Is Affiliate Marketing MLM?
Written by admin on July 17, 2008
Affiliate marketing works so well and seems to genuinely benefit both the site that is advertising as well as the site that is hosting, people tend to look for issues that just don’t exist. One of the ‘issues’ that has problematically effected affiliate marketing for years is the idea that it is a multi-level marketing scheme.
What is multi-level marketing?
It’s much better known as a pyramid scheme. In most traditional cases, pyramid schemes are illegal. They work by constantly signing up new people to sell a product that doesn’t actually exist. The people at the top of the pyramid make money be collecting a commission off of all the sales that happen below them in the pyramid structure.
In recent years, pyramid schemes have tried to gain a bit of respectability by offering legitimate products like phone cards that made the whole operation legal. But, in essence, pyramid schemes are still tainted by the perception that they are inherently dishonest and, unless you start a pyramid scheme and are at the top of the pyramid, you’re earning money for someone else. This also means the same for the randomizer websites that gained a little popularity in the late 90s and early 2000s.
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A Business With No Hassle
Written by admin on July 16, 2008
For many people, the lure of working from home is too strong to resists. Being able to set up your own hours, your own schedule and your own your speed is an extremely attractive way of living to most people.
But the thought of setting up your own web-based business can be a huge hassle. You have to have a web design, a product and then you have to sell it, ship it and handle customers. A much easier way to work from home and run a web-based business is called affiliate marketing.
Setting up a site that works as an affiliate marketing site isn’t really that hard. There are many different web-page building programs out there that walk you through every step of the process. Once you have a functional web site, you need to come up with a list of companies that will pay you to link to them. Many major websites like Amazon have an affiliate program that you can join and then get paid for simply linking to their website.
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Affiliate Marketing With No Money
Written by admin on July 15, 2008
Low initial investment you need to start earning money for yourself, can be in itself the perfect reason to take a stab at getting started in Affiliate marketing. All you really need is a website. There are so many FREE programs out there that will walk you though basic web design, even if you know nothing about it, you can be up and running in the span on a day. All that’s left at this point is finding an affiliate marketing program to subscribe to, preferably a two-tier affiliate program.
Here are a few tips…
There are tens of thousands of affiliate marketing programs you can subscribe to. The list is essentially limitless. An important piece of advice, is that if an affiliate marketing program wants you to pay money to sign up, you might want to think twice. Unless the initial investment is very small, there are many other choices that you could make. You see, almost all affiliate marketing programs are FREE!
Correction, never pay to sign up with an affiliate marketing program. Anything that requires an initial fee in the beginning isn’t worth it. All of the best and high paying affiliate programs are free to sign up, it’s designing a site that converts is where you need to spend the money.
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SERP Basics
Written by admin on July 15, 2008
Maybe the single most important part of running an affiliate website is understanding how people find your site and how to make your site stick out among the billion or so other sites on the Internet.
If you’ve been using the Internet for more than an hour or two, chances are you know what a search engine is. Websites like Google, Yahoo and Ask.com have developed into multi-billion dollar corporations in the last ten years.
Using search engines is extremely simple. You just go to the site, type in what you want to find and click enter. But how can you make sure that your site will be found? As it turns out, it’s all about the keywords.
When a site like Google or Yahoo searches the Internet to come up with results from a web query, it takes the number of keywords on a site into consideration. It also takes particular keywords or phrases into account, too. If someone is doing a search for “Book about Rolling Stones,” a site that has that phrase or a phrase similar to it 10 times is going to come up higher than a site that only mentions it once.
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Affiliate Marketing Mistakes
Written by admin on July 14, 2008
The biggest mistakes affiliates make
For those that are new to affiliate marketing, the whole thing can seem too good to be true. A real business from home that make you more then enough money to live on and you don’t even have to bother with products or shipping. Many new affiliate marketers simply jump into the business without properly researching it first and end up frustrated and angry that they aren’t making big time money within the first few days.
Here is a quickie guide to common mistakes that affiliate marketers make and how you can avoid them.
Patience is the key.
For even the best affiliate marketers, it takes time to build a customer base. The people that are legitimately making $10,000 a month in affiliate marketing spent years getting to that level, not days or even months. For some that are new to the trade, it seems like that level of success is an overnight thing, but it isn’t. Once you pick an affiliate program, after researching it ahead of time, of course, you need to stick with it.
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