February 4, 2008 – 10:08 am
By Davion Wong
Ever wondered how to use online PPC advertising for affiliate marketing? PPC is an acronym for pay per click. Almost every affiliate marketer has come across PPC or has somewhat used it as an advertising method for their websites or to sell a product directly. Pay-per-click advertising can be a very powerful traffic generating and sales converting tool when used wisely. But as the name suggests, you pay for each click. Therefore make each click count for you or you are headed for big time loss in advertising fees.Online PPC advertising is an advertising tool which was created not for affiliate marketing alone. As such, it does not always work well. Before you begin any campaign, be sure to read the terms of service at each PPC network. Read More »
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February 4, 2008 – 4:12 am
By Robert Smith ©2003 All Rights Reserved
I live in Eugene Oregon. We have the highest unemployment rate in the nation. It’s also the highest unemployment rate in Oregon’s history, varying from 8% to over 15%.
Getting any kind job in Oregon is a full time job in itself. Even menial jobs are in high demand here. Read More »
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February 4, 2008 – 3:15 am
By Robert Smith ©2004 All Rights Reserved
You may be losing 20% or more of your total affiliate commissions and you have no way of knowing how much you are actually losing. Today I’ll show you how you can easily stop these losses by cloaking your affiliate URLs. In my case one single change boosted my affiliate sales income about 23%.
Commission theft happens most often today when your customers install programs with hidden applications that are secretly bundled inside other software you usually downloaded free on the Internet. Read More »
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February 3, 2008 – 10:36 am
By Robert Smith ©2004 All Rights Reserved
There are a whole lot of Theft-ware programs out there that can infect your website and your computer. It’s important we find and remove them on a regular basis.
To clean your computer of Theft-ware and spyware programs that may have installed themselves as tag along downloads with other software download a free program called “AdAware“. Read More »
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February 3, 2008 – 9:50 am
By Robert Smith ©2004 All Rights Reserved
With Credit Card Fraud averaging almost 5 percent of sales, if you are selling goods or services online via credit cards this is information you need in order for your business to survive.
Internet sales are different from those made in retail establishments in that there is no signed sales signed sales receipt supporting the sale. Every merchant must sign paperwork agreeing to be held responsible for all sales where there is no signed receipt. Everyone must agree in order to obtain any merchant account. The same condition applies to every third party credit card processing companies like PayPal, iBill, and ClickBank. Read More »
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February 3, 2008 – 9:14 am
By Robert Smith ©2004 All Rights Reserved
Google and Yahoo! are the most used search engines on the Internet with about 35% of all Internet searches run on one or the other. That’s about 70% of all Internet traffic from just two search engines. Actually it’s more than 80% when you consider Google’s affiliation with AOL, Netscape, and others.
Recently there have been major changes on both these engines. Many sites with top placements have lost their positions while others have achieved top positions on both engines without doing anything. Read More »
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February 3, 2008 – 8:56 am
By Robert Smith ©2003 All Rights Reserved
Every year that goes by it gets both easier and harder to make money on the Internet. It gets easier, as more resources and knowledge become available and it gets harder, as more and more people enter the marketplace selling the same or similar products.
Today I’ll review the basics required for success to see how we measure up. Read More »
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February 3, 2008 – 8:14 am
By Robert Smith ©2004 All Rights Reserved
As most of you already know, I’m a full time merchant on the Internet for 6 years. I understand the value of getting my message out, but frankly I’m getting fed up with the amount un-targeted advertising that’s being forced on me.
We all pay for all this advertising one way or another in the cost of the products and services we buy. Advertising is not cheap; sometimes the costs of advertising a product are higher than the costs to produce the product itself. Heck, the packaging often costs more than the product itself. Read More »
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February 3, 2008 – 8:04 am
By Robert Smith ©2004 All Rights Reserved
Most web designers build their websites with little consideration for developing free search engine traffic. Designers naturally assume that everyone comes to the front door or main page; actually it’s much easier to attract traffic to pages with a narrower focus.
The main index page of your website is often too general in focus to rank as well as possible in the search engines so the average webmaster spends much more time and money developing traffic than they did in designing the original website. Read More »
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February 3, 2008 – 7:40 am
By Robert Smith ©2003 All Rights Reserved
Rather than forcing people to identify their exact needs value added packages of related products provide a combination of options at a set price.
No matter what product or service you are selling it will sell better and earn you more profit if you offer it in a package of some kind. If you already have a unique product or service you can easily more than double your total profit simply by including a few low cost value added bonuses along with your product. Read More »
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