How To Get Started With Link Building: A Basic Primer



Do you need a link building primer? Something to help introduce the concept of building backlinks? Most importantly... what is link building? Well, there are a couple of answers to this question. First of all, link building is the practice of getting links on other sites that are pointing back to your main website. But even more importantly, link building is an essential element of every SEO campaign. SEO has two main parts to it: On-page SEO – things you can do within your website to improve its rankings. Off-page SEO – things you can do outside your website to improve...

Guide To Finding Affiliate Products THAT SELL



Despite your best intentions and hard work, you won’t see dramatic commissions if you’re promoting the wrong product This is why you want to refine your focus and find affiliate products that sell. Product selection is one of the most highly overlooked elements of starting up as an affiliate marketer. I know your pain because I’ve been there. I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into a project only to find out the products I had been promoting and the demographics I thought were visiting my website weren’t truly what I thought. And then I wised up … In this guide, we’ll...

Google Analytics Basics: Understanding Analytics for Beginners



Are you using Google Analytics? Don't know how it works or how to read it? Google Analytics is a tool with a wide variety of features for website tracking. But, even this simple description doesn’t do the tool enough justice. To understand the power of Google Analytics, let’s examine its various uses and why you need to get on board with tracking your website. The Google Analytics Basics: Traffic Tracking First off, install Google Analytics if you haven't. Operating blindly (no data) is a down-right travesty for your business opportunity. Got it installed? Good... At its core, Google Analytics is...

The Best Industries to Promote as an Affiliate Marketer



Despite the seemingly endless affiliate opportunities and programs available on the net, we’re going to be looking at the "best industries" today. The ones that are well-worth your time to explore. What are the big ones for affiliates? Health Wealth Beauty I would add one more: entertainment. These are the general interests and goals of us humans. We either want to look better, have more money, be entertained or be in good health. In this article, I’ll be sharing the best industries you could find yourself promoting – along with the networks that command the lion’s share of success products...

What Content Management System (CMS) Is Best For You?



Product? Check. Website copy? Check. Design? Check. Launch, go! Wait a minute, hold your horses. Are you forgetting one of the biggest issues with websites from the very beginning? What happens if your business takes off and you suddenly need to add hundreds of pages to your website or make dozens of changes to all of the existing ones? Believe me, going back to your website to make changes, manually, can be mind numbly dull and anti-productive. Your time is best focused on the future; not on the technical slog of keeping a website up-to-date. Enter: Content Management Systems Content...

6 Critical Website Design Tips for a Successful Site



Here are the website design tips you want to improve your site. Remove your web copy, killer product promotion, and authority and what you’re left with is your website design. Your design, at its core, has a lot more to do with conversions than you could have ever imagined. It’s one of the biggest, overlooked elements of marketing. This article will explore the relationship between your design and conversions. And, help by giving you helpful site design tricks and best practices to get the most from your online work. Follow These Website Design Tips. Make a Better Site. To say...

Why Affiliates Should Host Twitter Chats



Twitter chats and the platform is one of the greatest, free marketing tools available to affiliate marketers. Twitter gives you the instant connection to followers and interested parties which, in all, has the potential for incredible opportunities for your business growth. When it comes to Twitter: consistency is key. Twitter may seem random but there is a method to the madness if you know how to tap into its unlimited resources (aka. users). This article will share a technique that very few affiliate marketers have not truly understood nor have leveraged into their business: Twitter chats. What are Twitter Chats?...

Diversify Your Business: Creating Verticals



New verticals will diversify your business. They also create new ways to make money. Every business can expand and grow, rapidly, when the people behind it have an open mind. And, drive to leverage verticals into profitable opportunities. This article will share the process of identifying, testing and launching new verticals to diversify your business potential. How to Identify a Potential Vertical Identification of a potential vertical is the first step as you diversify your business. Verticals are present in every business but are only noticed under a keen eye or fresh insight from community members. Verticals come in many...

10 Easy (But Powerful) Steps to Create a Keyword Universe



Keyword universe isn’t just a cool sounding internet marketing fad name … it’s a real thing. Just to give you a simple definition: Your keyword universe is the total number of keywords and keyphrases you track (or want to track) that bring traffic to your website. This means that your website obviously ranks for those keywords. The term “universe” isn’t an exaggeration. A common scenario for most websites is to have thousands of different keywords bringing them traffic. However, only a handful of them brings 95% (or more) of this traffic. Many keywords bring as little as one or two...