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Is Affiliate Marketing Really Profitable?
December 15th, 2008 | 
Author: I know I am supposed to be answering your questions, but I had to let you know about this now. I made a big mistake in my ‘internet marketing’ in that I presumed affiliate marketing was a non earner and ignored it. I bought a few affiliate teaching type packages, but never got to finish them all the way through, so never made anything and just wrote it off.
Well I know know that this was truly a huge mistake and I probably would have saved myself hundreds of dollars had I stuck with it until the end.
Recently I met someone online called Jason Brown who had never heard of clickbank, but is making over $3000 a month as an affiliate marketer. He does not own any websites, he does not pay for hosting, he does not use adwords, infact his outgoings are $0. YET, he is making in the region of $36,000 a year. Now I can see you looking at the figures saying that is not that much, but how much are you earning a year? How much time do you give to your employer for that time? Well I bet it is less than Jason who is currently working just 10 hours a week. He knows if he doubled his efforts he could earn more, but for the moment he is happy with where he is at. $100 would be nice for all of us.
I was talking to Jason about clickbank and how big the commissions could be and this got him very interested, so we decided to do a test and see what would happen, so I bought him a domain name on the 5th Dec 08, just 10 days ago, I set up hosting for him and I explained to him everything I had learnt about clickbank product launches through e-mails that I have received in the past.
Jason went away got on with things and I forgot about it until yesterday when he told me to look at this link … http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+next+affiliate+idol&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
He then went onto explain that 5 out of these 10 listings belonged to him. I was astounded as this is the most important keyword for this particular product and this all in just 10 days AND out of 1,800,000 results. For the keyword with bonus at the end he has 6 listings on the homepage. (as of today, 15 Dec 2008 8pm GMT+1) I thought this was a one off, but he explained that he get’s these types of ersults every time he promotes any sort of affiliate product, he just normally does it without a domain of his own. I was astounded to say the least. He explained that he had only used the information that he gave me and information he was given by the creator of the product he is promoting.
The product that he is promoting is actually an affiliate markeing video course. You can read all about it at his site and you can order from the sales page here. I just got mine as he told me the creator is putting up the price in the next few days. I am going to go through it all this week and get started. I’ll let you know how I get on.
So Jason says YES affiliate marketing is really profitable.
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I Want To Learn About Link Building
John signed up at IMMembership.com yesterday and said he wanted to know more about link building, so I decided to answer him as fully as I can today.
Firstly before any sort of link building is done you need to have a website with content. This can also be an affiliate link redirect, but I would always use some form of content.
Now this man John used an e-mail that was from a domain he owned, so I went along to have a look. I wanted to see if I could get some background on him, but the site is just a fresh wordpress installation. I had a look using the way back machine as the domain is well over 4 years old, but there is nothing but a holding page to see.
There is something holding this man back from building a site and in most cases this is either that the person is chasing the next ‘greatest thing’ or they are worrying over building the best site in the world.
START TODAY. Get something up on the site, even if it a ‘I don’t know where to start, but I will’ kind of thing 
Now once you have something on your site you can start building links. Below is a list of how to do build links, in no particular order. You will no doubt have seen this list before, but if you don’t do them you will not get backlinks. People always seem to think there is something missing and 99.9% of the tilme there is … they do not take action.
1) Social bookmarking - use a keyword rich title, description and as many tags/keywords as you can. Varying your title and description will help too.
2) Article Marketing - Completely unique articles will do the best, but If you are no good at writing you can just write one unique article and spin/re-write it to be about 40% unique (although the more unique the better) and submit it to the article directories. You can check the uniqueness for free at Dupecop.
3) Submit your RSS feed to the RSS Directories - if you have a html or php or asp site and are not using a blogging platform like wordpress that gives you a feed automatically visit Dapper.net and get an rss feed.
4) Trackback - this is only relevant to wordpress users, but if you link to another wordpress users blog post and they have trackbacks enabled they will see the post you made the next time they log into their dashboard and can approve or not approve it like a comment. Most people approve these trackbacks giving you a relevant backlink.
Now this list of 4 ways is not in any way exhaustive. You can also comment on other people’s blogs and post in forums with a link in your signature to your site. Like I have said more than once the most important thing is to start and once you have a few links in forums and on other people’s blogs and in the social sites other people will start to link to you too, if your content is worth linking to of course
A great example is at the end of this post there is a link with the title ‘Related articles by Zemanta’. Zemanta is a firefox add on that integrates with your wordpress dashboard. It might integrate with blogger too, I’m not sure. Anyway the link below was a suggestion from them on related content to what I am writing about in this post. Now the guy who wrote the article on the link missed out any links to his website in his article which completely defeats the object of article writing, but it still proves my point. People CAN and WILL find your website and use your content if you put it out there.
So get to it. Create 10 links to your site every day in the hope to get 4 and after a month you could have as many as 300 backlinks meaning you would beat most of your competition out of the water.
Let me know what you do to get backlinks or if you have had success doing the above. I love to hear from you.
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My Favourite Site Ever Part 2
Why did I put this post in tutorials I hear you asking.
No, I did not press the wrong button
In life you need to look at the successful and copy them.
This sales page in itself is a great tutorial on how to do things. Running through his/her product is another tutorial. I honestly loved it and think it may have been the best $7 I spent this year.
You will not be disappointed in this if you read between the lines
You can tell how much I loved it as I am still thinking about it today and enough to blog about it again.
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