leverages his insider knowledge of the Google code to help you ‘pump out’ all the cash you can handle on a daily basis…there are already a few people (Chris’s test subjects) using these step-by-step Google blueprints to make amounts like $475 a week…$530 a week…even over $1,000 every week. The blueprints have been ruthlessly “swiped” from real internet marketers and gurus who have been using it against people like you, the average affiliate. Learning these techniques means beating the gurus at their own game and making tons of easy cash at THEIR expense for once!
5) The software package and blueprints are extremely easy to use. You don’t have to be a ‘techie’ or have an advanced degree in Computing to make money with the Google Nemesis system. You don’t even have to create your own products, or write your own sales letters. You simply profit by promoting other people’s products and banking your commission checks every couple of weeks from Clickbank. After all, who wants to have to spend hundreds of hours creating products when you can be spending all that precious time enjoying your money with your family.
6) The Google Nemesis software package and blueprints have been “field-tested” on a handful of ‘test subjects’ just to prove that the techniques will work for any affiliate, regardless of level of experience (it works for newbie and advanced affiliates). And already the feedback is remarkable: here are some quick examples typical results from a couple of the test subjects…”…Tyson X pulled in an average of $145 a day with his first Google Adwords campaign. Anthony J, a 27 year-old business owner, has just made another $500 in net profits, for the third straight week, using the system. Another one of Chris’s students was able to make $250 within the first few hours of launching his third campaign. And others have done even better…” The majority of those test subjects are now making money (the most successful of them now regularly makes over $300 a day).
7) The Google Nemesis Software tool ‘clones’ the moves of the wealthiest and most successful underground Clickbank affiliates…and then turbo-charges those moves automatically and tells you exactly what to do, step-by-step, in order to copy their success and launch your own winning campaigns. The Google Nemesis is the only tool in the world that lets you play the Google ‘Adwords’ game by your own rules…on your own terms, and in your own time. Imagine a tool that does everything for you – finds the campaign, suggests the right keywords, the right cost per click, the right ads, even monitors the campaign for you while it’s in progress – giving you everything you need to make those all-important campaign decisions! A tool that does everything – find the hottest Clickbank products for you, create your website, even predict conversion rates – giving you everything you need to profit. Remember, this tool ‘clones’ the exact tactics of the most successful super-affiliates who are currently making a killing online, and not sharing their secrets with anyone else. This closely guarded tactic has made some savvy underground affiliates millions already– and they tried to keep it a secret from you – until NOW! Making a full-time living from home as an affiliate marketer simply does not get any easier than this. Chris is handing you everything on a plate here. You don’t have to do anything…the software does it all for you…all you have to do is follow the instructions and set it up, then sit back and watch the money flow every day into your Clickbank account.
I’m still working my way through all the material. The video training, eBooks and other materials that support this product are great. Thorough, clear and on target. Hopefully I’ll be able to launch a campaign soon. I’m dying to earn my millions.
Google Nemesis – Why do you need it? Part 1
I’m usually pretty conservative but decided to spring for the Google Nemesis program based on all the hype. Russell Brunson promoted it and I trust his word.
Here are 3 of 10 key benefits of the Google Nemesis Program:
1) The Google Nemesis system has been created by the Chris McNeeney and the Day Job Killer team…Chris is arguably the most successful underground Clickbank Affiliate alive, and is the author of 4 of Clickbank’s biggest and best selling products: Affiliate Project X, ‘the Day Job Killer,’ Project Black Mask and the Google Assassin. He is widely regarded by several industry insiders as the most successful Internet Marketer in the entire history of Clickbank. In the last 2 years, Chris has successfully trained over 30,000 affiliates, showing them the easiest and most powerful ways to make a living as a Clickbank affiliate…several hundred of those people now make a full time living online, earning over $300, $400…even $500 a day, just by following Chris’s ‘no-nonsense’ affiliate marketing methods.
2) Chris’s products are of the very highest quality, and his covert, underground money-making techniques are always guaranteed to work… his products always get rave reviews by the Internet Marketing elite, and the customers just can’t get enough of it…because it actually WORKS and makes real money for ordinary struggling affiliates, trying to find ways to make a full-time living online. And that’s why his products always sell like they’re going out of fashion within the first day of release! His first best-selling product, Affiliate Project X, broke the Clickbank record for sales when it was released in October 2006 (selling over 6,000 copies in just 1 week). The next product, the Day Job Killer set a new Clickbank record by selling over 7,000 copies on the first day, going on to gross just under $1 Million in the first week of release! Then he followed up with the Google Assassin, a membership based software toolkit which automates your Google Adwords campaigns by spying on the successful affiliates and ‘cloning’ their success. The Google Assassin sold more than 6,000 subscriptions. The reason for all Chris’s massive product launch successes over the years is very simple: people who bought and used his methods made money, so the success spread and went viral all over the internet! So, you can clearly see that the Google Nemesis is going to be HUGE.
3) There are hundreds of useless ebooks out there, which contain a lot of fluff, hype, and outdated information that doesn’t really work in the real world. The Google Nemesis is NOT an ebook…it’s so much more than that: when you subscribe and join the program, you will get access to a very powerful, revolutionary software package…which cost Chris and the Day Job Killer team over $60,000, and 8 months of full-time computer programming, to develop. This software package fully automates your Clickbank affiliate PPC (Google Adwords) campaigns, making it so unbelievably easy to make money online…all you have to do is literally ‘point, click and profit.’ This system has been designed by Chris himself, working closely with his team of programmers, so there is simply no better tool on the planet to make money online.
Next time, I will present 3 more benefits of the program and will have had a chance to try it out some more.
Check out Google Nemesis’ sales page here.
What Is Niche Marketing, and Do I Need It?
In ecology, a niche refers to the place or position occupied by an organism or a population within an ecological community called the ecosystem. It is the term which defines the role the organism or the population plays in the general scheme of things. The niche an organism or a population holds is the one responsible for dictating the ability of the species to survive. It is the one which spells whether an organism or a population will perish or thrive.
In marketing, a niche refers to a service or a product that occupies a special area of demand. It is that small corner in the market that accounts for a certain kind of specialty concerning an unmet customer need. To be able to attract a strong, solid market, the choice of a niche product should ultimately complement the website one owns. It is through this scheme that he is able to generate a specific market for the niche product he is trying to sell.
Niches are involved in niche marketing, the process of finding market segments that are small but potentially profitable nonetheless. To maintain a profitable quantity of sales, this marketing strategy relies on increasing the loyalty of customers so that their corporate objectives will be met or surpassed. Illustrative of this is the fact that the quality of the product or service sold will generate customer satisfaction and, consequently, customer loyalty. The result is profitability garnered through a solid market base that trusts in the ability of the product or service to really deliver.
One of the great things about niche marketing is that it encourages those who indulge in it to be unique and one-of-a-kind. Here one is not forced into the lion’s den and made to compete against established marketers. He is made to occupy a strong and secure position that ultimately wins him a real place in the market. Niche marketing differs from other online marketing strategies because this particular quality allows it to operate almost autonomously and without having to contend with corporate sharks that tear each other to pieces.
One of the most important things that should be thought over by those involved in this type of business is the niche business that is going to be involved in the process. It is important to consider the type of business that one is going to work on to be able to ensure himself of the success that he hopes to have. It is also important for him to know everything about the niche business at hand. Learning the tricks of the trade in is one of the things that one could do to make a niche business prosper tremendously.
Being able to reach the niche market is another consideration to make. In doing so, one should know the exact phrases that people are searching for. The use of tools can help a lot in knowing the type of keywords that should be used to make the business profitable. Targeting the right keywords does a lot in making this type of business soar.
Those who engage in niche marketing know that determining the potential of a niche before doing everything else is a must if one wants to save all the time and effort that might be wasted if he plunges into everything head on. Building a niche marketing site that proves to be profitable should be done after an unsatisfied customer demand is identified, and marketing the site appropriately by reaching out to customers the best possible way is what niche marketers should consider if they want their business to reach skyrocketing success.
Is niche marketing needed in a world teeming with a hundred like systems designed for people to make money online? Those who know how the system works will answer in the affirmative, because niche marketing is the only system capable of filling up a gaping hole in the market by catering to the unsatisfied needs of customers – needs that are usually not given notice by those in the big league. Though niche marketing, one is able to gain a foothold in the market by being a needle in a haystack. Small and inconspicuous it may be, but its ability to sting someone so madly once it is found will render him more than surprised.
What’s LinkShare, And Do I Need To Use It?
Online affiliate marketing is one of the most effective, cheapest and fastest ways to promote merchandise. With millions of people getting access to the Internet everyday, there’s a great chance for a merchant to introduce his products and services to a wider market, thereby, maximizing his revenue.
Likewise, affiliate marketing is an excellent way to generate full-time income for a home-based affiliate marketer. For someone who is jaded of going through a grueling eight-hour work routine, affiliate marketing offers a great opportunity to earn big without wearing himself out—physically, mentally and emotionally.
In affiliate marketing, both parties are benefited since as the merchant earns from each item sold, the marketer likewise earns a commission.
If you are interested in affiliate marketing but are finding it hard to look for affiliate programs, affiliates or merchants, you can start by checking sites of various affiliate networks. Many affiliate programs in the Internet are being offered through an affiliate program network, which acts as a link between the merchants and individual affiliates.
Among the most popular is LinkShare, it is through it that merchants and affiliates meet. LinkShare maintains and manages affiliate marketing programs for a great number of merchants with various kinds of businesses, products and services. It also has over 6,000 affiliate site members in its network. It gains profit from the set-up fees, monthly account maintenance fees and commissions.
Joining networks like LinkShare can be of great help in establishing your online marketing business. Whether you are a merchant or an affiliate marketer, you need to research well on your partners in order to choose the best for you.
LinkShare provides the facility of acquiring access to a large network of advertisers (merchants) who offer their affiliate programs to publishers (affiliates) who are willing to promote their products. In the same manner, it gives the merchants access to a large network of affiliates who are searching for affiliate marketing opportunities.
LinkShare is especially beneficial for an affiliate in choosing his partners since he can find his options all in one location. It would be easier for him to compare products, commission rates and other benefits given by the merchant. The merchant usually just waits for interested affiliates to sign up in his affiliate marketing program but being in the network increases his chance to promote his products to a larger market, thus, maximizing his potential to gain huge profit.
To help you decide whether to use large affiliate networks such as LinkShare or not, let us try to look deeper into its positive and negative sides. The primary advantage of LinkShare to you as an affiliate is convenience.
As earlier mentioned, you find different pieces of information about your choices simultaneously all in a single location, so you save time and effort looking for affiliate programs or merchants.
It’s also easier to track your business partner’s performance through monthly reports and statements, as well as its sales and commission rates, so you know whether the affiliate program is still worth continuing. If you have signed up for several affiliate programs, you can check all your statistics for each merchandiser you are affiliated with by logging in just once.
LinkShare helps you manage and maintain all records of your visitors’ click-throughs and sales transaction. It takes care of your commissions and gives it to you monthly in lump sum. Especially when you have more than one merchant partner, it would be easier for you to manage your accounts and track your earnings when you are affiliated through a marketing program network.
Furthermore, every information you get is accurate and secured, so you are protected from all the risk you might encounter. Above all, you can enjoy LinkShare’s benefits for free. You just have to go to their site and register your website. Instantly, you get access to a great variety of affiliate programs available for you.
So, what’s on the negative side? Although, it is indeed helpful to join affiliate marketing networks such as LinkShare, there are some disadvantages, too.
For one, merchants offer lower commissions to affiliates who partner with them through the third party program network. This because they still have to pay for the use of service and the technology provided by LinkShare.
Direct partnership with the merchant cuts costs of advertising through the network and so the affiliate has bigger potential to earn more. Moreover, it is possible that your payment may be delayed for a month or more since program networks would pay you only after the advertiser or the merchant has paid them.
Do you need to use LinkShare or other networks? It depends, actually. You can opt for direct partnership with the merchant, but this choice is not applicable all the time. There are a lot of merchandisers who offer their affiliate program only through affiliate program networks and thus, you have no choice other than joining the network to get into the affiliate marketing program.
So you are faced with “take it or leave it” situation. But LinkShare and other program networks are not that disadvantageous. After all, whether you join it or not, earning big would depend more on your promotional strategies and persistence.
Why So Many People Fail In Affiliate Marketing
More and more people are lured into affiliate marketing and you might be one of them. Indeed, affiliate marketing is one of the most effective means of generating a full-time income through the Internet. It’s a fair deal between the merchandiser and his affiliates as both benefit from each sale materialized. Like in other kinds of business, a great deal of the profits in affiliate marketing depends on the affiliate’s advertising, promoting and selling strategies. Everyday, as affiliate marketing industry expands, competition heightens as well so an affiliate marketer must be creative enough to employ unique and effective ways to convince potential buyers to purchase or avail of the products and services offered.
Compared to traditional advertising practices, affiliate programs are more effective, risk-free and cost-efficient. But why do many people still fail in affiliate marketing? There are a lot of reasons and a lot of areas in the program to look into. The most critical aspect in the affiliate program is advertising. Many affiliate marketers fail in this aspect because they lack hard work, which is the most important thing in affiliate marketing and in all other kinds of business as well. Although it pays to be lucky, you cannot merely rely on it. Affiliate marketing isn’t as simple as directing customers to the business site. If you want to earn big, of course, you have to invest time and great amount of hard work in promoting the products. As earlier mentioned, the competition is very high and customers nowadays are very wise, too. After all, who doesn’t want to get the best purchase—that is, to pay less and get more in terms of quantity and quality.
Lack of preparation is also a reason why one fails in affiliate marketing, whether he is a merchandiser or an affiliate. Part of the preparation is researching. On the part of the merchant, he has to be highly selective in choosing the right affiliate websites for his affiliate program. In order to be sure he has the best choices, he must have exhausted his means in looking for highly interested affiliates whose sites are sure fit to his products and services. The affiliate site’s visitors must match his targeted customers. On the other hand, the affiliate marketer must likewise research on the good-paying merchandisers before he signs up for an affiliate program. He must ensure that the merchants’ products and services match his interests so he can give his full attention and dedication to the program. He can get valuable information by joining affiliate forums, comparing different affiliate programs and reading articles on affiliate marketing where he can get tips from experienced affiliate marketers on how to choose the best merchants and products with high conversion rate.
The website is a very important tool in the whole affiliate program. As an affiliate marketer, you should plan how your site is going to be, from domain name to the design, the lay-out, the content, and ads. Some users are particular about what they see at first glance and thus when they find your site ugly, they won’t read through the content even if your site has many things to say and offer. On the other hand, there those who want information more than anything else. Affiliate marketers with “rich-content” web sites are usually the ones who prosper in this business because the content improves traffic to the site. Websites with high quality contents—with relevant keywords and more importantly, right information about the product and not empty hyped-up advertisements—allow you to earn big in affiliate marketing even when you’re asleep. If you won’t be able to sustain the interest of your site visitor, you won’t be able to lead him to the merchants’ site. No click-through means no sale and thus, no income on your part.
Selecting a top level domain name is also crucial to the success of the affiliate program. Lots of affiliate sites don’t appear in the search engine results because they are deemed by affiliate managers as personal sites. Major search engines and directories would think of your site as transient ones and thus, they won’t list it in the directory. Before you decide on the domain name, know first what you are going to promote. Many fail because their sites are not appropriately named, so even when they feature the exact products the customer is looking for, the customer might think the site is not relevant and thus, won’t enter the site.
Above all, an affiliate marketer must be willing to learn more. Certainly, there are still a lot of things to learn and so an affiliate marketer must continue to educate himself so he can improve his marketing strategies. Many fail because they don’t grow in the business and they are merely concerned about earning big quickly. If you want long-term and highly satisfactory results, take time to learn the ins and outs of the business. Continue to improve your knowledge especially with the basics in affiliate marketing ranging from advertising to programming, web page development, and search engine optimization techniques. Likewise, study the needs and wants of your site users and how different merchandisers compete with each other.
Keep on trying; don’t get disappointed if your first attempts did not pay off. Thousands are attracted by the possibility of generating skyrocketing incomes through affiliate marketing and so they sign up in any affiliate program without carefully understanding every aspect of the business. When they don’t get instant results, they quit and sign up for another program and repeat the process of just copying links and referring them to others. When you sign up for an affiliate program, don’t expect to get rich in an instant. Work on your advertising strategies and be patient. You’ll never know how much you can get if you don’t persevere.
