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Author :: Karen Kari  |
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| Article Title :: Affiliate Site Development: Writing Good Content |
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| It’s important to learn the secrets to writing good content, or having someone write it for you – because content provides added value and is critical to the ranking of your affiliate site:
Be sure the copy is easy to read, and straight to the point. People want nuggets of information, advice, humor etc. and don’t have the time to read a dissertation. If you need to convey something complicated or lengthy, provide a summary first, or a download of a long document such as a report.Write like you and your niche market speak. If they’re conservative and formal, you need to be also. But if they’re like the norm of website visitors, they’re fine with sound bites and par (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Educating Consumers Can Translate Into Affiliate Success |
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| Your site fills the needs of a niche, and you’re getting to be the “go to” place for your subject. You have a great archive of articles, and you authoritatively answer questions from your target group. What’s missing? Product or service reviews.By reviewing products and services, you provide your merchant partners with an invaluable service – pre-selling. You’ve already done the first step of the work when you decided to form affiliate relationships with certain companies. You know the buyers of their products and services. But different people want different versions, price ranges and features. You are ideally situated to help them move forward with a purchase, (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Why Every Affiliate Site Needs A Frequently Asked Questions Section |
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| In order to keep people visiting your site to buy your product or service or participate in the community you have created,
you need a way for them to feel embraced, and a part of your site. By preparing a Frequently Asked Questions section, you can help orient someone who is new to the subject of your site, and who needs a little help wrapping his arms around a subject. If they feel they’ll be kept up-to-date by you, they’ll return.Some ways to use FAQ’s:
To explain the information on your site in another way, reinforcing a process or a complicated piece of information.To cover the questions repeatedly asked in your “Contact Us” section, so staff time won’t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliate Merchant Ad Placement |
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| Once you have created a site for your niche market and created relevant content, placing merchant ads becomes a priority for capturing sales revenue. You’ve worked hard to ensure that your site is highly relevant to your visitor’s needs, and need to take the same amount of care in ensuring that the ads you place on the site add, rather than detract, from the quality and relevancy of the site. You want each page to be easy to read and you don’t want the ads to get in the way of the activities the reader is there to perform.Finding the best place for ads, and the optimal density of ads is a trial and error exercise, but there are a few guidelines:
Consider the placement of a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliates and Pay Per Click (PPC) Services Including Google Ad Words |
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| When someone uses a search engine, and are served up sites with the best keyword match, the ads that appear alongside the search results get a lot of eyeballs. And the merchants with these ads pay only if someone interested clicks on them.How does it all work? Sites first fine-tune and optimize their keyword advertising. Many use special consultants and programs that analyze their sites and advertisements to help them in the bidding for keywords. The more a merchant is willing to pay per click, the closer his ad will be to the top of the search results. Certain top keywords that have a lot of competition, and are very costly per click. Click thru rate can be boosted by creati (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Jim Green |
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| Article Title :: Affiliate Revenue-Part 4 |
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| The last few weeks have been taken up with preparations for the launch of my latest online venture.You may recall in a recent email how I started to dabble in affiliate reselling and met with immediate and albeit unexpected success.Now I am taking the experiment a quantum leap forward with the launch of a portal website featuring 12,000+ ClickBank products plus a sprinkling of the best of the latest affiliate reselling opportunities.Window dressing the storefrontI have already tweaked the system so that at will I can do an instant makeover of the 12 featured products.For a month I shall leave them as they are to monitor returns.Thereafter I shall (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliate Marketing With Freebies |
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| You may think that because people pay for the things they value, that giving something for free will cheapen your affiliate site. Actually, if a freebie is done well and relates directly to the purpose and target visitors of your site, it can go a long way in helping you form relationships with site visitors.Because of the trend toward relationship building on the web now, sites that just sell a product or service don’t create the atmosphere visitors are looking for. Yes, they’re reasonably likely to buy the jacket they were looking for, but if that’s all there is, they won’t necessarily stop back to see your site, and are just as likely to be attracted to another site, a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Ezines Can Turn Affiliates Into Experts |
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| As an expert in a particular niche, you have visitors coming back to your site to get more information and updates on your area of specialty. A great way to capitalize upon this and to gain new visitors is to create a newsletter.Use an opt-in sign up box on your website, and place it prominently in many places on your site. Once you have received a sign-up, make sure you automatically send an email to the address provided to confirm the subscription, and give the recipient an easy way to opt out if, for instance someone else provided their address and they’re not interested. Structuring the first issue is the hardest, but once you get the format set, it takes far less time and (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliate Sites Can Excel When They Answer Questions |
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| People on the web are usually searching for answers to something – and many of them want to know how to do something – from wallpapering to washing the dog. Does your affiliate site lend itself to providing How To’s?Do you sell a product of your own on your site? How To’s that relate to your product categories and those of your merchant partners will draw visitors to your site, provide real value and set buyers up for purchases of the items needed in the activity. Links to merchants of books and videos are particularly appropriate here.Does your site sell a service? Showing people how to perform once of your activities, step-by-step won’t necessarily undercut y (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliate Sales: Banners or Links? |
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| As an affiliate you customarily have many options for displaying the “click point” that your visitors use as a launch point to a merchant or advertiser site. Most affiliates will begin with adding one of the banners provided by a merchant in an affiliate network. They’re easy, can’t be altered and present the branding of your chosen merchant. They also look like the ads that they are. What should you use links and when should you use banners?Say an individual visits your site because it is the expert site for migrating birds, and they read up on Purple Martin houses. If, at the end of an article on building a house, you placed a link entitled “products” or “bird (read full article) |
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