DPR Affiliate Marketing Blog

Archive for November, 2008

I used to keep my head in the sand as an affiliate marketer. I did one thing. I promoted Clickbank products. Why? The high commission percentage. It’s a rush when a sale can get you anywhere from $20 to $100 in commissions. But I only tried a few things. Didn’t step out of the seo box much. But there is more than SEO.

Affiliate marketing can be a pain in the ass to learn sometimes. It’s not hard but it is work. But I am not talking about that part.

The problem is with the options. There are just too many. If you look at the post I wrote just the other day, you will see why. I listed over a hundred ways to promote your blog. Do they all work? Yes. To some extent. But when you are faced with a list like that, at least when I am, I freeze. Too many options gives you no clear place to start. And I promise, that list is only a start. I have used some of the methods and know what has worked for me. And some of the methods are based on your blog as a whole while others focus on posts. And some methods are good to use when you start a blog and others will only work after your blog has at least a little bit of a presence online.

I said before that I collect words. I collect lists of them. These are lists that are useful for mixing with other keywords. I called them parallel keyword lists. And they can save you a lot of money when you use them to create combinations with the main keywords of your campaign. Enjoy! I have more. Just have to track them down.

• List of Car Models
• List of All the States
• List of Cell Phone Models
• United States City List
• List of Occupations
• Buy Keywords

If you are not sure how to use these, see this post on creating long tail keywords.

There is much more information on affiliate marketing out there than I can really write about at this site. Here are some of my findings.

Google Adwords Adds More Features

Google’s Trendalyzer, renamed Motion Chart, visually depicts user behavior on a site. Someone using this tool can search on five dimensions of data to see how site visitors behave over time, and how the quality of their visits rates through an animated graph with colored bubbles.

Blackhat SEO to Affiliate Network CEO

Jason Akatiff was a regular blackhat SEO making cloaked pages and having fun making money online until he purchased a failing affiliate network last June.

If I can stay on one server long enough, I will continue this thing. But I have had issues with that lately. And after doing all the tech stuff, writing becomes harder. But back on track. You have chosen a few products to promote on your blog and written some content. Promotion must start from day one, although some tactics and method will only work after your blog has more of a presence.