Today I fielded some great questions a student had about the magazine – mostly some terms they wanted defined. I realized later on that the beginner affiliates may not be familiar with some of these terms. So here they are!
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Backlinks = Websites linking to your website. This can be checked by going to Google and typing in, link:www.yourdomain.com or going
to yahoo and typing in linkdomain:www.yourdomain.com
Ping = An Internet utility used to check the connection with another site.
Permalinks = Permalink is short for “permanent link”. It is a link that readers can use to bookmark the current blog post.
Data feeds = A file that a merchant provides you that has all their product, pricing, reviews, etc… all in one file. You can then integrate that file
into a program/template and it builds you an entire website with all their products in it.
Upsells and Cross sells = When you sell someone something, an upsell is to sell them something more expensive later. A cross sell is similar, it usually has you selling them something else in conjunction with what they are buying.
Podcasts = Basically a web radio show. You record a file, mp3 and then make it available for others to download and listen.
Organic = When talking about search engines, you will find either organic or “paid” – organic are the results that show up in the middle.
Those are search engine rankings and are not PAID placements.
Hope this helps!
Anik Singal
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Let’s get on with it!
How does one get traffic to my sites?
Hey Bob,
Well, that’s the million dollar question eh?
There are lots of ways – depends on your budget:
- Forum posting
- Pay per click
- SEO
- Article publishing
- Press releases
- Newsletter/Ezine advertising
- Link Trading
- Viral Marketing
- Blog Publishing
- Listing site in directories
- Joint Ventures
- Banner Ads
…I think that’s a good start!
Anik
I have my domain from Host For Profit.
They will be hosting my webpage. Anik,
what’s the next step?
Christine
Christine, two next steps:
* Change the DNS/Nameservers on your domain so they point to your host. You can get that info from your Host For Profit signup confirmation.
* Look for some good affiliate programs to promote and start building your web site.
If you don’t know how to build a site, you can search online for “how to build web site” or “web page tutorial” and similar terms.
You can download the free web page builder, NVU, at http://www.nvu.com/index.html
If you’re an Affiliate Classroom Member, we just developed a 14 minute tutorial on using the free web page builder, NVU, just for our students. It’s in the Tutorials section of Marketing Library.
If you have the funds to purchase a full-featured web authoring system, we recommend you get started with the best: XSitePro. We reviewed it in the January issue of our free Magazine:
http://www.affiliateclassroom.com/magazine/magazine_jan2006.php
Hope this helps!
Anik
Happy New Year TO ALL
Hi,
I have thinking about joining Affiliate classroom, but the web has me so scared of all the fluff that is out there. I have built some very successful sites online,one such site teaches you how to build a web site that will be productive in only a couple months, but I want to make enough money now to retire from my day JOB.
In what way can Affiliate classroom help me to achieve this goal?
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