tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42287738387275253762024-02-22T01:38:40.587-08:00Affiliate Marketing Tune UpAffiliate marketing tips for the new or struggling affiliate. Affiliate marketer will boost affiliate profits by building an unshakable money making business platform online! My blog goes beyond and provides up-to-date information on social media, SEO, blogging, internet marketing, traffic generation, content curation, and more.Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-63734065102135314872013-05-27T11:42:00.001-07:002014-02-20T11:55:00.777-08:00How to Use Pinterest (Mini Guide For Beginners)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFFZegdfHlJzjflyfzDpxlkBuPqUiedzAMe7MMrRinAINXTi72I_WUgUgOgZwKwtD3xb1ygweciNWAil9srtKWaPHc08DwOi3rlWXvwEQlOGdeKqnbppuxp2sf29L0eyK_GvTq_bnAtugu/s1600/Pin+me.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFFZegdfHlJzjflyfzDpxlkBuPqUiedzAMe7MMrRinAINXTi72I_WUgUgOgZwKwtD3xb1ygweciNWAil9srtKWaPHc08DwOi3rlWXvwEQlOGdeKqnbppuxp2sf29L0eyK_GvTq_bnAtugu/s200/Pin+me.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social
networking sites and it has become very popular during 2011. Pinterest had
attracted several million people by the time we’ve reached January 2012. Many
businesses see this and they all want a piece of the pie. Pinterest is driving
tons of traffic to websites and blogs and it is currently helping businesses to
build their brand. It is important you learn how to use Pinterest for your
business while the website is still in the early stages of its growth. When you
learn to use Pinterest effectively, you will be positioning yourself and your
business for greater success. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The internet is changing daily and businesses have to
change with it. The net is inching more and more towards a visual and social
world, not that the net isn’t already visual or social. I’m talking more in the
line of social media. Google and the other major search engines are relying
more and more on social media to determine where a site will rank in the search
results. It is almost impossible for people to find your website if you are not
apart of the social media world because Google is implementing new and stricter
rules daily preventing people from manipulating the search engines. Plus, they
use likes and shares as votes to see just how popular your site is. Pinterest
can make your site popular when used correctly, and because people love to
share pictures, Pinterest went viral. Since they went viral, people will
continue to use the site for many years to come. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What Exactly is Pinterest<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pinterest is a social networking and photo sharing site
that lets its users share interesting content on their pinboards. Members of
the sites can search out other pinboards for their entertainment or to be
inspired. But what is shared must be associated with a picture of some sort,
usually from another website, but members can also share photos of their own.
Members can also find other people who share their interest. Pinterest helps
members connect with others on this unique platform. Pinterest have most of the
same features as other popular networking sites. For example, users can follow
friends, comment on pins, re-pin what they like, and share things from their
Twitter and Facebook accounts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How
To Use Pinterest For Your Business Or Affiliate Marketing<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In order to use Pinterest for your business and get the
exposure you desire, you need to focus on two main things. These two things are
creating appealing, eye catching content, and making your content pinnable.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In order to make your content pinnable you need to use
the plug-ins which helps visitors pin your content. If you have a Wordpress
website it is easier for your visitors to pin your content, but if you have a
site that’s hosted by blogger or something else, you will still be able to
create pinnable content. An example of one of the plug-ins you can is the
Pinterest “Pin It” Button. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To be certain the content on your website is pinnable,
you need to test your site by pinning some of your content. This way you can
see how it looks on Pinterest. You need to have images that are of high
quality. They need to be clear, crisp, and pleasing to the eye. If when you
test your content and it don’t look pleasing, make sure you change it quickly.
You want to make sure you make your site “Pin Friendly”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since Pinterest is all about being visual, you need to
make sure you pin really good pictures and make sure you have these same types
of images on your website, blogs, etc. If your photos are not eye catching,
Pinterest marketing strategies will not work for your business. That means no
book, information you find, or any other tips will help you, this book
included. You should treat Pinterest like you would your own scrapbook or photo
album. I don’t think you would put some bland photo in a scrapbook with other appealing
pictures.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When you pick photos to share on Pinterest, you should
focus on choosing photos that cause emotion. If a picture makes people laugh or
cry, they will be more prone to share them with others. Also, if a picture is
really cute, people will share it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A marketer who put
great pictures on Pinterest will be able to attract the kind of attention they
desire and will be able to drive a big chunk of Pinterest traffic to their
website by increasing the visibility of their brand. Clothing, shoe, and
jewelry retailers will be able to use Pinterest to their advantage because
people love these items. But that doesn’t mean other business can’t succeed
with using the site. Every business can experience the blessings this site has
to offer. Some businesses will have to be more creative than a clothing
business would. For example, a home improvement retailer use their products to
remodel a room, patio, decks, and more, pictures can be taken once the remodel
is done. There are people who are interested in pictures using products from a
home improvement store. It is best to use before and after shots to show people
how just a few items from a home improvement store can be used to transform a
room in to a place where a person will always want their house guest to be. So
there is always a way for people to be creative using pictures. </span></div>
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Will Always Love To Share Pictures <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Most companies in existence today have products and
services to sell. For many years, pictures were used in ad campaigns. Just
picture some of the big companies who used billboards, commercials, and sales
papers; they all have the use of pictures in common. So why not use Pinterest
in the same way business use these other platforms to get the word out about
their brand. People are visual creatures and just as those national ads with
pictures caught their eyes during the yester-years, before the internet and TV
existed, pictures will continue to capture their eyes now and in the years to
come. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Investing money into obtaining good quality photos will
help your business in the long run. Why? The reason is because people will
always love to share pictures. As I said earlier, pictures that cause emotion
and ones that are comical and cute will be the best ones to share on Pinterest.
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4
Reasons You Should Use Pinterest For Your Business<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You can start by finding out what people love to share
with others. You can find out the current hot trends which can help you to
market your products and services. A person might discover one of your cookware
products while searching for a specific recipe on Pinterest. It could have been
found by pins your company posted, which would more than likely would not have
been found if you haven’t used Pinterest which brings me to my next
reason…………..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pinterest will change the way people make purchases.
Most of the time, we get on the internet and search for things to buy when we
want to make a purchase. But when we search for a recipe, we usually are not in
buying mode or we don’t expect to buy anything. Pinterest on the other hand helps
us to realize we want or need something before we know it. Pinterest can also
provide proof that a product is the best by the re-pins. All a person has to do
is see how often a product was re-pinned and see the nice glossy image and be a
few clicks from making a purchase. Pinterest turns people into buyers faster
than any other social networking site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By using Pinterest, you can easily build your brand. Best
advice is to stay active, keep pinning, and keep following. You can even hold a
contest on Pinterest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Traffic is the blood for all websites. If you don’t
have it, your business will die. Pinterest will increase links back to your
sites. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Marketing
Strategies To Use On Pinterest<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What is the best way to market your business on
Pinterest? It is important you don’t turn your Pinterest account into an ad
account. Keep in mind the site is geared towards pictures. Pinterest is a
community and in a community you don’t go door to door selling or begging
people to buy your products. This applies to any social media site, people
don’t like to be sold or marketed to. You need to focus on providing something
valuable and meaningful; something that will inspire people and get their
attention. Here are a few steps you need to use for your marketing efforts:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Online
Catalog<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a great way to market your business if you have
physical products or digital ones. You need to separate items by the boards so
it is easy for your visitors. For instance, if you own a baby store, you should
have a board for baby clothes and one for baby toys, or one for girl items and
one for boy items. And make sure the pictures are linking back to your website
to the product information page. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Grow
Your Pins And Boards<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You have to pin your boards on a regular basis and stay
active within the Pinterest community. Set yourself a schedule so you can keep
up. You need to also pay close attention to pins and re-pins that are popular.
This way you will know what is trending. People will come to your boards and
check you out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Human<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Social networking is about being yourself and not some
robot. People want to know you before they know about your business and the
products you offer, mainly and especially when you are using a social
networking site. Show something that causes emotion since this is what gets
shared the most. Be unique and creative. Show a funny side of your brand. This
will get people to re-pin and share your content. And most of all… be honest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Pin
About Your Event<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If your business hosts webinars, seminars, or any other
kind of events, you should create boards that have information about your
event. You can pin interesting content that will draw attention. You could talk
about presenters and speakers who will be attending. Post pictures of past
events on your board. Come up with creative ways to grab the attention of many.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Announce
A New Product Launch<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you have a new product that is about to launch,
create a board for it; you should start talking about your launch months in
advance and use creative ideas to draw in your audience. Post critical
information you want people to know and tell the people what they will get out
of using the product. Post pictures and customers testimonials after the
products are created and have launched.
You should also allow customers to leave feed back and you can create a
board for this. Let people include the good and bad feedback because you should
let people see the honest reviews other people left regarding your products.
And remember, no product is 100% perfect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Specials For Your Pinterest Followers<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everyone loves a deal, so when you promote your
product, create an offer that is strictly for your followers. You can create a
code for your followers to use this way you will know that the offer is
exclusive to them. This also works great for twitter and other social
networking platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A Video Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pinterest have features available for anyone who wants
to create a tutorial or share parts of a webinar, conference, and videos. When
you create videos you should add annotations. When users find your videos to be
appealing, you score a better chance of having your video pinned. You can also
tell viewers of your video to pin the video to Pinterest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Users To Leave Comments<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Most of the popular pins are liked, commented on, and
re-pinned. You should encourage users to do all of the above. People will leave
comments and you can ask them to in a way that will make them want to do it.
For instance, if you took a trip to a popular spot in Paris, or you vacationed
in the Caribbean, you can ask them to guess the location you took the picture.
This will open the door to many opportunities on Pinterest and get people to
participate. And you should do it often too.
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Watermarks To Your Pictures<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At some point during the process of re-pinning people
may not know where the picture came from. So you should watermark your
pictures. You don’t want to lose the marketing impact you were going for, so
this is important. You can put your web address on your picture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As you know, focus groups are used to gather opinions
from customers and others about a product or services. You can find out the
thoughts of these people and your targeted market. You can use Pinterest as a
focus group by creating a board for a new product and see what is on the mind
of your followers. You can find out from your followers if they like it and ask
them what kind of information they would like to see if it is an information
product. If the product is physical, ask them what features they want. This is
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brand on your Pinterest page is to put the follow me button on your website and
make sure your site is full of good quality content. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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service, you could pin some tutorials and helpful articles from how to sites
and blogs. You can pin some pictures that show people what you want to teach
and you can send them to a blog post or media story. Pictures tell a story. When
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Pinterest. The best thing you can do is be creative. The internet is forever
changing and you need to be changing with it. The
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-33500723677690661562013-03-05T21:44:00.000-08:002013-03-14T17:57:27.954-07:00Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Scanner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Scanner lets you access your
documents anywhere at anytime. The one touch button allows you scan business
cards, photos, newspapers, magazines, and even A3 and A4 sized paper wirelessly
to the cloud service of your choice, iPads, iPhone and Android devices. Once
the items are scanned, they can be viewed and organized in Microsoft Word,
Excel, Powerpoint, Acrobat, and e-mail. The Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 also includes a
one-touch automatic image correction function. The scanner can scan 50 double-sided
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A carrier sheet enables the user to scan large documents
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They can be scanned in or mixed with regular sized documents. The quick menu function allows the user to set
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save your scanned documents to cloud services like Dropbox, Google Docs,
Salesforce, and SugarSync. Users can
operate the scanner from the <a href="http://www.fujitsu.com/us/news/pr/fcpa_20130107_fujitsu_unveils_its_next_generation_scansnap_ix500_desktop_scanner.html" target="_blank">ScanSnap</a> Connect App on their smart devices. </div>
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platforms. It solves the problem of paper clutter and storage. For ease of use,
users can scan directly to a smart device such as their mobile device or
tablet. This <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujitsu" target="_blank">scanner</a> doesn’t skimp on productivity and it makes work, editing,
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-86998642264570320492013-02-26T14:08:00.000-08:002013-02-28T13:29:39.085-08:00Do Mini Sites Make You Money As An Affiliate?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What do you think about building a passive income in affiliate marketing building mini sites? Some people believe mini affiliate sites don't work like they used to work years ago. If you are one to believe this, I have news for you, mini sites still work. You just have to know how to make them work and you can build mini affiliate sites that will provide you with passive income that will pay a bill or two. <br />
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People are buying stuff all the time from the internet and as long as they continue, you can make money as an affiliate. Many people don't want to drive a few miles up the road going from store to store looking for goods anymore. More people are looking for convenient ways to shop and the internet is a huge mall that offers customers that.<br />
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I am going to talk about a few things you can do to build a profitable mini affiliate site that focuses on the product and keywords that will get you ranking in Google and other search engines.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minisite" target="_blank">Mini sites</a> are great for affiliates because you as an affiliate are going to always provide more information than the merchant site will. See the merchant will never tell the customer everything they need to know about the product. There are so many choices and it can be hard for the customer to choose the best product. You, the affiliate, go above and beyond and do research on the product and provide that much need information and display it on your mini site in a way where the customer can easily make up their mind on which product to buy.<br />
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Merchants will never tell a customer if a competitor is selling a similar or the same product at a cheaper price. They will never tell the customer if their competitor offers a way better warranty. Your mini site will inform the customer of this and any valuable information they need to know before they make the purchase.<br />
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Many merchant sites only offer the features of the product and they spiff it up to entice the buyers to take out their credit card. Most people who earn commissions, affiliates included, will do anything to make a sell. They just take the information from the merchants site and copy it onto their site and expect to make commissions. They don't provide the important info needed either.<br />
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Think of typical car salesmen. What do they normally do? They try to hurry you along and do the fast talk to get their commissions. Some don't even consider the best interest of the customer. You got some that do care, but most don't. You have to ask for the car fax because most will not offer it and many won't tell you if the car is a lemon. They just want to sell car and that's it.<br />
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Most affiliates do the same and if you set yourself apart from these affiliates and provide the helpful information buyers need, you'll always make a passive income. So you do the research the customers don't have time to do, put it in front of the hungry crowd, and inform them which product is the best. It's that simple.<br />
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Simple steps on building mini affiliate sites.<br />
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First you need to find your product. Do keyword researches using the <a href="https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__c=1000000000&__u=1000000000&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS" target="_blank">Google Keyword Tool</a>. If you don't have a product in mind, use the keyword tool to help you. If you want to sell mixers, type in the word mixers in the keyword tool. After you're done, you will see keyword ideas. One of the first things that pops up is the keyword. "kitchenaid artisan mixer" and "dj mixers". Doing this will not only give you an idea for keywords, but ideas on choosing products to promote. KitchenAid is a good brand. QVC is constantly selling products by this brand. Plus they always "over" explain the value of using the product to their customers and show them the reviews of what others are saying about the products. They also do demonstrations and show people how the product work. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The orange circle is where you type in the product category. The blue rectangle is where you will see the top keyword ideas and it shows the brands of the mixers. Doing this will give you ideas and help you find products to promote on your mini affiliate sites. </td></tr>
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If you have a product you love and it works like a charm, you can consider finding an affiliate program and promote it using YouTube as well as your mini affiliate site.<br />
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When people are typing in the name of a product and the color, or even the model, they are in buying mode. The actual name of the product and the color is called a buying keyword. You want to go after these people, not just people looking for basic information. Building a blog is great; having a website with lots of content is great too. But building mini affiliate sites with content is even greater because you are targeting the buyers not just the information seekers. Information seekers alone aren't gonna make you a dime. Just ask yourself this question: do you go to the library to buy something. No, you go for information only and many people use the internet just as they would use their local library.<br />
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You do have to provide information on you mini affiliate sites to rank fairly well on Google. Your main focus is going to be the product and the information the merchant didn't provide the customer.<br />
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You need to also consider finding weird and untapped niches where many people are not helping the customers. Most affiliates go after the highly popular stuff on Clickbank or Commission Junction. I'm not saying these are bad sites or anything, but you gotta go a different route than most affiliates Super affiliates know what they need to do the make money and they have hundreds of mini affiliate sites going after the untapped markets.<br />
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So the basic steps of building a mini affiliate site is find an untapped and/or weird niche, use the keyword tool and type in product categories (the example I used for the mixers), research and provide buyers with the untold information on your mini site, showcase the product on your mini site, and write a high quality article and place it on your mini site that relates to the product or services. You need to also link to high authority sites so Google will trust your site. This helps you rank higher in the search engines.<br />
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Another thing you need to consider if you are an Amazon Associate, the low commission rates. What I do is choose products that will pay me a higher commission. It takes the same amount of work to earn a ten cent commission as it does to earn a $20 or $30 dollar commission.<br />
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Bottom line today is mini affiliate sites work. I have a few and they're easy to make and easy to rank. You just need a good product to promote, the hidden stuff merchants don't explain, and high quality info.<br />
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Learn more about creating mini affiliate sites from this new free book<span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <b><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/andrew-hansen/forever-affiliate-free-strategy-guide-2013/ebook/product-20710728.html" target="_blank">Forever Affiliate Free Strategy Guide 2013</a></b></span></span><br />
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Related reading<br />
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<a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/02/5-creative-traffic-building-ideas.html" target="_blank">5 Creative Traffic Building Ideas</a><br />
<a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-buzz-marketing-can-increase.html#.US0wuKKG2Ng" target="_blank">How Buzz Marketing Can Increase Affiliate Sales</a><br />
<a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/04/use-semantic-keyword-research-for.html" target="_blank">Use Semantic Keyword Research For Higher Affiliate Sales</a><br />
<a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/02/saturation-in-affiliate-marketingis-it.html" target="_blank">Saturation in Affiliate Marketing...Is It a Problem?</a><br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-55869805102049653792013-02-12T00:04:00.002-08:002013-05-14T11:29:19.034-07:00Why Content Go Viral & How Yours Can Go Viral Too<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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All of us have seen content go viral on YouTube, Facebook, and everywhere else where you can post videos, pictures infographics, and more. Some people just know what to post and how to pick info that can push buttons, be controversial, funny, and spark a nerve. <br />
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Others don't know where to start. I'm here to tell you though that there is absolutely no way you can project or guesstimate when and if content will go viral, which can be in the form of pictures, video, or written content. You just can't figure that out because there are several deciding factors.<br />
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Even though you got a few things against you, there are things you can do the better your chances of posting and producing off the chain content. Beware and just remember this one thing: just because you produce really good content doesn't mean it will go viral.<br />
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Now why does content go viral? Again several factors play apart in making content go viral. Does the piece of content, let's say a picture, strike some sort of emotion? If so which emotion? I'm gonna get straight to the point on this; things that strike anger will more than likely get shared over something that is just plain cute or funny. If something is funny it can get shared to go viral, but it's gotta be the right type of funny if you know what I mean. If you take a look at the website <a href="http://imgur.com/" target="_blank">Imgur</a>, look at the pictures and you will see which ones got the most views and you will see they type of stuff that goes viral. This site will give you amazing ideas and be very helpful to view when you are trying to create viral content of your own. <br />
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Looking at these, which one is more interesting? The only way you're going to know is if you actually do a test on which one would get shared the most and viewed the most. You would have to share both with the same audience and witness the response. But there are still things you can do to make it go viral without testing it. The second picture for example can have a written statement on it that will go perfectly with the funny expression on his face and make it 10 times funnier than if you just show people a plain picture like the one above. The first picture you may not have to do a thing to. But you have to remember different people see different things and what's funny to some may not be funny to others. Also if you test something, don't rely on friends and family members' <span style="text-align: left;">opinions because they could just tell you yes something's funny when it really isn't. So test it with your followers and the right audience. </span></div>
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You also have to look at the fact that what angers some people, may not anger other people. For example, if you have an animal website and you put a picture of an animal being abused or a picture of an animal with a strong controversial comment posted on it, you will get some views and you will see the comments below your article of the way people feel, whether good or bad. </div>
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You have to realize too that people actually like crazy pics. They love to share weird funny type of sayings, post, pictures, and videos. As far as the videos go, people will share all kinds of stuff from horrible videos of people murdering a hit song, to someone who is making senseless fun of someone in the video, and something that is controversial. People use YouTube to state their actual feelings about stuff on video and people do become famous because of it and it depends on what the video was about. </div>
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You have to also realize when people post saying or controversial blog post they are usually long, some terribly long. Folks will post comments all day long until the sun come up the next morning on controversial and funny, epic content. When I say controversial it don't have to be something that make a person mad or people hate you. It can be a topic that you shared from somewhere else and you can get others feelings on it without even telling them how you feel. Think of the site <a href="http://sodahead.com/" target="_blank">Sodahead</a>. </div>
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To ensure that your content has the best chance to go viral, share you links and encourage others to share with friends and followers. Tell them to share it. People do what you tell them to do when you put that call to action in you post. Also give them the proper channels to enable folks to share your work. Post to places where you have a chance to be on the first page of a popular site. Post things after 2 or 3 pm during the day. Four o clock may be your best time to post content because in the evening time most people are online. During the week may work better than weekends, although I had a good outcome on a Sunday posting content that got many views. Just try different things and see what happens. No one truly knows what will go viral until it's out there, and it doesn't matter how many studies have been conducted on the subject of viral content. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Many people are asking this question everyday "Is affiliate
marketing over saturated". This is a concern for almost every beginner
affiliate. But you know what, I had this same question when I took my first dip
in the affiliate marketing pool. I overcame this concern very quickly. Why?
Well everything you do in this life will involve some level of competition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When people show their concerns about saturation in
affiliate marketing and it is constantly running through their minds, they are
really worried about the competition, not the saturation. It's really not about
the saturation in affiliate marketing at all. For some it can simply
just be an excuse to not try something new to make their lives better. If
you’re not careful, you’ll talk yourself out of becoming an affiliate marketer
and that’s what other affiliates hope you do. So don’t give your competitors
what they want. Take a risk and try it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Think about this; you go to a job fair hoping you land that job
you've spend many years in college for, but when you get to the job fair,
you see a lot of people ahead of you doing the same, trying to get that job.
You leave there and go home and turn on the news and find out that 10,000
people showed up at the same job fair you went to and you hear that the company
is having another job fair tomorrow and they are only going to hire 1000
people. That in it's self is competition, so why are you worried about
saturation in affiliate marketing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What are your odds of getting hired when you are against thousands
of others applying to the same job? Setting yourself apart from others job
applicants will help and showing the company why you are a
good candidate will help you also if you know what you are doing.
Well the same goes for affiliate marketing and anything else you
decide you want to do in your life. Sure there are many affiliates out
there in the pool, but saturation isn't the problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The real problem results when many affiliate marketers take their
affiliate links and plaster them all over the web thinking they are going to
cash in big. Too many affiliates are looking for that "instant
success". Well I'm here to tell you there is no such thing as
instant success. If any guru tells you that you can score big
overnight, do yourself a favor and don't pay that B.S any kind
of attention. In order for you to become a money
making affiliate you will have to put in some work as you will with
any other opportunity you choose to do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">So is there any saturation in affiliate marketing? As I
said there's competition in everything. The competition is what will determine
if there is money to be made in a niche. There are many sub-niches you can get
into that will make you a decent income in affiliate marketing. The
other day, I did a post called "<a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/02/is-weight-loss-good-niche-for-affiliate.html" target="_blank">Is Weight Loss a Good Niche For an
Affiliate?</a>" and I talked about how you can choose a sub niche within
the weight loss niche. I also shared an article from a popular affiliate blog
that talked about this subject. As I said in that post, too many people are
trying to lose weight for an affiliate to not make any money. Plus there
are many sub niches and many niches are being created daily as needs and
demands continue to grow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">So one of the real problems affiliates have is they are
trying to take on too much by focusing on the niche as a whole instead of
picking a sub niche to focus on a particular problem. You can't try to solve
everyone's problem for them in weight loss if the problem is not the
same. For example, a woman who was pregnant and trying to lose baby fat is
going to need to be helped in a different way than a man who is
trying to lose weight. Men and women's bodies are different and everyone is
having different issues. So you would have to focus on the problem of one
particular group than trying to focus on helping everyone. Focusing on everyone
and trying to solve the whole world's problem is a sure way to fail at
affiliate marketing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Competition can really be a good thing because as I said
it is the competition in a niche that indicates that money is being
made. Do you want to sell a product in a niche where the product is not in
demand or is not making any money? You can just take a trip over to Amazon or
Clickbank and look for products in the niche you are interested in a
see if it is selling. Amazon will tell you the rank near the bottom of the page
on books in kindle and hardback or paperback. You have to remember and always
keep on your mind that competition is not all that bad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">If you go to a new restaurant or movie and have a good meal
or you absolutely loved the movie, wouldn't you tell your
friends and family how good it was? Sure you would. So in affiliate marketing
that is what you are basically doing, telling and recommending products to
others. If you use the product you are promoting that's a plus because you are
sharing your results and recommending it from personal experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I highly recommend that an affiliate marketer use products before
promoting them, because you become a better promoter in an instant
since you know how the product works. You will actually beat out
your competition because many affiliates don't use the product before
they choose to promote it. You will always have a step over most of the
competition recommending something you use. Plus you can gain an authority and
become an instant expert if you play your cards right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Another way you can
stop worrying about competition or saturation
in affiliate marketing is by getting the proper training
you need as an affiliate. Most affiliates don't even know the basics of
affiliate marketing. There is plenty of information on the internet
about affiliate marketing. I suggest you read my blog to learn more about affiliate marketing
and read other blogs that talk about this subject. If you want to learn the
basics without doing a bunch of searching, you can purchase my book from Amazon
called "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Super-Hot-Affiliate-Profits-ebook/dp/B007Y9ZZ1E" target="_blank">Super Hot Affiliate Profits</a>".
If you are worrying about saturation in affiliate marketing, it is a
sign that you need to learn more about it. You can't just simply jump in some
money making opportunity or even a job/career without the proper training and
knowledge. Colleges are gonna take more money from you in the long run to train
for a career you still may not get into. It boils down to being better than the
rest. So stop worrying about the saturation in affiliate marketing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You have to absolutely have some training in order to
make money as an affiliate. Also don't be scared to spend money on a product to
try it out. Consider this an investment. If you are afraid to spend money, you
might just need to sit home and do nothing. The same goes for training and
gaining knowledge. If you don't want to invest time or money in
learning the basics, don't expect to make any money from anything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Everything you do will involve competition, including affiliate
marketing. Practice makes perfect and you must invest time in
this endeavor daily. You got to be consistent and be on the
grind all the time. Don't let some person with an expensive product or software
tell you there's an easier way because it really isn't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You need to find a strategy that will work for you and stick to
it. You have to provide free high quality information on a blog or website that
you will use to promote your affiliate product. You have to pick a
really good product that is helping people with their problems. You need to
think about your readers and audience and supply them with the information they
need and even direct them to other helpful sites, even if it means you
make no money. You have to build a following and share your content with
others. It needs to be great enough for others to want to share it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The other thing you need to do is pick a niche that you
have knowledge on. If you don't know a lot about the niche, you need
to do some research and read about the niche you are going into. How can you
sell something and promote something in a niche you
have absolutely no knowledge about? You have to educate
yourself first. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You can do this by subscribing to blogs related to the niche you
are interested in. There are many popular blogs out there and you can
read these blogs and get information on the niche you're in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">There will always be competition and "saturation"; the
saturation of affiliates who have no knowledge about what it takes to
be a successful affiliate marketer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Many of the successful affiliates weren't always
successful. We all had to start at the bottom; unless you got some money, which
many affiliates don't have, when they first start out. There is also helpful free info on the web such as this website called <a href="http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/" target="_blank">The Smart Passive Income Blog</a> by a guy name Pat that
helps affiliates get started using mostly free and cheap
methods that work and it is fit for the beginner
affiliate marketer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You have to learn how to be an affiliate the right way. Once you
can master this, saturation in affiliate marketing will no longer bother you,
neither will the competition, which in my opinion are both the same thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">But one more thing you have to also remember that can occur with
affiliate marketing is the ups and downs. One day you can make $1000 dollars
and another day you can make $500 dollars or you can just have a day where
you don't make a dime. This may not necessary be anything done
wrong on your part, but you can improve your chances of making money everyday,
and a steady income at that by following the advice in this blog post. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As I stated before, the product you choose to promote need to be
something good. You need to avoid all the overly hyped affiliate products that
make false promises and only promote the ones that are actually helping people.
Do researches on the products and see what others are saying about them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You don't want to associate yourself with products that
are slipshod and full of fluff. You certainly don't want to become
known as the affiliate who promotes bogus and worthless products. You want to
be the affiliate that people will recommend others to. You want your blog and
websites to be the go to source when it comes to valuable information and
products. You also want to be recommended by the bigger websites who are
already established in your field of interest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">So do yourself and your business a favor and get the
education and knowledge you need before you sign up to
any affiliate program. If you are already
an affiliate, don’t go any further in your business until
you get the proper training you need. No, you don't have to take an
expensive class or buy anything if you don't want to. Just do
some research and learn what you need to learn to be
successful. There is tons of info out there that you can learn from.
You don't have to know everything but you need to know something.
Once again don't even think about the
saturation because there is an opportunity for you if you will just
learn what it takes to be a successful affiliate marketer and
put in the work required. What are you thoughts about saturation in affiliate
marketing? Leave a comment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/02/is-weight-loss-good-niche-for-affiliate.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Is Weight Loss a Good Niche For An Affiliate?</span></a><br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-45089573524279508452013-02-06T19:15:00.002-08:002013-02-17T22:56:25.160-08:00Is Weight Loss a Good Niche For An Affiliate? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidhRYIqjVQcihLqlbMtxzYzcJQgvB5gIAlJboX4PCnYVLc3xRmJRwTm51vJWvftTxbNxdvjOHp7kRITmUObz5v-qVtUOFJV7YF_PuuXEG-JRyA4gIUXn2YVp3yAVI04Sxc3nFc0OaDQPMv/s1600/Affiliates+make+money+in+the+weight+loss+niche.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidhRYIqjVQcihLqlbMtxzYzcJQgvB5gIAlJboX4PCnYVLc3xRmJRwTm51vJWvftTxbNxdvjOHp7kRITmUObz5v-qVtUOFJV7YF_PuuXEG-JRyA4gIUXn2YVp3yAVI04Sxc3nFc0OaDQPMv/s400/Affiliates+make+money+in+the+weight+loss+niche.jpg" width="265" /></a>The health industry offers any affiliate the chance to make a huge amount of money. Acne, bad breath, and trying to get healthier is on the mind of many Americans right now as you are reading this post. One problem that's gonna always need attention is weight loss. The weight loss niche is huge because a lot of people in this country is overweight and many are obese. With McDonald's around the corner of most homes and the junk food industry plastering ads of food all over the place, people are gaining the pounds. People are also looking at the beautiful celebrities and models and want to get a body like them.<br />
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With that being said, affiliates can reel in the big bucks by promoting products in the weight loss niche. There are tons of products to choose from, gaining muscles to lose weight, men and women trying to lose weight, how to lose the baby or pregnancy weight, and too many more to name. People are always gonna wanna know how to lose the extra fat and flab, no matter what time of year it is.<br />
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The way we eat has changed and back years, even centuries ago, people didn't eat the way folks do it today. There wasn't a fast food restaurant sprouting around ever corner and traffic light. So the weight loss niche can be any affiliate's goldmine if done so correctly.<br />
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Let's see what the folks over at Affilorama had to say about this niche....<br />
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<i>“Health is wealth” as the old adage goes. Lifestyles and eating habits have evolved rapidly as we progressed. We now have “fast food” (French fries anyone?). Eating is not so much as a need as it is a social activity. Losing weight is now a problem shared by everyone around the globe. All of us need to watch how much weight we put on as this is essential for a long, healthy life.</i></div>
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<i>Wikipedia estimates that in the U.S. about USD$33 billion dollars is spent on weight loss products. The site notes that more or less 70% of Americans try to lose weight on their own through the use of various DVDs, crèmes, pills, supplements, etc. This is just in the US alone.</i></div>
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<i>To meet this demand, we have hundreds of different weight loss websites out there that feature a whole slew of weight loss programs and methods. They're all about one thing: how to lose weight. But while the niche and the information on these weight loss websites are the same, the sites itself are not. This is because the weight loss niche has several different sub‐niches:</i></div>
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<i style="color: #333333;">Those are just some of the sub‐niches for weight loss that you can get into. Now, which sub‐niche? As a proud and busy mama of two little girls, I have found it difficult over the years to lose weight. It’s been close to three years now, and unfortunately, I have not lost the weight I gained during my last pregnancy. So, there’s my sub‐niche! :) </i><b>Read more from <a href="http://www.affilorama.com/blog/big-results-weight-loss-affiliate-programs">Affilorama here</a></b></div>
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Wikipedia estimated $33 billion spend on weight loss products! Wow! No affiliate can say there's no money to be made in the weight loss niche. The best way to get started promoting weight loss affiliate products is to pick a sub niche instead of focusing on the weight loss niche as a whole. You gotta target one group of people who is having problems losing weight in a particular area. The article I shared with you from Affilorama gave you six sub niches to choose from.<br />
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If you focus on the sub niche, you'll make more money as an affiliate than you would if you had not chosen a sub niche. Too many people are trying to lose weight for an affiliate to not be making any money. Don't worry about the niches being over saturated because if you build your affiliate business right from the beginning, creating a content rich website or blog, and engaging your readers and followers, you won't have a problem at all. Don't forget, give your audience what they want, provide them helpful tips they can use to help them without making a purchase, and they will be more inclined to buy the product you are recommending.<br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-3858041709639666052013-02-05T18:35:00.002-08:002013-02-06T14:50:17.570-08:00Does Your Blog Make You & Your Readers Sick?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Are you making your blog readers sick? If you are then chances are you are sick too because your readers had to avoid your virus and leave your blog.<br />
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One thing you have to realize is your blog readers get sick of seeing the same thing over and over again. They get sick of seeing ads and promotions all over your blog post. People also get sick of seeing mediocre content.<br />
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What you should do is look at magazines. Magazines showcase a variety of eye catching content. This is what the magazine industry have to do in order to get customers to pick up their magazine and buy it over the others. The magazine industry know they have to catch the customers eye in a few short seconds. This is the same thing you have to do to get people to click on your blog and stay on it. There has to be eye catching stuff all around your blog. Look at what this article says...........<br />
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<i>The magazine industry can show you everything from <a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/cosmo-headlines/" style="color: #0e40ad;">killer headlines</a>, <a href="http://harrisonamy.com/example-of-simple-copywriting-from-the-national-georgraphic/" style="color: #0e40ad;" title="Compelling copywriting from National Geographic (without hype)">compelling copywriting</a> and even <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2012/11/reverse-engineer-content-strategy/" style="color: #0e40ad;">the perfect content strategy</a>.</i></div>
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<i>When you have nearly 1 million readers a year (who pay to read your content) you learn a lot about getting people’s attention (and more importantly, keeping it).</i></div>
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<i>I combed through 4 magazines to see the different ways they presented tutorials, industry news and encouraged community participation. The result is the following 98 publishing styles.</i></div>
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<i>Focus on just one of these methods once a week and you’ve got a variety of <strong>business blogging styles to last nearly 2 years.</strong></i></div>
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<i>First up, Britain’s Number 1 Women’s Magazine</i></div>
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Do the headlines catch your eye? Can you steal any for your business blog?</div>
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See more from the article "<span style="color: #660000;">98 Magazine Secrets for Keeping Your Blog and Content Marketing Fresh</span>" -----><a href="http://harrisonamy.com/98-ways-for-fresh-content-marketing-blogging/">Here</a><br />
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Now take a look at the Glamour magazine picture and answer the questions in the caption. Your blog need to look like this so your readers will stay on your blog. This will help them to discover your other post that may not get read on a regular basis. Don't keep making your blog readers sick by feeding them garbage or recycled information from the web. Offer them value all the time and they will want more.<br />
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Look at it this way; you get sick from your favorite restaurant eating your favorite steak because it was under cooked and because of cross contamination. Will you go back? That's the point. So think about that next time you write a blog post and take some ideas from the <a href="http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/">Glamour</a> magazine above so you will always attract readers and keep loyal subscribers.<br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-10079102858837297462013-02-04T21:30:00.001-08:002013-02-04T22:00:46.872-08:00Promote Your Website Using SlideShare - An SEO Strategy <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
All affiliate marketers need websites and all need traffic to those sites. Regular site owners need traffic to their sites also. And since Google is forever changing how sites rank, we need to be looking for ways to get traffic without relying on Google or any search engine. We need to focus more on using strategies that will always bring traffic our direction without the expensive advertising and paid link-building.<br />
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There is a strategy that's becoming so popular and you don't have to spend two cents on it and it is creating a PowerPoint. You're probably asking how. Well you can easily create them and promote them on a site called, <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" target="_blank">SlideShare</a>. This site is similar to YouTube but instead of publishing videos you publish PowerPoints.<br />
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You can use this site to your advantage and get more readers and insert a clickable link in your presentation. It's easy to do and doesn't require much time.<br />
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Take a look at this article from KissMetrics........<br />
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<i>I want to show you a big opportunity that leads to other big opportunities. This “opportunity” gets 60 millions visitors per month and has an Alexa Rank of 174. You don’t want to miss out on it, do you?</i></div>
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<i>The good news is that you can handle this. I’m not talking about writing an article for the New York Times. And, so far, there isn’t very much competition to face while taking advantage of this opportunity.</i></div>
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<i>I’m talking about “The Quiet Giant of Content Marketing,” also known as <a href="http://slideshare.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.15s linear; color: #149fef; text-decoration: initial;">SlideShare</a> (a social <b>media</b> website where you can upload your presentations and show them to the world). SlideShare’s features make it the ideal tool to grow your business. It’s a crowded site with a highly targeted audience and low competition.</i></div>
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<i>You can use SlideShare for many purposes. For instance, you can:</i></div>
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<i style="color: #555555;">If you use SlideShare in the right way, you’ll find it’s a very powerful tool. </i><b>See more from <a href="http://blog.kissmetrics.com/marketers-guide-to-slideshare/" target="_blank">KissMetrics here</a></b></div>
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I love the fact that this site has an Alexa rank of 174. Just imagine how using a high ranking site like this can boost your rankings. As an affiliate, I definitely advise you to use this site because there is sooo much competition out there. As a regular entrepreneur or site owner you will benefit also. Before you create your first business PowerPoint, take a look at this presentation that will teach you how to correctly do one.........<br />
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<strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/thepresentationdesigner/2012-and-were-still-using-powerpoint-wrong" target="_blank" title="2012 and We're STILL Using PowerPoint Wrong">2012 and We're STILL Using PowerPoint Wrong</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/thepresentationdesigner" target="_blank">The Presentation Designer </a></strong> </div>
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Now you can get started doing your PowerPoint. I know it's 2013 but it's still good info to see.<br />
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P.S Check out this helpful information <a href="http://blog.slideshare.net/2013/01/31/top-10-favorite-slideshare-blog-posts-of-2012/" target="_blank">10 Most Popular SlideShare Blog Post of 2012</a> <br />
<b>and </b><a href="http://blog.slideshare.net/2013/01/23/rand-fishkin-of-seomoz-recommends-including-presentations-in-content-marketing-and-seo-strategy/">Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz recommends including presentations in content marketing and SEO strategy</a><br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com79tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-46554267113650092982013-01-31T22:35:00.003-08:002013-01-31T22:35:23.501-08:00Do Affiliates Have To Build Links Differently Than Merchant Websites?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGHU7ayA1BSAWqgMd22D9EUnBgAcm_iPW_rsG0XWGOdGgqFo622h9t3nPrzc_yamHHPbHg1u_4iJQYmSSyazNlhtKjdVLuDYfGmtitiqYtYfQP4HdwlMmUZBIXDvcjeZAiU-vpRUt-3u8T/s1600/create+content.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGHU7ayA1BSAWqgMd22D9EUnBgAcm_iPW_rsG0XWGOdGgqFo622h9t3nPrzc_yamHHPbHg1u_4iJQYmSSyazNlhtKjdVLuDYfGmtitiqYtYfQP4HdwlMmUZBIXDvcjeZAiU-vpRUt-3u8T/s320/create+content.JPG" width="320" /></a>Having an affiliate website can be difficult especially when it comes to competing with other affiliates and merchant websites. Let's face it, Google hates affiliate sites, especially those sites that have little to no content. These sites are better know as thin affiliate sites. Plus as an affiliate, you get the same tools, promos, ads, and articles that other affiliates get, so there's no difference in that. On the other hand, merchant websites can build their brand and be set apart from their competition. So what are other differences. Look at this article from Affilorama<br />
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<i>The truth is that there isn’t really a lot of difference in the techniques that affiliates can use compared to other websites. This isn’t to say there are no differences at all, the one that I do feel does exist, and what I’ll cover shortly is the differences in resources and setup of affiliates.</i></div>
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<i>However there is a difference in a few on-page areas for affiliates compared to other websites:</i></div>
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<i>These are just a couple of problems that affiliates have to compete with that relate to content. Before you invest heavily in link building, I’d strongly advise you to invest in your website – try to get out of the mindset of it being an affiliate website and try to not make it look like an affiliate website. Here are a few things that make affiliate sites stand out and look bad:</i></div>
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See what the last statement said about thin affiliate websites? This is one of the biggest things Google is trying to combat. So how do you deal with being an affiliate with huge competition? You become an authority site. When your site is an authority site, Google will reward you instead of condemn you.<br />
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If you are just starting out, focus on posting quality content to your site. Do this before you do anything else, including building links. Don't think about building links until you posted high quality content to your new website for awhile. Make sure you are building a site that will fit in with the mainstream sites and not like the affiliate sites.<br />
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If you already have a website and have very little content, focus all of your attention on posting high quality content all the time to your website. Make sure you give people something that will stick to their mind. Create content people can always use. If you can create content that will always help people, they will share your stuff with the world and you will always receive visitors regardless of Google's forecast for the following weeks, months, or years. Remember, Google can't take away your voice if it is being heard above the rest.<br />
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Make your site look like a regular website, not a site filled with affiliate links and ads. And as I always say, be unique, be set apart, and stand out from your competitors.<br />
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<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/04/use-semantic-keyword-research-for.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Use Semantic Keyword Research For Higher Affiliate Sales</a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/12/affiliate-marketing-program-checklist.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Affiliate Marketing Tune Up: Affiliate Marketing Program Checklist</a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/04/use-content-curation-to-attract-readers.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Use Content Curation To Attract Readers</a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-does-duplicate-content-really-mean.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">What Does Duplicate Content Really Mean?</a><br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-59457111773414912372013-01-31T17:07:00.003-08:002013-01-31T17:15:30.086-08:00Use Pinterest To Grow Your Blog & Business <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social networking sites around. Millions of people became attracted to the site and so did many companies. Pinterest is driving many visitors to blogs and sites, plus many are building followers and most importantly their brand. If you use Pinterest effectively, you will be positioning your business to gain much greater success.<br />
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The World Wide Web is going towards the direction of visuals and being social. As I mentioned in previous post, Google and Bing are relying more on social media sites such as Pinterest to determine how popular a website is. If people are sharing the links to your site via social media, your site will benefit more in the long run than if the links weren't being shared. Google looks at shares as votes, and if you don't have a lot of votes, you wont receive a lot of visitors which means your business will suffer.<br />
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Neil Patel, who is the Owner of the popular blog Quick Sprout and the co-founder of the internet companies <a href="http://www.kissmetrics.com/" target="_blank">KISSmetrics</a> and <a href="http://www.crazyegg.com/" target="_blank">Crazy Egg</a>, talked about how to leverage Pinterest like a power user. Here is what he had to say................<br />
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<i>The image-driven new social media powerhouse known as Pinterest can also provide you with massive traffic. But you have to know how to get people to pin images of your content and products from your website and blog.</i></div>
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<i>Here are 6 techniques that are tried-and-true methods for <a href="http://www.quicksprout.com/2012/05/07/how-to-get-a-boatload-of-people-to-pin-your-products-to-pinterest/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">creating a flood of visits using Pinterest</a>.</i></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; color: #111111; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Put messages on your images – </strong>You probably put a lot of effort into <a href="http://www.quicksprout.com/2009/07/21/how-to-write-a-blog-post/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">writing great content</a>, but do you do the same with your images? To get people to pin these images, share a great message about your content on your featured image like this one from a <a href="http://www.complex.com/style/2011/09/infographic-50-mistakes-dudes-make-while-getting-dressed" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">blog post title from Complex Style</a>. You can use tools like <a href="http://pixlr.com/editor/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pixlr</a>,<a href="http://www.lunapic.com/editor/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FotoFlexer</a> and <a href="http://www.gimp.org/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gimp 2.6</a> to create these messages.</i></li>
<li style="border: 0px; color: #111111; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daily theme board </strong>– If you want to take the text-based message image idea into overdrive, then create a board in your Pinterest account that is based on a theme. <a href="http://sevenly.org/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sevenly</a> has done this very well with their <a href="http://pinterest.com/sevenly/inspirational-image-quotes/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daily Inspirational board</a>.</i></li>
<li style="border: 0px; color: #111111; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Run contests and giveaways </strong>– Do a simple search for “giveaway” on Pinterest and you will see that contests are very popular. The reason they are popular is because of their ability to stir up traffic. Create a contest where people have to go to your site to enter, and you’ll get that spike that you’ve been dreaming of.</i></li>
<li style="border: 0px; color: #111111; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Share pics of people, animal and cool technology </strong>– Since Pinterest is hugely visual, images of people and animals work really, really well. GE has created an account with boards that show off their <a href="http://pinterest.com/generalelectric/badass-machines/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">badass machines</a> , full of photos of trains, airplanes and huge turbines. The U.S. Central Command has done a really great job of humanizing their institution with a board called <a href="http://pinterest.com/centcom/interesting/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Interesting</a> and one on their <a href="http://pinterest.com/centcom/military-dogs/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">military dogs</a>.</i></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="color: #111111;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow the golden rule </strong>– This one is simple and basic…if you want people to pin and share your pins, then you need to do the same. You need to develop relationships with targeted users and share their stuff. The karma <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">will </span>come back to you…I promise. </i><b>Read more from <a href="http://www.quicksprout.com/2012/09/04/the-massive-guide-to-getting-massive-traffic/" target="_blank">Neil Patel here</a>.</b></li>
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Pinterest will change the way people shop online. Why, because Pinterest will help people realize they want to buy something when they see it. For example, when a product gets re-pinned by lots of people, this can be looked at proof that a product is very good to have or use. The re-pinning will serve as a good review for the product. Just think about it like this; a person can see that nice picture you posted from your kitchen utensils website of the beautiful new non-stick frying pan set with 10,000 re-pins and be one click away from making the purchase from your website.</div>
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Pinterest won't be going anywhere anytime soon and everyone with a business, online or off, should have a Pinterest account. Having an account can open up <a href="http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/4-ways-pinterest-rank-high-search-engines-225029958.html" target="_blank">several opportunities</a> for you. Make sure you have your site set up to be "pin friendly" where people can "pin" your pictures and encourage them to share your stuff. And make sure you follow the golden rule Neil Patel gave and re-pin and share other people pictures. Make sure you follow them too. </div>
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<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/is-tweeting-videos-good-for-your-company.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Tweeting Videos Good For Your Company</span></a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/12/get-amazons-customers-to-buy-affiliate.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Get Amazon's Customers to Buy Affiliate Products Through You</a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/07/google-plus-circles-hangouts-for.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Google Plus Circles & Hangouts For Business </a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/theres-no-mystery-to-traffic-generation.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">There's No Mystery to Traffic Generation</a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/attract-readers-to-your-blog-like-perez.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Attract Readers To Your </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Blog Like Perez Hilton Does</span></a><br />
<a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/12/compelling-keywords-to-convert-visitors.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Compelling Keywords To Convert Visitors To Buyers </span></a></div>
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-21111478046496172342013-01-29T23:11:00.001-08:002013-01-29T23:11:08.297-08:00Google+ Is Now The 2nd Most Popular Social Network<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If you're not using Google+ for your business you better start. Google+ has now overtaken Twitter and YouTube and is in second place behind Facebook. Read this.................<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Despite early reports declaring the social network a </span><a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401408,00.asp" style="border: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">failing enterprise</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">, Google+ attracted some 343 million monthly active users in the fourth quarter of 2012, up 27 percent from the year prior. The firm defined active users as those who have used or contributed to the site in the past month. In recent months, Google has more closely tied Google+ to its other services, so</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"> </span><a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399151,00.asp" style="border: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">signing up for a Gmail account</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">means creating a Google+ profile, for example.</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #3b3b3c;"><i>Google's uber-popular video sharing site YouTube ranked as the world's third-largest social network with about 300 million active users, followed by No. 4 Twitter with 288 million active users. Facebook is still by far the most popular social network, with 693 million active users around the world, according to the Global Web Index.</i> </span>Read <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414777,00.asp" target="_blank">more here</a></div>
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So if you're not using Google+, now is the time. Google makes it easy and convenient for you to sign up because as stated above Google+ is tied to other services Google offers. If you have a blog or email it's so easy to run your business. Google has it's services linked together to get more people to use their services and they can collect the <a href="http://bgr.com/2013/01/29/google-plus-usage-analysis-310649/?utm_source=authors-sb&utm_medium=home" target="_blank">much need data</a> they need to improve users search experience and increase their income. Plus you can claim your work.<br />
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Recommended reading<br />
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<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/is-tweeting-videos-good-for-your-company.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Tweeting Videos Good For Your Company</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/amplify-your-tweets-for-better-click.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Amplify Your Tweets for Better Click Through Rates</span></a></span><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/03/traffic-to-blog-help-grandma-find-your.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Help Grandma Find Your Blog</a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/12/get-amazons-customers-to-buy-affiliate.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Get Amazon's Customers to Buy Affiliate Products Through You</a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/07/google-plus-circles-hangouts-for.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Google Plus Circles & Hangouts For Business </a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/02/5-creative-traffic-building-ideas.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">5 Creative Traffic Building Ideas</a></div>
Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-12896952029379676992013-01-29T20:21:00.002-08:002013-01-29T20:21:53.982-08:00Do You Consider The Load Time Of Your Website?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You're working on your website and blogs daily. You spend hours, sometimes until 3 in the morning adding valuable content to your blog. You're in hopes that people will visit your site. But you look at your stats after some time and find that you're not getting a lot of visitors and your making little to no money. Then you find that some of your visitors stay on your site for a few seconds then their gone for ever. You ask yourself a bunch of why questions and still can't figure out what's going on. You visit your own site and it you see it takes for ever to load.<br />
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No matter what you do and how well you do it, people are impatient and if your website is slow, they will leave. No if's and's or buts about it, they're gone, never to be seen or heard from again. Let's see what Ste Kerwer has to say about your sites load time.............<br />
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<i><strong style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The biggest turn-off is a slow load time.</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">You've probably visited a blog or two that took forever to appear on your monitor. In reality, it was probably only 5 or 6 seconds, it only seemed like an eternity. And you've also probably clicked away from a good number of these blogs before they ever finish loading. That’s exactly what your own visitors are doing if your site loads too slow. So it’s important that you regularly check the load time of your site.</span></span></span></i><br />
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<i>It’s not enough to simply visit <a href="http://dukeo.com/would-you-read-your-own-blog/" style="-webkit-transition: all 1s ease-out; color: #21759b; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">your own blog</a> and see how fast it loads. Each computer is different and your computer may be accessing cached pages which will load faster anyway.</i></div>
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<i>Instead, use <a href="http://www.webpagetest.org/" style="-webkit-transition: all 1s ease-out; color: #21759b; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WebPageTest.org</a>, a free online tool which allows you to simply plug in your URL and you’ll get an instant response that tells you how fast your website or blog is loading.</i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Keep in mind, you only have two to three seconds to grab your visitor’s attention. If it’s taking two seconds for your site to load then that doesn't leave much time for the visitor to browse your content and see if there’s something there that grabs their attention. So the faster your site loads the better. See more from <a href="http://dukeo.com/check-the-load-time-of-your-site/" target="_blank">Ste Kerwer here</a></span></span></i></div>
The bottom line is you only have a few seconds to grab a person's attention. People are in a hurry these days and it's only going to get worst. If 3 seconds past it's too late. Take the steps you need to take to make your site faster and use the free tool Ste Kerwer mentions to see how fast your site loads.<br />
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Recommended reading<br />
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<a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/why-deep-linking-is-important.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Why Deep Linking is Important</span></a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/theres-no-mystery-to-traffic-generation.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">There's No Mystery to Traffic Generation</a><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/amplify-your-tweets-for-better-click.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Amplify Your Tweets for Better Click Through Rates</span></a></span><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/04/use-content-curation-to-attract-readers.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Use Content Curation To Attract Readers</a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/04/6-seo-secrets-tips.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">6 SEO Secrets & Tips</a><br />
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<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/12/what-do-dogs-and-blog-titles-have-in.html" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">What Do Dogs And Blog Titles Have In Common?</a></h3>
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-50926162942317481282013-01-29T12:13:00.002-08:002013-01-29T20:23:50.588-08:00Why Deep Linking is Important <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Many bloggers and site owners build links to their blogs and sites and usually focus more on the home page rather than the pages within the site or blog. While this is a good thing we should also think about deep linking. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking" target="_blank">Deep linking</a> is the process where a blogger or site owner links to a specific page within a website or blog (the blog post itself). Deep linking is good because the post or webpage need to obtain as much attention as the main or home page. The home page is not going to show you all of the pages that are in the blog. That's why it is very important a person links to the pages within the sites and blogs.<br />
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It is also important to make sure you deep link every time you do a blog post. Look at the end of this blog post to get an idea what I am talking about. You're basically linking back to previous blog post and giving them life again. These are post you wrote and they still need to be seen so it is important that you use deep linking. You'll get more visitors from search engines and those individual post will get higher rankings.<br />
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Enterprises are being urged to incorporate deep linking in their marketing strategies. Why, because many big companies have a lot of products and services they offer. For example, if you are looking to buy a pair of running shoes and you want those shoes to be Reebok Realflex women's running shoes; you will want to go straight to where that shoe is being sold right?<br />
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Well Reebok or another shoe selling site will want to build links to that product page so it can more easily be picked up by search engines. If you had a product site wouldn't you want customers to find what they are looking for with ease? Certainly and that's exactly why deep link building is important for all enterprises, companies, bloggers, and site owners. When you write articles or post comments on other blogs, try linking to specif pages with in your blog or website rather than always linking to your home page.<br />
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By the way, the more specific a person is in their search, the better chances the person is looking to make a purchase. Any woman looking for Reebok Realflex women's running shoes is looking to buy a pair in most cases. So consider that if you are not currently building deep links.<br />
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Also consider what <a href="http://searchengineland.com/author/eric-enge" target="_blank">Eric Enge</a> had to say about deep linking................<br />
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<i>A lot of major brands cover many types of different products. Proctor & Gamble lists 47 different brands on the <a href="http://www.pg.com/en_US/brands/all_brands.shtml" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">All Brands page</a> on its website. Even Ford Motor Company lists five major categories of product lines on its <a href="http://www.ford.com/" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">home page</a>. Digging in a bit further, they list six major lines of cars, ranging from the inexpensive Fiesta, to the sporty Mustang, to the pricier Taurus.</i></div>
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<i>(Did you notice how those two companies each got a “free link” from me just because they are major brands?) However, let’s look at these links, and the pages they point to. Would a user, or a search engine, use those links to decide that Ford is the best company to buy a sports car from, or that P&G makes the best laundry detergent?</i></div>
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<i>Of course not.</i></div>
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<i>We can learn from the example of the offline advertising world. Does P&G run ads to promote that they are a large consumer goods company? Again, not really. What do their brands do instead?</i></div>
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<li style="color: #515151; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2px;"><i>Old Spice runs ads to tell you that they are the best deodorant.</i></li>
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<i>Ford does the same thing with its line of products. They have one set of ads for trucks, a different set for SUVs, and another for economy cars. These ad campaigns communicate to consumers both the relevance and importance of a product line. This type of campaigning is the logical equivalent of deep link building. You establish relevance and importance on a product line by product line basis.</i></div>
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<i>For fun, I decided to see how many ads were posted on YouTube for each of their car product lines. You can see it here:</i></div>
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<i>My technique of using these search queries is admittedly crude, but the point is that they run ads for each of their product lines. Your online strategy needs to reflect this, too. Search engines try to look at signals the same way that users do.</i></div>
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<i>One set of such signals is the links that your product category pages get. This goes back to the traditional model of links being seen as academic-type citations for your content.</i></div>
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<i>So when you look at one of your product lines, some questions you can ask yourself are:</i></div>
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<li style="color: #515151; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2px;"><i>Is my product covered in reviews of similar products in major magazines?</i></li>
<li style="color: #515151; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2px;"><i>Do major websites covering similar products write about your product at other times (not just reviews)?</i></li>
<li style="color: #515151; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2px;"><i>Do lots of bloggers who fit your target demographic write about you?</i></li>
<li style="color: #515151; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2px;"><i>Is there any evidence online that your company is an expert in your product’s topic area?</i></li>
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<i>There are plenty of these basic types of questions. Let me enhance them one step further. Do the places that write about you online include links to the relevant pages on your site? Note that someone writing about you without a link could represent some level of endorsement, but implementing a link, which offers the user the opportunity to leave the site publishing a link is, by definition, a stronger endorsement. </i><b><a href="http://searchengineland.com/why-enterprises-cannot-ignore-deep-link-building-146452" target="_blank">See more From Eric Enge here</a></b></div>
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See how he talks about how Ford and the other companies run ads for a specif product. When these products are promoted, the link takes you straight to the page the product is on, not the homepage or main page of the website. Each product has to be promoted in this way. In his article he also says that the need for deep linking will not be going away any time soon. Also product line promotions will always be important. So with that being said, if you are not already doing so, you need to incorporate deep linking into your marketing strategies. Visitors will end up visiting the inside of your website more than the home page because the home page contains a variety of things, but still not a link to every post or webpage.<br />
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Search engines display results based on what a person type in the search box and if you're not building deep links to those post or webpages with in your site, you could set yourself up to not receive as much traffic as you could be receiving.<br />
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Related reading<br />
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<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/is-tweeting-videos-good-for-your-company.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Tweeting Videos Good For Your Company</span></a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/04/use-content-curation-to-attract-readers.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Use Content Curation To Attract Readers</a><br />
<a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/amplify-your-tweets-for-better-click.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Amplify Your Tweets for Better Click Through Rates</span></a><br />
<a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-select-profitable-niche.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">How to Select A Profitable Niche</span></a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/theres-no-mystery-to-traffic-generation.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">There's No Mystery to Traffic Generation</a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/04/is-link-building-still-effective.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Is Link Building Still Effective</a></div>
Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-45620606325892480202013-01-28T23:21:00.001-08:002013-01-28T23:26:47.046-08:00Amplify Your Tweets for Better Click Through Rates<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of the best ways to share a blog post, article, message, or anything is through Twitter. If links are good they will get shared and re-tweeted super fast. That's only if you use the right words, titles, and verbs. Twitter is becoming more and more popular by the day and if you tweet your followers you need to know how to effectively use twitter and amplify your tweets for better click through rates. Linda Bustos shared a very important message on improving the Twitter link click through rates and this is what she had to say.......<br />
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<i>When it comes to sharing links through Twitter, what makes them click?</i></div>
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<i>Dan Zarella from <a href="http://www.hubspot.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #005b97; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">HubSpot</a> set out to answer that question, analyzing over 200,000 link-containing tweets, and measuring several characteristics that appear to influence click through. Dan’s findings are <a href="http://danzarrella.com/infographic-how-to-get-more-clicks-on-twitter.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005b97; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">presented infographically</a> (WordPress tells me this is not a word, but I don’t care), which we will here break down tip-by-tip, along with some real-world examples.</i></div>
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<i>Now here is a tip she shared............</i></div>
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6. Tweet on the weekends</i></h2>
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<i>No surprise here, tweet volume from marketers is understandably down on the weekends, so there’s a better chance your links are seen by weekend socializers. Schedule tweets in advance with Crowdbooster or Hootsuite, and of course monitor click-through vis-a-vis similar links during the work week.</i></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><i>Another tip: Check out (ah, see what I just did there?) <a href="http://www.tweriod.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #005b97; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tweriod</a>, an app that will tell you your ideal time to tweet based on your audience.</i> </span><b>See more from <a href="http://www.getelastic.com/6-tips-for-improving-twitter-link-click-through-rate/" target="_blank">Linda Bustos here.</a></b></div>
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I like how she shared Dan Zarrella's results from his study of more than 200,000 tweets that contained links. Another thing I learned from this site is to increase the usage of verbs and action words. The info-graphs from her site shows you proof that the click through rates are higher when you incorporate these tips into your own tweets.<br />
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Related reading<br />
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<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/is-tweeting-videos-good-for-your-company.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Tweeting Videos Good For Your Company</span></a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/attract-readers-to-your-blog-like-perez.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Attract Readers To Your </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Blog Like Perez Hilton Does</span></a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-buzz-marketing-can-increase.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">How Buzz Marketing Can </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Increase Affiliate Sales</span></a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/12/what-do-dogs-and-blog-titles-have-in.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">What Do Dogs And Blog Titles Have In Common?</a><br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-61243868554546128642013-01-27T20:47:00.000-08:002013-01-27T21:19:32.975-08:00How to Select A Profitable Niche <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In order to be successful as an affiliate marketer, you have to
choose the right niche. The mistake a lot of affiliates make is trying to find
a product to promote before choosing a niche. This is not the best way to choose
a product, it's best to choose an evergreen niche first then worry about the
product later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Much like a store, there's a variety of niches. Which will you choose?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I'm about to explain to you how to select a profitable niche.
First of all you, need an evergreen niche as I just mentioned. An evergreen
niche is a niche where people will always need what you have to offer. For
example a health product such as weight loss, anti aging, or an
embarrassing body odor; or self improvement products such as dating or
success. Evergreen products will always make you money because people will
always have needs and people will always experience these types of
issues. Products like these will always be in high demand because people are
always looking for solutions and they want quick solutions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Plus the niche you choose need to be a niche where the market is
big enough and the demand is high. You need to choose a market that is starving
for the product you want to promote. If people are not hungry enough for the
product or niche, you need to steer away from it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You need to also consider choosing a niche where you can find
products that people are desperate for. For example, think about the guy who is about to go on a date and has an on going problem with stinky breath; you could
choose a product in the health niche that will help this guy fix his bad breath
issue. Also think about the person who has a sexual problem; example premature
ejaculation or loss of sexual desire, you can find a product to promote that
will help people fix these problems. What about a person who
has infertility issues or the one who wants to
prevent identity theft; you can look for products geared towards
helping these people prevent identity theft and a book on healthy
eating to help prevent infertility. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The examples I give above are very good examples to help you get
started. You need to aim for niches that are making the money. I will provide
the steps below:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Ask yourself what is the problem that people are very desperate to fix?
Think about the problems that keep folks tossing and turning or even
awake all night. Think about the people in your life. What do they have
problems with and what do they always talk about concerning the problem? I have
a friend who is constantly talking about her excessive sweating
problem under her arms. I went one day to look up information to help her and
guess what; there were a lot of other people asking the same questions. Yahoo answers
is a good place to start when looking for niches and products. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Now what is it that you don't like about someone you
hang around? This could be a family member you live with or a friend. I know
someone in my life who has a problem and it is very nerve wreaking to be around
this person sometimes because it is an annoying situation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Once you figure that
out, do some research and see what other people are saying on the internet
about similar problems. The more you can find other people talking about a particular
problem, the more of an indicator you're on to something good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When you do your research ask yourself do people spend money in
the niche you are considering. If loads of people are spending money, it's a
good sign you've found your niche. You can even type in Google words
like "how do I", or "how can I" and see what else pops up. It will give you a great
idea what people are searching for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Always remember that the internet is the first place people will
come when they are looking for a solution to their issues. You need
to be the person that can provide the solutions. You need to also look at other
products similar to the one you are considering after you've picked your niche.
You need to also make sure you can provide information on your site that no one
else has <a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-does-duplicate-content-really-mean.html" target="_blank">offered yet</a>. This will put you ahead of the game if you can do this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Competition will be fierce and you will have to pick the right kind of product
that you can successfully promote that will make you a comfortable
steady flow of monthly income from affiliate marketing. There are
many people selling products online and many will be selling
and promoting similar products you choose. If you can, you need to
choose a product that will allow you to make money through up-selling and
cross selling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Before you make a final decision on what to promote and what
niche to choose, take a trip to Amazon's website and see what's selling in the book and
kindle book section. This will give you a strong indicator on what niche is hot
and what's not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You should always remember that new niches are created daily and
you should always be on the look out for new things in technology, health,
and well everywhere. Think about how you can now tweet videos on Twitter.
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Soon you will see people creating products on how to market or make money
tweeting videos. Look at Amazon kindle books, there are books out there on how
to make money through that channel. There will always be new products and
niches, but you have to pick the right one, that's the key. Also if you choose
something you have a little knowledge about or something where
you experienced you own problem or
something embarrassing that troubled you, it will always be easy to
keep up with a blog and write articles or blog post on your
own experiences. People will feel your past pain through your writing and will be more willing to check out what you recommend. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Related reading<br />
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<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/01/warning-dont-promote-hyped-up-affiliate.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;"><span style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Warning: Don't Promote Hyped Up Affiliate </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;">Products</span></a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/11/do-product-testing-for-max-profits.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Do Product Testing For Max Profits</a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/12/get-amazons-customers-to-buy-affiliate.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Get Amazon's Customers to Buy Affiliate Products Through You</a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/01/give-quality-products-content-to-get.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Learn To Offer Quality To Your Visitors</a><br />
<a class="gs-title" href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/02/dynamic-strategies-that-will-boost.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 1.4em; line-height: 20.25px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Dynamic Strategies That Will Boost Affiliate Cash Profits</a><br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-17270504494734797722013-01-26T22:19:00.003-08:002013-01-26T22:19:56.846-08:00What Does Duplicate Content Really Mean? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
What is duplicate content? Does unique content make a difference when we are writing blog post or adding pages to our websites? These two questions are commonly asked and people have different views and thoughts on what these two things actually mean. We all know that duplicate content can hurt our rankings and how well we perform in the search engines, especially after the several changes done to the Google algorithms or post panda.<br />
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So what is duplicate content? To answer this question you need to know what unique content is and what it isn't and it's not what you think. Unique content is content that is that is different from what everyone else is saying. But the mistake people are making is they go find some site on the web and reword the information to make it "their own". It's unique but you are still saying the same thing everyone else is saying, aka, "me too marketing" or the "I want to say that too" theory.<br />
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Let's get something straight, the search engines want to see something of value that came strictly from you and no one else. This is what you need to focus on. You need to say something that someone else hasn't already said. If someone else already said it, than it's too late for you because in most cases the search engines already picked that up from other sites, especially the sites who are popular and those whose information is already being shared by social media outlets.<br />
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So the idea is to provide unique valuable content rather than just so called unique content. Also for example if someone is looking for an Italian restaurant, you can't just go and get information from an online directory and take the content about a popular restaurant and reword the stuff, you have to give the details about the restaurant and go above and beyond and talk about the stars that comes to the restaurant, talk about the area, and if the Italian restaurant has a movie theater underground, talk about that and get a bunch of unique pictures and put that on your site, (with permission of course). Most people aren't gonna do that. Give the details and make absolute sure you share information that other people aren't sharing.<br />
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Now that you understand what unique content is and that you should always be providing unique valuable content and something that no one else ever mentioned on any other website, you can fully understand what duplicate content is.<br />
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So what is duplicate content? This is the process where a blogger or site owner take full blown copies of someone else's work and put it on their blog or site without proper credit given back to that person's blog or website. Also when people take content that already exist in the internet world and put it on their blog. If that content was already out their first, that site will show up before anyone else who puts the same content up afterwards. Basically, duplicate content is another form of plagiarism. We can just call it plagiarized content or high-jacked content. That's all it is.<br />
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Now this is what duplicate content <u>isn't</u>. It isn't when a person takes a few sentences from some one else's blog post or article and post it on their blog post or article with some of their own unique content. Too many people get that wrong. It also is not when a person cites what some one else says while also providing unique value. Why, because you can share what someone else said on your blog as long as you give them proper credit. This method is known as content curation and this is actually better than saying "oh me too". You pretty much learnt that in school.<br />
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Bloggers and site owners get this stuff confused all the time. But that can stop today. As a matter of fact, below is a video from SEOmoz. <a href="https://plus.google.com/111294201325870406922/posts" target="_blank">Rand Fishkin</a> is doing a segment called whiteboard Friday, which many of you may already know about. He is talking more on this subject and I believe it is very important for you to hear. Rand Fiskin clears up the confusion on duplicate and unique content. The video is titled: How Unique Content Needs to Be To Perform Well In the Search Engines? Take a look at it now.<br />
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Now doesn't that help you? It's really good info.<br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-7914669363289718892013-01-25T13:27:00.000-08:002013-01-25T14:43:23.692-08:00Attract Readers To Your Blog Like Perez Hilton Does<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So you're writing blog post after blog post in hopes of attracting more readers. But who are you trying to attract? This is the question you have to ask yourself when you are blogging. Before you even start a blog you need to know what type of audience you're trying to attract. With many people doing niche sites and blogs, you need to be able to set yourself apart from the rest and give readers what they are looking for.<br />
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How do you attract readers to your blog? You blog about something that your readers want to read. It needs to be something engaging and attention getting. One way you can do that is by content curation. I talked content curation in a different post but I bring this up again because this is a popular way to get attention instantly. Perez Hilton's blog is very popular because he uses this method. Then on top of that he talks about something most people like to read about and that's celebrity gossip.<br />
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When Perez Hilton blogs, he is always talking about celebrities. He pick the hottest stories he finds on other popular websites takes the content and curates it, add his own twist to it with a title that attracts his readers, and send them on the the popular website so that they can continue reading what the gossip is about. Perez Hilton picks out the news that's popping and talks about it. For instance, you can go to Perez Hilton's blog now and at the top you can see what's trending. When I took a look at his blog recently, the trending celebrities were Beyonce, Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, and a few others. During the inauguration, people talked about Beyonce lip syncing at the event. This discussion became so popular people wanted to know more about it. Perez Hilton put up a funny short video clip and at the side of the video put a title telling people "Beyonce Fake It! National Anthem Lip Synching Confirmed By Inaugural Official!"<br />
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Now for most people this title would be too irresistible to resist clicking on. The same goes for some of the other things he put on his sites about celebrities. Another example of what he posted to his blog was "Nicki Minaj STORMS OUT of American Idol Audition after Judges Fight! WATCH HERE!". Anybody who loves or follows Nicki Minaj will want to know what and why this happened, especially if these folks didn't watch the episode. Perez Hilton can create blog titles that will make a person want to click on it. This is what you have to do to attract readers to your blog like Perez Hilton and he does it well.<br />
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Perez Hilton's blog is making the man a living and he's making big money by drawing people to his blog. How, because he is providing content that people want and crave. Then he monetize his blog with advertising. He's doing extremely well. Perez Hilton also has followers via social media, which makes him even more popular.<br />
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You can do the same thing he is doing. How, by writing epic topics, stuff people want to see. As I already mentioned, Perez Hilton does this and he's doing it multiple times daily.<br />
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For example, if your blog is about weight loss, you can find a celebrity who lost weight and talk about how they did it. You can create an irresistible title, and if the celebrity has a blog, share some of what they talk about on your blog and link back to that celebrity's blog giving them credit.<br />
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You can even interview well known bloggers in your niche and create a blog post around that. Just make sure everything you write about somehow relates to your niche.<br />
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Also look at your comment section and create a blog post by answering questions. If a lot of people ask similar questions, this is an indicator you need to make a post about it.<br />
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People like to read about celebrities and this is what can make you an authority. Your blog post becomes popular and people will start to follow you. Take a look at <a href="http://perezhilton.com/" target="_blank">Perez Hilton's blog</a> and you'll see what I'm talking about.<br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-44146981679940122972013-01-24T13:55:00.001-08:002013-01-24T19:58:27.624-08:00Is Tweeting Videos Good For Your Company<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>They say a photo is worth a thousand words and a video is worth a lot more. By that math, six seconds of video should be worth a whole lot more than 140 characters of text or a Tweet. And that seems to be the point of Vine, an app launched by <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/twitter-adds-header-photo-option-updates-ipad-app/story?id=17261195" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #30659c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Twitter</a> today that allows you to add short video clips to your tweets.</i></div>
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<i style="color: #333333;">The app, which as of now is available only for the iPhone, is really simple to use and works a lot like Instagram. (Many have been calling it the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/instagate-instagram-claims-display-users-photos-ads-users/story?id=18006012" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #30659c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Instagram</a>of video.) Sign in with your Twitter account or via email, hit the video camera button and press down on the viewfinder to record video. Release your finger and the recording stops, so you can easily move to record something else, but you only have six seconds of space (or tape). Watch your video and then share it with others on the service. There are options to then share it on Twitter and Facebook too. </i>You can read more about the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/01/vine-twitters-new-app-for-adding-six-second-videos-to-your-tweets/" target="_blank">Twitter App Vine here</a></div>
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This is really cool and I believe tweeting videos on Twitter will be a big thing for all of us, especially companies. Short videos will capture more attention than a regular tweet. The attention span of most is short anyway, right? Online advertising has become more popular than commercials and billboards and it will continue to grow at a fast rate. I think businesses will get millions to share videos through this app faster than sharing them any other way. What do you think?<br />
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What thoughts cross your mind when you think about blog writing? Most people will tell you it can be difficult. I will be one of the few to tell you that blog writing doesn't have to be hard at all. Really blog writing is a piece of cake when you consider how easy it is to create content. Many of you were taught to write great content and write longer blog post. While this is true, it doesn't mean blog writing has to be hard. <a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/04/use-content-curation-to-attract-readers.html" target="_blank">Content curation</a> is one of the popular methods bloggers use to create content for their blogs easily and in a fraction of the time it used to take to write a blog post from scratch. This method allows the blogger to still provide their followers/readers with high quality content in just a few minutes. <br />
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Even if you don't always use content curation, you can still create a blog post about anything you wish quickly and easy. Don't believe it's possible? Check out what the folks at the highly popular SEOmoz have to say about blog writing......<br />
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<i>This notion was the central point of my Mozinar on "<a href="http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/from-nothing-to-expert-how-to-blog-like-you-mean-it" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0b72ba; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Blogging Like You Mean It</a>" a few weeks ago, when I shared my personal story of blogging success. Here's a concise recap of the story, for those who missed it: I was once tasked with creating a blog on a topic I was completely uninterested in: television. At that time, there wasn't a TV in my home and I had absolutely no interest in television.</i></div>
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<i>In order to run the blog, I knew I had to find a way to approach the topic that would be interesting enough to make blogging feel less like work and more like fun. (That's the real trick to successful blogging, by the way: writing about things you are completely and naturally passionate about.) For this project, I was able to come up with a question that fully piqued my interest in the topic: "How has television impacted the history of our culture, and how will it continue to do so in the future?"</i></div>
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<i>With that one question, I was able to get interested in the topic, and eventually the blog started ranking in the top search results for some extremely competitive terms related to TV. Within a matter of weeks, we were writing articles that captivated people from around the globe and were even featured prominently on sites like The Guardian, AdWeek, New York Magazine, BuzzFeed, About.com, and Design Work Life. Today, the blog has been taken over by a remarkable, dedicated team at <a href="http://www.cabletv.com/blog" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0b72ba; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">CableTV.com</a>.</i></div>
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<i>Questions work remarkably well for two reasons: primarily, they give us clear purpose and direction in our efforts. When we're asking questions and actively pursuing the answers, our work suddenly becomes an opportunity to learn and grow, not just to get links or fill up pages on the web.</i></div>
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<i>Secondly, we, as bloggers, should focus on asking (and pursuing the answers of) questions because there is bound to be an audience for the content created around those questions; people who are looking for the same answers.</i> <span style="color: black; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">See more from <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-blog-successfully-about-anything" target="_blank">SEOmoz here</a></span></span></div>
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I like how he says an uninteresting topic can be made interesting by asking questions. This is great because the answers will help you successfully and constantly write for your blog. Being passionately curious will help you to put together a good post that will draw attention every time and jump start a great discussion. </div>
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-15682115102410991802013-01-22T20:03:00.000-08:002013-01-22T20:37:50.912-08:00There's No Mystery to Traffic Generation <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When it comes to traffic generation most people think they know all there is to know. But there's more to traffic generation than just picking the right keywords.<br />
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Check out this cleaver way LA Times ranked number one on Google for a recent event. Vanessa Fox talks about it in this recent article on Search Engine Land......<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">One trend I watch is that of searchers asking what time things start. For any event, you can be sure that searchers will take to Google to find out the start time. I chronicle this every year, for instance, with the Super Bowl. Every year, we search for the start time, and every year, the sites that should have the data either don’t have it all, or have headlines like “countdown clock” until this year when the </span><a href="http://searchengineland.com/when-is-the-super-bowl-start-time-the-nfl-finally-gets-it-right-110176" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NFL built exactly the right page</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">(and I was so happy!).</span><br />
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Yesterday, I was similarly happy when I saw this headline from the LA Times. It’s descriptive and succinct. It may be based on what people are searching for, but it’s using that information to better understand the audience and meet reader needs. See more from <a href="http://searchengineland.com/the-power-of-headlines-the-la-times-gets-it-right-with-their-piece-on-the-inaguration-145794" target="_blank">Vanessa Fox on Search Engine Land Here</a></div>
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LA Times really did a good job by being descriptive at the same time bringing valuable information to their readers. <br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-45926413431104821832013-01-22T14:57:00.001-08:002013-01-22T14:59:45.154-08:00Email Marketing Secrets - Key to your Success<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Many marketers, as you may already know, use email marketing to make their money. For most email marketers, their list is their ATM. Before product launch day, the promotion of the launch date starts and every marketer, the affiliate and the vendor, gets so excited about the big day. Many email marketers already know what they will say to their subscribers. Many of them will have a huge payday, while others will make nothing at all and there is a big reason why this happens.<br />
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If you are wondering why your email marketing methods isn't making you any money on those big product launch days, you need to hear this quick tip I have to share with you. I just recently received this video from <a href="http://jonmcneil.com/why-youre-not-making-money-with-your-email/" target="_blank">Jon McNeil</a> and what his has to say about why your email isn't making you money is very important and I know this tip will help a lot of you who are new to email marketing and it is helpful to anyone who is struggling with email marketing. If you miss this tip, you can risk losing out on $1000's of dollars.<br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-21188575869904995792013-01-20T22:18:00.005-08:002013-01-21T11:16:21.723-08:00Should You Promote Get Paid To Sites? Learn The Truth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Get paid to sites, they all promise you big cash, they tell you the cash is free, they say get paid to read emails and sign up for offers, and the list goes on. While these things may be true, there are some things you need to know about get paid to sites. First of all don't believe all of the hype. Users of these sites get suckered in all of the time. How do I know, because I was one of them. They sell you this lie to get you to sign up so that the marketers and the site owners benefit. Now I'm not saying money can't be made because it can, but you will have to mostly buy something in order for you to get paid.<br />
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When get paid to sites (GPT) advertise on the web, they sell the lie of making money while you sleep, and most of the time they never tell you everything on how you really make money. However some will tell you that you get paid when the advertisers pay them. So what if they don't pay you? You just work for nothing. In my opinion it isn't real work. Most of the time its a waste of time. <br />
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I did a review on this (GPT) site called CashCrate and I tell my exact experience of using the site because I believe people need to know the truth about CashCrate and other (GPT) sites. I made money in a few days of signing up and got a check, but most of my pay came from offers and trials. I did the trail pay, where you try it out, provide your credit card information and stay for a certain length of time then you get paid the set amount, while they still got your card information. Some offers even tell you they don't except prepaid cards, I know this because I tried using a prepaid card. Then if you don't cancel the trail, your card will get charged.<br />
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Most of the things on that site and others like it such as Swagbucks, ZoomBucks, and Inbox Dollars want you to make a purchase in order to make money. I am a member of these sites, but I haven't been on them for awhile because there is only so much "free" stuff and trail pays you can do until you run out. I certainly don't want to have to buy things and services I don't want or need just to make a few bucks.<br />
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You really aren't making anything, it's more like you're saving money, but then again can you really call it that if you don't need what they are offering? Really think about that for a moment.<br />
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Also think about this, get paid to sites want you to submit you email and spend too much time saying yes and no to other offers or 3rd party offers. They are all offering the same offers and getting paid lots more than what they are paying you to sign for these offers.<br />
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Its way too many make money programs out there that are advertising make money doing such and such and most of them don't deliver, and this includes <a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/03/lies-people-tell-to-rip-you-off-in-biz.html" target="_blank">multi-level marketing (MLM)</a> and pyramid schemes. I've tried a whole lot of get paid to stuff and make money programs and didn't make nothing, and most of the time I didn't hit their little thresh hole to get paid.<br />
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Now about the affiliate programs. Should you promote get paid to sites or become an affiliate for them? That depends on how you feel about these programs. But to tell you the truth the only way you'll have a chance to make lots of money with get paid to sites is to promote it, and that's only if the sign ups are active. But this can be a bit of a problem if you don't tell the truth about the get paid to sites.<br />
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How do you plan on advertising the get paid to sites? You got to have some way of doing so. Most of all the get paid to sites have banners and ads they offer their affiliates. But I wouldn't suggest it because they are mostly lying on those banners just like they are lying on their ads.<br />
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If you decide to promote these sites it's best to use the site and see for yourself how it works and give <a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/11/do-product-testing-for-max-profits.html" target="_blank">your own opinion</a> on using the program. You should help others rather than trying to sign up and earn a buck. That's exactly what I did when I wrote my review on <a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/12/cashcrate-brutal-truth.html" target="_blank">CashCrate</a>. I gave them the bad before I gave them the little good the site happens to offer.<br />
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When you sign up for offers all of them will spam your emails with their own ads, tell you you're approved for a loan or a credit card, and offer you other crappy things. That is why you should share your experience and then decide if promoting get paid to sites is for you. I decided not to promote anything else except for the review I wrote on CashCrate. I give people the option of signing up, but I make sure they know exactly what they are getting themselves into. I even show the proof I made money, but to be honest that's all I've made since the time I signed up in November of 2012. So that right there will tell you how hard you have to focus to make anything from these types of sites.<br />
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Swagbucks and the others are the same way, you earn a little and that's it, It becomes harder to earn after awhile. Then their partners' sites can slow your computer down and will send you stuff from their own partners. In actuality get paid to sites are nothing more than pyramid schemes. Then the paid surveys are bogus because most of them you'll never qualify for. You find that out after wasting 5 or 10 minutes on each survey.<br />
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Now lets not forget about the "free" offers. Most of these type of offers want you to sign up to receive their newsletters, jokes, quotes, coupons, or other offers their third party is offering. So free is not really free, it's mostly things you just do to get paid a few cents and in return you get a bunch of emails until you decide to unsubscribe. These emails are pre-selling emails to get you to buy something most of the time.<br />
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These programs are in operation in hopes of making money for themselves and everyday people make them and their sponsors rich. In most cases everyday users will never get rich unless once again you can get a but load of sign ups by promoting. But then again you may not want to associate yourself with get paid to sites because it involves too much and in some cases it can cause others to waste their time and bog their computer down (better have a good antivirus while using these sites).<br />
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Get paid to sites want you to believe that you need things they offer by offering you kibbles and bits and getting you to spend money you otherwise would have never spent or even saved in the long run.<br />
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So promoting and joining these sites is up to you. You be the judge. I know I will not join another get paid to site ever again because they are all the same. Its like your car repair place; you take your car get it fixed, they mess up something else without your knowledge and you take your car back to the same place to get the "new"problem fixed. You're wasting time and money in both cases.<br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-62883903534723988422013-01-18T15:21:00.001-08:002013-01-18T15:21:09.847-08:00What Do Customers Think Of PLR (Private Label Rights) eBooks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You've heard many things about using private label rights (PLR). Most of what you heard was from other bloggers, article writers, and product creators. But what do your customers think of you using PLR products?<br />
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I went to amazon and did a search of the customer reviews and this is what I found:<br />
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This is a snapshot of the book called "Raw Food Diet Guide: All You Wanted To Know About The Raw Food Diet"<br />
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As you can see the customer said<i> "don't waste your money......."</i> here's the link ---> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R387RU3JCFIQ89/ref=cm_srch_res_rtr_alt_1" target="_blank">Review </a><br />
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Then he goes to say......<br />
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<i>"This "ebook is a waste of time and paper that it is printed on.... nothing new to learn just some PLR drivel someone tried to pass off as "quality" work..."</i><br />
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Now this is the screenshot showing where Amazon took the book down:<br />
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Here is another one snapshot:<br />
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See how the customer said <i>"more recycled junk"</i>.<br />
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See the link----> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/ROKFZPPFNJPZS/ref=cm_srch_res_rtr_alt_1" target="_blank">Review</a><br />
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Make sure you click on the link to the left where it says review details and you will see the book is not available for sale on Amazon.<br />
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Then take a look at this: <a href="http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/429677-all-my-amazon-ebooks-have-been-taken-off-shelf.html" target="_blank">All My Amazon eBooks Have Been Taken Off The Shelf! </a><br />
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This person said that all of their books were removed from Amazon and he was just giving the Warriors a heads up if they were using PLR products.<br />
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So if a well known website like Amazon is eliminating private label rights (PLR) products from their site, why would you use them on your site without adding quality to the content and changing it. Most of the content that is in PLR is a bunch of crap.<br />
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You would have to sort through the information and just use it to get ideas. Never, ever, use PLR as is and never try to sell PLR eBooks on Amazon. Some people give them away to get subscribers, but that pretty much the best way to use PLR products.<br />
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I don't care what you heard about how PLR products can make you money if you sell them on the kindle, you can't. The only way you will get away with selling PLR material is if you are a darn good writer who knows how to do proper research and find up-to-date info to add to what you use from PLR books.<br />
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What is more important is what the customers have to say about PLR and some of them can spot it a mile away. I'm not saying private label rights products is all bad because you can get good ideas and create great content.<br />
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But you should never use the product as is. If you do use these types of products stay away from <u>ALL</u> private label rights articles because they are mostly poorly written. Also if you use PLR, just get ideas for your blog post. You don't want to lose readers because you are too lazy to write your own content.<br />
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There are many things you can do to create content. There's <a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2012/04/use-content-curation-to-attract-readers.html" target="_blank">content curation</a>, which is a good process for sharing the content of others on your site or blog. Also doing a simple web search to see if you can find anything news related to what you want to post.<br />
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I've used PLR products before and it has helped me to get ideas for articles topics, but I've never left it as it. It is always good to add your own thoughts and original content to all of your blog post, books you create, and articles you write. Most importantly do research before you even type or write the content.<br />
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PLR products are a gift and a curse because there's both good and bad involved. Fresh, original and <a href="http://affiliatemarketingtune-up.blogspot.com/2013/01/brainstorming-for-fresh-content-try.html" target="_blank">high quality content</a> will always remain king. And if you want your site to be an authority, make sure you provide your readers with good quality content.<br />
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Always remember duplicate content will get your site banned from Google and all the other search engines. Many people are using the same exact PLR content you are using, so you need to be set apart and different from those who use private label rights content and don't change it. Most people just slap the content on their blog and leave it as is.<br />
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Don't believe me, just take some of the content and copy and past it in the Google search engine. Put the copied sentence in "parenthesis" and you will see a bunch of stuff pop up signalling the duplicate content.<br />
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Look at this example: <b>"Sience it's already a widespread business, you'll"</b> Copy and paste this into Google and this is what you get:<br />
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These people didn't even have the decency to check the spelling of what they copied. It also shows the quality of the PLR content which is not very good. Then look at how many results came up, over 10,000. This goes to show you that many people are using the same content as you, and they are literally not changing the content. It also discredits your name. This is what you want to be set apart from.<br />
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People even complain and wonder why they are losing readers and why they are not making sales. If you are doing what these people in the photo above did, you'll never make money and will have absolutely no readers.<br />
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Just be careful if you just happen to decide to use PLR products. Also if you use the products make sure it is very high quality private label rights eBook, not the articles, and just use them to get some ideas. There is very little high quality PLR out there and you will have to search hard to find it. As I said before it is a gift and a curse.<br />
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If you are having a hard time, just hire someone to write the post for you or to create booklets and reports to giveaway to your readers and subscribers. Focus on building credibility and authority for your business.<br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-72419546845883930732013-01-05T22:41:00.003-08:002013-01-05T22:53:36.028-08:00The Traffic Is In The List Too!!!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You've heard many times that the money is in the list. But you know what, the traffic is in the list too! Email marketing is an old and powerful form of marketing and has stood the test of time to this date. Not only is it most marketers' ATM machine, but it is also a marketers' traffic generator. List can be built by creating a simple eBook or e-newsletter where readers can subscribe to you easily. Don't forget you can use a simple, compelling squeeze page, which is also powerful marketing.<br />
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Email marketing is still a fantastic way to promote your website or a product you recommend or one that you've created yourself. Plus with people flocking to Amazon, which is a site where all of their traffic is nothing but buyers, you can kill two birds with one stone by publishing a kindle eBook with your URL on the first page for as little as 99 cent and give it away for free five days in a 90 day period.<br />
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People will forever use the internet as a means for searching the web for information. Most don't go to the library no more. Its all about convenience And the best part about this is you can come to their rescue and provide that information that will fit their needs through email marketing. In my opinion email marketing will never get old, at least not for a <u>very</u> long time. I still recommend you use this method if you are promoting a product or if you are just simply trying to get more traffic to your blog. In my opinion I feel you should focus more on using email marketing to get traffic to your blog by providing helpful information and less on selling anything. Because once you build that trust, they will see what you have to offer on your blog and you'll eventually make money anyway.<br />
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So now I will give you a few simple tips:<br />
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1. Don't ask for your subscribers' name just ask for their email address. If you ask for too much information you just may push them away. Eventually you'll have their name because if you are providing really good info, they will make a purchase from you or through you. If you happen to not have your own product, ask them to email their receipt or proof of purchase for a free gift if they click on your affiliate link.<br />
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2. Make sure you have a call to action at the end of every email. Example "you can find more information on my blog" and provide a link for them to click.<br />
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3. Always include a signature.<br />
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4. Share part of your blog post in the email and tell them to click on the provided link to read the rest of the post.<br />
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5. Use a catchy headline in the subject area.<br />
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6. Spark up emotion in your emails and get people excited to click on your link to your blog or website and encourage them to share their thoughts by posing a comment on your blog.<br />
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7. Hold a contest on your blog or donate to charity and have a campaign on your blog and tell people about it through email marketing.<br />
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8. Most of the time offer them a free eBook or something else free where you subscribers can benefit greatly.<br />
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9. Offer something controversial or something that has viral tendencies.<br />
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10. Share funny or controversial pictures or jokes related to your niche with your subscribers and encourage them to share them.<br />
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Use these tips to help you generate traffic through email marketing. As I said before the traffic is in the list too, so use email marketing to boost your traffic and worry about making money later; the money will come.<br />
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Pamela http://www.blogger.com/profile/13525254216489231927noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228773838727525376.post-35895879317640110152013-01-04T14:08:00.003-08:002013-01-04T14:45:29.537-08:00How To Be A Perfect Spammer!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We all know how to spam, right? And we know what spamming can do. But do you know how to be a perfect spammer? Will this post will show you how. One way to spam perfectly is by finding a popular blog and post a stupid comment with a link back to your blog on each post they've made in the comment section and bug the crap out of everyone. Lovely huh?<br />
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Want more tips. Check out what Corey Eridon said about spamming in a post on his blog titled "How to Be a Spammer In 20 Simple Steps"<br />
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<i>Someone once told me that "how-to" content is really great for business blogging. Since I want to be a good inbound marketer, I thought I'd take a stab at writing a "how-to" blog post, and teach everyone how they can become a spammer.</i><br />
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<i>I also heard that accessibility is important in your writing, so I narrowed it down to just 20 steps.</i><br />
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<i>If you haven't made up your new year's resolution yet -- or you've already failed at three or four and need a new one to tackle -- any and all of these 20 steps would be excellent considerations. So, here you go, 20 steps to becoming the best spammer the world's ever seen! Enjoy. (And please regard all of this as totally straight-faced marketing advice.)</i><br />
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<i>1) Pin a bunch of stuff to Pinterest that has no visually redeeming qualities. Be sure to shorten the links in your pins' descriptions, too, if you really want to get marked as spam. Marketers who are particularly on the top of their game will make their links go to unrelated web pages; the cream of the crop will just make them broken links.</i><br />
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<i>2) Cram your tweets with dumb hashtags, especially if they're unrelated to the tweet's subject matter. You might even consider crafting a tweet made entirely of hashtags!</i><br />
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<i>3) Hijack someone else's hashtag. For example, when the next #twilight movie comes out, be sure to use that to promote your upcoming webinar, because of the natural tie-in between werewolves and your data appending service. (Twilight has werewolves, right?)</i><br />
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<i>Continue Reading </i><a href="http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/34011/How-to-Be-a-Spammer-in-20-Simple-Steps.aspx" target="_blank">"How to Be a Spammer In 20 Simple Steps"</a> Follow <a href="http://blog.hubspot.com/" target="_blank">HubSpot </a>on <a href="https://twitter.com/hubspot" target="_blank">Twitter</a><br />
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As you can see this is a funny blog post posted by Corey Eridon, so funny I had to share it. And you will certainly learn to be the biggest and best spammer day in and out after you are done reading.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Note: Spamming is highly <u>not</u> recommended</span><br />
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