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Discover Why The Money Is In List Building

There are many techniques an internet marketer will use to promote products and to drive quality traffic to their website; but there is one free method of advertising that stands out from the rest. You’ve heard it before, “the money is in the list”.  We are talking about list building to promote products and to drive quality traffic to your website.

When you are list building, you collect email addresses of people who visit your website and want to be contacted whenever you have something new to share. It could be an e-book, or a new tip, or a newsletter. When you build a large list you will have contact with thousands of quality leads who will be interested in what you have to say. With one click of your mouse you can send out an email to thousands with your information.

One way of list building is to put a sign up form on the top of you web page where no one will miss it. Ask for their first name and email. Over the top of the sign up form, write, “Get List Building Tips by Email” or “To Receive Your Free E-Book Sign In Here”. These are customers that you can contact over and over again when you have new products or new information.

Pop up forms are another good device that many Internet marketers use to collect names. The nice thing about them are you don’t have to change your pages to include a pop up form because this floats over your page.

Repeat business is extremely important to internet marketers. By capturing their email you have access to them when ever you have new information. With your email information you send them you are showing them your knowledge in your field and building trust with the people on your list. You work very hard to build a list; don’t do anything that could destroy it. Treat the people on your list with total respect and don’t swamp them with emails. Nothing will turn a person off quicker.

So that you are not mistaken as a spammer, you must have a double opt-in list. A double opt-in is when the customer gives you their name and email. They are giving permission to be emailed by you. They will then be sent an email asking them to confirm that they want to be part of you list. You also required to place an unsubscribe message at the bottom of each email, so they can opt-out out if they are no longer interested.

So start your list building today. Imagine if you had a small list of only 1,000 subscribers and what if only 2% wanted to buy your product, and you were making $20 in commissions on each sale? Think about it $400 for typing up one little email on your auturesponder and clicking send. What if you had a list of 100,000 people, or more!

Discover How Article Marketing Can Catapult Your Business

You could have the best product or service in the world, but if you don’t have traffic, you’re not going to have sales. Some website owners started out thinking early on in their careers – if I build it, they will come. They find out quickly that this is totally false. It takes marketing effort to build an interest among people to drive quality traffic to your site and make sales.

In building any business you need to figure out who your target market is. Then you have to come up with an advertising plan to get buying customers to your site. There are many ways to advertise your website. Many cost money and many are free. If you are just starting out and are on a limited budget article marketing is ideal.

Instead of forcing your advertising on potential customers, why not give them what they want. Consider how and why people use the internet. What they are looking for most is information. People go online to find answers to problems, information about products, services and advice. This is where article marketing comes in. Article marketing is a great way to build your customer base; to establish your website as a place people can come to for answers. Good article marketing follows good search engine optimization practices and builds credibility within your niche. A reputation for knowledge and good content is far more valuable than a flashy banner. Offer an opt-in for a newsletter and publish regular articles, tips and solutions, and you build your mailing list as you fill your website with quality traffic.

When people are looking on the internet for a product or service they will do a search on a search engine using a descriptive word or phrase. A descriptive word is way too broad for us; the competition on one word could be in the millions. We will look for a descriptive phrase (or a long tail keyword) which will have far less competition. You also have a high quality relevant keyword, because people are typing in that exact matching phrase for what they are looking for. When you are writing your articles for article marketing, you would want to use that keyword phrase several times in your article so the search engines will pick it up and they will give your article a high ranking.

Article marketing is also valuable in getting back links to your site.  A back link is a link from another site to your site. This is also important for search engine optimization. Search engines like back linking, so this helps to optimize your site and moves you higher on the organic searches. The most important thing to note is that by sticking to your subject, the traffic you attract are people who are looking for exactly what you’re selling, making article marketing the very definition of targeted advertising.

Driving Quality Traffic to Your Website Using Keywords Search

Using keywords search to drive quality traffic to your website has become one of the most important things you can do as an affiliate marketer. Although it takes a lot of time in research and testing, the time you spend to do it right will more than pay for itself.

The purpose of keywords search is to find the most popular keywords people will use when they are searching on the internet for a product, service, website or any other things they want to find. As a website owner, I want to find these important keywords people are using so that I can draw quality traffic to my website. This is called search engine optimization or SEO for short.

Search engine optimization is the process of driving as much quality traffic to a website from a search engine’s organic (natural) search, using relevant keywords.   The higher the ranking in the organic results with a search engine, the more traffic you should have to your site.

You must learn the demographics of your target market. Commonly used demographics that an affiliate marketer may look at include: area of the country their customers are from, their occupation, age, sex, income level, education level, etc. You want to get into their heads and try to think how they would enter a search for your product or service.

For example; you are selling snow shovels on your website. You wouldn’t have much trouble selling someone a snow shovel in New Hampshire, but who in South Florida wants to buy a snow shovel. Well, what about a construction company that is cleaning construction debris off the floor, or a landscaper shoveling mulch out of the back of the truck. You need to know your market, how your product can be used and you need to determine the relevant keywords to draw customers to your site.

As mentioned above a keywords search can be time consuming, but with some practice you can easily master it. There are many tools to help you find relevant keywords, some are free and some you pay for. These include tools; such as, keyword research tools, keyword suggestion tools, keyword density analysis tools and keyword valuation tools, just to name a few.

To conduct a keywords research for the right keywords, you need to know the demographics of your target group as mentioned above. You must also know the specific industry terms used for product searches. Broad words will bring about huge competition. We are looking for less competition, but high quality leads. Using long tail keywords will help tremendously. For example, if I were selling a weight loss product and I use weight loss as a relevant keyword; I would have competition from 11,100,000 other people on the global monthly searches. Here’s what happens when I change the keyword:

Weight loss                 11,100,000   Searches

Healthy weight loss           90,500   Searches

Weight loss Help               40,500   Searches

Safe weight loss                 27,100  Searches

The number of searches is going down, but now we are down to more qualified searches. What if we tried: “fastest way to lose weight”  we would have 65,000 searches, still a lot of competition, but it is closer to where I would want to be. You see the long tail keyword, “fastest way to lose weight”, will drive high quality traffic to your website as compared to the broad keyword “weight loss”.

Keyword research is very important for search engine optimization and should never be ignored. The right set of relevant keywords can make a huge difference in your website’s traffic and sales.

Should I Build a Blog or a Website … Which is Better for Promoting My Affiliate Products?

Which is the best way of advertising and promoting my products on the web? Should I build a blog or should I build a website. This is a question I hear a lot from people. So I decided to write some thought about the two and first define what a blog is and compare it to a website.

It is very important to realize that a blog (or a web log) is a type of website. The difference is that blogging is a dynamic choice for someone who has something to sell or say over the internet. The entries can be commentary or news about events that interest the visitors to the blog and the readers have the ability to leave comments to the posts, making it an interactive dialogue for all.

A website is like a blog, except that it is static; it is not dynamic like a blog. A website  is where you actually describe and can show your products and/or services. You can update a website as often as you like, but this is usually only done if you change your products. People can’t just type in comments for everyone to see. Also with a website there are no posts to update. The nice thing with the new blog software out now, it can be very difficult to tell whether it is a blog or a website.

 A huge advantage of a blog is that blogs allows you to post written text, audio and video and have it online within minutes. Unlike traditional static websites which can take hours to update and cost a lot of money if you’re not familiar with building or editing web sites. 

The biggest advantage of having a blog, to me, is that you get the site up quick. You write your first post hit publish and you are ready for business online.

A blog is far easier to optimizing for the search engines. Ever time you write a new post (new content) on your blog, you do something called “pinging”. You are notifying the search engines that you have new content on your site. The search engines will visit your site and index your site more often than a static website. It is much cheaper to set up a blog and maintain the site than it is for a static website.

Bloggers also tend to build credibility faster than someone running a static website. The blogger is constantly posting and adding new content. The blogger is actually building a relationship with the readers, where the readers have the ability to comment back.

When you want to make a post on your blog, you enter your back office type your post and it is sent out instantly. With a static website, you have to open up your editor, write the article, update the page properties before uploading that page to your site using FTP software. After all that, you have to wait for the search engines to visit your site to get it indexed again.

There are many reasons that I could still add to the argument for a blog, but I hope I’ve shown you how versatile the blog can be compared to a static website. Don’t get me wrong, websites are important. I think the best way would be to have a blog where you can post and a website that has your products. You could send people from your blog to your website or send them from your website to your blog, by linking them.

Top 7 Internet Marketing Strategies

Here is a list of the top 10 most common internet marketing strategies. Through internet marketing you are trying to promote and advertise products and drive as many qualified buyers to your website as possible.  The more people you get to your website, the more sales you will have. This also helps enhancement of branding your website and your products. If you are new and trying to figure your way through all the information, here are some marketing strategies that are broken down to make it as easy as possible. I will also post every couple of days to cover these marketing strategies in more detail.

1. The best way to earn commissions on the internet is to have your own website or blog.  There are many ways of doing this inexpensively and we will go into far more detail in the next couple of days.

2. It is important that once we have our site up and running that we add original and relevant content. This will ensure that we will eventually get a high ranking among search engines. Most importantly we need to do our research for relevant keywords for search engine optimization.

 3. We must set up strategies to get people to our site and get them to buy; become members or what ever they are suppose to do. There are many ways of doing this (again, we will be covering all of these in more detail over the next few weeks), some of the most common ways are through article marketing, email marketing, ezine marketing, pay per click advertising, social book marking and the list goes on.

 4. You will want products to promote and no you don’t need to have your own. That is the beauty of affiliate marketing. You don’t have to do anything but promote your products to as many people as possible.

 5. You are going to want everyone that visits your site to opt-in, meaning to leave their email address so that you can contact them again in the future. It is very important to build a responsive opt-in email list.

6. Give away free e books or give tips in order to entice people to opt-in and also to return back to your site. You have to give them something of value or there is no reason for them to return.

7. Interact with your visitors so that they get to know you and you build their trust in you. If they trust you, you will have a customer for life.

By following the above 7 marketing tips you will be well on your way to creating a a successful internet marketing strategy that could boost sales for your site substantially. I look forward to going into more detail with you later.

Everyone have a GREAT 4^th  of July!