For those of you that want to learn affiliate marketing and SEO, understanding the basics of keyword research is going to be vital to your success! The google keyword tool is a free resource that I use to find keywords and phrases that will drive traffic to my websites! I put this video together to show you the basics of keyword research:
SEO stands for search engine optimization. On a monthly basis, there are literally billions of online searches. In order to capitalize on this, it is vital that your site ranks high for keywords that are relevant to your website! SEO is essentially a strategy designed to boost your websites rankings in search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo.
Basically, when people search the internet for your products, services or information, your website needs to be the first they find! The higher your website ranks in the search engines, the more traffic it will receive.
With that said, it is important to have a well rounded SEO campaign. A proper SEO campaign should include, but is not limited to, keyword research, on-page optimization, off-site tactics and definitely link building.
There are plenty of companies that charge a premium rate to do this for you or you can learn to how to do it yourself. To be honest with you, it is not hard, but it can be time consuming, especially if you are going after keywords that have a lot of competition.
Either way, I recommend that you at least learn the basics of SEO, then you are not as vulnerable to being scammed or having your site removed from the search engines databases for “black hat” techniques!
For years I had heard of people making money online, but I had no idea how they were doing it, then a friend turned me on to Bring The Fresh.
BTF was founded by Kelly Felix and Mike Long. Between the two of them, they have forgotten more about internet marketing than most of us hope to learn. The BTF training program offers tutorial videos on every subject!
They literally hold your hand and walk you slowly, step by step through the entire process of online marketing and search engine optimization.
This includes how to quickly and easily make your own websites, find products to promote, optimize your sites so they will rank high in Google and other search engines and so much more!
Of all the ways for both newbies and seasoned marketers to make money online, affiliate marketing is probably the most often used. It gives the marketer the opportunity to focus his or her energies just on the marketing aspect of the sales funnel.
After all, the hardest part of starting a business online is to develop a great product with sizzling sales copy – elements already taken care of when you’re promoting affiliate products. With these two milestones taken care of, your energy can be focused on driving traffic to the affiliate sales site.
Think of it this way: someone writes a great product that teaches specialty dog training – but then doesn’t know how to reach his or her audience. On the other hand, you know that there is a huge market for specialty dog training, and you know how to generate traffic to a site, but you have no personal knowledge of the dog training niche.
Want to know how to make money online with affiliate marketing? Here are 3 ways to slash your affiliate marketing research efforts to the bare minimum so that you can get on to the fun of promoting and marketing.
Head over to the ClickBank Marketplace and choose any category you might be interested in promoting. This will bring back the top ten most popular products in that category. You might check the second page, too, if you don’t find something that interests you on page one.
Don’t be put off by the fact that a product seems too popular where you fear saturation. Affiliate marketing is all about sleuthing out the potential customer – and maybe you have an “eye” for that market that others don’t.