Affiliate marketing book

I have decided to invest $20 into an affiliate marketing book,one that I found on one of those late nite infomercials. I have always said that I would not spend any money on this but, I am finding it harder & harder to figure this out on my own. I started promoting my zippo lighters affiliate about 3 weeks ago, I have yet to make a sale. I tried promoting thru online classified ads (all of them free to use) as well as directly submitting my affiliate into free search engine submissions,I did read that once you have submitted your site to a search engine it could take up to 6 months to be crawled (or included in their search engine) I am so glad that when I first started this site that's the very first thing that I did.
Anyways,I am not complaining yet lol........ I know that I have put many hours into this so,of course I am hoping that it pays off. I have heard thru a few affiliate forums that dating sites seem to be a good niche. So I am going to start promoting a few dating sites as well as my zippo's. I have added a banner to one of the dating sites that seems to be picking up speed.Back to what this entry was all about, I will let you know after I get my affiliates marketing book if it helped or not. One thing that ALL affiliate marketer's say is true it takes some time & effort to make it with Affiliate Programs. Email me directly if you have any tips or tricks to share I will place them here. As always if you know of any 2 tier affiliate programs please feel free to email them to me so they can be added.

xoxoxoxo Cass

Hey there,
I am now ready to start trying to get traffic to my site,I know one of the hardest things to do,here are a few ways I found online to drive traffic to your site. I am going to try them out tonite and the next few weeks and let you know how they seemed to work,til then here they are...............


Paid Banner (CPM + CPC) and Paid Text-


Banner ads you can pay for as CPC(cost per click) or CPM(cost per every thousand times banner is displayed) usually placed in a high traffic area on a site that causes visitors of that site to see it and visit your site.


Paid Text advertising is similar only the ad is in the form of a text link usually off to the sides (or at the top in search engines like Yahoo! And Google) If you are going to use this kind of advertising make sure you pick the sites you place your ads on carefully (popular sites will be expensive but you should get more clicks and smaller sites will be cheaper, but often with little or no results)


E-mail lists �


Programs or services that will get your link out to many different internet users. These can be good if you have a very widely used type of product. The negative to these lists is that with new e-mail features often these types of messages get marked as spam and are disregarded by the intended recipient.


Free Traffic Generators �


Traffic generators like Traffic Swarm can be a great way of just getting people to go to your site. There are some that you can pay for that will guarantee you a certain number of visitors for a set price. Problem is that most of the people that are now visiting your site aren't really interested in your product or service. You might get one or two sales from extremely impulsive buyers but the rest only visit to earn credits or something of the sort from the home site. If you're going to rely on this type of advertising make sure your visitor/buyer ratio is already high for your site.


Link Exchange �


This is by far the best way of driving quality traffic to your site.. if you do it right! Before you even THINK about trying to exchange links with other sites there's a few things you should know...


1. Download the Google toolbar � This way you will be able to tell the page rank of any pages you want to exchange links with (higher the PR the higher in the search ranking which means more traffic)


2. Exchange links with only pages of PR 4 or higher. It will help your page more by having a few PR4+ pages linking to you than 10000 pages with no page rank.


3. Build your content FIRST! Don't expect E-Bay to display your link just because you asked them nicely! Webmasters want to know they are linking to a quality site with a good amount of substance. Focus on building your site before you ask people to link to it.


4. Try to exchange links with other sites that have the same key words as yours. Ie: There's no reason to exchange links with a flower web site if you sell telephone service

Hope some of these work for you if your trying to drive traffic to your wensite.
xoxoxo Cass

Hey there,
Just wanted to let ya know that I added 4 more 2 tier affiliate programs today.....
Duty Free Depot = online smokes,listed under odds& ends
Q!T Sunglasses = listed under clothing & acces.
Dreams Manifesto = listed under self help
Gifts With Humanity = listed under gifts
Enjoy them !!!!
xoxoxo Cass

picking my affiliates

Hey there,
I've been working my butt off on this site lol.... Now I am gonna venture off into another direction,I'm going to pick two of my own affiliate programs listed & start promoting them,I haven't done this in years.The first time I tried it was 4 yrs ago,I used adult friend finder and I did make some decent money,I always wonder why I stopped anyways,I am gonna try it again with 2 new products & see how it goes. I will keep you updated as to what I choose & how it went. If anyone is following along don't worry I will continue to add new affiliate programs here as I find them.

xoxoxo Cass


Ps..... the only non 2 tier affiliate program on this site is the zippo one I just added to this blog,I added it because its the coolest program that I have found so far,I do believe it will be one of the ones that I choose to promote myself.

Hey there,
I just added 3 more programs Posh (gorgeous purses) & Shop East & West (a HUDGE variety store)
I also added a lil chat area at the bottom of this page,I thought fellow affiliates wouldn't mind chatting it up with each other. Enjoy.....

xoxo Cass

hey there,
today I added 14 more 2 tier programs.They are coming fewer & further between. I'm getting a lil frustrated because I don't think I have signed anybody up to anything yet,keep your fingers crossed for me. As with everything they say you get what you put forth,lets hope thats true cause Ive been working day & night on this here blog lol.....
Tomorrow I'm gonna work on getting more visitors to my site,wish me well because I truly have no idea what I am doing,I bring a total new definition to the word newbie.
All the new programs I added today are on the sidebar,no banners,they are usually the first ones in each category,but dont worry every single program is active.
xoxoxo cass

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