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Creating the Ultimate Mini-Affiliate Site** SiteBuilderNews - 6/06/2002 Issue ** Helping You Build A Better Website ================================================================= In This Issue of SiteBuilderNews: => 1. Editor's Note => 2. Article: Creating The Ultimate Mini Affiliate Site => 3. Site Builder Tip => 4. Sites for Site Builders => 5. Site Builder News ================================================================= SPONSOR AD: ================================================================= Learn the Secret System I used to earn $2,186.64 in a single week with ZERO investment. Never spend a red cent on advertising and earn $2,000 to $17,000 a month with affiliate programs: http://hop.clickbank.net/?specoffer/sdpearce ================================================================= 1. Editor's Note ================================================================= Hello SiteBuilders, Today we have a very special report. It's about affiliate programs and is written by super affiliate Shane Pearce. It's called "Creating The Ultimate Mini Affiliate Site". Shane is an 18-year-old kid who quit high school and made a full time income through affiliate programs. He didn't own a website, he didn't create a product, and he did it on an extremely TIGHT budget. All he did was promote other people's products for a commission. But he did it the RIGHT way! This week's article is actually an excerpt of Shane's new e-book "Super Affiliate Marketing Exposed". It's more than an e-book, it's a complete PACKAGE of goodies! And the price is so low that it's a STEAL... Check it out at: http://hop.clickbank.net/?specoffer/sdpearce -- Dan Grossman edi-@sitebuildernews.com ================================================================= ================================================================= Upgrade to receive HTML version of SiteBuilderNews! Subscribe for free at mailto:sitebuildernews-@topica.com ================================================================= 2. Feature Article: ================================================================= Creating The Ultimate Mini Affiliate Site By Shane Pearce Why would we create a mini affiliate site if all throughout this book I've been telling you to never send people to you're web site when you're advertising online? No, it's not because I'm a hypocrite. Having your own web site that's actually selling something, not just a subscription form for your course, has some very useful benefits. Some of those benefits are 1) Being able to post your site to discussion boards 2) Using pay per click search engines for instant profits 3) Creating free articles as search engine bait The reason you would create a mini affiliate site is to make sales instantly from your advertising. All throughout this book I've been urging you to get as many Opt-In email leads as possible, but sometimes making money straight away can be the best affiliate medicine. Creating this site does not have to be difficult, however, like most things to do with online marketing, there is a formula to follow for success. Making yourself stand out from the thousands of affiliates that are probably promoting the same affiliate program can be difficult. The best way to combat this is to make the affiliate program your own product. No, I don't mean stealing or copy writing, what I mean is to add an extra bonus onto the affiliate program you're promoting that the visitor can't get anywhere else. Your current web site visitor has probably seen this affiliate program before and hasn't purchased from any one else selling it, so why should they purchase it from you? This is the question you have to address. Johannes Garrido was spot on the money when he created Track-Your-Ads.com to promote Roibot.com. Let me tell you now that when he created this site, Roibot had been promoted all over the Internet, and being run by Mark Joyner, it was promoted successfully for a very long time. What Johannes did was create his own time sensitive special offer for his web site visitors when they signed up for Roibot free. Of course, after they received the first month free, they had to pay $19 a month for the service, and that's when Johannes will be making his own life time income with affiliate programs. His sales letter makes it look like the affiliate program he's promoting is his own product, which I think is a big plus. People are becoming more hesitant to buy from affiliate links, which is something I discuss later on in this book. Another thing Johannes does well is he still tries to capture people's email address with his pop up window on exit. This way you can go for the sale and still get the person's email address if they don't purchase from you. Setting up a web site now has never been easier. A few year's ago, domain names sold for $35 for 1 year, and web hosting was about the same for 1 month. Now it's extremely inexpensive. You can purchase domains names for $13.50 at 000domains.com and even cheaper at godaddy.com. The last time I checked they were selling dot com, net, org names for only $8.95. So how do you go about advertising your mini site? Apart from the usual ezine advertising, I recommend highly that you use pay per click search engines to advertise your new site. Why? because it's a good way to see how your site's performing instantly. I'm a little reluctant to use PPCSE's anymore, due to the fact the the leading PPCSE Overture.com needs to cater more to the little guy again. After increasing frustration with their staff I gave up on them and I'm now using FindWhat.com with a great deal of satisfaction. While you won't get as many hits to your site with FindWhat.com, I believe they are easier to deal with and they seem to produce very targeted leads. If you would like to find a listing of all known pay per click search engines, visit PayPerClickSearchEngines.com. There's one tip with PPCSE's that will save you hundreds of dollars in wasted advertising and will probably even make you more money. It's simple really. When you're writing your headline for your ad, make it as specific as possible. For instance, if your selling an ebook for $19.95 on gaining top search engine rankings, you could use a heading like this. $19.95 Ebook Shows You How To Get Top Search Engine Ranking or Top Search Engine Rankings For Only $19.95 This usually stops people looking for free information from clicking on your link, therefore cutting down your untargeted clicks and cutting down your costs, while still making the same amount of sales. I try to never pay more then 20 cents per click and even that's a little too expensive for me. If you know how many people it takes to make a sale at your web site, you can determine how much you can pay per click. Say you get 50 visitors to your site and you make 1 sale worth $20, that means you can pay up to 40 cents per click and still break even. This would be a very good ratio considering you will not want to pay any more then 10 to 20 cents per click. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Discover how you can earn a full time income without a web site or a product of your own, on a very tight budget. Visit master internet marketing at: http://hop.clickbank.net/?specoffer/sdpearce People using the exact same methods in this book are earning anywhere from $2000 a month to $17,000 a month. ================================================================= Reach thousands of subscribers! For ad details and prices, email: mailto:edi-@sitebuildernews.com?subject=ad_inquiry ================================================================= 3. Site Builder Tip ================================================================= This Week's Tip: META Tag Keyword Selection Are you optimizing or "re-optimizing" your web site for search engine submission? Your first step is to select your key words. Key words are very important. You will want to keep more in mind than just the frequency of the key word(s) on your page. You will want to keep in mind WHAT the key word is. You may be in the Top 10 ranking for a particular key word, but if no one is searching for that key word, it won't make any difference to your hit counter. I suggest brainstorming a list of key words that apply to your web page or web site. Then, visit Overture.com to view the frequency of searches for those key words: http://inventory.overture.com/inventory/Search_Suggestion.jhtml, Decide which key word gets the most "requests" and optimize your page or site accordingly. Make sure it is relevant. In other words, don't optimize your web page for the key word "sex" if your web page has nothing to do with such a topic. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Deborah Anderson, of AndersonCreations.com, teaches web design and internet marketing in addition to publishing Webmaster Tips Weekly. Subscribe free by sending a blank email to mailto:subsc-@webmaster-tips-weekly.com http://webmaster-tips-weekly.com/webtips ================================================================= 4. Sites for Site Builders ================================================================= E Cloaker 2.0 by CodeFoot.com E_Cloaker 2.0 is a simple utility that converts the characters of email addresses and text into browser-readable Unicode, making it more difficult for spam extractor bots to harvest email addresses from your web page. Using Unicoded addresses throughout your site can significantly reduce the amount of spam you receive. http://www.codefoot.com/software/ecloaker/index.html ================================================================= 5. 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