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Affiliate Elite – Just 4.95 for a Limited Time

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)

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!

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!

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!

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.