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Make Residual Income Referring Web Hosting Customers


alien-serv-cheap-cpanel-hosting-affiliate-programI will start off by stating that yes, this is a company of mine!  It is not secret that I have been in the web hosting business for some time and I would love to have your business. The hosting accounts I offer run on the popular Cpanel system which allows for easy administration and has over 30 on click install applications.  It take about one minute to setup and install wordpress on my servers, this is an internet marketers dream is you ask me.  Can you imaging knocking out 10 new sites in just a few minutes? Well, if you are interested in how easy it can be, I offer a full 30 day trial, so you can see the difference and see if AlienServ Hosting is right for you.

How About The Money?

Yes, I know…I’m getting to it.  Well, I would love to have your business, so I apologize the short advertisement above.  Now, lets get down to business.  How can an every day, average Joe type guy make money with AlienServ Hosting?  It’s pretty simple actually.

If you are working with internet marketing, the chances are you talk to people who are interested in getting web site up and will inevitably need hosting right?  Well, tell them where they can go to get a great deal and we’ll give you cash every month.  If you have a website that deals with developing websites, building online business or anything web related, don’t worry there are plenty of banner adds, you can simply add to your page and refer people and get paid.  If you have a mailing list, yet another way to make easy referrals.  Facebook and Twitter both offer a great vehicle to show your friends and colleges a new host too.

I Will Pay You $5.00 Just To Join My Free Program!

yep, you read it right.  I will put $5.00 in your affiliate account, just for you signing up.  I want everybody to understand how serious I am about helping you make money, so come on over, join up and get five bucks just for showing me that you are interested in making money referring people to this easy to use hosting service.

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Why Become An Affiliate of AlienServ Hosting?

It comes down to how you choose to build your income.  If you like the one shot offers that may pay you 25 or 50 bucks a pop, don’t join my team! If you want to be able to build a consistent income and residual earnings, AlienServ’s affiliate program is just what you have been looking for.  The problem with the hosting affiliate programs that only pay you once, is that in all reality they are really low balling you.  The average customer, at least with AlienServ hosting sticks around for over 3 years and actually probably longer, that is how long we have been keeping track so far, so the average is probably much higher.  The point is that getting 25 dollars once is nice, but you can be getting paid again and again for years to come if you take advantage our affiliate program.

You won’t find a hosting affiliate program that pays like this any where else!  At least after looking around, I sure wasn’t able to.

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Traffic Tornado – Massive Amounts of Free Web Site Traffic


Tired of Having Tumble Weed Roll By Your Website?

Well this ain’t no western!

I am here to share a couple of excellent ways to totally blow your hosting account out of the water with a traffic tornado folks!

There are almost unlimited ways to generate mad traffic to your website and I know that some seem a lot more complicated than others especially if you are new to internet marketing are a sprouting webmaster.  Some of the best traffic generating methods in the world are absolutely free to do and just require a little elbow grease if you know what I mean.

If you want people lining up bumper to bumper to get in to your web site it’s going to take some work. I will not lie to you like some other guys and tell you, hey this is going to be easy and you can do it over night, because frankly that is not true.  If you want the Traffic Tornado to hit your site, you are going to have to work like a meteorologist, or maybe more like a steel worker, because I am not sure the weather man actually works?

What I will show you is…

Ways To Create New Visitors

Ways To Generate Visitors Within Your Market or Niche

Ways To Get Lasting Traffic and Search Engine Results

Real World Methods That Do Not Take A Rocket Scientist To Understand

What I will not show you is…

Lame Social Bookmarking Tricks That Boost Your Rankings Overnight and Then Disappear The Next Day

Black Hat Methods That Will Get Your Site Removed From Search Engine Results

Methods That Do Not Produce Real Visitors

Information Products To Make Me Money and Empty Your Wallet

Content Is King!

Yes, I Know You Have Heard It Before But…

It really is true, content rules the internet and it rules search engines, thus it must rule web site traffic. I know that sounds like a silly logic puzzle, but when it comes down to it, no matter what you are doing on the internet to drive traffic to your page, if your content is crap, it makes no difference anyhow.

Start with your website, start with what the experts call on page seo. This does not mean cramming the same keyword phrase into an article a thousand times, (if you think this is seo, stick your hand out so I can slap it). This means create an article that would make you excited to share it with somebody else if you found it. NEVER write your content for the search engines, ALWAYS write your content for the reader in mind.

If you write with the reader in mind, not only does it come off as such when it is read by others, but you are more likely to get some free PR (Press Release, not Page Rank) from your readers. If you can continue to crank out award winning content, seo (search engine optimization) will take care of itself, I Promise You!

If you have great information to share and you make it easy for people to add your content to popular social bookmarking sites, you won’t have to be “one of those guys” who goes and diggs his own content every day or stumbles every article he writes. And after all who wants to be One Of Those Guys anyways?

Article Marketing Works!

Article Marketing Has Been One Of The Most Powerful Traffic Generation Methods Since It’s Inception And Still Is.

There is no question about it, article marketing is among the strongest forces on the internet when it comes to driving long lasting streams of traffic to your web site. The basis of article marketing again is “Content Driven” however it is totally acceptable to submit the same article to a few or even hundreds of article directories.
This makes article marketing a lot less labor intensive and can put your content on some sites that already have some Google Page Rank so your content may receive attention from the search engines faster than on your own site.

Article Marketing In a Nutshell

Here is the breakdown and concept that drives article marketing and article directory sites.

US

-You as an article marketer create an article on the same or similar topic as the site you are wanting to drive traffic to.
-You post your article on many free article directories hopefully with page rank.
-You put a link to your site, using a keyword phrase that you would like folks to find you on Google from. The reverse thinking here is that google will see your keywords in your links on many sites and then rank your site higher in search results because of this, this is a strategy known to seo guys as “Link Building.”

Them

-The article directories get free content on their site, they get email addresses to market to, YOU.
-Website owners get to re-publish your article on their sites, but get this, they have to leave your link in the article to get rights to republish.
-Both article directory and web site re-publishers hope for some juicy adsense ads to show up next to your article to make money.

Now, this is not the fastest process, let me tell you. However you will NOT run across a longer lasting and self sustaining link building system. The links that are in your articles getting automatically spread all across the internet will give you a small trickle of direct traffic from click throughs on your links and if you mix up your keywords on your links and you write many good quality articles, this can dramatically raise your search engine standings and through time, this one method can get you on the almighty #1 spot of google!

Some Quick Useful Links:

Top 250 Article Directories Listed By Google Page Rank – This is a list compiled of many many article directories, listed by their google page rank, so start your way at the top and work your way down.

Submit Free Articles – This is a new article directory and yes, it’s mine, you got me! Oh, well now that the cats out of the bag, read this squidoo lens to see why you should be posting even though its brand spanking new: Why www.SubmitFreeArticle.com Is Different Than Other Article Directories

Social Sites Will Really Start The Storm Front!

We are Still Talking About Creating A Web Site Traffic Tornado Right?

All jokes aside, social websites are the single fastest growing sector of the internet to date. I don’t know if you are going to start the next You Tube, so for the time being, lets go with the famous “If You Can’t Beat Em, Join Em” theory made famous by Bugs Bunny, I think.I do not have 10 hours to write on this topic right now, so I am going to give you the steak and potatoes version for the time being.

Types of Social Sites:

Social Bookmarking Site: Digg.com StumbleUpon.com Mixx.com Reddit.com

These sites help grow massive traffic if your site is submitted to many, these sites are considered to be authority sites in googles eyes.  What does this mean? This means google has a crush on these guys and if your site shows up here, Google will share the love!  Never take advantage of these sites, you will most likely be punished by google, but if you use them correctly and you have posts that others decide to add to popular social bookmarking sites, you will see a huge difference in traffic over night! I have had sites getting about 60 unique visitors a day, get over a 1,000 unique visitors in one night, just because somebody thought enough of my content to post it on stumbleupon.com so remember again, content is king.

Social Media Sites: YouTube.com Viddler.com MetaCafe.com Flickr.com

In today’s media loving world, you cannot discount the power of social media sites!  These are strong traffic generating machines and they are truly a force to be rekoned with,when it comes to generating free traffic for any site…This is a big part of your web sites Traffic Tornado, so make sure you don’t leave this one out.  The biggest thing here is video, guys if you don’t want your face on the net, no problem there are free applications that will let you record your screen or even turn articles into video automatically, if you need help finding these just contact us and we would be happy to point you in the right direction.  You can make one video and distribute it to about 20 video sites using some other free software, this is one of the most powerful marketing methods to create a “Buzz” about your site, not only can you put the web address of the site you are driving traffic to in the discription of your video, Make  Sure You Put It On The Video Too!  There are some shifty people who will share your video without the description and hey, I have never worried about this, because in my videos, I say the web address and it is at the bottom of the video, so steal it share and I am still lovin It and I suggest you use the same approach if you want to drive mad crazy traffic to your website

Social Networking Sites: Facebook.com Myspace.com Twitter.com

Depending on what business, offer, program or web site you are trying to promote, this can be of the most important places to drive relevant traffic directly to your site and make connections with even more folks that can help you do this over and over.  The magical thing about social networking sites is 2 fold, one localization – you can find people that are physically close to you – if you run a physical business and are trying to get people to see your website that tells them about your brick and mortar business then, this is truly a goldmine.  Second, relationships – this sounds corny, cheesy or just plain old strange, unless you are in a mlm business.  However, relationships in business are very important, you never know when you are going to run across that one guy that knows a thousand that would love to visit your website or would love to help send more people to your site for you.

What Do I Need To Do On Social Sites?

-Be Social: That Is Why We Are Here, Talk To People, Lots
-Be Interesting: Nobody Cares What The Boring Guy/Gal Is Doing
-Share Stuff: Videos, Pictures, Links
-Find Groups and Join Them
-Post About Your Site AND Other Sites That Are Cool Too
-Invite Many Friends and Get a Few, Every Day
-Make Your Own Groups To Share More About Your Site
-Have Fun and Help Others When You Can

Well Here’s A Small Nugget Of Social Netowrking Gold For You Ping.FM And That’s No Joke!

Hey, since I just gave you some gold, how about following me and getting to know me on some social sites?

Find Nick Simpson On Social Sites

Thanks in advance!

Start Your Web Site Traffic Storm By Adding Your First Link Right Here

It’s Free and If People Like Your Site, It Will Stay At The Top Of The List!

The good thing about links on pages like this are that they are here forever! So put your link here and start your traffic tornado right now.

O.K. I won’t lie, it may only be like a small shower or thunder storm, but you have to start somewhere and sometime and what better place and time than right now and right here!

Just scroll to the bottom of the original traffic tornado lens and add your links to the  list!

Hubpages.com and Squidoo.com

O.K. I will admit, I just can’t decide where to put these sites, they are part social media and part article marketing and part paid blogging.  No matter what they are or what you want to call them, if you are not using these sites you are simply loosing a Sh#t Ton of Traffic.  Pardon my french guys, but really you will not find a better, easier and more profitable platform to drive The Traffic Tornado your way than using these sites.  You can’t loose and both of these sites have a warm community that is glad to show you how to get started and how to utilize their sites for your success.  So that being said I am going to stop typing before carpel tunnel really starts to set in and leave you with a list of some of my own squidoo lenses I have recently created.  They are all chocked full of more free information just like this and some may even be good enough to show you an example of what a successful post on one of these sites may look like :-)

Successful eMail Marketing Lenses

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Squidoo Lenses About General Internet Marketing Principals

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Hot Squidoo Lenses FIlled With Free Twitter Tips

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Twitter Tips and Tricks Twitter kick some serious butt, especially if you are an internet marketer.  We love using it’s lightning fast syndication to distribute our information to thousands of tweeps and we would love to show you how to do the same thing.  Thi…

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Basic Affiliate Marketing Strategy


Affiliate marketing is huge! To be successful with affiliate marketing you will need a strategy to successfully make money and create a stream of profit. We are going to discuss the basics of affiliate marketing here, of course there is more to know, but these tips and strategies will get any internet marketer off to a good start.

1. What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Well Affiliate Marketing is nothing more than a referral system that pays.

Affiliate marketing used to only be available for the biggest companies out there, but affiliate networks have opened up this opportunity to even the little guys on the web.

It works like this.  You go register to be an affiliate for a company, say Amazon.com and they will provide you with “Affiliate Links” to products on their site.  These links have  a code in them to track any sales and your account will be credited with a percentage of each sale that you refer.

Many companies will pay up to 50% of each sale, so you can see how this can be lucrative if you refer a lot of people to their products or services.

2. Find Affiliates Within Your Niche

It is very crucial that you find an affiliate program that is in the same market or niche that your website, blog or social sites are very interested in.  You can search for affiliates in your niche and then locate the top paying affiliates to use.  This will assure that you get the best response to your offers and that when somebody does buy, you get a good profit from each sale.

There is no use promoting a program that will only pay you one dollar per sale, unless you are selling hundreds a day.  I have always thought that cheaper items sell more often, but really if you are going to make money, lets shoot for some real money, not a dollar here and there.

Here are a couple to start with, you can of course search Google and find many more:

http://CJ.com

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com

http://www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork

3.  Never Spam, Ever!

This is common sense to some, but to many people spamming is what they call promotion.  You cannot just throw up your link every place that will let you and hope for sales.  That is not how affiliate marketing works.  In most cases you will get banned from sites, forums and other places you do this, so don’t waste your time doing it.

4. Promote Your Affiliate Program!

I think the #1 way to start promoting an affiliate program is to blog about it and similar interests.  Go to http://blogger.com and start a free blog today!  If you want a professional blog for cheap, we suggest AlienServ they provide cheap hosting and easy blog setup.

Blogging is a great way to get some true content out there and don’t be afraid to link to your affiliate program here, it is your site after all.

Another great way to start promoting your item, is to start writing articles on the topic and placing your link in the author bio, this takes time, but has proved to be very beneficial in my online efforts.

You can use many of the popular social bookmarking sites, like http://digg.com and http://stumbleupon.com to get more attention to your blogs.  I also suggest using RSS syndication to boost your blog traffic instantly.

Don’t forget your social networks.  Join some social networks and then get involved in groups that are about your topic or niche get to know people and let them know about your products and offers.

5. Earn!

Now that you have started your promotion, you should start getting some money coming in soon, if not, just turn up your marketing efforts and the results will come!  Affiliate marketing takes time and some effort, however it can payoff big time, if you put the work in.

Webmaster Business Plan is working on our own affiliate program and will have it available to the public soon, if you want to be notified when our affiliate network is up and running, simply sign up for our mailing list at the top right of this page.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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Free Website Traffic With Yahoo Answers!


Nick SimpsonIf you are looking for a new way to get some unique visits to your site, you need to get on yahoo answers.

Yahoo answers gives you the power to market to a direct niche of your choice, you can link to your own website as the source of information on every question you answer, thus giving you many back links on a highly ranked site. This is a very powerful way to market any online business, no matter what your product or service is.

You can help people out and get some massive traffic to your site all in one. Just watch the videos below to see how!

Free Website Traffic Using Yahoo Answers – Part 1

Free Website Traffic using Yahoo Answers – Part 2

Free Website Traffic using Yahoo Answers – Part 3

Don’t forget to take the time to really help people out on the site, the more helpful you are the more response you will get from your efforts.

Nick Simpson – http://WebmasterBusinessPlan.com

Getting Started – Planning


In the last post on “Getting Started” we talked about some questions that are helpful to ask yourself as you are putting together your “Webmaster Business Plan”.  If you went through and answered those questions, congratulations, you have taken the first step to making real money online!

If you did not you really should go back and read our article titled In The Beginning.

If you are having difficulty deciding on which program, product or service you are going to promote and build your business around then you may like the information we have here at the Webmaster Business Plan on “Finding Your Niche“.  We have a few articles that will help you focus your search on the most productive areas of internet business.

At the planning stage you should be thinking more about what strengths and weaknesses you have as a person and as a business.  In the beginning stages of planning, taking time to look at how long your short term and long term goals for  your internet business are actually going to take.  Many times talking to others who are marketing on the internet is a good way to find realistic time lines for many common projects.

You will also want to start thinking about what tasks that you foresee in your business will come up and which ones you may be able to tend to now.  Using forward thinking to attack problems before they arise will make your business start-up process much easier in the long run.

Many times I use the method described in Steven Covey’s 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Begin with the end in mind.  Thinking like this will really help you get yourself in the right mindset for success with any business that you may have choosen to pursue.  If you start with you making 60,000 dollars a year from your website, then rewind in your head from there, what type of website would you have to have to do that, what type of customer serive would you need, how many empoyees would be needed.

These type of questions are the answers that you need to focus on early on.  By thinking like this you can put methods and proceedures in place before you even start your business that will assure its success moving forward.

You will also want to invest in some filling folders as you are putting together your thought on different topics this is a great way to keep organized as you are going through such a massive amount of information and ideas.

I hope this gets you moving in the right direction.

To Success,

Nick Simpson