When a newcomer tries to make money online, they often are told affiliate marketing is easy, you do not need to have your own website nor creating a product to sell online! Well to me, it is half true. Yes 10 years ago, perhaps affiliate marketer doesn’t need a website to promote the merchants product, but today, if you are planning to use pay per click or PPC advertising and promote your affiliate programs, I can tell you definitely will get a hard time. Why?

1.) According to Google Adword policies, there only can be one keyword bids per website. E,g your merchant site is xyz.com and they are selling a weight loss program for instance. If they have placed their bids using the keyword weight loss program, then you can’t bid it using the name of their websites.

2.) Some may argue to use a free affiliate cloaker such as TinyURL, ViralURL to “change” the name of the websites and advertise the programs using PPC but by doing that, you are not building your own prospects database. So is a website really needed to successfully promote any affiliate products?

There are short and long answer, in short, I would say a “yes’ , ‘no”. A “no” is because building a website definitely increases your chance of success when promoting affiliate program, but we do NOT for sure, if it worths our time and energy on promoting until we test it with marketing data. Once we confirmed this program generate a descent sales and commissions, then we can start to concentrate in building a website.

Why a ‘yes’ then? It depends on the program “buzz”. If many people start talking about it before the official product launch, it is more likely that we can generate lots of sales on the market, so by building a website, it helps to separate yourself to other marketers which hence gives your more benefits around it.

So back to my question “is affiliate marketing really that easy?” Well when it compares to creating your own products or services, it definitely a yes but if you compare it to a person that have little computer knowledge and funds and tries to make some money using the Internet, then I would say it NOT that easy after all. However, there are some good programs on the Internet that provides easy step by step guide and help you to set up the your first affiliate promotion pretty easily without you to know the in depth technical know how which doesn’t stop a total newbie to earn their first buck off the Internet. Such a program does exists but you have to do your research and find which ones suits your need.

Later in this affiliate marketing series post, I will talk about how to choose a profitable click bank products, so stay tuned!

When comes to SEO a site, you may heard of there are white hat, black hat and gray hats strategies. While they all can give you good ranking in major search engines but some SEO strategies will get your websites removed in Google major search index which doing harm of your online business if you are not careful. So this article, we cover the major black hat SEO techniques that you should stay away from.

Keyword Stuffing

Excessive repetition of the keywords inside a web page title, meta description, meta keywords tag, the body text, ALT image tags etc. This technique will be easily be detected by search engines such as Google and may harm your site ranking overall. As a general rule, do NOT repeat the keywords more than 10 times in a 250-words web page.

hidden text

It basically means the color of the text in a web page is the same as the body background, or the webmaster put their stuffed keywords inside the <noframes> and <noscript> tags.
This is a typical example of search engine results manipulation if used incorrectly. The webmaster tries to hide their stuffed keywords with normal web users but the search engines robots can read about it. One example of used may be, a webmaster is trying to sell their adult content services or products.

hidden links

As opposed to hidden text, this time webmasters trying to use some web design tricks and make the hyperlink show as small as possible usually 1″ x 1″ pixel. While it is nothing wrong if webmasters want to change the appearance of the link but by making as tiny as only 1″x1″ pixel, where most people in the people in the world will NOT able to read it, that is again the webmaster are trying to use that web page to manipulate the search engine results of their main sites by increase the link popularity

Participation in Link Farms

This involves a tightly-knit communities of pages referencing each other which again trying to gain link popularity of the communities main sites.

Cloaking

Cloaking refers to any of several means to serve a page to the search-engine spider that is different from that seen by human users. It can be an attempt to mislead search engines regarding the content on a particular web site. But in some cases it can also be used as an ethical mean, which provides accessibility of a site to users with disabilities or provide human users with content that search engines aren’t able to processed or parsed.

Generally, the above listed are called black hat SEOs and you should stay away from it and prevent your site being delisted in major search engines such as Google.

Everyone’s heard “money is the list”, build a database is essential to any online marketing success. You can build relationship and send them offers after offers, but what happen if they don’t buy?

So building a email lists is only half of the games, the essential aim for any online businessman to survive is to “get more buyers”. So how do you do that? Michael Rasmussen, one of the best known internet marketers who has about a year marketing experience, also has a reputation to help million of newbies to get started online. On October 28th, he is going to reveal his best secrets ever and show you how he covered his family visit to Hawaii in just one email promotion of a click bank product pretty easily. His latest project GetMoreBuyers.com reveals 90 minutes of video showing you step by step how to literally get more buyers. So what’s the secrets? He has prepared you a free video to show you more about this… click this link here and get the details right now..

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