Hiding Your Affiliate Link

Hiding your affiliate link is important when promoting your product. Why? For some reason studies have shown that people are less likely to click on your link unless it looks like a site... There are many possible reasons for this, they may think it have a virus etc. but there are also many ways you can "cloak" it.

One way which shows to work best is buying a domain name from godaddy.com and forwarding it to your affiliate link.

One of my affiliate products that i sell is a fly fishing eBook.
I write articles and keep my link at the end of the article to drive traffic to the site. The domain name I bought is http://www.flyfishing-for-beginners.com and if you click on it it will redirect you to the sales page of the eBook with my clickbank id in it. (that's how they know if the sale came from traffic I directed resulting in me getting commission)

Another way to cloak your affiliate link is to purchase cloaking software but your better off to buy the domain name and its a lot cheaper.

If your going to be promoting the product on twitter then the best thing to do is find a url shortening website and use that (usually free).

So from now on when directing traffic always hide your affiliate link and you'll definitely see a difference.

All the best,
Chris

CPA Marketing

“Cost Per Action” marketing is two of the simplest methods for beginner Internet marketers to begin making money online. For years, this type of affiliate marketing has an industry secret of the insider "big players.” It was never really a “secret,” but while most people in Internet marketing had their hands busy promoting Clickbank products, the big kahunas were playing on a whole different level.

Cost Per Action, sometimes referred to as "CPA," is a type of Internet marketing that requires consumers to complete specific actions – this usually entails filling out a form and requesting a free product sample, signing up for a free trial. In some cases, it involves asking the consumer to try a new product or service by making a small purchase.

What it means is that you, as offer promoter, get paid for the "actions" taken by the traffic you steer to advertisers. As a basic example, let's say a company wants to test the consumer feedback on a new product line that they are introducing. They create an offer where they agree to pay $1.50 for each person who submits their e-mail address and zip code – your job is simply to direct traffic to that site and then collect $1.50 for each person who opts in.

This is a fairly standard promotion type. Others might pay as much as $37 for an optin (though if the payout is higher, the offer might require much more information from the customer or ask for a small upfront payment.

In essence you, as a CPA marketer, are really a traffic broker: You buy traffic on one end, send it to an offer page and get paid based on how well it converts. Sounds so simple, doesn't it? It can be easy, but it generally isn't.

Because it is so profitable, CPA marketing is extremely competitive, and for a beginner, it can be intimidating to start trying to compete with super-affiliates making $100k a day and even more, or even with the more common affiliates who are making $500 to $1,000 a day running CPA campaigns. When you try to get started, you're going to be up against all of that competition, and it can be very challenging. The truth is, a lot of beginners simply get frustrated and give up when they figure out that CPA marketing can be difficult and expensive.

CPA marketing can be all that the sales letters say it can be – you really can make $100k a day if you know what you’re doing – but it can also be frustrating if you jump in without the right information. This http://tinyurl.com/yjrhq84 course can get you off on the right footing so that you can start making money almost right away without the stress of worrying you’ll lose your shirt.

Until next time,
Chris.

New Year New Income

So its into 2010 and we all made our resolutions but why not set a goal to be financially free this year?

I know what your thinking but it is possible...
(And quite simple)

So get into gear and set your self a realistic goal. If you're going to put in a big effort then set a goal to make a large amount of money. If you're going to just give it a shot and give up then don't read any more of this post.

I am proof that it is possible to make money online. If you don't know me then let me tell you I am a college student, unemployed and spent most days doing what students do best.. nothing. Then I started Internet marketing and after putting in some effort every day the results started to show. Best of all its EASY. You don't need a degree just follow step by step instructions.

So in my previous posts I talked about my mentor and gave tips on how to make money online. If you can't afford a mentor then I suggest you join the warrior forum and ask questions, research the different kinds of internet marketing.

Also signing up to newsletters which will give you free helpful info is a good idea.

I have my own up and running which you can subscribe for free at http://www.internetaffiliateservice.com I'm going to be adding more emails soon that will help you on the way to making money online just like me. So watch this space and keep an eye out for helpful posts and email me for help. My email is sent to you with the first newsletter when you sign up.

Happy New Year,
Chris

My Mentor

Hopefully by now things are going well for you but if your still not making money don't worry. Internet marketing is a process. However like all processes steps can be taken to speed things up.

I strugelled to make money online until I met my mentor Roy Carter who showed my easy was of getting cash online. Roy's Info Products Made Easy course shows ways to shorten the time it takes to make money online.

In the course you learn how to make your own online product and get affiliates to promote it (just like what you are doing on clickbank now) and make you money.

It makes sence when you think about it, I mean don't get me wrong there are many people making good money online from affiliate marketing and the method Roy teaches you how to utilise this while making money for you and affiliates.

Some people think "But if I create an ebook why would I give some one between 50-75% for each sale they make and be left with my own small profit?" That was the first thing I asked but I soon learned that 25-50% of something is better than 100% of nothing.

The sales my affiliates were making for me were sale's I would never have made if it wasn't for them selling it so I'll happily give 75% of my sale price to get 25% for doing well nothing really but creating a product for them to sell.

You also promote your product yourself that means you can keep 100% of the profit.

Any one looking to make money online should check out this amazing course by Roy which you can find here at

http://tinyurl.com/RoyCarterInfoProdMadeEasy


Until next time,
Chris

Driving Traffic

OK so got your product on click bank to promote? Now the next step is directing traffic to the product sales page or your squeeze page. Yesterday I just touched on directing traffic with articles but there are also many other ways such as videos, blogs, twitter etc.

Driving traffic is extremely important as no matter how good the sales page or the product is the simple fact is that if no one goes to the page how can they buy it? So start driving traffic!

A common question is how much traffic should I drive to the page?
Simple as much as you possibly can keep driving more traffic as often as you can, if your doing it with articles the more you write the more more links back to the product which means more chance of higher numbers of traffic.

People just write ten and leave it at that but think about it... If you write twenty articles you'll dramatically increase the amount of traffic going to your sales page. How about fifty articles? Why stop there how about one hundred? Think that's too much? I don't the more articles I have out there the more traffic and...

Traffic = Sales

So use as many methods as possible to drive traffic to the product and you'll hopefully see an good increase in sales.

Start driving traffic now and keep a look out for my post tomorrow with another tip.

Chris.

Clickbank

Since this is the first post lets start from the beginning, if your new to internet and affiliate marketing then the first thing to do is register with Clickbank its free and only takes a minuite. I'm going to help you start off affiliate marketing for free and with out costly PPC ad's.

Heres a tip: don't use your name as your clickbank id use your initials and some numbers as your id shows up in the end of your hop link and for some strange reason people don't tend to buy online products if they think its from an affiliate.

Now after you register with clickbank find your niche. Pick something you have an intrest it and something you could write short 400 word articles about.

This is the best way to start as its free!!

After finding your niche start writing articles in microsoft word or your word document of choice and go to the product on clickbank and click "create hoplink".

There is a small cost if you want to do this effictivly. Register a domain name on godaddy.com and at the end of your article put the link to the product.

Finally publish these articles on directorys or if you want massive traffic to be driven to your affiliate product use SubmitYourArticle (click here to go to site).

Submit your article is something every one promoting products with article should use. It sends your article to multiple sites and increases your views dramaticly and lets you mix up sentences in your article and depending on how much you change it you can end up with several different articles increasing the chances of driving more traffic to your site or affiliate product.

Hope this post helps, subscribe to be informed when I post more helpful blogs.

All the best,
Chris