Affiliate Marketing Step By Step

Hi everybody! I am not going to start explaining the affiliate marketing from the beginning at the end, all I want to explain today is the importance of the back links for the page rank of a website and how you can get noticed fast by Google when you are launching a new website.

It is true that the paid per click advertising is the fastest method to get traffic to your website, but not everyone can afford that, not everyone can have success with that, the competition is very tight, (I know advertisers which are spending ten thousands dollars per day in PPC advertising and are using one million keywords in their campaigns), so, when you are new in town, you don't have too much chances to succeed, unless if you come up with something unheard and unseen, and then nobody will look for it.

The free targeted traffic provided by the search engines is the most costless and the safest option for you to run an e-business. But, when you launch a new website, it is a little bit hard to get noticed by the search engines, and even then, it takes time to rank high, because one of the criterias of the search engines in categorizing a website is the age, and they are right, it takes time to gain popularity. So, one of your chances to gain popularity is to gather back links to your website. There are the well known methods, like article marketing, blogging, lenses in Squidoo, Hub pages, search engines and web directories submission, but I want to give you a tip about a special back link, which is right in the Google's backyard. It's called "Google Profiles".

Type in Google Search "Google Profiles", and you will be pointed at the Google's page with the profiles of the owners of Google accounts. If you don't have a Google account you can open one for free in few minutes, and in about ten minutes you can set up your Google profile. You will have to fill the questionary form which is provided there, but you can give only the information you desire (I suggest you to give correct information, if you want to keep something for yourselves, leave the space blank, and that's it, you don't have to lie), and here comes the best part. Google will search all the websites which you own on the net, and gives you the possibility to add the ones which are not yet in his database. And here is your back link to Google and your way to notice Google that you have a new website.

More than that, although Google does not allow you to add tags to your profile, he invites you to post your profile in your "Google Readers" account, and there you can add all the tags you want. If you don't have a "Google Readers" account, open one for free. It is very useful and you can post there bookmarks of all your published articles, blog posts, Squidoo lenses and Hub pages, gaining more exposure for your website.

I hope you found this tip useful. If you want more free information and tips related to affiliate marketing, visit my site, "Affiliate Marketing Step By Step", where you can find detailed documentation on how to start a home business at no cost. Until the next time, may the Google be with you.

I was reading that some great ideas to make visitors staying longer on your website are to start a forum or a chatroom, to set up a blog, to carry out polls or surveys, to give them puzzles, quizzes and games, but nothing about content.

I agree that a forum (chatroom, whatever), a blog, a poll or a survey, puzzles, quizzes, games, etc. are very good methods to make your visitors staying longer on your website, but what about content? The idea of starting a website, or a blog, or whatever you want to do, is to send a message to your visitors, to answer them their questions, to provide them a solution for what they are looking for, not to make them staying longer on your website with any price. Of course, making them to spend more time on your website is in your advantage, but make it fair. Give them the right reason to stay on your website.

Make clear the purpose of your website, describe what you are selling, a product, a service or mere information, be concise, make clear that you are the one who has the answers in that domain, and you will see that you don't need games, puzzles, quizzes or something else to make your visitors staying longer on your website. Do not think that if you have some knowledge on a subject, you are wiser than your visitors. In fact, many of them could give you lessons in whatever domain you ask for. Someone who is smart enough to search for something on the Internet can not be fooled easy.

The reason for which 98% of the Internet marketers are failing is because they are following this kind of advices. Methods like "make your visitors staying longer on your website using quizzes or games" are the death of your Internet Marketing adventure, unless your website is dedicated to such things. A forum is great, a blog is great, a poll or a survey are great, but should serve you to determine what are your visitors looking for, should be your main source of documentation for providing them with what they need.

There is one word which is saint for me, targeted traffic. You don't need a million visitors staying on your website all day long. You should prefer one hundred visitors for one minute each and 99% conversion from that visitors. Is this a wrong point of view, considering that Google will rank your site considering the number of visitors and the period of their visit on your website?  Do not think that Google is not observing this kind of things. The unique content, the originality of your content, the clarity of your website will always be seen and you will be rewarded by Google for that. Do not build your business on the criteria of Google or other search engine, keep in mind that your visitors are your target. The Japanese use to say "the customer is God", and they are right.

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