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hjm218
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:49 am
Post subject: Questions From A Newbie - Re:- Marketing Affiliate Programs
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Hi all,
I'm new to all this, so I hope my questions don't sound
too stupid. 
I don't have any products, or a website, so I'm gonna
have to promote affiliate programs.
1. Is it best to promote individual programs, or one of
those 'store front' type sites which contains a large number
of programs all on one site ?
2. If you want to submit your affiliate programs to a
search engine, can you do this by using the affiliated
url/link itself, or do you have to use a different domain
name ? .......For example, if my affilated url was....
....hop.clickbank.net/?trigger/widgets, can I use
this for the search engines ?
3. When submitting your site to the search engines,
it's the contents of the pages that's important (is that
right ?)....Does it make any difference what the content
of your url is ?
4. I'm assuming that search engines are the best way
of promoting something on the internet - am I right ?
......if so, what would be the next best way ?
5. Can anyone recommend an idiots step by step guide
that I could follow ?........something that even I would
understand ? (no such thing eh ?lol)
Your help and advice would be appreciated.
Thanks for listening to me.
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Debs
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:34 am
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Cathy, I strongly recommend you review some the threads on the forum in depth.
All of your questions are answered already and you have choices to make based upon your budget and personality.
As far as the SE's go, submitting your aff links won't do you any good as they will index the merchant page, and consider it duplicate content.
I recommend you start with the Affiliate Masters Course which is in the Top 10 list for Allan (the site owner) here:
http://www.associateprograms.com/search/favourite.shtml
There simply isn't a better free course anywhere on how to get started, and started right, than that one.
Debs
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AllanGardyne
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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:01 am
Post subject: Re: Questions From A Newbie - Re:- Marketing Affiliate Progr
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Hi Cathie, Welcome to the forum! You'll find lots of helpful people here.
Affiliate marketing can be a little confusing to start with, but you're on the right track now you've found this friendly forum.
| Quote: | 1. Is it best to promote individual programs, or one of
those 'store front' type sites which contains a large number
of programs all on one site ? |
The big problem with those "store front" type sites is that you end up with a site which is similar to the sites owned by thousands of other affiliates. I strongly recommend that you learn how to create your own web site site.
You really need to create something unique, and work on building a reputation so that people will trust you.
| Quote: | 2. If you want to submit your affiliate programs to a
search engine, can you do this by using the affiliated
url/link itself, or do you have to use a different domain
name ? .......For example, if my affilated url was....
....hop.clickbank.net/?trigger/widgets, can I use
this for the search engines ? |
Submitting an affiliate link to the search engines is, unfortunately, a waste a time. They already have millions of pages and don't want to clutter search results with thousands of affiliate links. For best results, you need a unique, useful, interesting web site of your own - something that adds value to the Internet. Then the search engines will love you.
| Quote: | 3. When submitting your site to the search engines,
it's the contents of the pages that's important (is that
right ?) |
Yes, but also important are the quality of the sites which are linking to you. It helps if you get links from sites in your industry which have many sites linking to them. And they'll want to link to you only if you create an interesting, useful site. See how we keep coming back to that
| Quote: | Does it make any difference what the content
of your url is ? |
A little. For example, one of my assistants created a site called cheap-computers-guide.com . When other sites link to it, they usually use "cheap-computers-guide.com" as the words (the anchor text) in the link. Search engines can "read" those words and that helps Rupert's site rank well for the phrase "cheap computers".
See the Search Engine Optimization section of the message board for more details on that.
| Quote: | 4. I'm assuming that search engines are the best way
of promoting something on the internet - am I right ?
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I believe so, because the traffic is free. All it costs is your own time.
| Quote: | | ......if so, what would be the next best way ? |
The best way is the way that suits YOUR interests and skills. For one person is might be setting up an affiliate program and having thousands of affiliates promote your site.
For someone who is good at selling, it might be buying advertising on Google's AdWords and pay-per-click search engines, such as the ones reviewed on http://www.PayPerClickSearchEngines.com .
For you, it might be submitting articles to article banks, email newsletters and web sites in your industry, or writing articles in email discussion lists.
Those techniques work brilliantly if you're good at writing.
Some people prefer submitting posts to forums - but that can be VERY time consuming, a bit like being a wage slave, I reckon.
For another person, the best way to promote something on the Internet might be getting free publicity OFFline - in newspapers and magazines.
For me, I believe the best way is to concentrate on creating really useful web sites that people talk about and recommend to their friends. That way, you let other people do the marketing for you.
(I'm trying to make this reply so useful you'll think, "Wow! This is a fabulous site," and tell your friends about it.)
| Quote: | 5. Can anyone recommend an idiots step by step guide
that I could follow ?........something that even I would
understand ? (no such thing eh ?lol) |
The best free guide, as Debs, says, is Ken Evoy's Affiliate Masters Guide. It's superb. Print it out and read it carefully several times. That will get you started on the right track.
I've just added a link to it on the main page of my web site.
Hope that helps.
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