Blog Marketing

One of the harder things to do is figure out exactly what type of affiliates and advertising will work best for different types and styles of blogs. Sure for some blogs it is very obvious, for example its fairly straight forward that if you visit my sons Ben 10 alien force blog you are going to find Ben 10 products and merchandising.

However what if you have a personal blog all about you. For example what if your blog is the type of blog that is filled with surveys about your likes and dislikes, contains applets for your favorite online games, and perhaps some sort of virtual pet.

What type of products would you advertise on this type of blog? This is a problem many personal bloggers face. A lot of them settle to just put google ads and similar pay per click advertising on their blogs and let the ad companies select the ads for them and this is fine. However there is not much to be had in the way of residual income this way.

Residual income is income that comes in monthly with little to no effort, or more likely, it requires a lot of work in the beginning but less and less as time goes on, but the money keeps coming.

If it sounds confusing just ask yourself this. If you are using google adwords to generate money, each month you get paid based on the number of clicks you get. If for some reason your blog goes offline for an entire month, how much money do you make? Nothing right? No one can visit your blog therefore no one can click on your ads. If no one can click ads, you can’t get paid.

With residual income its a lot different. With residual income you get paid on many different factors. For example you may get paid a certain percent of the income generated by others you bring into a program. Therefore if your blog goes down, you are still making money off others. This is residual income at its finest.

That’s what I want to talk to you about today. A unique fun way to make some residual income that is perfect for personal blogs. Please note this program is meant for personal bloggers and is not a get rich quick scam! If you read about it on other websites people often make false claims about how much can be made or has been made with the program.

The program is actually a two part program called trek pay and trek advertising. First trek advertising is an advertising and marketing solution for websites. The way the marketing solution works is that you pay for advertising, and trek advertising sends you the exact type of traffic you need for the exact type of reason you want.

If you are looking to increase clicks on you affiliate links, trek advertising sends you traffic that will click on your third part links (aka affiliate links). If you provide your own products and content, trek advertising sends you traffic that will seriously read and be interested in your products and content.

All you have to do is simply tell the system what type of ads you have on your website and then people will find your site using the trek pay search feature.

For those with affiliate advertising the way it works is members of the trek pay system visit your website, they are encouraged through the system to click your ads. When they click, your advertising revenue will sky rocket and the searchers find what they were originally seeking. The charge is $.02 per click. Therefor as long as your ads pay you more then $.02 per click, you are going to make GREAT money.

If you do not have 3rd party advertising on your website the trek advertising solution sends only those interested in your services. So they will only check out your own sites material and not advertising. This is quality traffic! Real people looking through your website!

What really makes trek advertising work is understanding trek pay. Trek pay is an easy system of generating extra cash. The more active a member is, the faster they get paid. A member is awarded credits each time they do one of the following:

1. When a member does a search and visits a client website, credits are given to the member.

2. If a member refers another person to TrekPay or trek advertising they are also awarded credits.

The idea is to build up as many credits in a week as you possibly can.
Each week trek pay puts a dollar figure on those credits based on the amount of advertising slots paid for and the amount of members clicking on various ads.

When trek pay does this, they replace your weekly credits with the dollar amount they are worth for that week. The more credits you have, the faster you can get paid and the more money you make. Using this system you can generate up to $50 a week (anything after $50 from the credit system will not be paid).

After the weekly $50 you can generate there is an additional way to earn. This additional method is based off sales commissions. When a member is credited with a sale from trek advertising they will receive an immediate deposit into their account.

This means its very important for trek pay members to advertise thier referral pages! A member may earn $50 dollars per week with their credit system. However, earnings for commissions are unlimited.

Currently trek pay will allow you a 12.5% commission rate on each sale directly to the original referrer. In order to request payment you must have at least $5.50 in the account and you must also have PayPal Account.

Joining trek pay is free and the more you use it and the more you get others to use it the more profitable it becomes. I spend about an hour a day on the site and bring in almost $85 extra a month just through this program.

Also by adding a link to trek pay on your website, when others visit your custom affiliate landing page and make a sale, you generate commissions.

Like I said in the beginning of the article, this type of advertising and generating money is not easy at first and its certainly not for everyone. However for those with personal websites and a little dedication, this is a great additional residual income. Just get friends and family to sign up and use it and you will be making some money very quickly.

By the way trek pay and trek advertising are both very new projects to the internet. They are actually in pre-release beta version still. However they are continuing to pay out every week! Whats even better is they already have over 53,000 members and that number is increasing by thousands a month (meaning there is still time to get in on this and make money).

I strongly encourage checking it out. There page is not very enticing or informative, but the program is good and does work. Best of luck!

Its a question every serious blogger asked themselves as some point, should I be using adsense to make money or should I have affiliate links on my website.

The problem is there is that there are so many people who boast about both that there seems to be no happy medium. Those who use adsense swear by it and those who use affiliates swear by them.

Well I am going to try to help you with this question. The real answer to this question, is based on a few lot of factors about your blog. I will go through each of the factors with you and show you where you belong with your blog.

• what is the topic of your blog?

This is the first question you need to ask yourself. What is the topic of your blog. If you have a blog that maintains focus around one particular topic, then affiliate advertising may be the way you want to go.

Some examples of sites that maintain focus are:
ben-10-alien-force.info: This is a project my 6 year old and myself work on. Its a blog whose topic focus’s around the hit cartoon network tv series Ben 10.

handbag buzz: One of the blogs who is owned by a friend whom I help by offering them free blog coaching. She focus’s all her topics and posts around handbags. Topics such as cleaning, various handbag designs, mens handbags, etc.

Free iphone 3GS: This is a blog that talks all about the iphone. It is specifically designed to help people get iphones for free. Basically, if you want to learn about iphones or get an iphone here is the place.

Blogs that center around a specific topic are looking to obtain very targeted traffic, the iphone site is specifically geared towards people interested in cell phones. The handbag site is specifically geared towards people who like handbags, the ben10 site is specifically geared towards children who like ben10.

Because the audience is so targeted, its easy to know what they are going to buy, therefore there is better profits in commission based sales. Clearly children who go to a ben10 site, are also going to bug their parents to buy a really cool poster they see on the site. What I don’t know however is that that same child is going to buy a dora the explorer poster.

This is why affiliate marketing is so powerful for this type of site. Unlike with Google adwords and similar programs, with affiliate marketing you can hand select products and stores who you wish to work with, which in the long run greater increases your chance of making a sale.

The fact is however not all blogs are quiet so targeted. For example a personal blog may have different posts and a different type of traffic every day. That person is going to have know clue what the visitor is interested in (hint if your target audience is teens through people in early 20’s, music sells!). If they have no clue what the visit is interested in, Google adsense is often the way to go.

Google targets the traffic that comes to your site automatically and they do so for each page and post you make. So if today you post about some speech the president made, today’s post may have a bunch of political links distributed via Google adsense. Then if tomorrow you post about how sick you are feeling, on tomorrows post Google may pick to advertise cold medications.

If you have a news style blog, adsense may also be a good choice for you. No one knows what tomorrows news is going to be and no one knows who is going to look at what story. Today you may have a story about a plane crash and get 100 people who want to read about. Tomorrow you may be posting about a tornado and get an entire different audience of the exact same size. Both audiences have different interests. For this, Google adsense comes in handy.

• Why do you own a blog?

I ask this because if you are not passionate about the topic you have chosen or if you are using article spinning/article generating software, then its very likely you are one of the ones who wants to own as many blogs as possible and do as little work as possible.

If this is the case, then Google adsense is likely the way for you to go (at least to start). The reason for this is because you are going to have a massive amount of blogs, and then you can use Google adsense on each of them thus increasing your chances for clicks, and your profits. If you can master this method, good for you, its not my method.

However those who do use the above method, are advised as time goes on to slowly start to switch yours blogs over based on the topic to affiliate marketing, if you can target correctly there is better money in affiliate marketing.

Just like with the last question, do you own your blog because its an addition or part of a new website? Or perhaps your blog is the news website and that is the reason for its existence, to share news. If this is the case, just like above, Google adsense is the way for you.

Basically adsense is the way to go when you have absolutely no idea who your target audience is, or if your target audience changes day by day and/or post by post.

Also please note when I refer to Google adsense I am referring to any adsense style program when you are paid on a per click basis and the ads are targeted for you.

• What age group is your target audience

This is a very important question to ask yourself. What is the age range of the people you are targeting. If you are targeting people ages 40 and up, then perhaps Google adsense is right for you.

The reason for this is the majority of people over 40 are more skeptical about where they spend money and usually realize that people who can afford to pay for advertising are also more secure to hand over credit card information to. Adsense gets a better click ratio for this reason.

If your target is people aged 14 to 30 they generally are computer suave and only spend money on very specific items. Generally these items revolve around music, television, and sports. If you are targeting this age range and are not using these types of affiliate products in your advertising, then I would strongly recommend Google adsense.

Lastly if you are targeting people between 30 and 40, I would say its a 50/50 toss up. They generally tend to spend more money online, but they also tend to blindly click more. For this reason I recommend people falling in this category use a mix of the two.

If you really can’t figure out what type of advertising to use on your blog, don’t hesitate to check out my front page and drop me a line, I’d be glad to offer you some assistance.

This doesn’t apply to “every” blog but it definitely applies to a lot of them. Today I am going to talk about the benefits of reseller programs and just what they offer you and how for very little investment you can sell your own products at whatever price you want. This also allows you to create affiliate programs for your software and pay others to sell for you.

Generally there are two popular types of reseller programs. The first is that of ebooks and the second is that of software. This is why its doesn’t apply to every blog, not every blog is set up in a way where software or ebooks are beneficial.

However for those who have tech blogs, marketing blogs, template blogs, or any similar type of blog, you really want to consider what I am about to say.

The hottest selling things on the internet today are information and software. Ebooks teach people how to do things in a hurry. Most ebooks are short and sell for around $60.00.

As an affiliate of someone selling an ebook you generally get paid between 10% and 30% of each sale. That means you make between $6 and $20. However if you flip those odds around, you make 10 times that. Why?

As an affiliate selling a product, you are one person. You benefit from each product you sell. As the owner of a product, you make not only the $60 per sale, you can also make $40 per sale on sale made by YOUR affiliates.

The question is what reseller programs to get involved with. This can be very tricky and it is hard for me to recommend. I know what works for me but what works for me will not always work for others.

For me I have a platinum upgrade account with http://www.imbuzzsoftware.com.

IMBuzz Software has given me 30+ applications that I can completely rebrand, customize, and sell at whatever cost I want. They have also given me access to over 15 ebooks that I can rename, re-write, change, do whatever I want to, sell, give away whatever.

Whats great about reseller ebooks is after you buy them, you can go through and add your own affiliate links through out the ebook and then just give the books away and convert that way.

If you have a marketing blog or can in some way benefit from giving away marketing software and ebooks, you also can get a free silver account account for a limited time. Not quiet as many options as the gold and platinum accounts, but it gives you a basic idea of whats inside.

The software is of AMAZING quality. Thats the best I can tell you. You’ll have to check the rest out for yourself. If you are targeting anyone trying to start a home based business, creating a blog or website, or in some other way involved with internet marketing, in my opinion you are a fool not to invest in a platinum upgrade account.

After you have your reseller account, start setting up affiliate programs for the software and ebooks with pay dot com. It costs nearly nothing (if anything at all) and can definitely generate you some serious income from products.

If you have a reseller program you want me to test, drop me a url. I will look into it. (I make no promises of investment but I am always on the lookout)

Well after numerous recommendations and complaints I finally decided its time to talk about generating income. After all that is exactly why you are blogging and what you are wanting to do right? So for some time to come that is what I will be talking about. Various programs and ways of making money online that actually pay out and are not scams.

So today I am going to focus on twitter. There are a lot of ways to make money on twitter but after testing many of them I find only a few are worth investing in. Please keep in mind I do not involve myself with any pay per click affiliate programs. Pay per clicks involve high volumes of traffic and click ratios to be truly effective. I would rather make a percentage on sales, I have found this pays more in my experience.

AdCause
The first program on twitter I want to talk about is quite brilliant. Its called adcause.com. This program allows you to sell tweets based on a per tweet/monthly rate.

It sounds confusing but its really simple. For example you could sell 1 out of 20 of your tweets for an entire month at the price of $5.00. This means someone see’s your twitter advertising slot and has the option to buy it. If they do, they pay you $5.00 to your paypal, and for the next month, 1 out of every 20 of your tweets will be an advertisement.

Logically the more users and the more often you tweet, the more your tweets are going to be worth. However I have found that the best selling price is $1.00 or less for 1 out of 10 posts for a month. For those of you who have a bot with a LOT of followers, this is perfect. It just ads the advertisement to your stream!

Be a Magpie
The second twitter program I use is be-a-magpie.com. This is very similar to the way AdCause works except you don’t get to set a price, the advertiser gets to make you an offer. In my opinion this is better on both ends.

There is one drawback to this method from the publisher standpoint. Many advertisers (in fact a majority) who contact you with offers, want to do pay per sale. This means you are giving out free advertising unless you make a sale. I’d rather be payed based on tweet count.

However I have used both of these programs from an advertiser standpoint and I must say for those forking out the money, magpie is a much better solution.

TwittAd
The third program I want to talk to you about is called twittad.com. This is a very unique idea and honestly works well but it seems very few people are actually getting involved. Its probably because the website is very confusing and hard to set up, however trust me when I tell you it is well worth it.

Basically with this site, you post your twitter account to advertisers. You offer the advertiser a chance to promote a product or service using your twitter background. The advertiser then pays you based on the number of new followers you get while displaying the ad. This is actually VERY beneficial to both publisher and advertiser and I highly recommend the program to everyone.

Also they have great support so if you get lost in their dashboard interface, or can’t figure out how to set up your account, just contact them. They are very friendly.

Followe.rs
The last program is also the best program for generating money with twitter. The program is called followe.rs and how it works is so basic its brilliant. You buy an account with them (yes sadly it takes money to make money sometimes but a simple one month trial and you will be hooked) and they add every single person who is a member to your follower list and you follow them all back automatically.

How does this generate your money? Thats the brilliant part. They search out people on twitter who would also be interested in the service, follow them, and then send them a message recommending the service. You make money for each person who also signs up.

Think about what I am saying. You are able to offer people the change to get paid to build their follower list. Its that simple! There is no better selling, or easier to sell program on twitter. You can go from have zero followers, to 3000 in literally a few days time, and you get paid!

So now you have a few basic ways of using twitter to generate some extra money. None of these programs will help you get rich by themselves, but the more programs you are involved with, the bigger those checks become! Making real income online is all about being diversified and this is just one of many ways to do that.

If you have other “set up and forget” style twitter programs that generate money, please let me know of them, just make sure they are all quality. I don’t want something that hijacks links or anything like that. I am sick of those programs and refuse to open anyone’s link who uses them.

http://followe.rs/

This is the hottest twitter application/service at the moment. Watch the video to understand. Basically put, they pay you to build your follower list. AWESOME!!! When I first found this program I didn’t expect it would work, or pay off. I am glad I paid the $1 for my two week trial cause this is just AWESOME! Get in on this before it is too late.

In just under 24 hours of using this program I have already made 2 sales and earned $20. May not seem like much but imagine making $20 a day off just 1 program? Thats $600 a month. Then you add all your other programs in with it, who wouldn’t want to join? This is the easiest and fastest way to grow followers. Check this out before it stops working.

How many ebooks have you seen that can “teach you to get rich in a month”? How many applications have you seen to grow your twitter following? Have you ever even considered one of these ebooks or softwares?

The fact is I have. I’ve actually invest in various ebooks and products that ALL fall short of what was expected or what was claimed. However I have picked up some tricks and tips from some of this reading.

Well I am not one who likes scams, lies, or half truths. So yet again I am going to bring you a secret the twitter marketers don’t want to let people in on. I am letting you in on the secrets of the professionals and I am not charging you one penny to learn them.

First let me start by explaining to you the three main reasons people are using twitter, because honestly it all boils down to three reasons. Some people use it to be social and interact with people on a live basis. They use twitter as a social website much like a large chat that saves what people say.

The others use it to watch their tweet feeds. They scan through see if they have any interesting headlines and if so they click them, if not they post to twitter for a few minutes then go about other business.

Finally we have those trying to market some product or service and make money. That’s the category most of us fit into (at least I assume so if you are reading this blog).

Honestly the first two types of twitter users are the ones we care about. The trick is to appease both types of people. For example, I have my main twitter account @bloggingforbuck. I hardly ever spam this account and when I do I make it plainly obvious by warning my followers first.

I also direct people to my twitter bot @blogging4bucks. The bot is used for one reason, to market goods and products. I do this to appease to those who are on twitter for the feed and not the interaction. In fact I have over 10 bots set up all over twitter under various names.

Why would I do that? Because twitter monitors smaller accounts less plus its just easier that way. If I can get each of 10 accounts to have 2000+ followers, thats effectively marketing to about 10,000 people (some will be duplicates thats why the low number).

So how do I go about building these followers and creating all these bots? Well I have created a free software just for that purpose. This software allows you to mass follow based on search terms, mass unfollow those who don’t follow back, mass unfollow ALL of your followers, create free tweet into the future bots, create free auto return follow bots, create free rss feed bots, create feeds of your affiliate links, and a whole lot more. This is all jammed into one easy to use dashboard.

So are you interested?

Download it now: http://theda420.info/MTF/MTF.zip

Please read the README file before installing!

Do you have your own personal marketing guru, advertising guru, affiliate guru, or blogging guru? It seems everyone these days has some personal guru. Perhaps you follow your favorite marketing guru’s blog. Perhaps you follow them on twitter and myspace. Perhaps you even get personal coaching from them.

If you do follow a guru of your own, then you are probably wondering why they are continuing to be successful but you are following their methods to a tee and you are not. Is there something they aren’t telling everyone? Well that’s what I am here today to talk to you about.

This little bit of information is what no marketing guru or marketing expert wants you to know. I am about to expose their biggest secret to success. Its what makes them successful and what keeps you from ever becoming successful on their level. In my opinion this is the biggest hoax the world has ever known and it happens by accident.

You want to know the secret of their success? Its really simple. Its fame! What do I mean? Well just sit back and think for a second and it will all become clear.

We have a guy who we will call James. Now James got into blogging when no one new what a blog was. James started his blog just as a side project like so many others do now. Only at the time like I say, no one new what a blog was. No one new google would love the fact blogs were a constantly updated source of information.

No one realized that because of that a blog craze would get started and every business in the world would try to create a blog of some sort. But what James did know is that one day he started to see a bit more traffic to his blog then usual. In fact not just a bit but his traffic almost doubled in a month.

He realized that it was because of this new found craze and he was going to take advantage of it. So James wwent out and started collecting all the tools that he could find that would help him get the word out about his blog. At this time tools were just being developed. Because of this he got the chance to try the best and the worst of tools for free. Some worked and some didn’t.

He figured out what did work for him and went with it. Because he was of the first to do this, as the craze grew on and became more popular, more people started using these tools. The thing was his blog was already their. So naturally people checked it and his blog became more and more popular.

He became rich and it was all by accident. But wait it doesn’t end their!

Because he was the first to use these tools they worked for him, but as the craze went on the tools became less and less effective. Why? More and more people used them until the blog tools were not much different then the search engine tools. We all know how hard it is to get a website number one in a search engine when you are fighting 300,000,000,000 people for the same tame? Well thats how it became for bloggers.

But James already made his money and had his claim to fame. So he didn’t care that these tools no longer worked. What he did know was that now 250,000 people were watching everything he typed. He could sell a new product faster then ever because people started saying “well he must know what he’s doing because he is successful”.

So James decides he is going to write an ebook about marketing. The truth is the ebook is 2nd rate and not very useful to many people with a lot of made up statistics and facts. It didn’t matter though because with 250,000 people thinking he knew his stuff it would still sell. So he publishes the ebook and charges people $50 a copy for his inside “secrets”. now out of his 250,000 readers, 100,000 buy his new ebook.

Guess what? He just made $5M and he can claim he is STILL a marketing guru, after all how else could his ebook be so successful as to make him $5M? But the fact is the ebook was only successful because he was famous within his own right.

This is the scam behind most marketing gurus and blogging gurus. They don’t know what they are talking about and they are only successful because they were at the right place at the right time. This is what makes most MLM people fail but the higher up levels continue to make money. They had a claim to fame when the company was first created and ran with it even after things were falling apart! People trusted them, they got rich because of it and others got poor.

So how do you avoid self proclaimed gurus and find legit gurus? Its HARD! Especially now that people have gotten into the practice of displaying their earnings online. I have a really simple tip though. If a person is only marketing one product, one company, one idea, one ebook, or MLM they don’t have a clue. They got rich and ran with it.

Why do I say this? Because those who REALLY figure out marketing online, realize its more profitable to sell in QUANTITY!!! No marketing and/or affiliate professional is making 2M a year off one product unless its via a claim from fame. Instead a good affiliate marketer, a good marketing professional, and a good blogger will be able to show you a portfolio of things they do and/or have been involved in.

For example in the past 10 days of using Adollow:

Or my last months earnings with PayDotCom:

I could post over 100 different sales accounts I have that all make between $30 and $100 a month. You can try to calculate the math and tell me if you think I am a success or not. Nope I didn’t have an ebook that sold 5 million copies, nope I didn’t happen to be in the right place at the right time, and no most of the marketing professionals I know can’t help me achieve the results I get.

I have no secret to my success. I do everything I claim I do in the blog. As I do more I post more (okay I’ll be honest not EVERY trick I use is posted yet but they are all coming and if sked none of them are hidden!)

Why is this important to tell people? Because the truth is I know many people who follow these self proclaimed guru experts and will swear by their advise when the truth is if they stopped spending all this money making an already rich person even richer, perhaps they would find a website like this were they can learn some truths behind marketing, advertising, and blogging.

I have tried explaining this to people, I just can’t seem to explain it.

Its free blog marketing,
its free website marketing,
its free affiliate product marketing,
its a way to sell advertising space on your website
and make real money.

What I will say is this, its totally free to join and they give you real money to try their service with.

I beg you please buy ad space on my website using their free service for telling you this. PLEASE!!!!

I will return the favor to as many people as I can! I promise!

Whats it hurt to try something free? This idea is going to spread very fast and not be free for long so please help me out, sign up for an account and buy advertising on my website.

http://www.adollo.com

I have a brand new method of making money for anyone who owns a website (blog or otherwise). This is not something I have read or something shared with me. This is not a scam of any sorts. In fact not one person on this planet knows this exists except me at this point.

I have tried this method myself before telling anyone about it. The problem is I am afraid to tell others of it. Why? Because as anyone who reads this blog knows, I do things that are not exactly wrong, but they are perhaps not 100% right either. I walk that grey line.

Thats exactly what this new method making me money is, its a grey line walking move. This means the minute how I am making all this money (to day I am making exactly $100 a day with this) gets exposed, the money is going to stop. So the more people who find out about it, the worse off I am.

I am willing to share it in slow increments but certainly not on this website. So here is the deal, if you do want to know how I am doing this (and believe me ANYONE AT ALL can go from making $0.00 to $100 in ONE day I guarantee) you have to contact me privately.

This is the only rule, you must have you own website or blog and it must have some real content (not thrown up just today). I don’t care if you have an MLM website, a blog, a shopping site, or any other type of site. If you have a site, this will work until the secret is figured out.

If you are interested in hearing what I am doing, contact me privately at 00purple@gmail.com. I will only use your email to tell you about this offer, never for any other reason. I will not use it to contact you on facebook or myspace or any other site. I will not use it to offer you any other product or service ever. I believe this offer is that good.

Also because I am only sharing this with limited people at slow increments, if I don’t contact you back the day you contact me, just 3wait. I am telling people on a first come first serve basis, probably no more then 10 people a day.

So if you want to know what this is about (and if you don’t I am laughing at you anyways) then contact me. $100 a day is $700 a week. Even if you make more then that, would you refuse $700 a week more and spend no time except listening to what I tell you (it may take about 3 to 5 emails depending on your level of expertise) in email?

00purple@gmail.com

So after a recent discussion on article marketing, I realized there are a TON of people that really don’t understand the first thing about it! They don’t realize how to use article marketing to bring traffic back to their blog. Whats worse, they don’t realize just how much money they are losing by NOT article marketing.

I decided because of this I’d finally release my newest ebook, article marketing secrets. This book was written because not knowing the complete theory behind article marketing is a surefire way to end up getting awful results. Now although article marketing secrets is written for total beginners, the truth is that it is a full and comprehensive guide that takes both a broad and specific view of article marketing as a whole.

What this means is that you get a look at the bigger picture, and how exactly to make article marketing work for you. I personally guarantee this ebook can teach you how to make over $100 a day just by marketing your website!

If you are unsure about article marketing, just learning, or have tried article marketing with little results, this book is definitely worth the $5 it costs to teach you! At least visit the page and see the complete list of what you will learn reading this book!