Friday, January 16, 2009

UPDATE: $325 in Facebook Advertising Coupons

If you were to sign up today for Facebook advertising coupons you would have a grand total of $325 in Facebook advertising coupons! I brought together all the codes I have found that have still not expired. A lot of these codes expire on January 30th, so start your Facebook advertising today!

All the codes:

6MYH-2RV3-2CE2-F63C
9F15-7KWJ-M23F-22N2
053K-H148-T1PE-98NC
8CH1-5VW1-Y96N-2P94
EXEX-4P47-38JX-4W20
21VT-RRNM-8RWN-2X1C
1652-YMF5-23XX-CM66
EVCT-54YH-K1V8-EKE1
XXWW-7JVC-3FH6-R61T


***You also get a $100 for joining the visa network, which is part of the $325 Facebook advertising coupon money.
I have the steps to take to join the visa network in a previous blog.

Do NOT miss out on these free Facebook advertising coupons!

Friday, January 9, 2009

$300 in Facebook Advertising Coupons

If you were to sign up today for Facebook advertising coupons you would have a grand total of $300 in Facebook advertising coupons! I brought together all the codes I have found that have still not expired. A lot of these codes expire on January 30th, so start your Facebook advertising today!

All the codes:

9F15-7KWJ-M23F-22N2
053K-H148-T1PE-98NC
8CH1-5VW1-Y96N-2P94
EXEX-4P47-38JX-4W20
21VT-RRNM-8RWN-2X1C
1652-YMF5-23XX-CM66
EVCT-54YH-K1V8-EKE1
XXWW-7JVC-3FH6-R61T


***You also get a $100 for joining the visa network, which is part of the $300 Facebook advertising coupon money.
I have the steps to take to join the visa network in a previous blog.

Do NOT miss out on these free Facebook advertising coupons!

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - The Basics

When it comes to search engine optimization you are talking about an extremely lengthy process. It can take anywhere from a week to six months for the search engines to index your page! Therefore, if you are truthfully interested in search engine optimization you must be patient.

Once again, great content is the key to search engine optimization, as it also is for receiving a high quality score. Great content includes several valuable traits such as: Originality, new content, grammar, and factual information. If these traits are all met you will have visitors advertising your site for free! They will most likely be referring other people to your site and in addition returning themselves!

Next, when designing your site do NOT use a bunch of flash items. Not only does this slow down your site but it can significantly hurt your search engine optimization. You definitely should not use any items for your titles and headers. Only use h1 - h6 headings for your page. This helps the spiders crawling your site understand what the site is about.

Lastly, you MUST get linked to. In order to maximize your search engine optimization you must be linked to by other high ranked sites. This will cost money, but in the end will be worth it. It'll roughly cost $50 a month to be linked to a descent site. Also, by having great content and having return visitors increases the possibility that your site is linked to for free. Other sites will only do this if your information is extremely valuable and they want their visitors to read it.

If you follow every one of these steps carefully you will have a great web page that shows up in search engines. However, there is no guarantee that you will be ranked on the top page. There are a million other factors that come into place and I will discuss later in further detail, but you must accomplish all these steps to have a chance at being on the top page.

Good luck at starting on your search engine optimization journeys!

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!