Make an affiliate blog in 10 minutes!
Yesterday I found something pretty neat on the net. Thanks for that video Ross! Practically it’s a guide to making an affiliate blog in 10 minutes. Yeah I know, sounds awesome. And it is.
note: The following technique is about using ClickBank (an affiliate program), but it can work with any other, especially with MoreNiche. I’ve also added a text version of the video below to serve you as a step-by-step guide and it has links, too!
The text version
Part 1: Introduction
[There is a blogger dashboard on-screen]
“I’m going to talk to you today about setting about a blog for affiliate marketing. Now, for an affiliate marketing blog I use blogger, hosted on their site. The reason behind that is because there is literally no expense. If they (or you) decide to remove your blog, it’s no big deal, you can set up a new one the next day under either the same account or even a new one. So, this is the new blogger,”
[shows you around the interface with the mouse cursor]
“brand new with all kinds of new changes and this is their layout out there. We can pick a new template, edit the html, choose fonts and colors, but the page elements is what’s important. The main mistake that people make with an affiliate marketing blog is to include things like.. adsense! Adsense is a problem so we’re going to remove it right now.”
[removes the 'adsense' page element by clicking edit on the element itself]
“The reason adsense is a problem is it gives people somewhere to click outside of your affiliate links. You don’t make much money from adsense, but if someone buys a product from your affiliate blog that will, inturn, give you much more money than the adsense to click. Some people would like to combine the two or utilize both. I recommend not using adsense on your blog if you’re going for affiliate sales. So, I have my Squidoolands here.”
[note: Squidoo is a "Fast, free and easy way to build a page on a topic you're passionate about". You register on the site and write on a topic you know about. Then you can import it to blogger or just keep it posted on their site. The point is that by adding a Squidoo lens to your site adds more content and allows you to move around traffic from your Squidoo page to your affiliate blog.]
[shows his Squidoo page]
“I have a Squidoolands for every marketing blog that I have. What it does is that it lets you filter traffic from Squidoo to your blog and your blog to Squidoo where you have.. affiliate.. links!”
[note: somehow the way this guy talks sometimes really entertains me. No offence.]
“Nice, easy and very simple. This lens is not gigantic at this point, shortly it will be filled with videos, so if you wanna learn more about affiliate marketing you really will be worth your while to visit it.”
[goes back to his blogger dashboard]
Part 2: My secret weapon
“This blog is also empty. What I’m going to do is show you one of my secret income producing tools. The URL here is RSS feeds generator.com. What I did was put in some keywords and my Click bank URL and it gave me RSS feeds. So, I’m gonna take this RSS URL copy it, go back to blogger and add an RSS feed. Here we go. This will show five items. It randomizes the items, so they change.. naah.. let’s change the title. Now, each of those links has my Click Bank ID built right in. So, if they click on those links they are going to the product and I will get paid if they purchase. If it’s the top-selling products it should have a decent sale-through rate.”
Part 3: Driving traffic to your blog
“So, then you have to get people to your blog. There are few things you can do to do that. This web site is Pingoat.com. It’s a huuge, huuuge pinging service. They have a ton of websites they can ping. So, you put your information - your blog URL, your RSS feed, which comes with every blog and Squidoolands. So, you ping and you’re good. The other one that I always use is Feed Shark. Again a ton of options. Some of them cross-over, but pinging twice in a row will just not accept your ping, so it can’t really hurt you at all. So, THAT works.”
Part 4: Getting a lot of backlinks FAST
“The next web site we need to see is.. Submit ‘em now. This is a Firefox plugin. Absolutely free. You click right here, it takes you to the download, you upload it to Firefox. It has 113 RSS feed directories and blog directories built right-in. They are easy to use. You fillout some basic information about your blog, and you’re gonna go. It’s very simple to build a ton of great backlinks to your blog and your Squidoolands. Your Squidoolands comes with an RSS feed as well, so utilize that, treat your Squidoolands like a blog. Now you are filtering traffic between the two sites the key is to tag them differently. Use different keywords, slightly different of course, you still want them to be descriptive or otherwise your traffic is garbage.”
Part 5: Posts
“So, when you post to your blog your posts should between 4 and 600 words and talk about affiliate marketing products or whatever niche you’re in. Now, I use ClickBank, but you don’t have to. You can use things like Commision Junction or literally anything you can think of. Linkshare, Share-a-Sale.. they’re all great options, so you can create a blog in whatever you have interest in. Keep that in mind - you can earn money online , never sell any products and never deal with any customer service. It’s really a very nice, clean business to get into[amen!]. So, take my advice and enjoy.”
Well that’s it. Better get down to work you guys!
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