When it comes to choice and variety, affiliate marketers have one of the best occupations out there. From the incredibly large range of different products available to promote to the sheer variety in niches and markets, the world of online marketing is packed with opportunities to diversify, experiment, and expand across new markets and product types.

But there is another type of variation and range that is often skipped over. It is not the range of products, but the range of different affiliate offers available. While most affiliates like to stick to product-based marketing, there is an endless range of non-product affiliate options out there. From offers to opt-in affiliate programs, affiliates can pick and choose from a range of different ways to monetize their traffic.

These three different choices cover the most popular affiliate marketing bases. If you have got traffic and need a way to monetize it, take a look at these three different types of affiliate programs and decide which one is best for you:

1. Per-action (CPA) Offers

CPA (cost-per-action) offers are, as the name would suggest, a type of affiliate offer that pays out whenever the user completes a certain action. Generally, these actions include signing up for a free trial program, joining a new website, or completing an online survey.

A lot of marketers prefer CPA offers to per-sale affiliate offers as they allow traffic to be monetized without requiring a purchase. While per-offer income is not quite as high as it typically is with a per-sale product program, the increased conversion rates and simpler marketing methods make CPA offers a viable affiliate marketing option.

2. Per-sale Products

Per-sale programs are particularly popular with affiliate marketers. Operating an a simple commission basis, affiliates are paid a portion of the end price of each product they sell. Commission amounts range dramatically within the industry — from 4% on some physical goods, all the way up to 75% on virtual goods — and conversion rates can be just as variable.

Per-sale affiliate programs are by far the most popular form of affiliate marketing, and are definitely the most visible. From Clickbank to Share-a-sale, some of the biggest affiliate networks are built almost entirely on per-sale product models.

3. Opt-in Programs

Opt-in programs are typically designed to help businesses gather leads and customer information. Instead of directly promoting affiliate products or CPA offers, affiliate marketers simply find potential customers for businesses to directly market to. Using email, address, or name submission forms, affiliates are paid for every user that submits their contact information to the advertising business.

Opt-in programs are particularly popular. Once affiliates have generated enough leads for the advertising website, prospective customers are contacted and monetized. This form of marketing is relatively low-risk for affiliates, as they are paid for every lead that they can send to the business, rather than for every sale they can generate. With the right blend of opt-in marketing and direct sales, this marketing method can be highly successful for product and service-based companies.

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In the online world, there is only one currency that is worth anything: traffic. The most successful websites are built on huge amounts of traffic, and the most profitable products sell because of the never-ending flow of traffic to their sales and merchant pages. Much like businesses pay premium rent for a high foot-traffic location, many online businesses pay a premium, both in effort and in operating costs, for an online position that helps generate extra traffic.

But there is more to traffic generation than just getting a good starting position and waiting for visitors to arrive. Generating website traffic requires ongoing attention and never-ending effort, and many marketers simply can’t afford to invest the time required to build their traffic manually. In the endless hustle to generate more traffic, some smart marketers have found optimizations, one of which is the “linkbait” article. Be sure to check out my Website SEO Services, which includes ideas for creating linkbait in your marketing campaigns.

Linkbait articles are named as they are for good reason — they attract links from almost all the major online sources. From social bookmarking websites to top social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook, linkbait articles spread like crazy and do not go down without generating hundreds of links.

If you are tired of hustling and grinding to generate links to your websites, a linkbait article could be the traffic and SEO resource that you need. For quick, marketer-friendly traffic generation, it is difficult to look past them. These four tips will help you write effective, link-generating, and traffic pushing linkbaits without ever having to think twice about them.

1) Use a “Top X” style title.

Click-through rates increase significantly when your title includes both a number and a ranking. Online readers are lazy, and for good reason. The average PC monitor zaps huge amounts of energy from readers, and titles that favor “lazy” readers – top X lists, quick reads, and light content – all end up getting more attention than reader-heavy essays. Make your articles light, simple, and reader-friendly with a “Top X” style title.

2) Write on hot topics.

Readers love current topics. Fads may die out quickly, but for short-term traffic they are completely unbeatable. Monitor Google News, Yahoo, and other top online news websites for coming trends, fads, and media events, and keep your writer’s pen ready. A single well-timed article can often be the difference between a huge traffic wave and a small trickle.

3) The “How-to” is king for long-term traffic.

There is always demand for knowledge, especially when it is presented in a fashion that is favorable for readers. While “Top X” articles and fad topics might attract instant attention, “how to” style articles draw in long-term attention and a continual flow of traffic. If your website needs a long-term traffic asset, invest in “how to” guides and enjoy steady traffic and advertising earnings.

4) Add images to your writing.

Images achieve two important traffic generation goals. Firstly, they give readers something fun to send to their friends. Secondly, they give your website an additional search engine resource, further driving long-term traffic. Whenever possible, include a relevant, linkable, and humorous image in your linkbait articles and web content.

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Just wanted to share my latest joy with you. My website finally reached it’s first 10,000 visitor per month mark and I’m overjoyed!!

It wasn’t anything that happened quickly or because of a fluke spike of traffic from Digg. It was gradual growth increasing steadily each and every month. I hadn’t even been keeping a close eye on the progress until May 2010. When I got into Google Analytics and discovered I was gaining about 800 new visitors every month, I was thrilled.  It may not compare with the heavy-hitters out there in internet land, but I’m tickled pink.

It is the result of a combination of 3 things:

• Consistent fresh content that people found valuable (hopefully)
• Solid on-page SEO and Social Media Optimization strategy
• Referrals from friends, clients, and colleagues

It’s amazing to see how all the hard work has paid off, both in exposure and in increased business.

Hey, this website SEO strategy stuff really works!

Here’s a tip to any virtual assistant wanting to offer website SEO support to their clients: do this on your own website first. You’ll learn so much and you’ll be reaping in the rewards of your efforts.

pssst…Keep an eye out for a brand new course from VAClassroom on the subject in a couple of months…

Now off to celebrate with a 4 day weekend. Ciao!

Steady monthly growth from January 2009 to September 2010

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The internet marketing industry has seen a fair degree of up-and-down movement over the last twelve months. Ultra-profitable cost-per-action advertisements have been pushed around by advertising networks, often to the point of being banned from display entirely. Formerly profitable credit and loan management industries have come under the eye of recession-based regulators, leaving many once-successful marketers lacking a way to monetize their traffic.

However, one form for marketing has remained constant and steady: search engine optimization. From search-powered websites to long-tail micro-sites, the various strategic assets left out by search engine optimizers have enjoyed steady performance throughout internet marketing’s most disruptive years.

If you are aiming to capitalize on that oh-so-valuable search engine traffic, these five all-purpose tips, tricks, and tactics will no doubt help you succeed. Ready your PC, put on your S-E-Oh face, and use these micro-strategies to get your websites ranked highly and your advertisements out there.

Don’t over-think; just do.

Amateur internet marketers are often restricted by one thing: their intelligence. It is an annoying tendency largely exclusive to the highly intelligent – the tendency to over-think decisions, wrap actions in cynicism and reflection, and ultimately fail to take any real action.

Internet marketing does not depend on sheer ability, but on action. Rather than over-thinking every SEO-related decision, it is your responsibility to let some choices fall by the wayside in favor of short-term action.

Limit outbound links to “low-value” websites.

Google does not just read the links pointing to your website – it reads those pointing from your website to other people’s websites. If you are loading those blogs up with spam-style links to viagra distributors and hacker web presences, do not be surprised when Google’s opinion of your website’s value reflects the fact. Load up on quality outbound links, and use no-follow tags if you really have to link to something that could hurt your rankings.

Don’t compete with Google; compete with your rivals.

Hundreds of SEOs suffer from misguided priorities. Rather than competing with their search rivals to reach the top of the rankings, they compete with Google itself, aiming to beat its algorithms, fight against its tactics, and beat it is supposed intelligence. Don’t. Target your rivals, not the search engine itself, and you will enjoy a great level of search-related success.

Once you’ve perfected processes, automate them.

Internet marketers have access to a figurative buffet of automation options. From online bots to outsourced employees, there are hundreds of ways to cut down on development time and eliminate labor-intensive processes. If your time is valuable to you – and it should be – your best bet could be a targeted investment in outsourced labor and automated processes.

Use extensions, add-ons, and plugins to make SEO simple.

If you are a Firefox fan and internet marketer, you will no doubt be pleased with the huge amount of ultra-useful plugins and extensions available. Likewise, Wordpress users will enjoy the equally vast range of  SEO plugins and SEO enhanced themes. If your website’s rankings are truly important to you, you will be much more effective with a suite of applications, extensions, and add-ons behind you.

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Marketing is an industry that is dominated by psychological triggers, neurolinguistic impulses, and hard-wired cognitive decisions. From direct sales letters that employ envy and opportunity to attract customers, to pay-per-click advertisements that make use of sensation and urgency to draw in click after click, marketing is built on smart psychology and a deep knowledge of how people think, act, and buy.

However, there is one psychological barrier that often escapes marketers: themselves. The most successful internet marketers, particularly search engine marketers, were not born successful, but were made successful as a result of their skills, strategies, and most importantly, their personal qualities. From empathy to shrewd thinking, there are some clearly cut essential skills that separate the best marketers from the rest of the marketing industry.

I have searched for the most obvious and important marketing qualities, and come back with four that build the foundation of every good marketer. From online masters to direct sales geniuses, long-term branding experts to true search engine stars, all great marketers share these qualities. If you want to become one of those great marketers too, make sure these four characteristics make up who you are.

1) Empathy

You can’t sell products without understanding your audience. While newbie marketers often prey on the desperate and needy, smart marketers realize that there are huge untapped markets out there of customers that want something, but are not being sold to properly. Selling luxury goods and somewhat needless accessories is not impossible, it just requires an understanding of the thought process that customers go through. Smart marketers do not view those potential sales as an impossible challenge, but as an empathy exercise.

2) Cunning

Let’s face it, you can be as empathetic and understanding as you want, but if you are afraid to take action and directly compete with people, it is unlikely that you will make it far in search engine marketing. Smart marketers do not just understand what their audience wants, they find a way to give it to them. If that means employing strong tactics, so be it. Top marketers understand that serious competition is part of the game, and outsmarting that competition is the way to the top.

3) Management Abilities

It is impossible to get to the top on your own. For every miracle Rocky-style story there are thousands of almost eerily similar stories of business failure. Smart search engine marketers understand and acknowledge that they can’t do everything themselves, and instead invest in supporting staff and contractors. Without good management skills, even the smartest search marketer would be stuck working 80 hour weeks.

4) Risk Awareness

Business is risky. The biggest businesses in the world have often been indebted up to their necks, with their CEOs wondering if they will really make it through the next week. While some go bankrupt and disappear, others stay and grow into the world’s biggest companies. Smart marketers understand that risk is a part of success. That is why they will redesign a top ranked website in order to boost conversions. Without risk there is no reward, and the ability to balance that risk is a sign of a sure-fire successful search engine marketer.

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The internet used to be devoid of multimedia. Websites were built around text; animation and color were provided by images, and audio was the limit of interactivity. The Geocities-era web may have met its end some time in the late 1990s, but its design principles and legacy quite surprisingly live on in the way we arrange text, video, and audio today.

Blogging is not a new phenomenon or the result of modern technology. The internet has been largely blog-based since the early 1990s, albeit in a slightly different form to the one we know today. Blogs were updated manually, the authors behind them were versed in HTML and CSS coding, and platforms like Wordpress and Blogger were unknown to the public.

Today, almost everything can be incorporated seamlessly into a blog. Videos can be placed and edited to suit, images can be tailored and resized to fit almost any post on any screen, and Flash content gives bloggers the power to create involving, immersive content. However, there are rules surrounding this enhanced content – rules which, when ignored, can lead to distracting, difficult, and frustrating blog posts.

Incorporating Video into your Blog Posts:

A growing number of bloggers have given up on video+text content combinations, citing the lack of search power and organizational variation as reason to keep the two media forms separate. They have got a good point too – video content rarely blends well with text, especially when the two are both long-form media designed for isolated study.

But there are ways to make your online videos perform effectively. By pairing the short with the long:  quick videos with long text, and long videos with short text summaries, respectively – your text-and-video posts can end up engaging your audience beyond the initial glance and quick read.

Is Audio Still Worthwhile?

In short, yes. Apple’s branding has extended all the way to the blogosphere – “Podcasting” as we know it has become one of the most popular forms of sharing information online. While relatively few podcasts have achieved mass profitability and commercial success, a great deal have succeeded as sources of information. When combining a podcast with your text-based blog, it is essential that you keep the same rule of balance in mind. Mix long-form audio with relatively snippy and brief text – telling your audience what you are doing in text and explaining how it is done through your audio. This one tweak can help you engage audiences both during and after your podcast, through a combination of blog-based notes and engaging audio content.

What About Solitary Multimedia?

If your blog happens to be the type that benefits from isolated media and non-text posts, by all means offer your audience something that is free of text or images. Craft a video explaining what could have been pieced together as text; review a product through a video, or simply offer a visual version of a previous blog post, and then link to it in your video-only post. Audio and video can be effective when paired with text, but they are rarely anything but effective when offered in isolation.

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In 2002, the ultimate goal for any web design agency was to rank for the most popular term in their industry — “web design”. With the prestigious number one spot came a huge increase in demand; alongside knowing web design, the company ultimately must have known how to market their clients as well as themselves. Almost all business was pushed towards the number one ranking — the outlier at the top ended up taking an irrationally large slice of the pie.

Now, things are slightly different. Google’s ranking system is no longer location independent — location and searcher intentions do play a major part in rankings — and maintaining the number one spot is no longer a relatively easy effort. However, that is not to say that search, as a marketing form, is dead. Now that the goal is no longer the universal number one spot, businesses have near unlimited choice, and a much greater range of opportunity.

The goal today is not to rank high for the entire world, but to rank high for your city. Local SEO is the latest wave in search marketing strategy, and it is likely to be one that stays with the search engines long-term. With Google’s recent moves towards local mapping, address-based search, and other cool local widgets, local listings are becoming increasingly more valuable.

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These four tips will help you get your business to feature in local search results. From state-based rankings to local city information, a tailored local search presence can be a huge asset for your business. Stop letting leads fall through your fingers, and use these tips to dominate your local search results.

Aim for a Google Maps/Google Places listing.

Google’s search algorithm takes location into account, particularly city-based location. The top results are not just text links, but dynamic maps, images, and potentially videos. Your goal should be the map — Google’s ultimate local business tool. List your address and business details in Google’s local search information, keep location data clear on your website, and ensure that your submitted address is correct. A location-based maps listing can be a powerful search asset.

Build local links.

Contextual links from other local websites can be worth a lot in terms of local rankings. Instead of trying to build links indiscriminately, approach local webmasters and other businesses in search or a link partnership. Local links, much like contextual links for other websites, can be significantly more valuable than any old do-follow inbound links.

Keep your city name in anchor links.

If you are an architect based in Phoenix, Arizona, your goals should not be to rank for “architecture”. Instead, you should be creating links that are tailored directly to your local search goals. “Phoenix architecture” is worth more than “architecture” on its own, especially when your goals are limited to local lead generation.

Add yourself to local portals and directories.

Most cities, or at least those with over 100,000 residents, will have a city-based portal or directory website that businesses are free to add themselves to. Think of it as a business-friendly online Yellow Pages — an inexpensive and valuable resource for direct leads. Whenever possible, add your business to these directories, complete with a targeted inbound link.

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Gaining a dominant position in the search results can be very difficult. Ultra-competitive international search terms can attract thousands of competitors, each as skilled and ruthless as the next. From offshore hackers to dedicated corporate SEO experts, the number of players vying for a spot in some of the most competitive international search arenas can be truly staggering.

Why is it, then, that so many SEO experts devote all of their time into ranking for ultra-competitive, highly difficult, and often unrewarding international search terms? We have all seen the checks and transfers on offer for search masters – the folks behind the top ‘cars’, ‘clothes’, and ‘diet’ search terms – but have we ever considered the alternatives?

For many, that alternative is local search. Over the last several years, Google has spent a great deal of time and resources on their localized search results, incorporating map placements and customers reviews into their algorithm. With iPhone applications such as FourSquare dominating the mobile world, it seems that local search is the next big thing online. This is why when working with a brick and mortar client we make sure to incorporate their locality into the website SEO support package we provide for them.

The greatest news, at least for opportunistic marketers, is that local search results are not that competitive. In many ways, they are distinctly uncompetitive, at least when compared to the search terms many have grown accustomed to gunning for. We have all seen the results of endless link building and anchor text optimization – ultra-optimized websites that fail to rank due to even more efficient competition.

Alongside the simplicity of ranking for local search terms, there is another driving factor behind many localized search successes: the value of a single customer, client, or business-to-business relationship. For contractors, service providers, or professionals, the amount of value a single conversion can provide often scales well into the tens-of-thousands of dollars. The search terms may not be competitive, but the amount of income on offer most certainly is.

Think, for example, about the amount of value a single long-term client could provide to a business lawyer. How about the amount of income a single construction client could generate. Even relatively low-end businesses – dentists, painters, and plumbers – are able to capitalize on the online arena, capturing clients and generating leads at a fraction of the expense a newspaper advertisement would require.

Of course, there are limits to the power of localized search engine optimization. Some keywords, no matter how simple and interesting, are unlikely to provide substantial income. Similarly, a growing number of local businesses are becoming aware of the internet’s great marketing power, learning for themselves and limiting the ability of SEOs to improve their positioning.

These limitations and setbacks only secure the value of localized search engine optimization, however. While international efforts often yield poor results and pennies-on-the-dollar earnings, the same energy directed towards regional search can have a profoundly different effect. Search marketing specialists may not see the value of local search right away, but it is certainly a worthy side project, and in many ways, a worthy industry for long-term earnings.

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SEO is more than just a marketing strategy — it is a direct method for responding to criticism, creating PR movements, and generating buzz for a business. While established and professional SEO practitioners are always keen to point to the potential income that SEO can bring, there is so much more potential available. SEO can be used as a branding tool, or even as a tool for social change.

One area that is both free of direct marketing and very appealing to businesses is reputation management. From resolving consumer complaints to establishing a well-rounded brand, search engines give businesses an opportunity to do what few other platforms can: directly respond to customers, and provide a well-rounded index of their operations, all accessible with a single click.

If you are interested in using SEO as a reputation management tool for your business, these five strategies, tips, and tactics could be of value. Before investing in any search strategy, reputation management or otherwise, plan things out, survey the options that are available, and take action.

1) Create brand-friendly domain names.

SEO-style domain names, particularly hyphenated keyword names, are particularly popular amongst direct marketers looking to establish their websites quickly in the search rankings. However, while valuable for short-term sales and direct response marketing, they are of limited value for branders looking to establish long-term recognition and success. Reputation management is about being known, and a brand-style domain name is always more memorable than a keyword-only title.

2) Use content websites to promote your business.

Content directories are great platforms for ranking high in the search results without much effort. While earnings are relatively poor, especially through on-page advertising or sponsored links, the potential for branding and reputation management is huge. With a single well-ranked article or blog post, your search results could effectively be controlled by no one other than yourself.

3) Respond to criticism head-on.

Almost any high-profile business attracts criticism, whether it is from disgruntled customers or ex-clients looking to make waves. With the search engines acting as a literal index of all online activity, it is your duty to respond to criticism head-on and ensure that potentially damaging posts are responded to. Whenever possible, acknowledge what happened and offer an explanation. This strategy might cost a little time, but the advantages are obvious: when potential customers search for you, they are no longer struck with unanswered criticisms.

4) Actively search for criticism and discussion.

Google Alerts may just be the most valuable search asset around. Active efforts to search for criticism give you a huge opportunity to improve your search position and clear your search results or any potentially harmful information. Monitor discussion actively and it won’t be something to fear, but an opportunity for quick, well-planned, and valuable search-powered responses.

5) Register all domain names, in case of a search-powered wave of bad publicity.

For any brand-related term, the top search results are almost always exact-match domain names. To prevent competitors, unhappy customers, or online criticizers from appearing in the search results for your name, make sure to register all potential domain names for your business. The $9/year cost is easily outweighed by the potential damage that an unregistered domain name could cause to your business-related search results.

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There are certain things you need to keep in mind when attempting to optimize video content for online marketing purposes. Today, videos are fast becoming the standard medium for promoting products as well as publishing press releases, interviews, music, and so much more. By learning how to tap into this unique form of marketing, you will be able to increase your potential for earning exponentially. In order for you to be truly successful, though, you need to ensure that your videos are actually viewed by your target audience.

Once your video is ready for publishing, you will need to make space for it on your website or landing page. In the same page, ensure that the title tag you have created for your video post is rich with keywords. This way, it is more likely to rank highly in search engine results pages when someone goes to search for a certain word or phrase. You also want to make sure that you take advantage of opportunities for anchor text, tags, and descriptions as these can be extremely helpful for purposes of video search engine optimization.

The same is true for your video descriptions. Make sure to get in as many keywords as possible. When posting videos on your Wordpress site, you should include a transcript and make sure to add keywords as well. It will appeal to search engine indexing software and increase your chances of continuous viewership over time.

For self-hosted Wordpress sites, don’t forget to install the Google XML Sitemap for Video plugin. It is a way to tell Google, Bing and other search engines about video content on your site that they may otherwise not discover. Your Video Sitemap will include web pages which embed videos from YouTube or which link to videos on YouTube.

Apart from optimizing meta tags and other content on your web page, you need to include functionalities that will allow viewers to share your content. Include social media sharing buttons especially for the more popular ones like Facebook and Twitter. You should also include buttons that will help your viewers email your link to others. Doing all these will help you reach more viewers as well as increase your backlinks for the benefit of your SEO campaign efforts.

If you are engaged in a business that requires quick delivery of information, you may want to consider using paid video advertisements. The Google AdWords network, for example, offers click-to-play video ads that will be able to propagate your videos to its advertisement publishing network as soon as you set your account to do so. While this may be more expensive than other video promotion methods, it will give you the edge you need when it comes to getting content published, promoted, and viewed as quickly as possible after a major newsworthy event.

Furthermore, make sure that your video ranks in the top video portals. Some of the best places to submit your video are Youtube, AOL Video, Myspace Video, and Google Video. All of these video portals are examples of great places to publish your videos because they are commonly used by millions of people each day. This will, in turn, increase the chances of your video being seen by as many people as possible across the internet.

Following these tips will help you promote and optimize your video marketing content for maximum views. Consequently, you will continuously gain a stream of potential customers. If your video marketing content is engaging enough, it should be easy for you to convert those potential customers into actual buyers.

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