Learning Affiliate Marketing

The WordPress Promotion and Monetization PLR Bundle is available.

They said they were going to do it. And Alice Seba and her DIRplr.com team did not let us down.

They have put together a great bundle that can get you and your readers ready to improve their blogging skills. It seems everyone has a blog or wants one and you can be there to get them started the right way.

This PLR bundle helps your readers get started with one of the most popular WordPress themes, learn how to promote their RSS feed, grow their list and monetize their WordPress blog. It’s complete with step-by-step instructions and tons of screenshots to make it easy for your readers to succeed.

This is a big bundle that includes 16 fully-illustrated guides on the folowing topics:

Bundle #1: Thesis WordPress Theme

* Thesis Theme Options
* Changing Numbers & Column Orders
* Customizing the Multimedia Box
* Customizing Fonts & Colors

Bundle #2: RSS Feed Promotion

* Twitter Feed
* Feedburner Publicize Tools
* Feed Journal
* WP-o-Matic

Bundle #3: WordPress List Building

* Free WordPress Autoresponder
* Thank Me Later
* Add Signature Plugin
* Aweber & GetResponse Slide Up

Bundle #4: WordPress Monetization

* Pretty Link Pro
* iTunes Affiliate Link Maker
* WordPress Amazon Associate
* Adsense Integrator

This is a very valuable package and until June 2, 2011 Alice is offering a pretty nice discount.

You do not want to miss out on this.

Check out the WordPress Promotion and Monetization PLR Bundle…

It will probably not be surprising to learn that a winning affiliate marketing strategy involves getting as much traffic (and as much targeted traffic) to your affiliate products as possibly can. And you can start getting enough traffic by choosing a product or service that you can be sure will generate interest and then to convert into sales.

One method for an effective affiliate marketing strategy is making sure that you make use of the merchant’s time and effort that he has put into his or her product or service. If you find an experienced and skilled merchant they will know that the more his or her affiliates are selling, the better chance for them to earn more. That way he or she will continue to test and tweak the product’s or service’s sales page to make it into the most compelling offer possible that will make it hard for people to refuse once they find their page.

Try to find sales pages that are simple and clean, that offer a compelling headline, testimonials and, if possible, even a timer that creates an urgency for people to see how long they have to claim the product or possibly the bonus that comes with it.

After you’ve chosen a product with a proven sales page and conversion rate, you will want to get as much high-quality traffic to the offer as possible. This can be accomplished by directly advertising your affiliate link with PPC (pay-per-click), classified ads, banner ads, etc. Or by setting up a content blog or website that provides valuable information on the niche of the product or service you are selling.

If you are new to this, a blog might be the easiest way to get started and a WordPress blog is often the most highly recommended because it comes with many free plug-ins that will allow you to be more visible to the search engines.

Proper keyword research is an important part of any kind of affiliate marketing plan of action. Once you have chosen the product or service that you want to promote, then you can choose the keywords that you are going to use to get traffic to your link or to your website or blog. Again, being new, you will want to choose less competitive keywords.

Use the Google Adwords Keyword Research Tool (which is free of charge) and type in the general term that describes your product’s niche. This tool can then provide you with all the related search terms that people are actually using when they go to their browser and do a search. The tool will also provide you with general statistics on how often each term is searched, how competitive each term is, what people are bidding on this term in PPC ads, etc.

You can start with lower-searched terms and use these in your blog/website content, or in your direct link advertising methods. As you attract to more visitors, you could then begin using more competitive terms in your affiliate marketing strategy.

Here we go with day 2 of Mike Paetzold’s birthday gifts from him to you. What is that you say. Mike is giving gifts instead of receiving them? Well, that is just how Mike is. Don’t tell him I said this but maybe as you get older you start losing it a little bit. Kind of batty huh?

In case you are not sure what I am talking about, Mike Paetzold, the Old Bald Guy, Mr WordPress himself is getting ready to celebrate his 57th birthday. And in honor of that day, which we still don’t know the proper date, Mike is offering a few of his products at 57% off. Now the sale is only for a product each day and is good for 24 hours.

Yesterday it was his “Profitable Blog Steps” product and if you missed that you missed a good product. Today it is his WordPress Made Easy Home Study Course. Being an expert in WordPress I am sure that you will learn a few things that could help you with a WordPress blog.

Again this is just for today and at a 57% discount so if you are interested in becoming a wordpress user this could be the course for you?

==>  WordPress Made Easy

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It really is a lot easier than you think to try blog marketing. It can be very helpful if you even have a little bit of blogging experience. You will then only need to learn a few new things and you might be able to start earning money from your blog in a few different ways.

The first thing you will want to do is make sure you are pretty comfortable using the blogging software. I personally like to work with WordPress blogs. But there is a lot of other blogging software out there. Just find one you like and learn as much as you can about. That way you will become familiar with using it. You will want to learn what methods of posting and editing are used. Get to know how to customize your blog so you can personalize it a bit. If you are not as interested with customization, you might do great with a free blog from Blogger.com or wordpress.com. Then once you feel more comfortable you can get a blog that you can customize and make personable.

You will want to be comfortable with the way your blog software works. You can then decide which market will work best for you. That market is sometimes referred to as a ‘niche’. Some examples of niches are internet marketing or weight loss. You will be trying to find a market with not a lot of competition while still being very popular. This might require you to get more specific in your choice of niches like ‘wine coolers’ or ‘senior dating’. You will hear a lot of talk about choosing a niche that is of interest to you, but you may also want to take into consideration finding a niche that is profitable.

So, now everything is in place for you to start blog marketing. You just need to fill your blog with interesting posts, also called content, that has to do with your niche. Let’s say you choose the ‘senior dating’ niche, then you will want to make sure you fill your blog with interesting content about senior dating. Just write some posts about dating activities and how seniors can plan dates. This can make your readers want to read your content, since you will be giving them some good information. And that is the whole point, to get a lot of traffic to your new blog.

By this time, you should have some really great information on your blog. Now you can come up with some ways that you can make money from it. You could put pay per click ads on it and be earning money when people click on the ads. You might also write reviews of affiliate products and recommend that your readers purchase products through the link provided in your posts. But, one of the most important and useful ways for long term income is to offer your readers a free gift, a bribe, in exchange for their name and email address. That way you can build up a mailing list and be able to market to them over and over and over again.

You will want to work on getting as much traffic to your blog as possible. I would advise you to read up and learn how to make powerful blog posts and how to also optimize a blog for maximum visitors. If you get started with blog marketing right now, you could have things starting to roll along in about a week.

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