Affiliate Programs

Ron Popeil. If you asked the average person who Ron Popeil was, chances are they couldn’t tell you. Ask the average consumer if they’ve heard of the Showtime Rotesseri or the Veg-O-Matic and more than likely they’ll tell you “YES” and probably even remember many of the sales pitches like; “Set it and Forget It” or “...wait, there’s more“. Ask anyone in marketing or advertising who Ron Popeil is and it’s likely they’ll tell you he’s the man who revolutionized marketing products on TV.

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Article Marketing can boost traffic to your site while increasing backlinks and boosting affiliate sales. What is article marketing? Article Marketing is the act of using articles to promote your website or products. You write articles, or have them written for you, then send the articles off to article directories and ezines that accept articles. And best of all, article marketing is low cost or in some cases, absolutely free.

Why Submit Articles to an Article Directory or Ezine?

Where else can you receive hundreds of backlinks and traffic to your site for an hour or less of work that cost you little, if anything? Submitting articles to directories and ezines, that’s where. Article submission can drive targeted traffic to your affiliate landing pages and Adsense sites.

I just checked on an article I wrote for my small business almost 2 years ago. That one article alone has generated 248 backlinks to my site. It’s still being used in ezines and websites to this day. That article was 532 words and took me about 20 minutes to write.

Not all articles you write will be that successful, many articles that I’ve written bring in between 5 and 50 backlinks. I’d say my average number of backlinks from the average article is between 10 and 15.

You never know how successful your articles are until you submit them.

Article Marketing: Getting Started

To get started with submitting articles to ezines and article directories, all one needs is to sign up for an account with an ezine or article directory and begin writing articles.

In my experience, the most successful articles are from 350 words to 700 words in length. Some article directories and ezines will not accept articles under 300 words. Readers tend to lose interest in longer articles, no matter how well written they are. Remember, most internet surfers are skim readers. The just skim over your material picking up bits and pieces of information until they see something that makes them stop and take notice.

No special software is needed, I use Notepad to write my affiliate marketing articles that I will be submitting to an article directory or ezine.

Why not MS Word?

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Are you satisfied with the money you’re making off of your Blog? Are the Adsense dollars pouring in? How about those Affiliate links? If so, stop reading, this post is not for you. Now if you’re in the group that is not satsified with your Blog’s earnings potential, I have on technique that will likely be more profitable than Adsense and Affiliate links combined.

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I was browsing Matt Coddington’s site the other day and came across his post “Internet Marketing In The Public Eye“. Matt makes good observations about how the “get rich quick” or the “too lazy to do it right” crowd has gave those of us in Internet Marketing a bad rep. It’s safe to say that in the past 10+ years of Internet Marketing, I probably unintentionally tried a spam technique or two. Nowdays I know the score and only shoot straight. Life is too short to look over your shoulders.

After thinking about his post, I can understand where he’s coming from.

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The other day I was reading John Wesley’s “Pick The Brain” blog post on 27 Lessons Learned on the Way to 3000 Visits a Day and 2200 RSS Subscribers. #20 took me by surprise. So much so that I’ve been thinking about it and doing my own research. And I’ve came to the conclusion he may be right.

#20 on this list is “Posting comments on other blogs is overrated“. We’ve always been led to believe that commenting on other blogs will bring us lots of traffic, make us cool and good looking all in one.

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Every since I put up The Ultimate List of Adsense Ready Wordpress Themes, I’ve received some emails asking how to change the Adsense codes in the Themes.

It goes without saying, I hope so anyways, that you’ll need an Adsense account. If not, go get one first before trying this.

I’m going to try and explain it here, step by step.  For this example, I’ll be using the Ads Minded Theme.

1. Choose an Adsense Ready Wordpress Theme. You can get one by cliking the link above.

2. Download the theme, choose it in your Wordpress control panel under “Presentations”.

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