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Category: Affiliate Marketing

How Working with Structure can Make Writing Articles Easier

Article marketing is a necessary part of Internet marketing because of the traffic and revenue it can create. You can increase your backlinks, and your rank in search engine results. Search engines recognize most article directory sites as reliable, so a backlink from a site like AffSphere can help your search engine optimization efforts. The articles themselves can drive traffic to your site, which means there are more potential customers for you to convert. And when you work with an article directory like AffSphere that allows affiliate links in the body of the article, you can actually make a profit from an article itself!

A necessary part of article marketing is writing the articles, which can be challenging. Especially if you feel like you’ve exhausted all your topics. Here’s where this post can help – stop pulling your hair out, take a deep breath, and think about structure and form.


Can Facebook Lower Ad Rates?

ComScore, a digital marketing research company, did an analysis of Cost-per-thousand-impressions, or CPMs, and found that social networking sites, are the main reason for the lower CPM ad prices. CPM pricing for social networking sites averaged at $0.56 cents, while on the wider web, an average of $2.43 was being charged. With the growing attention and traffic to social networking sites, advertisers can reach a wider audience at lower prices.


Is Facebook Search the Next Big Thing?

Recently Facebook announced the creation of their Open Graph Search Engine. Powered by Bing, their search engine will catalogue web pages and sites that are associated with Facebook. The search engine will rank the indexed pages reportedly in part based on the number of ‘likes’ the pages have received. So what does this mean for search? Should Internet marketers start adjusting sites to optimize for Facebook?


New Tool: A/B Test Plugin for WordPress!

As an Internet marketer, you know the importance of A/B testing. Comparing the successes of control samples or variables can inform your advertising, marketing, emails, and landing pages. You can and should be testing everything – from copy text to layout design, images to color choice. Usually, to perform a split test or A/B test, you had to arrange for link tracking and click-throughs, and gauge the responses yourself – sometime even crunching the numbers. Now there’s a plugin for WordPress sites that can handle it for you.


3 Things You Need to Know about Twitter Links

Internet marketers are all atwitter about the changes Twitter is making to links. This week Twitter announced their plans to step up their malware defense (to see what we had to say about Twitter and malware read this post) and change the way links are sent. Here are the 3 things you need to know about Twitter’s linking plan: