The danger is what do you do if these link shortening services shut down?

Your links don’t work anymore…

The reason this is such a big deal is because if you are using these links, and the site goes down, you have to search out every place where you have used that link and replace it with one that works. You have to go through every web page on every site you have and make sure to change the affected links. You have to go to your blog and replace the links there. And to Blogger, Squidoo, Hubpages, and your autoresponder sequences.

But what can you do about the articles you submitted, the forum posts, the free reports you created, the ebooks you sell. You can’t go back and change all of these links.

The reason I bring this up is because a couple of years ago this happened to me. The service I was using went out of business. They didn’t notify me that they were out of business, so I don’t know how long it was before I noticed, but it was a real headache changing all of my links.

Last year the popular service tinyurl went out of business. And this week there was a discussion on the Warrior Forum that budurl was down.

Because there is no guarantee that any of these sites will always work, you should be cautious about using these link shortening services. They’re probably OK if you have a mini site with a few pages of content, or if you’re using them in email messages. But if you’re creating free reports or PDF files that you are distributing, I wouldn’t use them at all. Instead, you would be better off using a simple redirect page on your own domain.

The advantage of doing this is that first, you can track how many clicks each of your links get by accessing AWStats in the Cpanel of your hosting account.

There’s another really big advantage. For example, you decide to promote a product about generating traffic using FaceBook. Since there are several of these products coming out, you may decide to promote a different FaceBook traffic product. If you use a redirect, you can change the affiliate link in the redirect page, and now every link that you have out there will redirect to the new offer.

I’m not going to go into how to set up a redirect page in detail here. You can find the code for a redirect online for free and set up the redirect pages on your web site easily. If you decide to use an online service for your links, remember, you were warned! To your online success…

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In a way, that makes sense. If you’re interested in starting an online business, you have to learn a few things. One of the first things you do is subscribe to a lot of internet marketing related lists. Then you end up buying a few courses, investing in software for your business, and joining membership sites.

You get to see first hand how products are promoted and hear about how the product owner is making a lot of money really fast. You want to get in on the action, so you sign up as an affiliate for these products and start promoting.

Here’s where the reality starts to set in. You spend the time and money to start promoting the latest hot internet marketing product, and you can’t seem to make any sales. The product had a lot of interest, but you’re not getting results. This doesn’t happen every time, but it happens often enough. Why?

Internet Marketing is a good market to be in, but there are some things you need to realize. The affiliates that make the most money are the ones who are able to promote the product on launch day. With the product launch sequence that is used, there is a lot of anticipation built up before launch, and if you’re not able to become an affiliate before the launch, you’re going to miss out on the initial surge of buyers.

Another problem is that in the Internet Marketing space, the life span of a product is relatively short. This is because the Internet is always changing, and what works now may not be valid in a few weeks. The other reason is because people seem to want the newest information. They seem to think that if a product was launched a year ago, it is outdated, and they want the new stuff that’s coming out right now.

To succeed with affiliate marketing, you have to carefully select the products you’re going to promote. This doesn’t mean that you should ignore Internet Marketing products. Just remember that most of the people who are spending money online are not marketers. They aren’t interested in product launches or the latest money making course.

The markets that people are spending lots of money in are markets that are well established and that have steady long-term demand. Markets like weight loss, fitness, consumer electronics, and pets for example. You won’t have to worry about chasing trends.

If you’re having a hard time making money with affiliate marketing, it isn’t because affiliate marketing doesn’t work. It could be as simple as the products you select.

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When it comes to finding a source for affiliate products, the one name that comes up all the time is Clickbank. There are numerous products related to marketing with ClickBank products. As a matter of fact, I can’t think of any other affiliate marketplace that has a how-to product that teaches you how to use it.  Because of this, you’d think that Clickbank was the only option when it comes to affiliate marketing.

I was so used to using Clickbank that  what happened this week woke me up. I came cross product that looked really good, and I decided to promote it. I was all ready with my Clickbank ID, when I noticed that the product is being sold from another marketplace. I had to sign up with this affiliate network if I wanted to promote this product.

It’s called PayDotCom, and it’s a rapidly growing site that is attracting some of the biggest names in Internet Marketing. It’s quick and easy to sign up, and it’s 100% free. As an affiliate, it’s a good idea to have as many sources of quality products to promote as you can. So expanding your reach with other networks makes sense. PayDotCom offers affiliates an advertising widget that you can put on as many sites as you want. When someone clicks on one of the ads and buys the product, you get the commission. A great way to monetize your site.

If you’re a seller of products, PayDotCom is less expensive than ClickBank, you only  pay once to promote as many products as you want. Compare this Clickbank with a  $49 fee for each product you list.

PayDotCom is a relatively new company, and their growing all the time. It doesn’t make sense to ignore this affiliate marketplace. Since there is no cost to sign up for an account, I suggested that you get over to the site and get your affiliate ID right away.

Whether you’re a seller of your own products, an affiliate marketer, or both, PayDotCom is worth taking a look at. Take a look at this short video and then click on the link below the video to get started.

One of the big problems with affiliate marketing is getting credit for the sale. There are ways to cloak your link so that it’s more difficult to tell that it IS an affiliate link. The problem is that if someone wants to bypass your link, it’s almost impossible to stop them.

Another problem is that even if someone clicks on your affiliate link and gets to the sales page, if they don’t purchase right then, you won’t get credit for the sale if they decide to buy later unless they come back and click on your link. There are some affiliate offers that allow anyone who visits through your link to get cookied so that even if they buy later, you get credit for the sale.

I came across a WordPress plugin that is designed to make it more likely that you’ll get credit for your affiliate sales. It’s called CookieFire and it’s from Internet Marketer Tony Shepherd.

It allows you to silently and invisibly cookie visitors to your blog and static pages without them knowing.

It cuts dead those lost sales from people who simply WON’T click affiliate links.

It DEFEATS the link cloaking problem – buyers KNOW that all a cloaking script hides is an affiliate link so often they just WON’T click.

CookieFire gives you a serious advantage over other affiliates

If you want to see a big hike in your affiliate commissions, make sure CookieFire is part of your affiliate toolkit.

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Good question, and there is a really good answer. First, it gets the attention of potential affiliates, and gets more affiliates on board. That means more exposure for the product. This is really a good way to get affiliates, especially if you’re a new guy or gal on the block. By offering 100 percent commissions, you get other marketers selling for you.

The next question is why anyone would sell a product and make absolutely no money from selling it. Simple. Once someone buys, they are going to be on the product sellers list. If they are happy with the product that they just purchased, it gives the product owner the opportunity to offer other products on the back end. In other words, repeat sales.

This is a technique that you should pay attention to if you’re ready to roll out your first product. You don’t have any testimonials or a track record, so it’s more difficult to get people to trust you and make a purchase. You’re going to have to drive all of the traffic yourself, either paid ads or free methods that can eat a lot of time.

It’s a lot easier if you have an army of affiliates promoting the product for you. They are spending the time and money getting traffic to your site. To get these affiliates. you have to offer something special. Let’s face it, offering 50 percent commission is what’s expected. If you offer to pay the full purchase price as a commission, and affiliates are looking around for products to promote, which product are they going to look at – the product that offers a 50 percent commission or your product that offers a 100 percent commission? Easy choice.

The way you can use this to your advantage is to create a product and offer 100 percent commissions, and get affiliates on board. Make sure that you another product ready that you can offer your new customers. Now that you have them on your list, offer the second product. With the second product, you keep all of the profits, and you have the opportunity to make multiple sales to these customers over time.

Of course, once you get established, you won’t be giving such a high commission rate. But when you’re getting started, this is a very effective way of getting affiliates and  customers.

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You don’t have to buy the product to see if it’s any good. Still, there are two important steps I recommend that you take before you take the time to create a marketing campaign for an affiliate product.

1. The first thing you can do is to do a search for reviews of the product you have in mind. Enter “product name review” and start visiting the sites that come up. A lot of these sites are going to be other affiliates that are promoting the product. Some of these sites will be pretty basic and just a pitch for the product. Other sites will be really good, and worthy of taking notes. Again, don’t copy, but learn from what they do and use this information to create your promotions.

Another thing that you should look for are forums that come up in the search engine results. Here is where you can see what people who have actually purchased the product think of it. This is pure gold! If the product is good, and the customers are happy, you’ll be able to read why they like the product. You can take notes and use these notes to craft your promotion. It is also a good indicator that the product will sell well. If there are a lot of complaints, remove this product from your list and move on to the next one.

2. Go and read the sales page for each product that you are considering. I mean really read it, word for word. Does the sales message draw you in? Are the testimonials well written and convincing? Does the sales letter do a good job of selling the product with bullet points and benefits for the reader?

This is so important because if you’re going to spend the time and/or money to promote a product, you want to presell the reader and let the sales page get the visitor to click on the order link and buy. If the sales page is full of typos, has bad graphics, or is just a poor excuse for a sales letter, don’t waste your time.

The good news is that there are so many products out there for you to promote that you don’t have to settle for any of them. Don’t just look at how much you’ll make for each sale. That won’t do you much good if the product has a lot of refunds and complaints, or if the sales page is not good at converting visitors into buyers.

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The reason I’m bringing this up is because I have done this myself. The way it worked for me is that I started with keyword research and found keywords that had a lot of searches. I figured that if a lot of people were searching for these keywords, I could make sales. So I set up web pages and wrote articles around these keywords. There are two things I failed to do.

The first thing was that I didn’t check to make sure that the keywords I was targeting were keywords that led to sales. What I should have done was to make sure that there were several people advertising on PPC. Then I should have looked at the top search engine listings to see what came up and noticed whether or not there were sites selling products that targeted those keywords. I could have gone to Amazon.com and looked at the top books and magazines related to my keywords.

The second thing was that I didn’t take the time to see where my potential customers were located What forums did they frequent? What blogs did they comment on? What newsletters did they subscribe to? What products were they buying and what problems did they have that they were trying to solve?

The solution is easy, but from what I’ve been reading in the marketing forums, it’s a point that is often missed. As I mentioned, I missed it too.

The reason it’s so important to take the time to do this research is because it will save you time and money. You will ultimately save time because you will be working on offers, ads, and content that will bring you paying customers. Getting a lot of traffic won’t do a lot of good if most of your visitors are looking for free stuff.

It’s also important because once you know that there are people that are willing to pay for what you are  promoting, you want to spend all of your time getting their attention. You can do this in several ways. You can find the forums they visit and start contributing. You can do the same thing with blogs. Add your comment to blogs relating to your niche and include a link to your site. In the case of blogs and forums, you can see if they accept advertising, and consider putting up your ads there.  Find out what newsletters your market subscribes to and advertise there.

You can only do these things once you know what your market is buying and where they hang out. It’s not hard, and it can mean the difference between success and failure.

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What makes it a problem is that some affiliate programs make you wait a long time to get paid – sometimes 2 weeks or more.

If you want to get paid in a shorter time frame, here’s good news. There are affiliate programs available that pay you much sooner. And there are some that will pay you    immediately into your PayPal account so you can access your commissions right away.

Even better are affiliate programs that offer recurring commissions. That way you promote once, and get paid repeatedly over time. Again, there are opportunities to promote products that pay immediately into your PayPal account.

What I like to do is search out affiliate offers that pay immediately and also look for offers that promote hot products that have a longer waiting period for getting paid. This is easy to do. Every affiliate program should tell you their payment policy.

For example, I might want to promote products related to weight loss. I go to a search engine and type in “weight loss affiliate programs” or something similar to see what I can find. I will also go to affilate networks such as ClickBank or Commission Junction to find offers to promote.

I’ll get a list of 8-10 offers that look promising, and make a note of how much commission I’ll make on each sale, and how often I’ll get paid.

By doing this, I can look at my available advertising funds, and decide how much I can spend to promote these offers and how long I am willing to wait to get paid for my sales. I can also promote a couple of products that pay commissions every 2 weeks and a couple of products that pay commission instantly. That way I can pay for my ads with the instant commission products.

Ideally, I would prefer to only promote offers that pay immediately into my PayPal account, but depending on the market I’m entering, this may not be an option.

The bottom line is that you don’t have to wait to get your commissions. There are affiliate offers that will pay you immediately at the time of sale. All you have to do is search them out and start promoting.

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The whole point of article marketing is to get free traffic and lots of it. Traffic that will lead to more sales and/or more subscribers and more profits for you. Why waste time writing articles that no one is interested in or that will not lead to sales and profit for you. You need to be able to write articles that are informative, useful, and interesting enough so that people will get to the end of your article, read your resource box, and click on your links.

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Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money. No customer support issues and you don’t have to create a product. You don’t have to collect the money or handle any support issues. It’s a great way to get started in Internet marketing and something that a lot of us continue to do in our marketing efforts.

One of the drawbacks to affiliate programs is getting paid. The time between getting credit for a sale and getting paid for that sale can vary widely. This really becomes a problem when you’re using paid advertising to drive traffic. You have the upfront costs of your ads and you have to wait to get paid. Once you start to make regular income and commissions this probably isn’t a big deal. But it’s still a pain in the neck.

Did you know that there is a better way? There are affiliate programs out there that will pay you your commission instantly into your PayPal account. In other words, you make the sale, and you get paid immediately. All you have to do is find affiliate programs that pay instant commissions. Not an easy task, but it can be done.

Instead of spending your time searching for affiliate programs that will pay you instantly into your PayPal account, there is a much easier way. There’s a nice little piece of software available called Affiliate Commissions Instantly.

What Affiliate Commissions Instantly offers is a listing of over 200 affiliate programs that will pay you instantly, money deposited into your PayPal account so you can use the money right away. No waiting for the check to be sent.

What’s really nice about this software is that there are around 80 affiliate programs that pay 100% commission directly to your PayPal account. Make the sale and get all of the money. Why would someone do this? Because they are willing to give you 100% for getting a new customer that they can sell to in the future. It’s a win win situation.

The affiliate programs are separated into categories according to what percent commission is being offered. For each affiliate program that you click on, you’ll be able to see the percent commission that you will earn, how much money you will earn free sale, a link to the website where you can sign up to become an affiliate, or in some cases the link is already there for you to use — all you have to do is insert your e-mail address.

Affiliate Commissions Instantly also makes it easy to manage your affiliate promotions. You can store your user name and password, and you can insert notes for each affiliate program.

This software is regularly updated so you’re not wasting your time trying to sign up for an affiliate program no longer exists. The commissions you can earn range from five dollars to over $250. Some of these commissions are ongoing payments that you receive monthly — make the sale once, and get paid monthly as long as someone remains a customer.

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