The world of Affiliate Marketing can be quite daunting at times and it is so important to keep up with the latest strategies and techniques. Whether you are blogging with wordpress, networking or promoting a product via a standard website or shopping cart, there are a few points that need to be considered if you want to survive online. These 3 topics are by no means the latest awe inspiring, jaw dropping techniques, however they are still very essential and should be considered in every product marketing plan.

1. Have 1 product per sales page or website

Many people first start out in affiliate marketing by signing up to different affiliate programs, then build a website or blog and lump all of their links onto this one site. Whilst this is probably OK if all of your affiliate links target the same niche market, quite often they are not and it distracts the site viewer away from the product you are trying to sell. If you have one clean site that sells one particular product, then the viewer knows exactly what they need do to get what they want. If you provide them with options, then they will get confused by not knowing which product to buy and are more likely to just move on.

Be sure to provide product reviews and testimonials as well. If the client cannot see that the product really works then they will be moving on fairly quickly. Providing results is a great way to show how your product will really benefit them.

2. Offer something free to your readers.

This could be an E Book or Report, Articles or maybe even your Results. It’s important to have something of value that you can give away as this will build repor with your potential customers. It is also a great way to start to build a list. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it simply cannot be missed. By having an opt-in autoresponder, you can then send them emails further down the track to let people know about product updates and hopefully convert these into sales. Aweber is probably one of the best autoresponder products available  and it is one that I highly recommend due to it’s email functionality.

3. Update regularly!
Regardless of the medium that you use, it’s important to regularly update your site with fresh content and relevant keywords. This could mean writing a new blog post each week, adding new articles and using RSS feeds to update your site on a regular basis. Not only will it mean that your site is always fresh and up to date, but it will also be picked up by the Search Engine Spiders and help with your rankings. Google has also just released a new way to improve the functionality of people’s searches. They have just released a new feature called Google Search Options and it is sure to affect the Affiliate Marketing world.

What this means to everyone involved in Affiliate Marketing is that people can now search for products online using the date as one of the search criteria. Therefore if you have a site that is updated regularly, then you are more likely to rank higher than the static website that hasn’t been touched for the last year. So new fresh content has many benefit’s and is definitely on our list of “MUST DO’S” to be able to survive online.

All of these methods will help with your Search Engine Optimization and to get ranked higher through natural listings. There are obviously many more things to consider when trying to be successful online, but we have chosen these 3 as a good mix of the old and the new. Either way, they are essential and can be a good starting point to build into any product marketing campaign.

Today I want to talk about a really important resource that I have been using that has seriously helped me to fine tune my Internet Marketing skills. It’s an AFFILIATE MARKETING BOOK by Sean Rasmussen, called Year Of The Affiliate. Many of us know Sean and how successful he has become from Internet Marketing in Australia and so I want to really focus on what Year Of The Affiliate can do for you. To start with, have a look at this video that I recently made. It was just a bit of fun as I was playing around with my camera and iDVD software, but it came out quite well and is a great introduction to the book.

As an Affiliate Marketing Book, Year Of the Affiliate is such a great read. It explains in laymans terms, exactly what you need to be focusing on when getting started in affiliate marketing. Some of the topics covered are things like:

• Where to find products that sell
• Do you need a website
• Social Media
• Networking
• Keywords
• Search Engine Optimization

…and a whole host of other topics.

When I first started affiliate marketing about 2 years ago, I was getting nowhere fast! I couldn’t drive traffic to my site, I was losing A LOT of money on Google Adwords Campaigns and the clicks that I were getting, simply weren’t converting to sales.

Please excuse me if this blog post looks like a deliberate attempt at directly selling of a product. I guess in a way it is, but I actually have an alterior motive. What I really want to show you is:

1. How to optimize a post or article, to increase your chances of getting a sale. Have a look at the layout that I have used and what I have done to help the search engine spiders find my article. I’ve used my keyords in the title, I’ve repeated the keywords throughout the post and made them stand out in bold and italic. I’ve used links, bullet points, video’s and images. All of these strategies need to be used in every single post that you write. OK maybe not all of them each time, but the more the better.

2. Why this book is so affective?by looking at what I have done in question 1, hopefully you will see how it can help you to be making money online – FAST.

And if you still need more proof, then check out these results. Recently, I wasn’t even ranked in Google in the top 200, for the search term Wealth Academy. Now I have the top 4 listings in Google out of 323,000 search items.

So there you have it. As they say the proof is in the pudding and I hope this shows how you can be achieving the same results if you follow the correct strategies. From my point of view, Year of the affiliate is an absolute must. Get your copy today and then go to my free forum to become a member and get online support.

Click here if you would like to download  YEAR OF THE AFFILIATE

AND

Click here to sign up for FREE membership and support at the WEALTH ACADEMY

Many thanks and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Ginbey

Have you submitted your site to the relevant Search Engines? Once you have a website or blog set up, it is important to make it easy for the search engines to discover. One way of doing this is by Search Engine Submission and it’s important to do this as soon as possible. The reason I say this is because it can take up to 8 weeks for the submission to be approved. There are also quite a few search engines these days so it is important to think about your target audience. By this I mean whether it is geographically targeted. If you have a product or website that is only relevant to  a UK audience then you might want to look at submitting your site to local directories like google.co.uk or yahoo.co.uk. You can even go one step further by submitting your site to search engines in your area (like somersetsearch or netlondon).

Here is a quick look at some of the most popular Search Engine Submission directories.

90.11% of Global Internet Searches

Google has a well deserved reputation as ‘THE’ Search Engine of choice by most people on the net. There are many reasons for this, which range from it’s stability and relevancy of it’s crawler-type searches, to it’s features and applications which make it a joy to use.

5.77% of Global Internet Searches

Launched in 1994, Yahoo is considered one of the ‘oldest’ Directories on the web today. There are two main fetures that we wolud like to bring to your attention regarding Yahoo. These are:

Yahoo Search-http://search.yahoo.com/

This is a FREE listing where you can submit your site to Yahoo. You can also setup RSS Feeds so that new content is automatically submitted. All sites will require authorization by either uploading a file to your server or adding a ‘META NAME’ to the Header Template in your Appearance Editor Script (wordpress.org).

Yahoo Directory-http://dir.yahoo.com/

This is a PAID subscription to the Yahoo Directory and is highly regarded throughout the Professional Internet Marketing World..

1.48% of Global Internet Searches

Live Search, formally known as Windows Live Search is Microsofts Search Engine designed to compete in the major league against Google and Yahoo.

Some other popular directory’s to submit to:

All The Web

AOL

HotBot

Altavista

Gigablast

Looksmart

Lycos

Netscape

DMOZ

So what you need to do now is go and submit your Site URL (Domain Name) to each and everyone of these Directories. This will make your site more visible and by using your Search Engine Submission, will Increase it’s ‘Spiderability’.

Affiliate Marketing is quite simply the ‘Real Estate’ of the future. Untouched by the Global Recession, Internet Marketing is now largely recognized as a way to subsidize your income and even replace it. It doesn’t take any capital to get started (well, very little) and you don’t have to put up with tenants, fluctuating markets, etc. Most importantly, once your set up, it works for you 24/7 with an entire world as your client base. Children as young as 8 and 10 yrs old are submitting video’s, writing blogs and networking on a global scale. 60,70 and 80 year old are doing the same. As well as everyone in between. Here lie’s the information age and it’s Affiliate Marketing that’s creating quit a storm. Simply put, Affiliate Marketing is where you get paid a commission for any leads that you generate which then convert into a sale. It has become a massive industry and one that can be difficult to navigate in order to be successful. That’s why Sean Rasmussen came up with “Year of the Affiliate“. Not only will it save you time by giving you a procedure to follow, but it will also save you money. And quite possibly lots of it! To check it out, CLICK HERE and we can get you started with your Affiliate Marketing Future.

In this book, Sean Rasmussen breaks down step by step, how to be successful at Affiliate Marketing.

Here’s just a few of the things that you will learn:

• How to find products that sell,

• Social media

• Networking

• How to sell your products with or without a website

• Why the internet is the real-estate of the future

• Blogging

• Web 2.0

• How to build effective links

And much, much more…..

Even if you have already started in the world of Internet Marketing, then this book will help you to be streamlined and focused, to ensure you get results straight away. I can’t recommend this book enough. If 2008 was the ‘Year of the Affiliate‘ then this is the year for you.