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Article Rewriting: The Best Spinner Review

thebestspinnerAre you frustrated with the amount of time it takes to rewrite and publish articles to your favourite article directories and networks?

I certainly was at the point in my online business where I just couldn’t produce enough content for the number of blogs I had started. That’s when I started looking for a faster way to create articles without hiring writers and is when I found The Best Spinner article rewriting software and my life changed.

I can say all the great things that come to mind when it comes to saving time using The Best Spinner but the truth is you aren’t going to really believe it until you check it out for yourself.

Ah, I see that you didn’t follow the link so let me give you a few reasons to check out The Best Spinner.

Just What Is The Best Spinner?

The Best Spinner is a software application which helps one write or rewrite articles from just one main article. TBS can spin hundreds of articles from just one original.

The way that TBS works is to exchange words and phrases from the original article with words and phrases from the huge user generated database of words and phrases. Today I can create spun articles nearly as fast as it takes me to write an article. So much faster than doing things manually.

What’s The Best Spinner Gonna Cost Me?

Most people writing a review would leave the price out or put it right at the bottom for fear of losing their reader. Not me, The Best Spinner has a great price and is worth hundreds more per year.

TBS is subscription software you pay for yearly and is only $77/yr, however I had my beginnings with The Best Spinner for their $1.00 for a 7 day trial and was sold in the first hour I had it.

It works out to something like $6 per month, heck you would spend more than that for a quality article to be written.

What’s The Best Spinner Going To Do For Me?

The Best Spinner has a load of features and far too many to list here so I will list what was important to me.

  1. TBS is within the price most can not afford to pass up.
  2. TBS will create multiple articles faster than you can rewriting one manually.
  3. TBS members have created a user generate database of words and phrases to swap within your articles.
  4. TBS will protect your keywords and phrases for you if you would like.

Any Negative Points To The Best Spinner?

During the time I have been using The Best Spinner I would have to say the only thing that I feel is a problem is the Auto Replace Everyone’s Favourites. This feature is danger if you don’t know what you are doing yet.

The Replace Favourites doesn’t have the ability to understand context and for that reason doesn’t know which words and phrases NOT to use so your article can quickly become completely useless.

Summary of The Best Spinner

This was a rather short review of The Best Spinner but I believe seeing is believing. I tried the $1.00 trial and was sold so fast it spun my head. Give it a try for yourself and then come back and leave a comment sharing your feelings.

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Using Article Spinners: Quality vs Quantity

tbs-the best spinner-article marketingA huge part of my work at home online business revolves around quality and keyword focused article marketing. This also includes keyword focused backlinking. It’s been hard work that has paid off as my income for 2011 has double since just last year.

I don’t work in just one niche as I have just too many interests for just one site so I have numerous sites. Eventually I reached the point where I just couldn’t write all the quality content I need, by myself.

My first idea for more content was to start accepting guest posting from other bloggers. Well that worked great for some of my niche, just not all of them, so I still had to come up with more quality content.

I could have gone to article directories but they are full of duplicate content so my next idea took me to a few article networks where they accept spin code that generates content that’s somewhat more unique. I listed the ones I joined below:

Free Sometimes Comes At A Cost

It wasn’t long before I learned how skilled some writers were at knowing just how NOT to write quality articles as I was rejecting about 95% of all the articles I looked at. Most articles had titles that made little sense and appeared to use zero keyword focus.

Time is money and I found I was wasting way too much trying to find quality content. Some how I think a lot of article marketers have lost the meaning of article marketing and have put quantity before quality.

What Is Article Marketing?

Article marketing is about using niche related keywords in order to create content that will draw targeted traffic from the major search engines, as well as other places, to your pages with the purpose of earning an income. – J.M.

Article Spinners Spinning Articles To Death

So, what is that is causing this issue with poor quality articles? Improper use of article spinners!!

I write articles 5 days a week. I also do a lot of article spinning using The Best Spinner, to help me work faster. It’s up to me to work smarter though.

Using The Best Spinner I create articles and then spin them into spintax code I can use on these article networks in order to publish many more articles from my original article. This is where most article marketers drop the ball.

Here is how I produce articles.

Niche Research: As part of my niche research I find the keywords I need to use, keywords I can actually rank for, in order to make money. Then I start writing keyword focused articles.

When I use The Best Spinner to spin multiple articles I use a feature designed to protects my keywords from being spun to death. It’s actually right here that most article marketers make their big mistake.

Example: An article title that reads something like: Work From Home Ideas, could easily turn into something like, Labor From Residence Notions, which kind of destroys any idea of a keyword phrase.

You can well imagine how the article would look like if the title was allowed to be spun to death like that.

This is usually an indication that the author is more interested in quantity of articles rather than the quality of those articles and is why I reject so many articles today.

Actually I have looked at my stats for the networks and I see that I reject just about 95% of all the articles I look at. On the other side of things I have close to 95% of my articles accepted.

Why Would I Destroy My PageRank?

Think about it. I have a number of pagerank 3 and 4 sites I have worked hard at. Do you think I am going to publish NON keyworded articles and chance losing my page rank, not likely.

If you looked at the two titles I showed above which would you accept and which would you reject? Personally I am going to accept the one that matches my keywords, it’s a simple choice to make.

  • Work From Home Ideas
  • Labor From Residence Notions

The KEY to having great success through article marketing is to make proper use of one’s niche related KEYwords. Make the choice to create quality over quantity and you too will see your page rank go up as well as your income.

Keyworded Content For Proper SEO Is Vital Today

thepowerofseoAre you aware that SEO or search engine optimization should be put on the top of your list if your goal or desire is to increase target traffic to your work at home website or blog? Definitely make it a top priority.

SEO accomplishes the task of getting that vital target traffic. This is done by improving the position of a given website in the search engine results pages or SERPs.

Your work at home business can have better success if your website keywords are closer to that #1 position in Google. Most experts in the SEO field use a number of SEO methods to improver ranking for their clients. Niche related keyword focused content is where one’s focus needs to be.

The following are just some of the benefits of having good content when trying to improve ranking

  • In terms of visitors looking for a particular website, it will not be fancy graphics that they are looking for. They are usually hunting for information. They are looking for content that can answer particular questions that they might have. So if a website has quality content, it will be more favourable with the search engines. When your content is useful for your visitors, you will find that your website is rewarded with higher rankings.
  • Not only do web users want to find answers to their queries, they are also looking for the information to be up to date. So adding fresh content to your site regularly is also very important. In order to meet this objective it is recommended that you add about two new posts to your website every week.
  • People who are searching for something online will use particular keywords that make sense to them. By having lots of content on your website it gives you a better chance of having the relevant keywords that will send this traffic to you. By regularly providing content on your topic it should mean that you will organically have all the relevant keywords covered.
  • If people like your content they will link to it because they think your article is worth sharing. Having enough incoming links will ensure that your SEO efforts are rewarded.

When a website has been constructed for the specific reason of selling a service or product, the main thing that has to be looked at during the process is the ecommerce design. If this is something you’re looking for then follow the preceding link to visit our web-site.

I work from home to make my living, which is so cool, but the fact that there is only one of me and I have no employees I have to make the best of my time and that means using the right tools for the task at hand.

When it comes to search engine optimization I need to know the best keywords and what I have to do to get ranking for those keywords. For that task I use Keyword Elite which is perfect for finding the money making keywords as well as KE shows me the top ten sites for each keyword phrase I give it.

For keeping tabs on where my keywords are listed in Google, Yahoo and Bing I use SEO Elite. I also use SEO Elite to see how many pages are indexed for any of my sites along with the current page rank for each of those pages.

Work From Home Affiliate Marketing Success

affiliate marketingI have found that it is quite a bit easier to make money affiliate marketing than a lot of others claim. Are they just trying to keep people from trying their hand at making affiliate marketing money?

If a little work at home marketer like myself can make money with affiliate products and a blog so can you, it’s just a matter of learning how.

My affiliate marketing efforts utilize article marketing to make money online, even while I’m out fishing with friends. The amount you make with affiliate marketing depends on how much you’re willing to learn about it before you begin.

I Learn So Much From Clickbank Marketplace Ebooks

It’s a no brainer for me. If I need or want to learn something new so I can make even more money affiliate marketing I head over to the Clickbank Marketplace.

Not every ebook you find on Clickbank is top quality so you want to do a bit of research before buying that ebook. What do others have to say about the quality? Worry not though if you do find that the ebook you select sucks you can request a refund and you will get it because Clickbank is on your side. Then just move on to the next ebook on the subject you’re interested in.

Where To Start With Affiliate Marketing

Today I use affiliate advertising on my sites in the form of banner advertising and affiliate text link ads. Before I started using banner ads I had to learn a little about affiliate marketing and that was were Clickbank and the Clickbank Marketplace really came in handy.

During the learning process you’re going to learn that it’s important to find affiliate programs that have products in your niche. This task can be accomplished quickly with a few select Google searches.

Here is how I search for affiliate programs and products: First I make use of quotes in my searches, like the following puppy training example:

“potty training puppy” +”affiliate program”

If my niche were in home gardening I would search using the following criteria:

“vegetable gardening” +”affiliate program”

A search like that will give you plenty of affiliate programs for most niches. The next step is going to be getting started with affiliate marketing and your website.

Beginning With Affiliate Marketing

affiliate marketing workOnline marketing today is really a global phenomenon as more and more people are trying to find ways to make enough money to make ends meet.

This is great news for those around the world looking for any way to bring in enough money to survive when there are few jobs to be had.

Where To Start: I have discovered I get my best results when I work niches I know a little about. However since starting affiliate marketing I have used the Clickbank Marketplace to learn about things in niches that are new to me and now I earn even more income online.

Step One To Affiliate Marketing Success

When I started thinking about a work from home job as an affiliate marketer I was advised to start writing down topics I know stuff about. I immediately went brain dead so I just carried a pen and paper around and wrote down things as they came to mind.

Start with your skills and then move onto your interests. Don’t hold back, just keep writing things down. You can evaluate your list later but for now just keep writing things down.

I can’t stress how important it is at this stage to avoid evaluating your ideas before you finish your list. It’s like brain storming. No one puts down any ideas that come to the table, until after the listing phase is complete.

Once you have a list of possible money makers you can start looking online to see what kind of potential there is in that idea as well as the amount of competition you’ll be up against.

Competition is good but too much competition could mean you will have to work a long time without any positive results and that can lead to depression and giving up your new dream. Invest the time researching your ideas so that you find at least one idea you can run with.

You Don’t Need To Be An Expert In Most Niches

If I had to be an expert in all the niches I make money in I would have given up long ago but all you have to do is learn how to marketing affiliate products to your readers.

Affiliate marketing, even if your not an expert, can help you make a living online. I know this is a fact because I do it on a daily basis, in niches that I am just not skilled in at all.

How I Make Money Affiliate Marketing

I really enjoy fishing but I have never been in tournaments. I don’t have a boat. Heck I don’t even own a canoe but I do have a float tube and fish when ever I can.

I discovered that I love gardening but I don’t own much more than a rake, a shovel and a desire to grow things and I make money online. Actually it’s my biggest money maker right now.

I love my dog, cooking, traveling and so many other things that I can make money with through affiliate marketing.

How do I make money in niches I am not an expert in? Well I love to tell stories, true stories about my experiences with things, like gardening, fishing and other interests. Guess what? People love reading stories that touch them in some way and I make money.

Let me share a short example:

When I am fishing, even though I have very little in the way of fishing tackle or fancy gear but I know how to read water. I fish with guys that have it all, way too much actually yet I am able to kick their butts at fishing.

Do you think they listen when I share some of my thinking? You bet they do. Sadly before affiliate marketing I didn’t make a red cent sharing my knowledge but today those same guys go to my web sites where I share even more tips and tricks and they follow my affiliate links and I make more money.

Publish Unique Niche Articles

It’s great to write great content for your site and to get it indexed in the top search engines. You can get a lot of traffic and make some money but if you start to get links pointing to those pages you can get even more target traffic and make a whole lot more money.

Start by creating content, quality keyworded content, for your site. Then start writing unique articles that you will publish elsewhere with keyworded links pointing to your related articles on your site. Doing this will help to increase your web site rankings and authority which when done correctly brings in even more target traffic.

Keep that process of writing quality keyworded content and articles pointing to that content and you can rule the roost in your niche, just like I am doing today.

Then there is Guest Blogging which is an awesome way to get backlinks and again more traffic which you can make more money from using affiliate marketing.

The key to your success is going to start with you creating quality niche focused keyworded content.

Using Article Spinning For Better Ranking

I spent a lot of years writing content by hand and then rewriting those articles into many unique articles I could then publish to article directories without creating duplicate content. To accomplish this task I purchased a copy of The Best Spinner to help me rewrite articles.

Note: I belong to a variety of article networks where I get content for blogs I work where I don’t have much knowledge. The thing that you need to understand is I look for quality so I actually end up rejected as much as 95% of the articles I review because they are poorly written.

The reason their articles stink so bad is because they use article spinners without proof reading the results, therefore they publish crap and get rejected.

Another reason their articles get rejected is due to publishing them to the wrong categories or because of including non relevant links.

I spend a bit more time rewriting articles but I very seldom have articles rejected and I never include non relevant links on sites I don’t own.

Affiliate marketing works for me. My income increases every single year. Affiliate marketing will definitely work for you, you just need to take the right steps and focus on content that’s original and unique. Oh yeah and don’t be afraid to tell it in a story.

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Work From Home, Autoresponders And Squeeze Pages

AWeber - Email Marketing Made Easy I am an Internet marketer, I work at home full time, and during the decade I’ve been marketing online I have come to understand the importance of list building and the value of a good autoresponder service like Aweber.com.

I have also learned that list building isn’t something you do once and then you have money flowing in. More on that in a bit but first there are a few tips that will help you build a list faster.

1. Request Only The Information You Need

I have subscribed to hundreds of lists in the 10 years since I started working from home to make money online and have a great tip for you. Don’t ask me for information you don’t need because I will just move on and you lose a subscriber, with money I might add.

It’s just that simple. You need my email to send me info, you may even want my name as it can make email communication seem so much more personal but after that what do you really require. Don’t lose a potential income stream because you’re not thinking.

Of course if you are sending products through the mail then you will need more but that can usually be obtained at the time a purchase is made so it’s still not needed to have someone on your list.

If It Distracts From The Squeeze Page…

…lose it.

You don’t want to lose your potential customer because of distractions on your squeeze page. The goal of a squeeze page is to get your visitor to give up their email address so you shouldn’t be doing anything else.

People do tend to put other options on their squeeze page. Maybe they aren’t interested in what you are asking so why not offer them more than one thing. Wrong thinking will lose you potential income every time.

Afraid they aren’t going to give up their email? That’s okay but instead of putting distractions on the squeeze page put an exit pop up there instead. So, when they go to leave the page they will be presented without another option.

Build A Good Looking Squeeze Page

Don’t get fancy with your squeeze pages. Just make them good looking, not to fancy and with just enough info to entice them to give up their email and any other required personal info. Just that simple.

There Are A Couple Of Great Autoresponders

I have tried a variety of autoresponder systems, some free and well as paid and after a decade of using autoresponder I have narrowed it down to just two that make me happy.

My personal recommendations: Aweber.com or GetResponse.com

Both these services have support and make it easy to get the job done right. Both have confirmation optin emails to avoid spammers.

I have been quite pleased with Aweber for years now but you may also want to hear from other happy Aweber users so watch the video below.

Get Started Today For Only $1! – AWeber Communications

How To Get Optin-Ins For Your Squeeze Page

First make sure you are offering great content so you’re readers have a reason to want updates. If your site doesn’t have good content why would a visitor expect to get quality emails.

So having a form to collect email addresses is no guarantee you’ll get any subscribers.

Make sure that what you are offering on your squeeze page is clear without clutter so there is no guessing on your visitors part.

Some things you could offer your visitors, through your squeeze page are:

  • People like newsletters that offer specific info and offers.
  • Write an ebook full of useful tips, include links to your money sites. This can net you a lot of extra traffic.
  • Create an e-course teaching a specific aspect of something in your niche. Always keep it relevant to your niche.

Basically your success with squeeze pages happens when you give your subscribers exactly what they want, otherwise they will unsubscribe. If you have too many signing up and then unsubscribing you need to step back and see why they are doing that.

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Once an online marketer has found their niche It’s time to focus on keyword research, before doing anything else. Doing your keyword search right up front will give you an edge when it comes to gaining search engine ranking and positioning.

Keyword research can be done manually although it takes a whole lot longer and newbies tend to get off track before completing their keyword research. That’s a big part of why I purchased my copy of Keyword Elite, time is money.

Manual Keyword Research Can Be Confusing

Personally I found proper keyword research to be time consuming as well as frustrating. I would start my research but after a few hours it was so easy to allow myself to get distracted. For that reason I had many sites, at the beginning, that just didn’t do well because I had lost my focus.

Let me give you a run down of how I used to do my research before Keyword Elite was added to my online business.

  1. Find a niche I’m knowledgeable in.
  2. Use Google’s Free Keyword Tool to find keywords
  3. Find the keywords which have the least amount of competition yet still have Adwords ads appearing in Google’s search results pages.
  4. Search my first keyword in Google and checkout the top ten sites to see what they do with the keyword.
  5. Move on to the next keyword and follow step four again. I continue until I have researched each keyword.

What Am I Checking For?

When I search a keyword phrase during my research and then looking at each site I am looking to see what they do with that keyword. I check for the following things:

  1. I like to check to see the number of competing pages for the phrase I am interested in.
  2. Does the site owner use the keyword or phrase in their page title. Where do they place the phrase in their title?
  3. What is the PageRank for the page that shows in Google’s search results for my phrase.
  4. Where and how often do they use they keyword on their page. This is the keyword density and should be between 3 and 7 percent, usually.
  5. Do they use their keyword in the ALT text for images.
  6. Do they use their keyword as link text.
  7. Do they use and keyword their heading one tag along with other headings.
  8. Does the site have the keywords enhanced with bold, italics or both.

I would do this for every keyword I was interested in, which usually were a lot, so it was very time consuming. I usually gave up checking keywords long before I was done with the list. So glad when I was able to purchase a great tool for my keyword research like Keyword Elite by Brad Callen is.

Brad Callen has made my online business life so much more enjoyable now that I have KE2. Today I can do the same research today in a fraction of the time it used to take me and I end up with hundreds and some times thousands of more keywords for my niches.

No more fumbling around taking notes and getting myself confused as Keyword Elite does everything from within one piece of software. I can also save my work and return to it at a later time.

Keyword Elite’s format is easy to view and understand. Even the columns you see that you may not understand right now have a button that will show you what each column’s content means.

Using KE2 I can even see how many of the top ten sites have backlinks and how many they have. I can see their pagerank for the page listed as well as how many words are on the page.

The information provided through Keyword Elite make it easy to see if I can compete or not and if I choose to compete I can see exactly what I need to do in order to out rank my competitors.

Keyword Elite 2 my choice for a keyword tool, because it helps me do my keyword research effectively and efficiently which gives me a fighting chance in the Online business world.

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How To Begin Making Money Blogging

make money bloggingWhen learning about making money via blogging you’re going to likely find more than one way to accomplish this task. Those who don’t bother to learn first are usually find it’s much tougher to make money blogging.

How much an individual earns blogging can really vary from just a few dollars a month to thousands, even tens of thousands. It’s going to depend on your blog theme and how you monetize that blog.

Make Money With Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is one of the most common methods and is my most favourite way to make money blogging. I just find affiliate products and services that match my niche and include them in my story lines.

I don’t usually just share affiliate product info. Instead I like to share how I use the product or service. The key is to make sure the product matches the content you’ve written.

Sponsored Blog Posts, Links And Ads

I’ve been marketing online for a decade and have more than a dozen sites on the go. It has become quite common to receive email requests or blog comments asking if I accept sponsored links or posts.

After 10 years of online marketing and blogging it’s common to get emails asking if I accept paid or sponsored ads or links. What I earn will of course depend on the niche and the authority my sites have in their niche.

I don’t accept all the requests I get because I only accept requests where their link or content is inline with my blog. If it’s not relevant to my site niche I am not going to put it in front of my readers and have them leave my site for being off topic.

Write An Niche Related Ebook

In my 60 years I have learned a lot of skills people want to learn, in a lot of different areas, or as we call them today, niches. It’s great to use that knowledge to write blog posts but I also use my know-how to write ebooks and then give them away to get people’s email address.

You ebooks should include quality information to make it work. People will give you their email address for the ebook. They will even pass it around, if it’s good.

This gives you the opportunity to include links in your ebook that lead readers to your money pages and back to your blogs. This can deliver you a huge amount of traffic and help you make more income online.

The Money Is In The Email List

world's easiest email marketing serviceIt’s true, the money is in the list if you learn how to make money with a list. The main key is to NEVER spam your list with non relevant content or too many emails a day.

AWeber - Email Marketing Made Easy

I join lists to learn more about what I do or perhaps to learn things in a new niche, like my puppy training niche and how to play guitar niche.

The thing is I can get off the list in an instant if something sets me off, like non relevant info in the emails.

When I am creating lists I use either Aweber and GetResponse as they are trusted autoresponder services that make email marketing easy and safe.

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Top 5 Article Writing Tips

top 5 article writing tipsArticle writing is how many people make a living these days. But then again there are a lot of people writing articles that don’t see any positive results. There is a reason people don’t do well with article marketing, let’s talk about a few article writing tips that can put you on the map.

Without the click it’s kind of tough to make money so it’s important to keep your visitor reading all the way to the click. That has to be priority #1.

Tip #1 – Get Your Readers Attention

article readerA vital step in article marketing is keeping the attention of your visitors. It’s not likely they will click your links if they don’t like the content.

How do you get and keep your readers attention? I most often use stories to keep the focus of my website visitors because it’s stories that keep me interested on other sites I frequent.

Testimonials are another great method for holding the attention of readers, especially if they are names they’ve heard before.

Tip #2 – It All Starts With A Catchy Title

great titleA title can turn me away before I even click a link to visit a site. That’s because your page title appears in the search engines where you are competing for positioning. I tend to look at the listing and only click relevant titles.

Don’t get fancy with your titles either as you may dilute the keyword focus with too many words. Get right to the point so your potential visitor doesn’t have to de-cypher the meaning.

When I have to figure a title out while I am looking through search results pages I tend to just move on to the next listing. Competition is strong in most niches and easy to find more and perhaps better content.

Note: Those searching online for specific topics seem to like ‘TOP’ lists, top 3, top 5, top 7 or top 10 are all attention grabbers. Something like the title of this article: Top 5 Article Writing Tips.

Tip #3 – Find Hot Topics To Talk About

pick a hot topicHot topics get a lot of attention in just about any niche or market, so use them to your advantage, getting more traffic to your pages.

Remembrance Day was yesterday and is always a hot topic, especially as the original war vets are getting few and far between. In our area there is just one veteran still alive and he’s in the high 80s now.

Any holiday, festival, seasonal event such as Thanksgiving and Halloween. I am sure you get the point. Keep ahead of these topics so you have time to get that special traffic.

If you subscribe to a newspaper you will have all the info you need to be timely with hot topics. The more your site gets indexed the faster it is visited by search bots so you can get articles indexed really quickly. I have sites that get indexed in just minutes after writing a blog post.

Tip #4 – All Articles Need Spell & Grammar Checks

spell and grammar checkI am not sure about you but when I read an article that is full of typos and grammatically errors I get annoyed as today there really is no need to create poor quality articles.

Be sure you check each and every article for grammar and spelling errors, especially if you spin content with article spinners.

When I see articles that have not been checked properly it tells me the author is more interested in quantity of article over quality and I usually move on.

It only takes a couple of minutes to spell check an article so if you don’t bother why should other bother with your article.

I use a lot of articles from article directories and networks but quickly reject the articles with typos and grammar errors. There are lots of other to choose from.

Tip #5 – Write From Your Personal Experience

article writerIf you can write from the heart, especially from personal experience you can do so much better than just being technical or dry.

Using this strategy I can write articles for most of the niches I work in all day long. I do have a couple of niches which I am not very knowledgeable about and usually use PLR or articles from other networks.

I do so much better with the niches I am more skilled in and for that reason I tend to make more income from those websites.

I know this works because of the number of comments and visitors but also by how long they stay on the page. It took me a while to figure this out but today I write most of my articles and use personal experiences to keep my reader reading and eventually clicking my link.

Articles like that, from the heart, make me more money, bottom-line.

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Affiliate Marketing My Work From Home Plan

affiliate-marketingThere are lots of ebooks about affiliate marketing today doe to the fact so many people work from home to make money on the Internet.

Actually there are millions of people today who work at home as their job. One of our neighbours works from home full time and loves not making the long commute to work.

I did that for a few years but decided I would rather work from home as my own boss. I learned I can work from home even in New Brunswick Canada and make a good living selling other people’s products, known as affiliate marketing.

What is Affiliate Marketing

About as simple as I can put it, Affiliate Marketing is the act of promoting other people’s products and/or services for some kind of gain. In most cases gain means earning money.

Looking for a more in-depth explanation then checkout Wikipedia for What is Affiliate Marketing?

There are millions of dollars a day, maybe even per hour, being made in affiliate marketing which should excite you as it does me because I make some of that money each and every day whether I’m working or not.

Saying that doesn’t mean affiliate marketing is easy. There is a lot of competition to deal with and to get the job done efficiently you will need to learn some things to give you a fighting chance.

Take the right steps and you can do make money in affiliate marketing. On the other hand, start with your eyes closed and you may not do so well.

After years of learning about affiliate marketing I have put most of my focus toward the following niches.

  • fishing
  • gardening
  • playing guitar
  • puppy training
  • money making blog

I have tried other niches where I didn’t have any experience and soon dropped them to focus on niches I do have experience in. It’s so much easier to maintain site where I know the niche.

Buyers Is What Makes Affiliate Marketing Work

Before I work any niche I first do research to determine if enough money is being spent in that niche to make it worth the effort. Basically…

…Are People Spending Money In the Niche?

My favourite niche today is sport fishing. As a sport fisher of more than 30 years I do know that other fishers are making lots of purchases in the sport fishing niche. The fact of the matter is most of us tend to over spend on this niche which is perfect for me.

I have been blogging about my fishing experiences for years now and each year I make more money because of all the posts from previous years. They just keep drawing free traffic from the major search engines.

Researching so that you know there’s money to be made in the niche is the first step toward your success. But that’s just the first step, you also need to know how strong your competition is.

How I Earn Money From My Niches

My goal is to make money with my blogs as I do this full time working from home so what ever I do needs to lead me to making money or I’m wasting my time. There is just me, no employees and I like having a life.

I don’t really have secrets to share but I do have years of experience that some others don’t have yet. That can mean money if you know what you’re doing.

Before I can make money from my readers I need to have something to share they will read. I have to have an interesting or fun story. For my example I it will be about how I kicked my fishing buddies butt all day long until I shared one of my lures with him.

When I keep my reader reading I have the potential to make an affiliate sale. This means I need to have a product or service to link to. An affiliate link from an affiliate network I belong to.

An Affiliate Product Sale Through A Story Example:

Last day of the year for the three of us, Ron, Kevin and myself. Late fall can be a very productive time of year as the bass and Chain pickerel are stuffing themselves here in New Brunswick.

Well we were out two weeks ago and were using red worms and just about anything actually but this day they were either heading south for the winter or being extremely picky.

After more than an hour without even a follow I decided to try something I used to use for Northern pike in Ontario and that was a big ole Red Devil.

First cast off to the side of the boat to see how it was running and it got smacked hard by a 23” chain pickerel.

My fishing buddies were all excited to see what I caught it with so I tried my best to keep it hidden and build on the excitement. When I finally showed them they both sighed but not in a good way. Neither of them had a Red Devil. I laughed out loud because I couldn’t believe they would not have a Red Devil.

We are fishing buddies so I had to tease them telling them it was the only one I had. Then I gave them each one but they were smaller than the one I had however after a few minutes it was obvious that size didn’t matter this day.

After a few hours of fish after fish I thought I would try a #3 Mepps. I knew the trout and bass love them, why not a chain pickerel. Just a couple of casts and I had a fish on.

I was curious to see if they had just turned on back when I first put the Red Devil on so I went back to use the baits we started with. The pickerel had no interest in them at all.

Our last day on the water for 2011 was spectacular and even better it wasn’t freezing cold, just comfortable. ‘Til next year happy dreams.

Notice I highlighted the name of the lure in red and bolded it. Those would be affiliate links leading my readers to where they can buy Red Devils or anything else once they get to the landing page and I commissions.

I would also include an image of the lure, maybe even a picture at the beginning with a chain pickerel and the lure hanging from it’s mouth. A picture says a thousand words and can help you earn more.

A Cookie With That Affiliate Link?

I am not referring to cookies you eat. I am talking about snippets of code used to remember you visited the affiliate site. This is not like your browser history and is a good thing.

When a visitor clicks your affiliate link the cookie notes you visited the affiliate page and my affiliate ID so that if the visitor returns at a later time the system remembers them and you get paid commission on any purchased they make. How cool is that.

The cookies can remember for weeks and even months after the initial click so you could keep earning as they keep returning to the affiliate page.

So affiliate marketing is an awesome way to make money or even your living, given time and some work. Start small and get it right before scaling up.

What Exactly Is A Squeeze Page?

squeeze page funnelLet me share with you just what a squeeze page is all about and what it is used for. Basically the purpose of squeeze pages, also called landing pages, is to capture your customers name and email address.

Many savvy marketers utilize squeeze pages to build their list. Beyond a shadow of a doubt landing pages are very effective as an Internet marketing tool.

Depending upon how you market your landing page, you could easily add a couple of hundred new subscribers. It is very important that the offer on your landing page is worth subscribing for.

Understanding what is a squeeze page is very important. This is the most essential page of your website. This is the page where you will invite the viewer to enter their name and e-mail address, this information is then being used with your auto responder for follow up messages.

In order to keep your landing page interesting, add your company name as well as your company logo. Make sure that the title stands out so that it catches the viewer’s eye. Add a few lines about yourself. Keep it short and to the point.

Adding a photo of yourself is also a good idea it will makes you more real, make sure it is a good one though. Another attention grabbing idea is to add a video to your squeeze pages. This will definitely get the viewers attention and will make them understand more on what is a squeeze page, you can then suggest on the video that the viewer adds their name and e-mail address in your opt in box for further information.

As with all marketing, a headline is critical to the sure success of your squeeze page. You must have an enticing and engaging headline to draw in the visitor. You will also notice that this landing page is very simply laid out. It should clean and only has one purpose.

Also notice the simple arrow graphic pointing down to tell people exactly what to do. People can watch the video, and then give up their name and e-mail address to gain access to your getaway. The challenge for marketers is to work closely with their designers to make them understand at least the basics, like what is a squeeze page and how to max out its potential.

The next step is to get traffic to your squeeze page using article marketing. You can easily work at home, niche marketing and sending target traffic directly to your squeeze page.

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