There are basically 4 ways affiliate marketers get their commission online.

1. Pay per click
2. Pay per sales
3. Pay per sign up/lead
4. Pay per post

What I am going to share with you today is Pay per Click commission. In pay per click commission, the affiliate marketers will be given a sum of money if they direct their visitors to click on the merchant website. Where do you find the pay per click website then?

You basically find the pay per click merchant at the right hand side of a search engine. For example, you may find the http://www.vemmabuilder.com/ (Make Money 24/7), http://www.affiliatequickonline.com/ (How I can retire young) at the right hand side of Google search engine when you key in “Affiliate” in the search box.

Pay per click is basically performance base, so if something is working well on your certain campaign, you can focus on that area as your strength. At the same time, you can also quickly identifies your weakness within a campaign and quickly move them out from your campaigns.

Every time when somebody clicks on that website on the search engine, the merchant will pay for that click. However, there are numerous benefits that a merchant could get out of the pay per click:

1. They get really fast results with PPC. Most of time they get results seen in just days.
2. Campaigns can be created easily
3. They can put a broad range of key phrases and keywords
4. Flexible and fast turnaround
5. It is completely accountable

Basically a well manage PPC campaign will be able to reduce a merchant cost and increase your return on investment. This is why PPC is so important to the merchants’ business.

 To your pursuit of happyness

Luis Tee

The method I introduced you in the previous day was actually a method where you could get the number of count/click on the website accessed for free from Wordtracker. It can probably save you some money but it is going to take time. However, it is rather troublesome because you will have to check the competition for each consecutive keyword. You have to spend a lot more time in your venture in affiliate marketing.

In fact you could sign up for free trial in WordTracker, it is a 7 days free trial version provided by WordTracker for those people who wants to know more about it. All you have to do is to sign up your details and you will get the access to most of the WordTracker features for free. This information is needed:

1. Username
2. Password
3. Email
4. First and last name
5. Some credit card information

Each customer is limited to one free trial per year, which means if you get your free trial this year, if you have to wait for another one year before you could get the access again to the free trial.

I would suggest you all to do your research first using the method I teach you in the previous blog on WordTracker before you decided to sign up for the free 7 days trial. You must get a rough idea on what business you want to do online using the free resources from Wordtracker. Sign up only when you have an idea or direction and want to know deeper into the subject further.

You can utilize the 7 days free trial period to do the assessment and confirm your niche market in affiliate marketing. Of course, if you don’t intend to continue after the 7 days trial, just cancel the package, risk free and no obligation at all!

To your pursuit of happiness,

Luis Tee

The only weakness of Google Adword Keyword Tool is it only provides COMPARATIVE data, which means you could only know ROUGHLY know the popularity a particular keyword is performing. Today I am going to let you know how you could QUANTIFY your keyword research so that you could have more accurate data to leverage your niche market. Simply put, I am going to let you know how many click you are going to get over per unit competing websites. The tool I am going to recommend to you is WordTracker.

Wordtracker was one of the first and easier to use keyword tools on the market. It was developed in 1999, and continues to be used by top affiliate marketers and SEO professionals up to this day. Under the free version, you will be given the information of “Number of Count”(Number of click people search for a particular keyword) for the last 24 hours.  In fact, this is the only information you are going to get. You will know how’s the competition landscape is going to be like as it is only provided in the full version.

Step 1: Click into this website- freekeywords.wordtracker.com

You are entering a free keywords tool Wordtracker is offering for its users, to allow people to try the service and evaluate the possibility to purchase a full usage of Wordtracker.

Step 2: Type in your keyword, say we keep it to the same as “Pet”

You will be given a list of top 100 keywords.

Zoom into the first 5 keywords.

As you can see, there is 8931 click on the word “Pet shop boys” and 7668 click on the word “Pet adoption” in the last 24 hours. This is also mean there is a lot of people interested in those two words as compared to other words in the list.

However, does it mean “Pet Shop Boys” is better than “Pet adoption” (since it has greater count) in term of niche market?

The answer is No, Not exactly.

Now comes the important part,

Step 3: Highlight the word “Pet Shop Boys” and select Copy.

Step 4: Open a Google Search Engine and paste “Pet Shop Boys” in to the text box.

You will see the number of competing Websites at the top right corner of the website. There are 5,010,000 websites related to “Pet Shop Boys”.

Step 5: Repeat Step 3 and 4 on “Pet Adoption”.

Again you will see the number of competing Websites at the top right corner of the website specifically for “Pet Adoption”. There are 1,290,000 websites related to “Pet Adoption”.

Step 6: Now divide number of count over number of competing websites.

In this case, for example:

Pet Shop Boys          = 8931/5,010,000 =0.001783- Data 1

Pet Adoption             = 7668/1,290,000 = 0.005944- Data 2

Step 7: this is a step to enable better explanation of the count.

Now, multiply Data 1 and Data 2 with 1,000.

Pet Shop Boys          = 0.001783 x 1,000 = 1.783

Pet Adoption             = 0.005944 x 1,000 = 5.944

Step 8: Define the result

Pet Shop Boys          = There are 1.78 count/people looking for “Pet Shop Boys” in every 1,000 websites they search through.

Pet Adoption             = There are 5.944 count/people looking for “Pet Adoption” in every 1,000 websites they search through.

“Pet Adoption” is more niche than “Pet Shop Boys” even though it is lesser than number count comparatively. If you are looking for niche market, you would want to explore more into Pet Adoption rather than Pet Shop Boys.

To your happiness,

Luis Tee

Hi again,

I am still searching for my first Niche Market, of course I learnt a lot from those masters like Ewen Chia, Rosalind and Alvin. However, there is limitation as in to what extend I could reveal what I learnt. Think this topic is not too deep in that I have no worries of getting myself sued just by sharing the information.

 I believe those who had tried the site may have also the same question as mine, ya I know the keyword tools could help to list down those major keywords, but how to quantify it? Most importantly, which word to use for our niche market? In affiliate market, finding a niche market is like finding a kingdom of wealth. If you manage to find one, you don’t have to worry about sales, the money will flow in like water.

Let’s continue where we were yesterday. Identify and filter major keywords for affiliate marketing.

Step 4: Go to the Choose column to display, click on to Show All menu.

Step 5: On the Calculate Estimate Max CPC, choose US Dollars. Enter “10? into the box as indicated below.

Step 6: Click on Recalculate Button.

you will now see a list of price per click as shown below:

What does this mean? It indicates a relative estimation of how much people willing to pay per each click in any website.  The average amount you pay each time someone clicks your ad. Average CPC is determined by totalling the cost of all clicks and dividing it by the number of clicks. For example for keyword “adopt a dog”, with a base cost of U$10, people is willing to pay U$1.52 dollars for this keyword per each click.

This is how you will estimate the value of certain keywords.

 Hope this is helpful.

 Luis T

Hi,

Almost all the online books will recommend their readers to find “Niche” market of their own. Niche market is the key to the success of any affiliate marketer. But what’s “Niche Market” then?In short, Niche Market is a market where there is low competition with high demand. So, how to find a niche market then?Famous internet marketers use google Keyword Tool Expert to find their niche market- to discover what internet surfers are actually searching for online, most importantly to build huge lists of keywords related to your niche market. It is very suitable for someone who is new to affiliate marketing, I would try everything free while starting off in this business.

This is how it works:

Step 1: Enter the website https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Step 2: Key in the market you are searching for, say for example” Pet”.

Step 3: Key in the character as required, in this example, it would be “bysny”

Step 4: Press EnterYou will be given a list of keywords which are related to the topic -Pet.

It is that easy. Try yourself today, see if you could understand more about the usage of this keyword tools to help you understand the market better.I have searching for keywords for my new website from 3pm till now (11.30pm), quite stretched out. It is a tiring and time consuming process, but luckily I could still find some interest topics that I could explore further in. If you happen to read this website, I would suggest you do yours too.it is time to sleep now, I will update more of my findings tomorrow.

To your happiness.

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 How Affiliate Marketing Work?

Affiliate marketer makes money through commission they earn referring sales to the merchant’s online store. Simply put, affiliate marketing is a process of earning commission selling other products on the internet. There are three type of commission in the world of affiliate marketing:

• a. Pay per sale- commission based on sales amount
• b. Pay per click - commission based on number of visits
• c. Pay per lead - base on registration through downloads.

Both the merchant and affiliate marketer benefited from such process. There is nothing to lose on merchant side as they enjoy free advertising from affiliate marketers; all they have to do is to share their profit with affiliate marketer. In fact, most of the merchants give high commission to the affiliate marketers to motivate them to drive more traffic to their sites.

There is nothing to lose on affiliate marketers, they don’t have to worry about customer service, delivery, maintenance, product enquiries, or management as they are all being handled by the merchant. In short, they sole effort is to drive more traffic to the merchant website, and if someone buy the product, they get the commission. Sometimes, the sales commission they earned is higher than the profit that the merchant get.

It is a win -win business strategy that benefited both merchant and affiliate marketers.

For more understanding, download the following links for the flow chart showing how affiliate marketing works:

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There are some FAQ for those who wish to start an affiliate business online, questions like:
• Why affiliate marketing is the best choice for high income and low risk business?
• What makes affiliate marketing or online business profitable when there are millions of websites around?
• What makes affiliate marketing successful?

There are four reasons why you must choose affiliate business:

1. Low Set Up and Maintenance Cost
Unlike traditional business, affiliate marketing or online business only required very minimum starts up and set up cost, All you need is to register a domain and a hosting which will only cost you few hundreds dollars a year, you can simply run them from home without having to rent shop or to keep stock. The very next thing to do is to keep your readers informed, attached to your website and draw as much traffic as you can. Almost zero maintenance cost.

2. Worldwide market place
In affiliate marketing, you can sell your products to everywhere else in the world, regardless of location, races and region. It is the global market you are targeting. You can reach out to the people from every corners of the world. All you need to do is to find a niche market where there is intense needs flooded with buyers who are willing to pay for it.

3. No inventory at all
Affiliate marketing doesn’t require you to carry inventory. You are representing a company; the company will handle all the delivery and handling of customers enquiry. You don’t have worry about buying goods and even fork out your cash for stocks. There is no warehouse management, no supply chain issue, and no staff management issue. You only have to do two things, sign up for affiliate products and start promoting your site, attract more people to your site and get your messages heard. If people trust you, they will start to buy your products.

4. High Margin products
Internet products are all high margins, especially digital products like ebook, audiobooks and software. If you are an owner of a product, there is Zero duplication and delivery cost.

These are four major benefits you will get if you were to start off with an affiliate marketing business online. If you are to explore deeper in this business, you will learn even more.

Thanks

Luis Tee

Meet Alvin in Person. This is a video clip from gathersuccess.com author, Alvin Phang. He is going to introduce you with brief introduction of his website and how he could make money online

” Hi my name is Alvin, the author of atomic bloggin 2.0. The response was overwhelming, I have a lot people emailing me thanking me and they really love the new format, new look, new bonuses, the new themes and also the news I added in.

I really touched reading email about thanking me saying that I really saved them. Thank you for those wonderful emails. I think the reason being why a lot of people really love the book was because it is a real practical book. No BS, really stuff, real case study. I am doing this video just to show you that no really other marketer out there on real person and really want to show you that I am really the “real” thing.

I am going to show my entire secret and it is my blog, where I made the money. It is a website, gathersuccess.com. I am not blogging out of nowhere, I have been blogging for 2 years and basically this website here, you can see that I have over 560 readers. I am not BS, this figure can’t be made.

I am making money basically from advertisement, from affiliate program. This is where the money is made. On top of that, if you scroll down further. I sell links, I sell stuff on my blog. And I got people commenting on my blog. You can see that there is a lot of visitor to my blog. You see ranking at 6372 since started.

To get a ranking of 6000 is not easy. Because over 150 million blogs out there. To get 6000, you basically need to get a lot of leads and a lot of traffic to my blog. If you do get a lot of traffic, you get about 26,000 visitors per month on my blog now. All unique visitors, so when you are able to create that amount of traffic , you will definite will be able to generate a lot of money through your blog.

What I did was through this two years of experience doing writing and blogging on my blog, I decided to write a book, this is what brought me to write atomic blogging. I am the author of the book……”

Of course, the promotion is over, check out his website and you can always expect new promotion.

JJ : Search engine can be one of the easiest way your customers or potential customers can find your company unless your link doesn’t come up when someone does a search, so in today’s consultant corner, we are going to ask Stephanie, senior vice president of network solution just how you make sure that your company comes up on top of those listing.

Hi Stephanie

Step: Hi JJ

So how important is it? Whether you are internet company or you have services to provide?  So how important is it to come up first?

Right now it is incredibly important, when you look at what people are doing out of web, they are searching, that’s how they find website. So coming up those top no matter you are a e commerce company or local business (providing services), it is very important, it is often a difference between success and failure for small business.

Alright, let’s get through the top 3 things to get you on the top.

Sure, a lot of website who has a lot website and few words, but search engine is getting the priority of a subject. That means you have to provide them with a lot of text so that the search engine can read. So they want a site that knows the most and the most reputable on the topic. So you got to provide a lot of good content, that can be done through article, through blogs. There are a number of ways to get it but a lot of small business making a mistake by just not having enough.

For example, how could I add content? Selling a shampoo on my website, at shampoo 2.95? What can I add content to that?

Sure, the very best thing you can do is to write an article about the shampoo. Tell the customers the benefit of the shampoo. You know a lot of retailers just having a little tag on the shelf and now you have as much room as you know to tell the customers all the reason they should buy it. At the same time you are feeding the search engine with great content.

So in some ways the customers may not need all these information but you put it on anyhow.

Ya, we find it customers used to find a lot more information online. They do a lot of reading, you will be surprised.

So Ok, the other things is having a lot links to your site helps in search engine placement. So how do you get more link to your site?

Sure, the first thing important to understand is the search engine view link kind of a voting system. So if you have a lot of sites that links to you, so they are saying that site is voting for your site. So you actually want the word that you want to come up for to be the link. So what you would do is go out and talk to friends who maybe have website. And if you have a blog really any website where you contribute content, you will be surprised people will give you links and more link is always better.

So for example if you sell bunch of stuff that you want to come up high when you write shampoo and your friend who has a blog should say “shampoo” and link to you.

Yup, and they should link using the word “shampoo”. A lot of time they will say click here and that’s the link where you site isn’t about click here, it is about shampoo. So that’s the important word to link(”shampoo”)

So now the next one is getting some technology and it going to make people not understand what we are saying. You say title tag and meta tag. What are those?

Sure, there are behind the scene pieces of text for your website. So if you pull out an internet browser and the very top you see what the site is all about, that’s the title tag. A webmaster can show you how to do it. If you search online for how to make a title tag and how to make a meta tag, you can find some really simple guide to do that. But it is important to have your keywords there and it is very focus on the content of your site.

There are so many companies out there that helps you with this SEO engine optimization, for someone who is just starting with this, how do you about evaluating a company?

Sure, the first thing I would do is turn into the internet, do a search and find out what other people are thought about a company that they viewed. And also stick with bigger names if you never heard of a company but at least place a couple of phone call and make sure they can answer all of your questions the way you think they should be answering.

Is there anyway to evaluate by saying who is your client and then do a quick search on some of those words?

Definitely, I would ask for example I would say tell me some clients that you work for in the past and run some search engine and see if they coming up. That’s a great way to get good advice.

And finally if you coming up high on one search engine, is it likely you are going to come up high on all the search engine? Or they are going to work differently?

They all works slightly differently, but in most part the criteria are the same. So I would focus on get in one, that’s great. If you can get in more than one , that’s would be wonderful. So if you doing right for one, you probably come up in the other as well.

So ok Stephanie, this is the questions we get often, I am so great you answer it. Thanks for coming to our program.

Thanks JJ

 Lesson Learnt:

1. Provide content in text rather in video or pictures so that you could feed the search engines gets to the top of the search list.

Hey everybody, today I want to talk about affiliate marketing, Affiliate marketing is probably the most common way to make money online.

Let you support a product, let say you support dreamweaver, you created a site, let say something to do with dreamweaver, you put a link on your site, let say somebody click on it  and purchase, you will get pay a certain percent of commission, the commission will depends on what program you are using and all that kind of stuff.

Today I am going to show you 4 sites that have affiliate programs. There is tons more out there, but today I am going to show you four of them. The first one is probably the most well known, which is the “Clickbank”.

Clickbank is a site where you can promote of ebooks on. Select let say I want to promote Ewen chia super affiliate, all I have to do is to create a hoplink, copy the html that I want and paste on my website and that’s it. Anytime that somebody click on that site, I will get pay 23.37 cent, you can get up 30,60 or 100 dollars with this. It is really a great site, and it is free. All the site I m going to show you is free to join, this is really a great affiliate site, this is the one that I used and probably the best one.

The second one is the one that I don’t use but I heard good things about is probably the Commision Junction. I don’t whole about this, I don’t really know what it sells, but if you don’t like Clickbank you can check out Commission Junction. And I heard it is a good site, so you can check out the marketplace and stuff like that.

The 3^rd one is Apple, Itunes, if you want to promote Itunes, if you have website or blog on music(reviewing music), you can join the ITunes affiliate and earn some money, collect some cash from it, it is kind of cool affiliate because once you put the link on your site and that’s it, you don’t have to put a whole attention to it, only you to get the traffic so that people can link and buy.

The last program is Adobe, I don’t do it but I would highly highly recommend this one because you can earn up to 10% commission, which is great on Adobe products because some of the Adobe products are pretty expensive. I am not saying they are bad products, but they are really good quality products. Like I say Dreamweaver, ColdFusion and tons of great programs for design, photoshops and all that kind of stuffs. So if you have a website or may you have a website on photography or maybe you have website on webpage, you join this affiliate and you can put some links on your page, and if somebody clicks on it and buy it, you can get 20 or 30 bucks or higher. If you get 65K more of a month, if you get 10%, which is 6,500 dollars which is more than some other people , the people that I know make in a month.

So affiliate is really a great way to earn money online, one thing I want to say before I go is make sure if you do affiliate marketing, you don’t get it over your head, I tried that, I tried joining 4-5 affiliate program and that just kind of not working, you just get too much money sources but you are not going to make as much money. I would suggest finding one maybe two at most in Adobe, or maybe Clickbank, I would also check out Commission Junction, I heard good things about it.  Become affiliate and starts marketing today.

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Lesson Learnt:
1. Do not promote too many products at one time, promote one or the most two products in one website.