Industry tips and tricks weekly
In a recent interview webmasters asked CPAempire affiliate network owner what industries make affiliates most money – top 5 named:
- freebies
- dating
- finance
- education
- ringtones
PPC remains the major focus in my case – though it is fast way (the fastest, in fact) nowadays to get traffic and monetize it one needs to know many aspects of PPC engines (and they evolve all the time) in general and niches you are about to promote. So PPC promotion is not so easy as many gurus state. With no knowledge and experience in dating industry I am not likely to succeed despite my knowledge of PPC promotion in detail.
How to properly launch new PPC campaign, what are the signs of a healthy PPC campaign and, most important, how to optimize a promising PPC campaign:
Launching an Affiliate Offer: From Zero to Profitability, Part I
Launching an Affiliate Offer: From Zero to Profitability, Part II
Importance of eCPC (estimated cost-per-click) can’t be overestimated: it allows you to benchmark your campaigns to your competitor’s ones and make sure you buy traffic at proper price – otherwise it is time to make changes to your PPC promotion:
One of the most efficient ways to lower the click cost and improve you Quality Score in Google AsdWords is to properly arrange you adgroups:
Un-Clutter & Optimize Your Account with Better Organization
With so many articles on keyword research you are likely to find some new tips to extend and properly research for high targeted keyword lists:
Keyword Research Secrets to Explode Your Affiliate Business
A recent discussion about links and content compared (Content is King, or Links are King: What’s Your Money On) shows that a great portion of webmasters focuses their efforts on link building (not on content).
If you believe those who say that build a great website, generate unique and quality website – and you will get the links naturally – think over your strategy again. Natural links are next to impossible to get if you want to promote some affiliate program focused project. So, one should buy links, search for links exchanges (3-way and similar).
A few recent gems on improving your link popularity:
How to Check if a Site Passes Link Popularity
Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Link Builders
Link Page Report Card
Affiliate marketing using some established domains to get traffic to your offers – a widely used approach. But i did not have a chance to try that. Back in August I have set up accounts on WordPress, Squidoo, Hubpages and MySpace. The services have deleted all accounts within 7-10 days for the violation of their TOS.
So, I have decided to have a deeper look into what it takes to promote offers on these websites. No duplicate content from your other websites, no affiliate links on new accounts – just a few tips. More (though the articles cover Squidoo promotion aspects, I m sure it works for other mentioned authority domains):
Affiliate Marketing on Squidoo
3 Squidoo Mistakes That Will Hurt Your Rankings
My Squidoo Experiment – 2 sales + Top Ranking at Google
Black Hat SEO, Grey Hat SEO – probably the terms have some negative color, but many webmasters do it along with their White Hat SEO sites – do not miss one of the best of the recent articles in the industry:
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