Sunday, December 28, 2008

New Facebook Advertising Coupon!

Here is an additional free $25 Facebook Advertsing Coupon money. If you were to sign up today and use all the codes on my site you would have $275 Facebook Advertising coupon money!

The New Code:
053K-H148-T1PE-98NC

Friday, December 26, 2008

Affiliates Success to a High Quality Score!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and wishing everyone a Happy New Year!

Also, be sure to comment and ask me for more specific help if needed, or a specific topic you want me to blog about. I am more than willing to help anyone in any area of affiliate marketing that they need help in.

This post is for every affiliate who is using a landing page to help sell their product. You NEED your landing page to have a high quality score to keep your bid prices for keywords down. This will help lower your bids in Facebook Advertising too. Our main concern is to receive a high quality score from Google, because if your page has a high quality score there, then everyone else (MSN, Yahoo, Facebook, ect..) will give you a high quality score. Google generates the quality score from a very complicated algorithm that is impossible to explain. But, I will outline everything you need to do to receive a high quality score, and its importance in the algorithm from most important to least important.
Starting with the most important :

1.) Having original content about your product will instantly move you ahead of other affiliates.
2.) Keyword density (the number of times you use a keyword) is a huge factor. The ideal keyword density is between 11%-11.5%. Be sure you do not have over 20% though, this would be considered keyword stuffing and Google would penalize you. There are a bunch of free keyword density testing sites out there!Click Here to try one.
3.) You need to be sure to have a couple of other pages on your site, Google wants to see "About us" "Contact us" type pages to prove it is a legitimate web page.

The next couple are not very important, but could potentially be the difference between a high quality score and a low one.

4.) If you have a bunch of flash objects/images that make the load time of your page fairly long, then Google will rate you lower. They want Google users to click on pages that load fast.
5.) Lastly, don't have an extreme amount of links to your pitch page. If your link density is too high Google could potentially classify your page as a spam page.

If you follow those 5 steps your page WILL have a high quality score and allow you to bid lower on keywords while still staying on the front page of searches! And remember this works for Facebook Advertising too!

Friday, December 19, 2008

Dig deeper into Facebook Advertising!

Due to the popularity of the free Facebook Advertising coupons I decided I would dig into this topic deeper:

If you signed up today to the Facebook Advertising you would have $250 in your account. The obvious goal in mind is to find a product that sells! Which means, the product is making you more money than you are spending (in fake money). If you accomplish this goal before your fake money runs out then you have a profitable product that you can continue marketing with your own money!

How do you find that profitable product with a $250 budget?

1.) Think of three niches that you think are extremely popular right now. If you have no clue at all, then start browsing on the internet. There are profitable products EVERYWHERE.

2.) Take each niche and DIG DEEPER, browse the web for all kinds of products in that niche. Write down every product that you think is hot on the market now. Then with your list choose the best one. Be sure to make a list before you choose the best one, with so many products out there you will allow a couple to slip your mind. Now do this to your other two niches. At the end you should have 3 products that you expect to be winners.

3.) Take each one of your products and make 3-5 ads for each of them. Your ads can vary in multiple ways: change the picture, change the text, and/or change the targeted audience. Very simple changes can mean the difference between a successful ad and an unsuccessful one. Also, on each of your products set the budget to $15/day, this way you have a longer time to evaluate the progress of each product.

4.) After 3 days of Facebook advertising evaluate your results. At this point you will have spent $135 max. Look at the sales for each product, obviously you will want to keep the one(s) performing the best, and delete the campaigns that are under performing.

----If you didn't have any sales for any product consider picking the one you still think will perform and deleting the rest. But you must make changes to the ads of that product, because something is not converting them into a sale. For instance, you could try to include the price at the bottom of it to avoid clicks from people who are not interested in buying anything.

---- If you had one or multiple successful ones, but still didn't make enough money to cover your fake expenses (for the product itself), then dig deeper into them. Make even more of a variety of ads for that product by making the changes I listed above.

---- If you had a product that covers your fake expenses (for itself), delete everything else and just ride that one out. You reached the goal and are promoting a profitable product through Facebook Advertising!

Sunday, December 14, 2008

How to Make Money on Facebook Advertising!

I figured since I gave everyone the free $250 for Facebook Advertising I would show you how to actually make money on it.
I'll share with you my results on Facebook Advertising!

1.) Do NOT bother making a landing page! Every landing page I have made for Facebook instantly receives that "back" button. I feel that when people click on Facebook ads they want to see exactly what they are clicking on instantly, not a review of the product. Therefore, a review page just removes their interest and their potential sale.

2.) Have an extremely awesome eye capturing picture. Think about it, when have you actually clicked on Facebook ads. The answer is...When you actually notice them! All ads on Facebook are aimed specifically at you! So, the probability of you clicking the ad is high, you just need to notice it. Which is why Facebook advertising is gradually becoming extremely valuable.

3.) Be extremely specific in your targeted audience. For example, if you are trying to sell a weight loss product, you would make at least two different ads. One would say "Are you a female over 35? Then this product is for you!" Then in your targeting you select only woman, and only over the age of 35. This makes them feel more attached to the ads, and makes them feel more compelled to click it!

Also, make sure you enter a ton of keywords that would further capture your desired audience. For instance, on the weight loss product, you would use keywords such as: Jogging, walking, healthy, weight loss, ect. These keywords are pulled out of the persons profile information. With Facebook advertising if they have any of those keywords in their profile, then they are targeted.

4.) This is just for people who are complete rookies in affiliate marketing. You are probably wondering where you get the products you want to advertise. There are a million programs out there for this, but many of them are complicated and you have to wait to be accepted by the company. That's why for beginners, I would recommend http://www.clickbank.com. After you sign up, you are good to go, all you need to do is search their marketplace for a product you want!

After you have found your product, click on the hoplink below it. Then enter your user name and it will give you a URL link. This link is the URL link you will put into the Facebook ad you want to create. The link will let the company know that you were the one that sent the customer to their site, and if that customer buys then you get anywhere from 25%-75% of the sale.

Start your Facebook Advertising now!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Three more free Facebook Advertising coupons!

I have another post called "free $175 for Facebook Advertising", so check that out to get $175 dollars of advertising money.

And now you can get an additional $75 on top of that if you were to sign up now!
So a combined total of $250 free Facebook Advertising coupons, if you don't take advantage of this it would be a HUGE mistake.

The new extra coupon codes are:
8CH1-5VW1-Y96N-2P94
EXEX-4P47-38JX-4W20
21VT-RRNM-8RWN-2X1C

you still need to enter in the others from my previous post to get the full $250 of Facebook Advertising coupons, these three are only for $25 each.
*Remember these only work for new accounts!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Finding the perfect Niche!

Every affiliate at some point asks themselves, "What niche do I want to be in?" There are several things that you have to consider. First, my highest recommendation is to choose a niche that you are HIGHLY interested in, because the more it interests you the more likely you will succeed. The more interest in the niche results in higher motivation, interest, and effort; thus, giving you a better chance to succeed.

Now, when you start looking for products that fall into your niche you will need to keep a couple of things in mind. You want to find a product with a high EPC (Earning per 100 clicks), this tells you that the product is profitable. You have to be careful though, if the 7 day EPC is drastically lower than the 30 day EPC then that means the products profitability is fading. If the difference is high enough you should steer away from that product.

Next, you want to check the competition by searching the obvious keywords you would use for this product. Check how many items show up on the searches for each keyword, if the number is outrageous, then the product has a lot of competition. If the competition is low, then you are good to go. Also, you will want to check the PPC (price per click) for the keywords you want to use. You can find this out by inputing the keywords with Google Adwords, Yahoo Searchmarketing, Msn Adcenter, Facebook, and various others. If the PPC is extremely high then there is a lot of competition. If not, once again you're good to go.

Finally, you will always want to look into the future, because the most profitable niches are the ones that have not came yet. If you happen to get your nose in one, you are instantly rich, no questions asked. Therefore, you want to constantly be thinking of future niches, upcoming technology, new products, ect.

Now start finding the perfect niche for you!

Design a Profitable Text Ad

Text ads are the most important asset to any successful affiliate. The ability to choose accurate and profitable words while staying within the character limit is the difference between an affiliate whose failed and one who is successful. You must think like a salesmen and communicate your desired message. The more specific the ads are the better. You must always try to put the consumer in a stronger personal attachment to the ad, because this will benefit you substantially. For example, a very basic personal attachment would be, Are you a female over the age of 35? Now, if she is, she is much more likely to click on your ad over the others because of the personal attachment she feels.

In addition, you cannot just leave the ad the way I typed it above. You must have very concise and relevant content too. By putting those together you will have a high CTR (click thru rate)!

Lastly, you must think about the physical appeal of your ad. You need your ad to be more physically appealing than the others, and you can do this in multiple ways. By placing trademark symbols, star symbols, or squiggly lines in key places will increase your CTR. Also, the way your ad is setup can affect the success of it as well. The best technique I have found, as far as setup is considered, is make the Title Short, your first line the longest, and your third line short again. This commonly known as the arrow technique. For some reason people are more inclined to pick it over other ads.

You will know be able to design a profitable ad!
Now you just have to worry about conversions!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Free $175 for Facebook Advertising!

If you're an affiliate marketer or just want to market your new site and still have not taken advantage of the rush of free Facebook Advertising coupon giveaways, then I suggest you do so NOW! As we all know, the Facebook community is growing astronomically, which makes it the place we want to advertise. Businesses are actually making it requirements for their employees to sign up to Facebook for better means of communication. Therefore, it is no longer full of just college students.

Anyway, I'll lay this out in an extremely simple format on how to get the $175 dollar coupons for free Facebook Advertising.

1.) Make a Facebook account if you have not done so already.
2.) Go to the search bar and type "visa" and click enter.
3.) Click the applications tab in the middle of the screen.
4.) Click "The Visa Business Network"
5.) Click the "Application" button on the right side.
6.) Then Allow the Visa Business Network to view your profile.
7.) Fill out the small form with a correct email address.
8.) Check your email, and click on the second link.
9.) At the top bar by Ads Manager click "Billing"
10.) Next to billing summary click "Funding Sources"
11.)Click "Enter Coupon Code" at the right of the page.
12.) Enter the code that came in the email Facebook sent you.
-you now have $100 credit
13.) Enter this code: 1652-YMF5-23XX-CM66
14.) Now this code: EVCT-54YH-K1V8-EKE1
15.) Finally, this code: XXWW-7JVC-3FH6-R61T

You now have a grand total of $175 of facebook advertising coupons!

So, start creating ads and making REAL money!

*Sidenote: you will need a credit card to activate your account and allow your ads to be displayed.

In addition, if you are wanting to take advantage of this offer and start learning how to become an affiliate, visit Affiliate Instruction it is free to sign up and they offer a great tutorial that will teach you the basics.

Using Google and Yahoo to work for you!

So you want to make quick money on the internet? Or you want to create a stay at home job for yourself with a solid income. Many people have heard about affiliating and tried it, but failed miserably. This is for numerous reasons, but through my experience it is because of these three main reasons.

1.) They do not have the time, or are not willing to put the time into it. You have to remember affiliate marketing is a REAL job, if you want to be successful you must be in REAL time. Everyone wants to make the quick buck, but is never willing to put in the time. And this is why only 2% of households make over $250,000 a year (factcheck.org). Sorry, I am a man of statistics, but it’s true, if you want it YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT! Sadly, not many people take it.

2.) They were not well educated on affiliate marketing. And this pretty much coincides with the above reason. Basically, they did not feel like putting in the time. There are plenty of sites that go into great and elaborate detail about affiliate marketing. I will supply you with one that I recently signed up to, http://affiliateinstruction.com/ this site has an amazing tutorial and forums to discuss any problems you might have along the way. It also has great information for affiliates that have been in the industry for awhile (which is why I joined). Finally, it offers a package that is all you will need to get started a Server and tools

3.) They did not know how to effectively use google adwords and yahoo searchmarketing. These are probably going to be your biggest catalysts to making a profit. If you can master them, you will make money. There are multiple ways to learn these, you can stumble through their own tutorials, which are rather difficult to follow. You can use trial and error, which will lose you money in the beginning, or visit Master Google and Master Yahoo
both of these products will teach you how to master google adwords and yahoo searchmarketing. I highly recommend you use both these products, however, if your wallet is tight, you must use one (google is the top search engine, so it's better to go with).



There you go, the three main reasons people have failed in affiliate marketing. Be sure not to follow in their patterns!