Can I Link Directly To Affiliate Pages On EzineArticles.com?
The short answer to that question is absolutely not. You cannot add a direct affiliate link to any product or service on the ezinearticles.com web site. This is actually in direct violation with their guidelines and your article will not be approved for publishing. However, you most definitely can add a link to a domain that directs customers straight over to your affiliate product or service. This may sound a little confusing, but this high powered article web site really has no problem with you sending people to sales pages as long as there is content and they simply do not want thousands of people linking in to same site with a bunch of junk links and understandably so.
You Say I Can Link Directly To Affiliate Sites On EzineArticles.com So How Do I Do It?
The resolution to this issue is using a little known server trick called domain forwarding. You may have heard of this and just never known what it was or what it did. There are many different things you can do with a domain name. You can point it to name servers for hosting it yourself, you can park it and try to collect some revenue from ads or in this case you can forward your name to the affiliate link you are trying to promote. This action can be done by going into your registrar and setting up a domain forward. Most registrars will also allow you to mask the domain too.
This allows you to forward something like www.buycoolstuff.com to www.coolstuffsite.com/members/?aff_id=953 and when a visitor goes to your link they see the content delivered from the long address, but they will only see your short address in the address bar of their browser.
Why Does Linking To Affiliate Pages Directly Help?
This is a great way for affiliate marketers to send the readers of their content directly to the page that is going to pay them. However, depending on your own marketing plan it may be more important to build up your own web site’s popularity in the search engines. This is totally up to you, but either way now you know to add your affiliate link to ezinearticles.com without getting your article thrown in the trash. Hopefully this concept helps you grow your business and put some extra profit in your pocket!
To Success,
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WBP Podcast – Micro Niches Suck
Well, yes I know, that is a strong statement. I am simply tired of good people getting taken advantage of by all these “Micro Niche” information products as the product owners get rich. I have seen to many people wait to get rich from these little niche systems that don’t work, so I had to make this podcast!
If you want to learn why micro niches are a waste of your time and money, click the play button below and listen to what I have to say.
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:
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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