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Author :: Karen Kari  |
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| Article Title :: Getting Your Affiliate Site Mentioned in the Press |
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| Not all affiliate sites are visited because of keywords or key phrases in a search engine. Some are found the “old fashioned” way, through offline methods. Try some other ways of getting noticed by your niche market:
Public speaking, specially if you have a product or service provided in a limited geographic location. Put your website information in a handout, on the chalkboard, on your slides, and in the course catalog.Chamber of Commerce, a place to make contacts, and come face-to-face with people interested in your niche, specialty or product. Your listing in their directory will include your website address.Articles in the local press, both written by you imparti (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: CAN-SPAN Act and Affiliate Responsibility |
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| If there’s one affiliate absolute it is to NEVER, for any reason, send an unsolicited email to anyone that is promoting anything. No commercial messages, unless the recipient has specifically requested that you send him/her email promoting a product or service. And don’t ever buy, borrow, lease or trade email lists. If you send commercial email at all, carefully read up on spam regulations and penalties at http://www.spamlaws.com/federal/can-spam.shtml.The CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) Act took effect on January 1, 2004. It is a federal act, enforced by the Federal Trade Commission that requires unsolicited commercial email t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliate Site as an Expert Resource |
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| Why would site visitors sift through generalities when they can get specifics that focus on people like them? You know they won’t, so you started a web site for a niche market – on a subject near and dear to your heart, as focus and enthusiasm show. Say, do-it-yourself furniture caning.Then what?Go to conferences, read books and articles and do some interviews in order to find out just what a do yourself caner wants to know.Put up your content with a twist specifically toward your niche. No need to skip the more general or related articles or information, such as the history of caning, or art museums that have exquisite caned chair examples, but provide them by (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Budgeting for the Successful Affiliate Business |
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| It’s true that it doesn’t cost the affiliate anything to sign up with an established program of a merchant or advertiser. But just because the cost of this mechanism – the cookies, links, banners, specials, check payments etc – are paid for by the merchant, that’s no reason to treat the affiliate role as if it’s cost-free.An affiliate needs to devote resources to keeping up a site that’s current, relevant, informative, fun etc. and to promoting the site so the greatest number of sales possible// are directed to your merchant sites.So what should you spend money on?
Analysis: Rank the merchants and/or products you are selling, and understand why. Are they sea (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: SEO Copywriting for Affiliates |
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| SEO copywriting or Search Engine Optimized Copywriting is the writing (or re-writing) of text – articles, product reviews, comparisons, how-to’s etc. in a way that they rank high in a search engine search. That is, if a person is searching for a particular keyword, (“swan”) or key phrase (“mute swan signet”) and one or both are keywords/keyword phrases for your site, that you will rank well in a search. The first page or two are what counts, because most people won’t go any further.SEO copywriting needs to accomplish two objectives: To attract the search engine and obtain a good ranking once it crawls the site, and to provide interest and value to the reader. When (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Where should an Affiliate Begin in Finding Merchant Partners? |
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| Every affiliate needs to define its user groups. Interests, product needs, products they probably already have (with potential for upgrades), favorite activities, income – describe the typical visitor as you would a person. Then describe the focus of your site or primary products. Then the easiest way to begin is to review and add a few highly relevant sites from Affiliate Marketers, such as Linkshare and Commission Junction. Then go to the sites of brands and products you know appeal to your market. Look for a link to their affiliate program and join them individually, once you are satisfied with the site quality and the quality of the products.Decide where on your pages yo (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliates and Blogger Safety |
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| We’ve all heard stories about teenagers meeting dangerous people in chat rooms. The scary crossroads where people take web conversations and relationships to the offline world. But people who are now beginning to add postings to blogs often forget that over time, they might give out too many personal details about themselves that once combined, could put themselves in potential danger.What does this have to do with affiliate sites? Many affiliates are in the process of setting up blogs as a way for their niche communities to share information, opinions, product reviews and the like. Once some people become comfortable on such a site, they begin relating their experiences an (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Internet Crimes Complaint Center - What Affiliates Need to Know |
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| Affiliates can do a lot to protect themselves from those who would take advantage of them by dealing with companies that have good reputations in the offline world, and carefully doing their research on the online-only ones. Affiliate Networks have also put into place strong regulations for the purpose of thwarting and blacklisting serious offenders. But where there’s easy money to be made, the unscrupulous flock.No matter how they attempt to protect themselves, it is still very possible for an affiliate to be hit with one of the scams of dishonest companies. These include cybersquatters who steal or mimic domains and funnel away money while injuring their reputations, abusers (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Private High-End Affiliate Relationships |
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| If you have a niche affiliate site that reaches a select, documented high-end demographic, you have a market ripe for marketing to select merchants and advertisers. Instead of offering this group access to existing, established products and services, you have the ability to negotiate special product purchase arrangements and exclusive service arrangements.Start by understanding what your market wants. Ask and observe. Are they the super-wealthy who want access to the most exclusive independent concierge in New York or London? Do they need to outfit a large home with china, crystal and silver for 48? Or perhaps they want to take protective and evasive driving lessons from the u (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliates Re-evaluate Your Merchant Relationships |
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| Just because affiliates aren’t charged in order to place merchant links on their sites doesn’t mean that they’re free. They occupy valuable space on your site and need to reflect the interests of your site visitors to earn their keep. It’s a question of opportunity costs, and an affiliate needs to make sure that the individual merchants and the merchant mix overall meets the needs of their site visitors. It’s simple to see if they are voting with their dollars, and make changes if certain merchants are no longer earning their site real estate.Making changes to your merchant list is healthy for both the experience of the site visitor and the profitability and credibilit (read full article) |
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