Winning Tactics For Niche Affiliate Marketing.

Winning Tactics For Niche Affiliate Marketing.

I don’t know a thing about you but I’ll bet that you have come across numerous niche affiliate marketing products, free subscriptions email requests, hundreds of articles and self proclaiming internet marketing gurus promising to reveal to you the number one secret that they have been keeping and hiding to themselves, which according to them has enabled them to discover untapped niches that have consequently earned them thousands of profits.

What a nuisance.

An even more disturbing trend is the recent rise of hundred of courses being offered over the internet prophesying to teach you niche affiliate marketing tactics that turn out to be the same old recycled techniques that for those of us who have been around a little bit long enough - know everything about.

When it comes to learning and mastering affiliate marketing the right way, without wasting your money and time, there are only two courses that have helped hundreds of other successful affiliate marketers and can help you too, namely:

• Affiliate master course by Ken Evoy.

• Super affiliate handbook by Rosalind Gardner.

Both authors are recognized, respected and successful internet affiliate marketers that know what they are talking about. Why? Because these are individuals who have actually been very successful with affiliate marketing and are not selling theories or recycling same old information that has become so common.

Let me tell you my friend, my story is no different than yours.

I set out in search of success. I knew there were thousands of affiliate marketers who were earning a reasonable living on the internet and I was determined to be one of the few hundred that made it big with internet marketing business.

Please allow me to mention five simple points that are relevant to niche affiliate marketing. I will do that in form of my own personal journey.

In this journey, which is now getting close to two years, there are five very important points that I have learned about internet affiliate marketing business and more so about niche affiliate marketing:

In a minute I will introduce you to a free affiliate marketing course that will help you greatly.

How do I know so! You may ask?

Simple, it’s because this is the same course that I have used and continue to use to master affiliate marketing business.

Alright, here are the five points to take note of:

Point number 1. When you are a beginner and starting out, affiliate marketing as a mean to earn a full time income is hard and can be very frustrating. Contrary to what most people might make you believe, that it is so easy and can literary run on autopilot; those I tell you are pure lies. The truth though is the opposite.

Point number 2. There are hundreds of self proclaimed affiliate marketing gurus whose only job is to make you believe that they know everything and that you know nothing while their main agenda is to do their best to sell you all their useless informational products and software’s that you actually don’t need.

Point number 3. You need to be in control and take charge of your affiliate marketing business. You will have a higher success rate with your niche affiliate marketing endeavors if you learn to research, weight the options, choose and decide and then focus in making and bringing your desires to pass.

Point number 4. Stop wasting time. Please stop wasting time. I cannot help but to repeat myself here. Hundreds of affiliate marketers spend hundreds of hours chasing and seeking after activities and projects that are totally not related or can help them boost their particular niche or line of business.

How many times have you seen affiliate marketers trying to get to digg’s homepage or get stumbled on, only to realize later after they achieve such an accomplishment that the time and effort spend did not bring any positive desired results for their affiliate marketing business!

Point number 5. Take the risks by staying safe with time tested programs, software’s and niche affiliate marketing training materials that have stood the time-tested criterion of providing positive results and that you can actually hand pick successful affiliate marketers who are proud users and beneficially of such products and services.

Niche Affiliate Marketing Training Course.

Affiliate master course is a comprehensive time tested niche affiliate marketing training course that will introduce you to the whole aspect of affiliate marketing like no other course can do. Here is what you could learn by taking the free affiliate master course:

• How to develop your site concept.

• How to build affiliate theme sites of your choice.

• Comprehensive niche affiliate marketing course.

• How to brainstorm and discover hundreds of profitable niches.

Affiliate Master Course is Free.

I see thousands of new affiliate marketers cough hundreds of dollars trying to learn niche affiliate marketing techniques and yet unfortunately due to lack of knowledge on their part or failure to do a comprehensive search, they do not recognize that the best affiliate marketing course on the internet is available totally free to them.

Oh yeah, that is right. Affiliate master course is totally free.

Now inside start to discover techniques on how to attract targeted traffic by creating unique content that naturally causes your visitors to click through your affiliate links.

Learn how you can take this a step further and master workable techniques on how you can create multiple forms and stream of income that will generate and earn you income in months and years to come.

I simple cannot think of any other niche affiliate marketing course that will extensively help you to master affiliate marketing and teach you exactly how to establish your own affiliate marketing business as much as the affiliate master course would do. To get started just download the free affiliate master course here.

New Feature on Google Keyword Tool

I’m sure by now you have heard about the new feature that has been added to Google keyword tool. Previously the tool used to return only little bar graphs on their search results.

With the new feature that has been added, you now get real numbers whenever you conduct a search using the newly redesigned Google keyword tool. Here is a picture snap shot of how the results actually look like.

So why is there so much excitement in town about this new feature?

• Google’s keyword tool now showing search volume numbers

• Search volume comes to Google keyword tool & live search updates

1.) For one, with the new added feature, the timing has never been perfect considering that Yahoo Overture tool has finally been put to rest.

2.) Secondly, by including numbers on its result instead of bar graphs, the tool has become an even more useful source of data for conducting basic keywords research.

3.) Finally, it’s still totally free. This of course comes in handy for those affiliate marketers or any other webmaster that is operating under a shoe string budget and recognizes the importance of using keywords in any of their online campaigns.

• The obvious question then, is now what!

• Is there any more need for paid keyword tools?

I belief this is going to be a major debate question for the next couple of months as people become more familiar and get adapted to the new added feature on Google keyword tool.

I bet by now most affiliate marketers are already on it trying to test and compare the results generated by Google keyword tool against their own keyword toolkit.

Ken Evoy has published an interesting post entitled how to use Google’s new search volume data. On this post he talks about 10 key points to have in mind as you go about using or testing the new feature.

This post is particularly helpful to those of us who are proud users of SBI and most important to any serious affiliate marketer keen on succeeding with affiliate marketing business.

Internet marketing landscape changes so fast, there is always and will always be new features, new tools, new technologies, new software’s and just about anything new coming out each and every single day. 

But success will always be defined by setting up goals and remaining focused, persistent and adopting the 80/20 rule while having a blind eye to all the internet noise, so I think!

Long Tail and Affiliate Marketing Business.

Long Tail and Affiliate Marketing Business.

This morning I posted an article titled is the long tail concept by Chris Anderson flawed in reaction to an article on the Harvard business review website. On this post I’d like to continue on and discuss more on how the Long Tail Concept can be beneficial and relevant to affiliate marketing business.

Let me start off by stating that if there is two thing that most of the internet affiliate marketers go wrong, then it could be the following two:

1.) Assuming or not carrying out and using the right combination of keywords.

2.) Failing to break down and organize their main site into niches inside niches.

As a consequence a lot of us fail to capture the optimal traffic leading to lost opportunities and sales. The advantage of using the long tail concept in our affiliate marketing business is two fold.

First of all, you get to target and attract traffic from the long list comprising of a wide range of niche keywords. And because you are using a broad number of key terms as opposed to just a few, chances are that you business will develop a higher degree of resistance from traffic fluctuations that is normally occasioned by changes in search engine algorithms.

Secondly, because you are attracting traffic from some of the most specific key phrases within the niches in you niche, there is a higher chance of more sales due to a higher conversation rate. The main reason being that someone typing those low searched keywords are people who already know the product they want and are probably on the last phase of the buying cycle.

It is therefore very critical that you understand this long tail concept and how you can use it in the right way in order to help you grow and expand your affiliate marketing business.

Because this concept is very important for you as an affiliate marketer to grasp, I am going to seek the help of two of the leading and most respectful internet marketers, namely Mr Ken Envoy President of Sitesell and Seth Godin Founder member of Squidoo. Both of these experts are going to address this concept from two different perspectives.

So let’s get started.

Seth Godin.

Most affiliate marketers are guilt of making this terrible mistake. They concentrate most of their efforts in trying to win over the most searched for and sought after keywords. Sometimes back, Seth Godin posted this very interesting post entitled small is the new big, it will warm you up for our next section below.

Ken Evoy.

Ken talks about three forces that you must understand as far as the Long Tail Concept is relevant to small businesses, namely:

1. Tools Of Production.
2. The Internet Aggregators.
3. Filtering Software That Connects Supply And Demand.

Read the whole post and see how it’s appropriate to affiliate marketing business here.

Therefore in conclusion, it’s important to understand the long tail concept for three main reasons.

• It will enable you to understand the future of affiliate marketing business.

• It will enable you to know how you fit in as an affiliate marketer.

• And lastly it will help you understand ways on how to monetize effectively.

Is the Long Tail Concept by Chris Anderson Flawed

Is the Long Tail Concept by Chris Anderson Flawed?

The Long Tail concept is a term that was first coined by Chris Anderson in the year 2004 and ever since then it has managed to gain and attract considerable popularity and acceptance across a wide range of industries.

So then the question is - what is this Long Tail concept?

Wikipedia defines it this way:

The phrase The Long Tail (as a proper noun with capitalized letters) was first coined by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article[1] to describe the niche strategy of businesses, such as Amazon.com or Netflix, that sell a large number of unique items in relatively small quantities.

However, the concept of a frequency distribution with a long tail — the concept at the root of Anderson’s coinage — has been studied by statisticians since at least 1946…

Of course the first impression that the definition implies is that the concept has to do with an economic concept within a niche set up in order for this concept to work effectively.

Let us have a visual presentation of this concept to better grasp this idea.

We will now take it a step further and try to understand this concept.

A while ago Ken Evoy the president of SiteSell a leading company dedicated to helping small business people around the world to set and establish their own successful online businesses had an interview with Chris Anderson about this concept. You can read the written transcript of the interview here.

This concept has of late been applied to other non business related issues.

Donald Latumahina wrote an interesting post last year on which he discussed 7 ways that you can get ahead in life by applying the Long Tail concept.

Presently, the Long Tail concept is much alive and still talked about even as I write this post. Here are two latest blog posts addressing this concept.

• An argument against the long tail

• The social mobile Long Tail 2.0

Based on all that has transpired ever since Chris Anderson coined this term and how much interest this concept has continued to attract, I must say it was surprising to read this interesting article in which an Harvard associate professor Anita Elberse presents a different picture.

It was a compelling idea: In the digitized world, there’s more money to be made in niche offerings than in blockbusters. The data tell a different story.

So now the question lingering my mind is:

Do you think the Long Tail Concept by Chris Anderson Flawed?

That is an answer I will be wise enough to leave it upon you to read and come up with your own conclusion. You can read the full article on the Harvard Business Review by clicking on the link above.

On the next post we will take this concept and apply it to affiliate marketing business and see how the Long Tail concept is relevant to any affiliate marketer and ways we can use it to gain a competitive advantage over those affiliate who are not using this simple but powerful concept. Till then have a wonderful day.

Update:

Here is the post I promised. Long Tail and Affiliate Marketing Business