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The Weeks Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories (May 14, 2008)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 2:56 pm by Evelyn Grazini, AC Student and Staff Writer

Twitter Monetization: How to Make Money With Twitter - Did you know you could use the Tweet aspect of Twitter to get affiliate sales? Learn more about monitizing your Twitter habit for affiliate marketing, advertising, and more!

What Makes an Awesome Affiliate Network? - This one’s for affiliate marketers and affiliate managers alike. Affiliate marketers, here’s what to look for when choosing a network to work with. Affiliate Managers - make sure you have these things in place so you can attract top affiliates.

Five Effective Copywriting Tactics for Affiliate Marketing - Copywriting isn’t always something you have to spend big bucks on. Here are a few surprisingly simple tips you can use to create Endorsements, Reviews, and Articles, just to name a few..

SEO Techniques That Might Get Your Site Banned - Everyone wants to use SEO to get noticed. Just make sure you’re not crossing the line and using what could be considered black hat marketing tricks. These will get you kicked out of the SEO game pronto!

5 Things Keeping Your Affiliate Business From Succeeding - The title of this one says it all! Ihave to admit, I just realized that reason #4 could be costing me a lot of time and money in my affiliate marketing business. Which one could YOU get better at that will allow you to be more successful?

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Blogging Tip #2: My Secret to Automated Traffic from Long Tail Keywords

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 8:30 am by Anik Singal

Yesterday I explained the basic principles behind finding good long tail keywords - think like someone who is interested in READING about your topic, what they would search on, because you’re looking for phrases with 4 words.

Now today I’m going to show you how to research for these 4 word keyphrases.

First step, I just go to the Google AdWords keyword tool…

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

and type in something. I try to make it at least a couple of words, something like “ferrari f430.”

But you can also type in something general, then dig down and look for a longer phrase that looks interesting, then search on that. It might take a couple tries but you’ll soon find some good prospects.

When the results show up underneath I look for a keyword of 4 words or more where the bar is at least 15-25% filled up in the “average search” column. Something like ‘michael schumacher ferrari f430′ or ‘price of ferrari f430.’

Having something in the search bar for a PRIOR month is a plus too. But just because there is nothing for a prior month don’t let that stop you, often it’s because the keyword is about a hot new trend or topic or product.

Then I go to Google and type that keyphrase in the search box and then look at how many competing sites I have on the first page of results.

I’ve found that most of the time you’ll be under 5 million results which is where I like to stay. Often you’ll find a phrase with only 100,000 - 500,000 competing results, which is great!

Second step, I search that same term with “double quotes” around it, like this:

“price of ferrari f430″

And I try to make sure that THAT number comes back with less than 100,000 results. Again, you’ll be surprised how often that happens!

LASTLY…

I look at the ALL the top pages that are coming up for the the 4+ word search term.

• I want to make sure that the top ranking pages don’t all have crazy PRs of like 5 or 6 (most never do). If only the top few do, no problem, but if ALL on the first page do, that’s a bad keyword to shoot for.
• I look at the TITLES of all the top ranking pages. Most of the time I find that they are NOT directly my keyword! If so, that’s sweet, that means that JUST by having my keyword in the title, my chances of ranking on page #1 just shot through the roof !

So that’s truly how my blogs get automated traffic from search engines that builds EVERY single day…it’s an awesome method, that’s why we teach this and many more techniques like it in Blog Classroom - because it works!

I really urge you to try this just once and you’ll be HOOKED on this method of writing blog posts to get auto-pilot traffic from Google!

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