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Profitable Blog Steps For Affiliate Marketers

If you’ve been working online for any length of time I’m sure that you’ve heard people saying that Affiliate Marketing is the easiest way to start an online business.

Here are some of the reasons that Affiliate Marketing is considered “easy”

  • You don’t need a product
  • You don’t need customer support
  • You can earn a sizable percentage of the sale
  • You don’t carry inventory

So basically all you need to do is drive traffic.  Now on the surface that Sounds great doesn’t it?

Well then why do over 97 percent of affiliates fail?

Is it because the majority of affiliates are lazy and don’t take action or is it because they’re not taking the right action.  I believe it’s a combination of the two that results in over 97% of affiliates not making money.

Yes, Affiliate Marketing is an easy way to get started online, however driving traffic to an affiliate page is not enough to see consitant profits.  Take the time to learn about Affiliate Marketing and set up your “system” and you’ll soon be in the 3% of affiliates making money.

Mike Paetzold,  just released his new audio video course that will help you do just that.

Profitable Blog Steps

It’s a 10 module plan to walk you through how to set up a successful affiliate marketing system and get you profitable quickly.

It covers…

  • Introduction to Affiliate Blogging Secrets
  • Blog Building: Research and Choosing Topic

Then it continues with more intermediate and advanced tactics for you to use in your Affiliate Marketing business.

  • The Free Bait Method
  • Create A Viral ‘Infection’ With Resale Rights Reports

When going through the videos it’s best to do them in order as they build on each other.  Mike aso includes an MP3 version as well as a trascript of each video.

It doesn’t matter if you are brand new or are an experienced affiliate marketer; Profitable Blog Steps can help you get what you want from your online business.

Profitable Blog Steps has just launched and Mike is giving a discount for action takers but only for the first week Check this out today and save $20 but only until the 9th of June.

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7 Blog Ad Networks Worth Checking Out

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7 Blog Ad Networks Worth Checking Out


Once you’ve built up a nice readership for your blog, and you are beginning to see a steady stream of search engine traffic; one of the most important considerations is how you will monetize your blog. The good news is that there are a wide variety of blog ad networks to choose from. Let’s take a look at some of the best.

1. BuySellAds

BuySellAds is a great choice if you haven’t been successful with pay-per-click ad models like Adsense. When you sign up with BuySellAds, you’ll enter your blog information and wait for approval. BuySellAds will automatically retrieve your Alexa Rank, Google Page Rank, and other statistics to display to advertisers. Then you’ll name your price per month to display a banner ad on your site. Advertisers will be able to easily check out your website and decide if they would like to buy a banner ad. BuySellAds takes a 25% commission of the total ad cost.

2. Technorati Media

Technorati Media is the largest social media advertising network and the 3rd largest blog media property. Technorati has long been one of the top destinations for Internet users wishing to find the best and most relevant blogs on a wide variety of subjects. When you join their ad network, they’ll find the highest paying ads for your blog based on your content via a CPM (cost per 1000 views) model.

3. BlogAds

BlogAds is a relatively small network, but they represent some of the biggest names in blogging, like Perez Hilton. One of the biggest advantages to BlogAds is the amount of customization. You can specify the size of the ad you want, and you can even adjust the colors of the ads to match your site. The ads you sell will be based on a monthly fixed charge – not on impressions or clicks. You can reject any ad you wish, and BlogAds takes a 30% commission.

4. Sponsored Tweets

If you are already supplementing your blogging efforts with Twitter, then this can be a great way to get a few extra dollars. All you need to do is register your Twitter account with Sponsored Tweets and set your prices to begin receiving offers. You can charge both on a tweet-by-tweet basis and also on a per-click basis. Kim Kardashian reportedly gets paid $10,000 per tweet, so there is definitely a market here if you have a sizable number of followers.

5. Google Adsense

You may have heard about the Google Adsense network, and you have no doubt seen Google Ads on other blogs. The best part about the Adsense program is its simplicity. It is easy to be accepted into the program, and Google will immediately begin showing ads to your visitors related to the content on your blog. Depending on how valuable your keywords are, you can earn several dollars per click.

6. Amazon Affiliate Program

Another hugely popular advertising network that is easy to join is the Amazon Affiliate program. You can select products to display on your blog, or you can let Amazon choose products automatically based on your content. Every time someone buys something from Amazon, you will receive a percentage of the sale price. The best part is that you can earn even on products you didn’t explicitly advertise. If you recommend a book, someone might go to Amazon and buy an expensive flat screen television.

7. Payperpost

Payperpost is an ad network that brings bloggers and advertisers together. Once you list your blog, your statistics, your price per word, and your price per link; you’ll be able to field offers from advertisers who would like you to write a blog post about their product or service.

Every blog is slightly different, and there is no one best way to monetize it. Your best bet may be to try several of the above networks to see which one has the greatest potential earning power for your blog. Stick with the one that works, and discard the rest.

This is a guest article from James Adams, a blogger working for a UK based store specialising in HP 337 ink and other supplies. Read more of his work about print design and media on their blog, the CreativeCloud.


Monetize Your Blogs With Automated Ads

In a previous post Expert WordPress Video Review I shared with you a free SEO ready and secure WordfPress installer that you can install in just 3 clicks.

Today I have another free service that will help you monitize your blog.

It’s the new Automated Advertising “Bot”…

It’s a system to automate your advertising by getting more traffic to the ads that are profitable for you…automatically.

This is actually pretty cool, you’re going to love it.

  • What IS Automated Ads and what can it do?

It’s a site preloaded with banners for the different categories at ClickBank. You simply plug in your ClickBank ID, and the system generates banners all pointing to your affiliate link.

Once you have selected your category, size of banner, and number of banners to rotate, Automated Ads does the rest. Banners are shown based on their performance which makes your campaigns more and more profitable over time.

Another really cool feature is Automated Ads will automatically test out new popular ClickBank products as they are added to ClickBank for you.

So once you set this up, you never have to worry about which offers are converting for you or not, nor do you have to continually monitor what ClickBank has to offer. Affiliate marketing couldn’t get any easier!

  • How much does it cost?

Here’s the best part…right now it’s free.

The downside to the free application, however, is that you can’t rotate any of your own banners to your own sites, or banners to sites not currently in the program.

The upside is that you can upgrade your account and have free reign at adding whatever banners you want. Plus, you’ll also get 4 other scripts and software tools that allow you to automate your traffic, and ultimately your sales!

Anyway, you can check it out here: Automated Ads

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