Archive for Affiliate Tools
Getting visitors to your blog with blog SEO
Posted by: | CommentsA blog needs visitors (or traffic). If you want your affiliate programs to earn you revenue then you need qualified visitors looking for the products you promote in your post.
So how do you get the search engines to bring you those visitors ? With some blog SEO.
There are some ways to automate blog seo. If you have a wordpress blog there are a few blog seo plugins. However if you don’t understand why you need seo and how to seo your blog posts manually maybe you should hold off on the seo automation.
Quick and dirty tips (ok not really dirty) for blog post SEO
1) CONTENT - Google bots will read every word in each of your posts. For the best results you need at least 2-3 paragraphs and each post should relate to a specific topic. Know your topic ahead of time.
2) Know the keywords you need to include. You may think that ‘coupon organizer’ is the blog seo keyword that will get you the most qualifying traffic, but Google and the search engines HAVE the numbers. The KNOW what keywords people search.
So use a handy sidebar tool like Wordtrack SEO blogger or Google’s keyword generator and use the top searched keywords.
Using Wordtracker SEO Blogger on I typed in ‘grocery coupons’ and it gave me a list of 30 TOP searched keywords on Google to include
3) Title tags – The top keyword should be in your Title
i.e. Organize your ‘grocery coupons’ savings with the couponizer
4) Meta tags: Blog Seo means including your keywords in your meat tags along with a description using your blog SEO keywords. This is a bit harder in blogger or blogspot. There are many great videos on you tube explaining how to create SEO meta tags in blogger.
Good SEO is about quality content rich in keywords.
If you are creating content for a specific affiliate program, consider writing 2-5 posts at once, using a different but relevant ‘content idea’. Then schedule your posts over a three month period.
How to earn ad revenue – free webinar
Posted by: | Comments“How do I earn ad revenue on my blog or website?”
The answer in a nutshell is “Treat your blog or website as a business.” Of course that is pretty vague. So let’s break it down.
Item one. Transparency. Credible business practice number one. Let your customers (in your case visitors) know how you are. Don’t hide your contact details (yes not just a form or email – but your details. If you need to, get a PO box).
Item Two. Professionalism. This one word covers many areas including; your site or blog design, content, and business plan
Item Three: Industry knowledge. I do not mean the ‘ blogger world’. Internet Companies have been around for a long time. If you want to move past the ‘hobby blogger’ income level you need to be both a blogger AND a publisher.
Item THREE needs to come BEFORE you design your site layout. If you have already launched your blog or website template- then you just might need to look at a ‘relaunch’ to ensure your site meets industry Internet advertising standards.
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Ten Marks video is available
Posted by: | CommentsAffiliates promoting Ten Marks can now log onto Share a Sale and grab a Flash Video to promote the Ten Marks affiliate program. Click Here
Here’s a sample of our new Affiliate Video:
Sidebar ads creating a ‘sliding’ space for affiliate ads
Posted by: | CommentsWhen you ad sell space your website on a monthly basis, cpm, or even cpc. You can not rotate your images within the same site visit.
Here’s a handy tip about promoting Affiliate partner banners. -> You aren’t usually stuck within the same requirements of a more traditional banner ad buy.
There are TWO ways you can increase the umber of ads that can be viewed in ONE ad spot to a visitor.
1) A marque scroll
The image to the left shows this being used at http://www.her-media on the right bar. It scrolls the ads.
This is a simple piece of code placed before and after your banners html. It is a great way to feature some of your favourite or new programs while keeping them all in the top fold of your website. You can find the code at QuackIt.
2) Banner Rotator
A banner rotators will refresh the banner based on a per second interval that you set. Not all affiliate programs will allow this as like traditional online media buys, some want to track the visitor views based on a page view. My suggestion is to contact the affiliate manager of each program before using this technique.
I am happy to allow our affiliates to use an affiliate banner rotator IF it means our banners will be promoted within the top fold of the site template AND if this is not overused.
Rules of thumb :
1) You should NEVER have more then one affiliate banner rotator on a page. It is about finding a balance between monetizing your ad inventory and displaying quality content.
2) Always ASK your affiliate manager before you use an affiliate banner rotator and be prepared to show an example.
3) Make sure all the banners in the affiliate banner rotator are relevant to your page or site content and visitors.
This handy website offers you away to CREATE your banner rotator code on the fly – Banner Rotator Generator
