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ClickBank Affiliates do not use bitly

Thursday, August 11th, 2011 at 10:47 pm  
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I recently discovered all my ClickBank links at bitly were being redirected by bitly to a page that looks like this:

ClickBank Users Beware of bitly

A lot of folks including many so called Affiliate marketing gurus have often suggested affiliates mask their affiliate links with bitly. bitly is a free service that shortens long URLs and a lot affiliate marketers were using bitly to post their affiliate links on the various social networks, and even on their own websites. Using short URLs makes long affiliate links look more attractive to prospective prospects, and on social networks it is a necessity as you are often limited to a certain amount of characters you can post. Long affiliate URLs can consume a lot of those limited characters. In the past few days I have encountered many fellow marketer’s links on various social networks and gasp even on paid ads they paid for redirecting to this page. While theoretically the potential prospect can still click through the link from the warning page it is a sure conversion killer.

The lesson the affiliate should take from this is never use a URL shorting service that is not on your hosting account, and that you don’t have complete control of. In the coming days I will post some of the more common techniques for shortening your affiliate links that you remain in total control of.

Commission Domination

Thursday, August 11th, 2011 at 12:24 am  
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Commission Domination

What is it? Commission Domination is software you run in your browser that greatly automates building niche websites. Also included is an encyclopedic amount of training giving someone that is new to building websites, and online marketing a complete foundation to build a web business with. Since it is automated, and there are a ton of supporting materials it is friendly to someone that wants to get into affiliate marketing, but is new to building websites. Collectively the whole packeage either automates or shows you how to: set-up hosting, conduct keyword research, install Word Press using automated software, provides high converting WordPress themes and even provides inexpensive content for the sites you build.

You simply plug in your idea into the software and it formulates the keywords, finds a domain name and the appropriate affiliate program to promote. If you like what the software comes up with you simply enter your affiliate ids in, register the domain name and use automated software to build a website for you centered around those keywords. Commission Domination even gets backlinks to your site and promotes it on social networks so it will rise in the search engine rankings. It also posts articles to your site so you don’t have to spend all your time writing articles. It also submits those articles to all the big article directories for you, You can build literally thousands of websites covering a whatever subject you can come up with. You can use any type of affiliate program you like including those available from ClickBank, Amazon’s stand alone affiliate program, the various programs at Commission Junction. You can even use it to build Google AdSense sites.

The sites created by Commission Domination use templates that are optimized for the highest conversion rates so none of your traffic is wasted. And speaking of traffic the great part of this is it utilizes free traffic sources so you don’t have to buy ads or engage other types of paid traffic generation.

The guy behind the site is Anik Singal Anik is an Internet Marketing genius. I have personally purchased two of Anik’s prior marketing books and they are among the best I have encountered so he definitely knows what he is doing when it comes to keyword selection and building sites that convert.

Bonus Materials: There are just a ton of bonus materials here that cover a wide variety of subjects including SEO, Business Entities, How to mask your affiliate links and even ethical considerations in Internet Marketing. All in all there are over 30 Mega Bytes of bonus materials, that will give the newbie an incredible amount of knowledge.

Commission Domination Review Conclusion:
Commission Domination does everything for you, but is important to note you will have to buy the domain names for your sites and buy an inexpensive web hosting plan in order to build your sites. The package comes with a good set of instructions everything is explained in great detail so like I said it is very newbie friendly as it does almost all the work for you. If you have always wanted to get started in affiliate marketing, but feared you lacked the know how to do it right this software and accompanying materials will take out all the guess work out and fill in the missing blanks for you. If your a seasoned Internet Marking pro you will probably find this program too geared towards the beginner. However, the web marketing neophyte will be able to use this software and the accompanying materials to build a complete online business with no prior knowledge. It will also allow them to turn out a nice volume of niche websites in a short amount of time without having to spend the time doing it all by hand. Commission Domination is geared towards online business models if your looking for how to promote an offline business online this package probably isn’t for you.

How to make money with Google Adsense

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 at 9:40 pm  
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In very simplistic terms all you do is place the code from the Google AdSence program into your blog or website. You get paid every time one of your visitors clicks on one of the ads and visits the advertiser’s web page. While that indeed sounds simplistic I can assure you it is not. First off to get a decent click through rate (CTR) you are going to need a blog theme or website design that is both optimized for AdSense placement and one that complies with Google’s complex rules.

As far as placement goes you want to place as many of the ad blocks as you can per-page, but stay within Google’s placement rules:

Currently, AdSense publishers may place up to three AdSense for content units on one webpage. You may also place a maximum of three link units and two search boxes on each webpage.

At the same time you want to place the ads in locations where they are more likely to be clicked on. Simply placing the ad blocks in traditional spots for banners like your blog’s sidebar or in a 468 x 60 banner box on the top of all of your blog pages will often result in low click through rates. This is because people have become banner blind to these spots. That is typically people mentally tune these spots out when they load a web page. Google serves ads based upon your site’s content, and to a certain degree your user’s past search history. The rate you get paid per-click is based upon what ads are shown on your site. This brings up the second big factor. To get the most out of AdSense the content on your site has to be related to keywords that generate bids in the Google AdWords program. For instance an article on you site that discusses how to get the lowest priced auto insurance could result in more than $20 per-click for you from advertisers bidding on the term auto insurance quote. While an article on the art of basket weaving might not generate anything as Google may not have any advertisers biding on keywords related to that topic.

Of course the big rub is how do you get traffic to your AdSense page? Unfortunately there are not any real shortcuts to this you just have to do some old fashioned SEO, and maybe mix in some modern social media marketing. While a lot of people are not familiar with the basics of how this works there are a variety of inexpensive books on how to drive traffic to your site using white hat methods. Unfortunately, most people give up before they generate any traffic. It takes time to build up traffic to your site and it is real work looking for quality inbound links to your site everyday. You can take shortcuts by buying links and such, but often these black hat techniques will have long term negative consequences for your site.

Signing up for AdSense is something you don’t want to jump right into and do without some fairly detailed research as to how it works, but in a nutshell here is how you do it: To signup for AdSense simply go to Google’s Adsense page and sign-up. You will need a website with quality original content to submit to them. I’d also suggest you have a decent amount of traffic before you try. It really isn’t worth your time or theirs if you have just one site getting less than 300 unique visitors per-day. Now again I don’t encourage you to just jump in and do it as many newbies and even AdSense veterans have received a lifetime bans for simply not complying with some ambiguously worded rule.