Zardt! -Just posting the odd and sundry IM related thing that got my attention.... read it - or don't.
Search at business owned by convicted tax evader Steve Renner is part of a worldwide fraud probe.
Read more: Fed's Raid Internet Marketing Firm for Suspected Ponzi Fraud
http://www.startribune.com/local/85054067.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU
Press release from company: iNetGlobal™ releases statement in response to U.S. Government Raid on Minneapolis office
This site is a trip.
Excerpt from: The idea for MenWhoLookLikeKennyRogers.com began as an
If you don't already have a Commission Junction account, I suggest you
sign up right away. Not only will you have countless advertisers to
search and sign up for, you can start monetizing your internet time
BEFORE you have your blog/site fully functional.
I was able to add the cool banner/link above to HotTopic's site, as an Affiliate - automatically approved - prior to the completion of my applied for blog.
So, if you're serious about getting started in Affiliate Marketing, why not try Commission Junction at: http://www.commisionjunction.com.
Gretchen
Tips from Twitter SEO guy - @Tony_Mandarich
The Importance of A Landing Page! |
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The landing page is the page that appears when a potential customer clicks on an advertisement or a search engine result link; it is the page they “land on”. This page is an extension of the advertisement or the link and is optimized with relevant keywords and phrases for the purpose of being indexed by the search engines. Think of your landing page as the front door of your business. It needs to be easy to open, inviting and display a friendly look. As you sell products or services, your landing page invites readers in to browse. The following are some considerations for you to think about as you construct your "front door". |
Read the rest of this article from Tony here:
http://www.mandarich.com/SEO-ARTICLES/landing-page-tips.html
From: CopyBlogger; Three Killer Content Strategies for Building
Affiliate Marketing Assets
by Brian Clark
Article from Linda Buquet of 5 Star Affiliate Forum
Craigslist Now Warns About Affiliate Scammers and Tells Users
Zardt! No attempt at launching a new career is complete without
attendance at mega conferences.
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Affiliate Summit West, the premier affiliate marketing conference, is taking place January 17-19, 2010 in Las Vegas. This three day conference includes an exhibit hall with affiliate merchants, vendors, and networks, as well as multiple tracks of educational sessions covering the latest trends and information from affiliate marketing experts. We will have two keynote speakers for Affiliate Summit West 2010: Dr. Robert Cialdini and Brian Clark. Where: Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas |
MARLBOROUGH, 11/25/2009 – People who search by clicking the button on Google’s homepage are fifty percent more likely to go on to click an ad than people who search by any other Google means, according to online ad network Chitika. The study, which looked at just over 11 million impressions, shines a light on the possibility and importance of being able to predict web users’ activity.
When comparing the different types of traffic that come through their advertising network, the researchers at Chitika compared the different types of Google traffic – people who click on the “Google Search” button, people who search by hitting the enter key, people who search from browser toolbars, etc. While the overall clickthrough rate for the entire Google-searching sample was 0.95%, the people who searched by clicking on the search button at Google.com clicked ads at a 1.56% rate, over half again higher.
| Type | Impressions | Clicks | CTR |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Google Searches | 10,307,849 | 97,440 | 0.95% |
| Google Button Clicks | 767,209 | 11,934 | 1.56% |
But the question becomes, why such a high disparity? Why are people who type in their query and hit enter so much less likely to click on an ad than someone who performs a search differently through the same website?
“Sophistication is my guess,” says Rand Fishkin, SEO guru and CEO of SEOMoz.org. ”Hitting enter means you’re not moving your hands away from the keyboard and likely indicates a more tech-savvy (and hence, click-sensitive) individual.”
So it appears that advertising click rates are inversely proportional to the “tech-savviness” of the people receiving the ads. By defining a user’s tech-savviness, it’s possible that ad networks going forward will be able to target better and better, driving revenue for websites while showing less ads.
About Chitika
Chitika, Inc., is a search-based online advertising network, leading the way in intent-based advertising and search engine insights. Chitika provides publishers with an innovative way to monetize search engine traffic, and advertisers a new way of generating leads with clear consumer intent. Wint over 60,000 sites and 2 billion monthly impressions, the Chitika network is the pulse of the online world. Through research and targeting, Chitika continually evolves its image as “the ad network that knows when not to show ads.” For more information, visit chitika.com
Is Your FTC Disclosure Policy Ready? December 1st Deadline is Here
Linda Buquet, 5 Star Affiliate Board Leader
Zardt! and Hello to all my earth friends.
I've been really busy learning more and more each day about what's(Someone else owns and distrubutes product or service, but they pay you a referral fee based on the sale.)
Examples: ClickBank, Amazon Stores, eBay Partnership Network EPN
(You produce, market, process payment and deliver end product)
Examples: eBay (Ok, you don't handle payment -but you handle everything else)
Handmade Jewlrey Site
eBook Site (you write it, market it direct to customers, take their money and then send it.)
(You get paid for delivering eye-balls to advertisers)
Popular vendors Adsense, Chikita
or Direct Advertisers who contract with you to pay for Constant Space (Billboard) on your site.
Start researching any one of these strategies and you'll be amazed at just how much is going on in the online revenue producing arena.
But, I knew, when I started 4 days ago, that the primary thing I needed to get going was my Twitter following first and foremost.
I purchased the program Tweet Adder and have found it very helpful in adding a steady flow of new followers. Although - unlike some, it's taken me four days to get to 230 followers, not two days as others have managed with the same tool. It's true, that I've been holding back on the number of new followers I allow the system to grab in a day, because as we say where I come from, "Zardt! No point in pushing the moons!" -
And that's the message I'm learning. Many people get into 'trying to make money on the internet' by signing up for the get-rich-quick type programs that promise $100,000 in six months. Or they 'wing it' setting up websites and affiliate accounts but never make any serious effort to driving enough targeted traffic to get any real results.
In the end (which sometimes comes only after a few feeble months of effort) they give up and move onto the next big thing. Making money on the internet, I'm learning, takes a lot of work, research, application, effort, blood, sweat and tears - not to mention some upfront and ongoing expenditures.
Referral Based Marketing
My little experiment with ClickBank has been a case in point. 4 Days, probably 100 unique ClickBank tweets (per Cligs count - although clickbank shows 2 clicks), ~75 human hop page page impressions according to Cligs, but ZERO sales according to ClickBank. Now, I'm not complaining. If I can get 75 views with less than 200 followers, imagine what would happen if I had 1000 followers, or 10,000! The likelihood that someone would click on and buy one of those promoted ClickBank products eventually is pretty high. And that's perhaps the reason why there are so many Twitter users, often with multiple Twitter IDs doing nothing but tweeting ClickBank products every 5 minutes via Twitterfeed or other API. If it's a numbers game and you can automate the delivery and you don't have to pay to 'advertise' on Twitter, and you have a big enough following - then the potential is definately there. Zardt!
I must say, however, that promoting ClickBank products makes me want to take a shower. Not because I'm trying to cool down any sort of sexual arousal, but because some of the product marketing messages make me feel dirty. Some of the ClickBank promotions are just so fucking cheezy. Worst of all - the majority of the hop-ad pages have one or two of those annoying grey boxes that pop-up and stop you from closing out of a file, when you try to click away, saying something like WAIT, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE?.
Whenever I come across one of those sites, I immediately feel like I'm being scammed, and worry that my home url will be changed to a porn site.
In fact, it was while I was reviewing the hop-ad pages of some ClickBank vendors I wanted to place into my automated Tweet Adder feed, when all of a sudden, a new Gray Box popped up, scaring the Zardt out of me!
There was nothing wrong! It was just an exit box trying to scare me into ordering something. Scummy!
So, I'm getting a little doubtful about whether or not promoting ClickBank products is a path I want to focus too much effort on. Which brings me to another referral based arena I'm not personally going to consider, but who am I to judge if you want to go that route? On the forum WickedFire, you'll find the Black Hat discussions around how to make money referring to/ and or making Porn, Gambling, Dating, eMail spamming, and other sin-based or questionable money making strategies.
Affiliate marketing is huge and you can even go to the Affiliate Summit and on Cruises, or hook up with multi-million-dollar gurus. At the end of the day, however, the tried and true technique for creating wealth (or in my case one day's space rations) is to have a method to delivery eye-balls to advertisers, or credit card purchasers to product and service sellers.
And that's where Blogging and Website SEO comes in. All of the 3 primary strategies above either require or work much better with some sort of traffic generating internet presence. I'm not an SEO expert, nor a web designer, but I did learn how to make a basic blog using wordpress. Speaking for myself, I want to focus my real energy on blogging. And that is exactly what I've been working on these last two days. Creating some content rich and intriguing blogs will attract eye-balls. And from these hopefully targeted viewings I'll be able to generate revenue either from PPC revenue, direct ad sales, or sale of referral products.
In the meantime, my Twitter account is growing and when the new blogs are up and running, I'll use Twitter to get the word out and start generating interest. Oh, btw, - I got a few more adsense clicks on one of my already up and running blogs with some Adsense ads, which brings my new gross internet revenue to:
Day 4 - ResultsSo - Earthlings. This is the real deal. No hype. Just the facts. Subscribe to my blog to follow my progress and feel free to comment or ask me any questions. If I can help - I will.
Gretchen Grimble Alien Nerd Girl on a Mission
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