A Factual Review of SEOLinkVine
April 25th, 2010 | Online Marketing | Comments Off
If you’re an IM marketer, you know the value of time-savings while increasing productivity. It could be a shocking discovery, for newer marketers, when they see how much boring, mundane work that’s necessary to do. There are lots of software programs out there that offer to take care of most of your SEO and link building efforts. There’s one more – and it’s called, SEOLinkVine. Is it worth the investment? We wondered, too, so we took it out for a spin to see if it can live up to the claims.
Right off the bat, we saw SEOLinkVine is not only an article submission platform. It also contains an article spinner that, when you use the correct tags, will automatically spin your articles as they are added to the blogs in the SEOLinkVine network. So each time you submit content it will be assured to be unique content. With other applications, each article tends to be submitted to multiple sites, and then you’re running the risk of being seen as an article spammer, or it’s treated as duplicate content. The SEOLinkVine software has built in capabilities to keep that from happening. Their site says all you need to do is write your content, and then upload it into the software application. Then the program takes over from there. It doesn’t do all the work, you’ll still need to write your articles.
Apparently, you will need to use the proper tags so the built-in content spinner can do its job correctly. And also you have to submit to the proper categories, as well. The authors make it very clear that while the software will take care of a lot of the work; it won’t do all of the work for you.
An added appeal with SEOLinkVine is it’s not really meant to replace your existing SEO software, it’s designed to work with and along side of it. You’ll find SEOLinkVine won’t be submitting your content to the standard submission sites article marketers are used to. SEOLinkVine will expand your audience impressively. The network sites will obviously not be oversaturated directories. These websites have all specifically stated they want to receive content from SEOLinkVine. If you’ve been around IM a while, you may think you’ve seen and heard almost everything. And… using a program to automatically publish content is certainly not a new concept. There are, naturally, no promises of 50 grand in your account by the end of the month.
Hey, Brad tells it like it is; you must do the work on your part if you want to see max ROI from SEOLinkVine. So if you’ll do the work, and use this program properly, nothing’s stopping you from expanding your business and making more.
Affiliate Marketing 101 – Three Common Affiliate Marketing Mistakes
April 17th, 2010 | Online Marketing | Comments Off
Are you curious what Affiliate marketing is? It is simply a marketing model which is built upon your promotion of products which others own for a direct commission, earned as people make their purchases by way of your affiliate link, a specific URL given to you to maintain a tabulation of your sales.
There is opportunity to make a nice profit though affiliate marketing as long as you know what you are doing. However, it is important to understand that, as with any business, there are many mistakes to be made. And as we all know the easiest and the most efficient way to move forward is to learn from others mistakes and making sure that you do not make the same. Given below are 3 such critical mistakes that you should be avoiding.
Promoting The Wrong Product
Is the majority of your time going toward crafting a pitch to sell your affiliate product? If you answered yes to that, then you need to stop doing it. As an affiliate marketer ‘sales’ are not your thing. Why is this? Because of the following: If a visitor comes to your site and reads your well thought out sales pitch and chooses to click on the affiliate site, they are presented with yet another sales page. Do you think your visitor will buy the product? Of course not. People do not want to be bombarded with advertisements. Instead, you need to pre-sell the affiliate product with informative content such as the one created by CB Predators, not with sales pitches. Your job as an affiliate marketer is to interest your prospects and send them directly to the actual sales page, not sell the product. Your site should recommend things rather than try to sell them, you want to offer enough content to maintain the attention of each visitor, but not seem like an advertising page, more a source of information giving customers the right advice for the right products. Then they click the link and are taken to the sales page.
Fully Understand Your Niche Market
This is one of the most fatal missteps an beginning affiliate marketer can make. You may lose promotional fees that are rightfully yours if the client has multiple options available for payment. This is very specifically true in the case of Clickbank products, as Clickbank only vends products that are downloadable. There are many vendors on Clickbank who have multiple payment options available, like merchant gateways and physical checks. Now, how does this put your commission at risk? Should a customer buy these items and pay via an alternate payment choice instead of Clickbank, the Clickbank affiliate commission that you’ve earned may not reach you.
Jumping on Lots of Affiliate Programs
Affiliate marketers need to have a lot of patience and the ability to concentrate. These are two vital CB Predator tools towards building the foundation of your success. You can lose your focus if you join many different affiliate programs and try to work with too many items at once. You won’t have enough time to properly research and promote any of them. Collectively, the profit that you earn on weakly promoting many different products is not as great as it could be if you strongly promote a more limited scope of items.
You should go for an affiliate product that gives you at least a 50% in commissions and put your every effort to promote it the right way. Don’t rush and don’t overload yourself – taking the time to promote correctly will increase your actual sales and maximize your profits.