Increase Your Affiliate Revenue

January 10, 2009 by mr.seo · Comment
Filed under: PPC Advertising 

The only goal of affiliate marketers is to increase the sales and income from affiliated products. I mean the reason you’re working as an affiliate is to make money online. Here are few tips on how to increase your affiliate income.

1. Start your own online newsletter asap. A newsletter is an important marketing tool that will help you promote your affiliate products and also stay in touch with your visitors. When you send out a newsletter place ad boxes to your affiliate products in the content.

2. Create product review pages in order to promote the products. Product reviews are proven to be very effective in pre-selling affiliated products. This is because customers read reviews of products before they actually commit to buy them.

3. Start on your natural SEO to get more visitors to your site from search engines. For additional help on SEO browse this website.

4. Consider spending some money to promote your affiliate website or specific product landing pages. PPC is certainly one of your options which can be quite successful if you’re dealing with niche products or services. If that’s the case then your targeted ads will not cost you that much and your ROI can be quite big.

5. Try to use incentives to boost your online sales. For example, instead of offering a 25% discout, you can offer your visitors cashback when they make a purchase. This type of marketing incentive will be much more effective because people love to receive money.

6. Update your affiliate website regularly to build an image of an expert in your niche. This should also help your search engine traffic.

What’s SEO and why should I care?

November 17, 2008 by admin · Comment
Filed under: SEO Techniques, Search Marketing 

SEO stands for search engine optimisation. This means optimising a website, often by cleaning the code or changing certain aspects of the site to make its content and structure search engine friendly and easily accessible to search engine robots (also known as spiders or crawlers), as well as visitors. This is a single most important factor of web presence, because what good is a website if people can’t find it on the web. So you can build the greatest website the world has ever seen but if it’s not properly indexed by the search engine robots not many people will see your site, unless you spent considerable amount of money on offline marketing.

SEO is still the cheapest and the most effective method of marketing your website and in result advertising your products or services to a wider audience. The reason it is most effective is because in comparison to other forms of marketing it is a ‘pull strategy marketing’ rather than ‘push strategy marketing’. Pull marketing is when people search for the information that you provide and are ready to learn about (or even buy) your products/service at that precise moment, and push marketing is more like TV/radio ads where people are usually not looking for the product/service being advertised at that specific moment. Needless to say ‘pull marketing’ converts a lot better.

The best thing about SEO is that you don’t really need any money to do it. Of course if you have a budget in place it helps, but it is not a must! Money helps in an aggressive type of SEO campaign but there are many other creative ways to accomplish the same goals without spending a fortune.