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!... Read More →

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!... Read More →

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.... Read More →

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 ... Read More →

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. Read More →

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 ... Read More →

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 e... Read More →

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... Read More →