Are You Profiting From The Amazon Associate Program?

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If you are an affiliate promoting products from Amazon.com you should have received the latest update regarding commission rates. They claim to be trying to make end meets as far as feedback and suggestions from affiliates but they haven’t raised their commission fee from that all too low 4%!

 

I was hoping for a change in the rates but I guess that’s not going to happen any time soon. I’m getting a little tired of the way in which Amazon requests that affiliates apply for certain rates according to affiliate sales by a specified date.

Besides the highest commission rate according to their charts is 8.5%. You’ll need to have a good flow of targeted traffic to your site and lots of sales to make a good profit. I know many webmasters who do fairly well with their sales but they are usually sites that are selling games, DVD’s, clothing and similar merchandise.

 

What has been your experience with the Amazon Associate Program?

 

 

 

Are you earning a good sum or have you forgotten about that lonely link or banner on your site?

 

 

 

 

I would love to hear from you so you are welcome to leave a comment.

 

Blog Traffic Tips and Newsletters

Following my recent change from publishing my newsletter from HTML web page to a blog, for which I have to give full credit to Tinu for inspiring me to do this. I’ve had enough of battling with problems through Spam filters by heavy handed ISP’s.

I hope to increase my readership and be able to communicate my message better. Blogs seem to be taking over on the net. More people are blogging than ever before and more people are curious about blogs in general.

I know it looks a little bare right now so I’m not going to link to it until I have filled it with lots of useful content. Now my subscribers know exactly where to view my newsletters and can subscribe via RSS as well as traditional email.

I apologise once again if any readers experienced broken links over the past few days. I had a bug in my major link script which has been fixed by the original script developer. Let’s hope this does not happen again.

If only I could live in a perfect online world!

How To Steal Copywriting Tips From Michel Fortin

Okay so the title suggests you can ’steal’ some really effective copywriting tips from the hugely successful copywriting expert Michel Fortin. What I am revealing to you an opportunity to watch a 15 minute online video where Michel strips a well known sales page and implements some power punching headlines and content to drastically improve the effectiveness and sales pulling power.

You’re probably thinking that this is a sales pitch her but I am not affiliated with this product I just wanted to share some insights into copywriting that I found truly refreshing to watch. I know how expensive copywriting can be and I figured that the more free information you can get to try and improve your sales letter copy yourself the better.

Some tips and strategies I overlooked is the page width and spacing around the typed content and margins can make a significant impact on the reader.

Do you know what color headline is proven to grab the attention of readers?

Well I know now without having to second guess!

I subscribe to Michel’s Profit Pill Newsletter where he reveals even more great tips for improving sales copy. John Reese’s Traffic Secrets sales page brought in over one million dollars in less than 24 hours with The Success Doctor’s killer sales copy so that’s testament to he ultimate power of great copy writing skills.

Join The NicheADay Email Bulletin For Your Niche Site Profits

The guys at Keyword Avalanche have launched a new email alert service which provides information on profitable niche markets which you can tap into in order to make money. This is good for people who want to build Adsense sites with a particular niche market in mind, or for setting up Adwords campaigns to promote affiliate products. I’m sure there are many other ways in which you could put this handy information to use.

Sign up for free, no strings attached. I’ve joined and am eagerly looking forward to the next message. Join NicheADay. 

Making Millions Under The Radar With Google Adsense At PlentyOfFish.com

Can you imaging having a site that pulls in an amazing 10,000 a day in contextual advertising revenue. Well that is exactly what Markus Frind creator and owner of the free dating site PlentyofFish.com earns from Google Adsense. He has gone from a measly $40 a day back in 2003 to mega dollars. The site has been called ‘ugly’ but I would describe it as simple and functional. No fancy graphics or cumbersome layout just packed with content for people seeking to meet others. Heck whose bothered about looks when you’re earning that much money, certainly not Markus.

You can read the interview with Andrew Johnson and head on over to Webmaster World where Markus has a post entitled:

‘How I Made a Million in 3 Months’

This one man run web site gives us a remarkable insight into how some people are making money online without selling a thing. It should serve to give us the inspiration and desire for passive income streams so that one day soon many more of us can aspire to living the entrepreneurs dream.

Finding Sources Of Content For Your Newsletter

Jason at Business Brainwaves Blog has a really interesting post with the title:

‘A Virtually Untapped System For Producing Informative, Up-to-Date Newsletter Content, For Almost Any Niche Market’

Jason’s information can help ezine editors to find ways to add good quality content to their newsletter. Definitely worth reading and taking notes.

Enjoy,
Nancy

Is Duplicate Content Killing Your Search Engine Rankings?

The search engines are filtering out duplicate content sites so if you are making content sites such as ‘Virtual Real Estate’ [VRE] as termed by John Reese. Creating good content sites which generate passive revenue streams from many sources:

and others.

One of David A.Utter’s many articles published at WebProNews provides some handy tips to avoid getting banned from search engines for duplicate content including using a robot text file to list web pages that you do not want indexed by the search engines.

There are a few othere opions such as rewriting your articles but this can be very time consuming and labor intensive, especially if you have 20, 50 or more articles to convert. I know authors who have done this and submitted their rewritten articles to ezine directories but they have been rejected!

If you are part of a content membership site and want to use your private label products such as articles you should use a service like ‘Secret Article Converter’ to make your content unique. This is by far the best article conversion service that I highly recommend due to the way in which keywords and content is rearranged to fit your needs. You can amend paragraphs and add more content with the service at Secret Article Converter.

If you are using the service or similar software you are welcome to leave a comment. Please note that all comments are moderated before publishing live to the blog.

High Profile Article Marketing v Article Marketing

With all the raves and buzz about using article marketing as one of the best ways to add content to your sites and for generating hundreds of back links to your sites by submitting them to the big ezine directories you would think that we all must be doing so well.

Do you know the difference between article marketing and high profile article marketing?

Did you know there was a difference between the two?

Well I’ve listened in on one of Tinu’s many MP3 file at her Free Traffic Tip Blog. Tinu really goes into detail about how she runs her business through writing regular high profile articles with success.

I like to listen to a real person who is not afraid to reveal some of their most potent traffic generating techniques that effectively pull in orders for their products and services. There is a wealth of information in Tinu’s extensive blog archives.

I highly recommend that you take a look and spend some time reading about how Tinu uses articles to promote her business expertise and helps so many online businesses get targeted traffic to their sites and blogs.

You will also find countless links to Tinu’s very own high profile articles in some of the major search engine newsletters such as WebProNews.

Visit the Free Traffic Tip and you will understand exactly what I mean.

New Twist To Butterfly Marketing Member Site: Downline Secrets

Free Downline Secrets Package

There’s been quite a buzz regarding Mike Filesaime’s Butterfly Marketing Package. Many ordinary people are benefiting from their $997 scoop. All you have to do is head on down to the site to get this unique product valued at $97.00 but you get for free access to full membership.

I particularly like this audio package because for many starting out and trying to build a downline of prospects you need a helping hand from someone who has gained success from building huge downlines. It could be that you want to build a downline for several reasons:

More ideas tips and strategies will be revealed after you listen to the audio. So get your headphones on and your notepad to take note. It’s always better to be able to listen to someone talk about a theory and practice than to read about it so don’t miss out on this opportunity.

Get your own copy of Downline Secrets and put your downline into auto-pilot.

Blog Status Report

My apologies for the problems with link tracking script on my site I have a programmer working on it to get back in order. Thanks to a few readers who contacted me.

I hope you still had a chance to view Seth Godin’s online video yesterday.

Darren Prowse noted that Google have set up a more user friendly search feature for Adsense Help Center. This should encourage more new publishers to join the program as part of Google’s expansion goals to attract more publishers.

Hope to have everything back to normal,
Nancy

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