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Affiliate Elite - Just 4.95 for a Limited Time

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 12:59 pm by Evelyn Grazini, AC Student and Staff Writer

Right now, you can use Affiliate Elite to find profitable keywords, and spy on the competition for just $4.95! 

Affiliate Elite is a tool for affiliate marketers that offers more than one way to evaluate the performance of keywords.  With it, keywords can either be evaluated by merchant, or by other affiliates.  This allows you to identify opportunities by looking at what works for your competitors and what doesn’t - even down to the ad copy. 

If you have your own products to promote, you can easily find affiliates who promote similar or competitive products, which is a goldmine to a product owner!

The Affiliate Elite tool is really very easy to use. You just click the dropdown selections on what you would like to do, fill in a few blanks, and the information is returned to you in an exportable format. It is one of those rare products that helps both PPC efforts and personal product sales.

Here are just a few highlights of Affiliate Elite:

“Find Profitable Affiliate Products to Promote:” What we liked about the Clickbank feature is that it uploades ALL of the Clickbank products so you can quickly scan through them.  Better yet, you can sort by any field you want - Category, Rank, Earnings, Gravity, etc.  It even shows if the product has a recurring factor!  Now you can easily find products in any niche; chose those with the biggest payouts; and continue to increase your monthly income. 

There’s also a special sort function on the right of the screen that makes it even easier to find products based on keywords, web sites, or whatever.  The ability to search by keyword and then sort by any field you want will GREATLY reduce the time you currently spend finding profitable products to market.

Another helpful feature is the ability to click on any of the results and have the sales page pop up in a window below the result list. How cool is that!

Then there is what’s called the spy feature.  Using this feature you can see what keywords your competition is bidding on – and how much they’re paying. We checked our site’s keywords first – just to see how accurate the software was, and then checked our competitors’ sites.  It was a nice surprise to find out that if we increased our bid by just a FEW CENTS, we can jump right over our major competitors!  

Can you see how that could increase your profit potential? You should definitely be able to get more sales – for less!

The “Analyze Adwords Competition” area is where you can see what your competitors’ ads look like.  This is surprisingly useful when writing new ads, or fine-tuning copy to get better results.

If you own a product, you will not be disappointed by the “Find Super Affiliates” feature.  You can add merchant information from three large networks and find out who is marketing their products.  Then you can contact them and ask them to market YOUR product.  Maybe you can even steal them away and have your product marketed exclusively!

Time is money, and Affiliate Elite is a very small investment to make to get back a LOT of your precious time. Test it out today for just $4.95.

 

The Weeks Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories (April 30, 2008)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 at 2:11 pm by Evelyn Grazini, AC Student and Staff Writer

Dominating the Search Engines with Social Media Networks - Answers the questions: (1) What’s the advantage of using sites like Blogger, Hubpages, Squidoo and Wordpress.com? (2) Which one do I start with, and (3) is one better than another?

Four Surefire Ways to Write Magnetic Web Content - When you learn how to “write strong, tight, right, and easy, you’ll draft magnetic content that your readers can’t avoid reading.” Here’s how to make them stay on your site longer!

Optimizing Your Images - “According to comScore, Google Images have seen a significant 40% increase in traffic from the previous year.” Find out how to optimize your images for the best chance of getting found through SEO searches.

Viral Marketing : the Real Deal, or Just a Pipedream? - “Viral marketing is a technique that falls into that low risk high reward scenario, but the problem is it can also have a painfully high failure rate.” Here are some ways to minimize failure, and get it right the first time.

 

Learn from Your Competitors Tip #3: Make the Good Great!

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 at 9:00 am by Evelyn Grazini, AC Student and Staff Writer

Nobody’s perfect - and that includes the super duper Internet marketers. There is always room for improvement, and that means you can cash in by improving your competitor’s campaigns.

Study your competitor’s sites, then improve on them. Pick any of these aspects of their promotions, and see if you can improve them:

  • Look at where they use keywords in text and meta tags.
  • Study the type of content are they using…articles, charts, graphs, reports, etc.
  • Look at their use of graphics.

We all know that Google has changed the rules. “Real sites” - the ones that have high quality content, a privacy policy, a terms of service page, etc. - tend to be given higher quality scores. 

So it just makes sense to search on keywords and dig into the sites that the PPC ads link to. Study and analyze what the super affiliates are doing, learn from them, and then improve on what they’re doing!

Learn from Your Competitors Tip #2: Pretend to be Your Competitor’s Customer!

Monday, April 28th, 2008 at 1:01 pm by Evelyn Grazini, AC Student and Staff Writer

After you have chosen a product that you know that your competitors are promoting, the next thing you want to know is HOW they are promoting it.

The best way to get the answer is to pretend to be a customer. Go look at your competitor’s ads.

Are your competitors using special punctuation, questions, and shock-value headlines?

Are they using the keyword in the headline? It’s important to see if the ads change depending on the keyword search you do.

Remember, don’t search like a competitor. Search like a customer!

 

Learn from Your Competitors Tip #1: Copy the Answers!

Sunday, April 27th, 2008 at 9:00 am by Evelyn Grazini, AC Student and Staff Writer

Look, we’re not in 5th grade anymore, and copying the answers from the biggest competitors in your niche is no longer considered cheating. It just makes good business sense!

Let’s say you want to promote a Clickbank product with PPC in your chosen niche. You want to promote the most profitable product from the best merchant possible, so you need to do a little neighborly research. 

Enter the keywords you plan to bid on into Google Search and then look at the top AdWords ads to see what they are promoting.

If you see the same product or merchant promoted over and over, chances are that merchant pays well and those affiliates are making money!

 

To copy the answers really effectively, it’s best to build a broad keyword list that contains lots of related keywords. Sometimes you’ll be surprised to find that the best performing keywords for a particular product are not the ones you thought they’d be! 

Make sure you do periodical searches and check your competitors regularly.  That way you’ll know when the top promoters stop promoting one product and shift to another.

 

Project Quick Cash: Make Instant Money over the Weekend

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 10:26 am by AC Staff

It’s not often you read an ebook that just about everyone can learn from - from beginners to experienced marketers. But this is definitely one of them. It shows you how you can break into hot niches with relative ease, fatten up your bank account, and even piggy-back on the “guru launches” - and in as little time as a weekend.

The ebook is Alok Jain’s Project Quick Cash, and it delivers everything it promises. Spend just an hour reading it, and you’ll be able to put two, maybe even three of his five cash-generating techniques to work for you right away - and without spending a lot of time or money.

The five separate techniques are explained fully, and in a step-by-step fashion. As long as you understand some of the basics of online marketing, such as getting a domain name and signing up for an affiliate program, you won’t have any trouble following along.

Here’s what another AC Staffer - who’s relatively new to the publisher side - had to say:

“When I hear about some affiliates building 20,000+ keywords, it just sounds intimidating - so much to build, invest in, and manage! But Alok’s techniques describe easy baby steps that also have the huge benefit of generating cash very quickly.

Technique #1: By the time I got to page 20, I was so motivated, I almost put down the book so I could get started! Most valuable tips: what your maximum keyword bid should be, and WHEN you should tweak your ad copy.

Technique #2: No cost out of pocket, except for buying a domain name. Building a blog exactly as Alok recommends takes a bit of time - but not that much! This one’s well within the reach of anyone with a few dollars, and can yield sales fast.

Technique # 3: So easy - just find a subject I’m interested in, and participate in online communities. And it’s fun! Close to zero out of pocket, and it’s such a nice way to monetize something you enjoy or are passionate about.

Technique # 4: A great introduction to AdWords. The approach is very targeted, so it definitely has a higher chance of return. Best advice: start slow and keep budgets low. Plus you get specific suggestions on a daily budget and click bids.

Technique # 5: I love this - make quick money by riding the coat tails of product launches. Even more valuable: Alok shows you how to expand this long term, with higher results. And once you generate some quick money, it builds on itself - so YOU can be the one who is approached to support new product launches!

Alok is a great teacher, too. “I heard of one of these methods before,” said another of our reviewers, “but didn’t understand it well enough to so it. But it was explained so well in Project Quick Cash - I had no idea it was really this simple!”

After reading Project Quick Cash, you will have no doubt that Alok spent $30 on a project that earned him $13,150 in commissions for just 2 hours of work. But what’s even better, you’ll know exactly HOW he did it, so you can copy his success. Check it out here.

The Week’s Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories (April 23, 2008)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 at 5:59 pm by Evelyn Grazini, AC Student and Staff Writer

Search Engines Increasingly Important To Video Sites - “The share of traffic referred by Google (up 44%) and Yahoo! (up 13%) to the video category increased for the week ending April 12, 2008 when compared to the same week last year.” “If these trends continue, content creators might want to start thinking about how SEO principles can apply to their titles and descriptions.”

Alexa Introduces New Ranking System : Beyond the Toolbar - Alexa’s new ranking system leaves some people confused - and demoted! Make sure you know where you now stand.

Should Affiliate Marketers Blog? - Most people think blogging is the best thing to come around since sliced cheese! But there are a few things you should consider before you decide whether a blog is the right marketin gtool for you.

7 Proven Strategies to Double or Triple Your Website Conversion Rate Increasing conversions is at the top of every Affiliate Marketers list. Here are seven things you can start doing today to make sure you’re getting the most sales from your current traffic.

On Page Optimization - A Complete Walkthrough - “Getting a good ranking in a search engine hasn’t been the easiest thing for many. Search engines are getting smarter & more intelligent everyday, so now it takes more than just good content to top your competitors.”

Tip #3: Ride the Coat Tail of Success!

Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 6:41 pm by Kathy Jackson

Have you ever asked yourself “Why the huge upswing in the number of people launching their own Internet businesses today?”

Well guess what - the reason for this upswing doesn’t matter. The fact that it is happening - and that it signals an opportunity - is what should matter to you.

There never seems to be a lack of new Internet entrepreneurs, and all of them need information and instruction on the right way to conduct business online. So in spite of the glut of Internet marketing “stuff” out there, there is still an unbelievable demand for these “how to” products.

Established Internet marketers launch five or six new Internet marketing products every month. These launches are done as “joint ventures.” That means several marketers join together to launch a product, and the launch is done with a lot of fanfare.

Sometimes it’s possible for even a relative unknown to grab onto the coat tails of these major product launches and make a nice profit. You need to find out about the upcoming launches, and the way to do that is to monitor JV networks. One such network is JV Notify, but with a Google search, you can find a great many of them.

When you find a product launch, sign up as an affiliate and then think of creative ways you can piggy-back on the big advertising methods of some of the more established marketers. One of the best methods we’ve seen for this is the “Leeching on a Launch” method from Project Quick Cash. Watch for our review of Project Quick Cash tomorrow.

Quick Cash Tip #2: Follow the Money!

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 at 12:05 pm by Kathy Jackson


All of us, even experienced marketers, have to generate cash fast once in a while. When you’re just starting out you may need extra cash to pay the bills, fund some PPC, or build more websites.

And even if you’re working online full time, you might want to generate cash so you can grow your business without taking on debt.

Selling information is an easy way to generate quick cash - if you do it right. The trick is choosing the right information in the right niche.

It may be hard to convince hard-core Internet marketing guru that there is any subject of real value other than Internet marketing (just kidding - most gurus would actually agree with what we’re about to say!).

But the fact is that people (think customers) are interested in all kinds of things: gardening, fishing, dog training, child rearing, and hundreds of other topics, large and small.

And this can work to your advantage when you need to generate cash quickly. These potential customers will buy information on the Internet if it’s highly targeted to their interests - but it’s up to you to find an ebook or other information product that they want, and then take it straight to them. How?

Find a product that is of particular interest to a reasonably large segment of the population who are affluent enough to buy stuff.

Sign up as an affiliate for that product.

Then go promote it directly where the money is!

The money is in the customer’s pockets, and the customers are on forums, blogs and communities on the Internet that are dedicated to the information you are selling.

So if you don’t have time to build a list, or if you don’t have the money to do PPC, keep your marketing simple and cheap. Sell direct to the consumer via communities. Follow the money!

Quick Cash Tip #1 - Paying Attention Can Pay Off!

Friday, April 18th, 2008 at 9:43 am by Kathy Jackson

If you are too poor to pay anything much more than attention, you can still make money in Internet marketing :-) !

Most people think that the very best keywords are the most expensive keywords, but that isn’t necessarily true all the time. It IS true that some keywords are always good, and those keywords will be more competitive and therefore more expensive. But then there are those keywords that suddenly become — hot!

When a new product is launched, for example, a brand new keyword can be born that has absolutely no demand and is therefore cheap…really cheap. Which means that if you’re keeping your eyes open and stay ahead of the trends, you can be the first to bid on those keywords at bargain prices.

How can a keyword suddenly become hot?

When a celebrity does something that the keyword is associated with. Example: A recent Oprah interview sent the keyphrase “pregnant man” into #165 in the worldwide keyword searches. Six months ago that keyphrase wasn’t even on the radar.

When a new toy, gadget, game, or fashion item hits the market but hasn’t gotten “hot” yet. Example: “Webkinz” wasn’t always in the top 20 search terms, but now it is - and will probably stay there for quite some time.

When a major event hits the news - such as when the airlines canceling hundreds of flights for plane maintenance. “Flight departures” became the #10 searched term overnight.

So pay attention to what is happening in the world around you - you may just discover keywords that can be had for pennies, yet will make you a lot of dollars quickly.

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