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How To Increase Affiliate Income By Ranking On Google’s First Page

The almighty “G” has released the Penguin and the effect on blogs especially affiliate review blogs are huge.

It’s like affiliate marketers are confused. They’ve a lot of questions traveling through their clouded minds – what’s Google really up to. How do I position my affiliate niche sites to rank better, generate income and make me happy? I need to pay some bills and Google just wouldn’t understand.

They don’t care about me, despite all my efforts to please them. I wish Google would fall in love with my niche blog – all these plights will be gone in a hurry – Oh God, help me!

I’m I speaking to you – sure, I know someone out there is lamenting over the drop in his blog. Google Penguin updates really smashed a lot of blogs and the money they were earning virtually dropped by several multiples. Are you on of such persons?

You’re not alone. I’m an affiliate marketer too. I own 2 affiliate review blogs. I visualized what Google is up to about 5 months ago, and I began to take the right steps. Fortunately, my affiliate blogs are still hot, generating gasping commissions and taking me to the bank monthly. I want to show you how to position your blog to rank higher in search engines – it doesn’t matter whether the Panda is at the gate or the Penguin in the room (I wonder why Google chooses to use weird animal names for updates).

There are 2 steps to take your affiliate money making blog to the top. It’s not going to be easy, and it won’t happen overnight. But I’m confident that when you give it a shot, you’ll bounce back fast. Let’s dive in:

1. Start Acting Like a Middleman

Every affiliate marketer is a middle man. Do you agree with me?

Unfortunately, a lot of affiliate marketers acts like the manufacturer. I mean, they literally review affiliate offers as if they own it. Their affiliate blog doesn’t sound like a resourceful site. An affiliate is expected to behave, review, and answer questions with a backup. Middlemen don’t pride themselves as the product owner; they simply lead target audience through the buying phases without sounding like the CEO.

And guess what? If you consistently review affiliate offers as if you own it, you’ll start operating with a different mindset. This mindset will be controlled by what it sees. Making money by all means becomes the meat and blood of your business – how pathetic.

The first stage of affiliate success is to recognize you’re in the ‘middle.’ Giving instructions and directing interested prospects to take action. No, you’re not pushing or pulling them to buy; you’re only doing the work you were called to do – sharing information. The sales page or store should do the selling, you’re to presell.

Several sites were penalized for over-optimizing. And the #1 reason is obvious, money-conscious thinking caused the webmaster to stuff keywords, emphasize every keyword and acquire links unnecessarily.

What You Should Be Doing Instead

Position your blog with in-depth and well-researched contents. Making money is good, we all want to but you don’t have to be controlled by it. Focus on what retailers and consumers want (helpful information) and the money will trail you like an angry shadow.

To rank highly on Google first page, you’ve to put the end-user (buyers, prospects, consumers, shoppers) in front – Once you can engage readers on your blog, Google will ‘assume’ that your blog is great and reward you with RICH, TARGETED AND READY-TO-BUY ORGANIC TRAFFIC.

2. Build Contextual Links Naturally

“Links are the currency of the web” – Brain Clark

We can’t deny the fact that outbound links are one of the factors Google looks for. But all links are not created equal. Recently, I discovered that when I link from authority and active blogs, my review pages starts ranking highly. It’s no longer the amount of links you build, but how relevant, how specific and where you’re linking to.

You see a lot of people build good links to a wrong page. Some folks employ search engine optimization tricks to deceive Google spider, and one of such is linking to a regurgitated page or a page that has no rich contents. Have you been doing this, stop today?

If you want to rank and enjoy organic traffic and targeted buyers, then, prepare your articles. The pages you’re linking to are important, not just the authority blog that allows you to place two links. Getting external links to your blog pages is easy – guest posting is the best way. But the problem is – how juicy is the page you’re linking to. Is it exceptional, engaging and helpful to the reader?

And secondly, contextual linking is the key to strengthening your blog pages. When you link to a certain page in the article body, you’ve done a mighty work and Google will definitely reward it. Make it flow. Don’t try to squeeze in keywords because you want a contextual link. Write naturally and from your heart. A contextual link speaks volumes to search engines. It tells them that you’re citing to a more relevant page.

If your posts are inspiring, people would share it, link and recommend it. And these activities are bringing rich links and targeted traffic from organic sources.

Take This Home

“Your blog is by you, not for you” – Michael Chibuzor

Anyone can make money promoting affiliate offers; it doesn’t matter if you’re a School Dropout or holds MBA from Cambridge. What matters is the zeal to see other people fulfill their business goals. Channel your entire energy in helping someone, a group of persons come closer to meeting their needs in life and there will be so much money coming your way.

There you’ve it, the only 2 steps needed to boost your affiliate earnings by positioning your blog to rank on Google’s first page. The tips are not tedious, I’m so confident you can do it.

Leave a comment below and meet me at the top!

This guest post was written by Michael Chibuzor, who is a Freelance Writer and founded Passive income ideas blog to help you achieve your affiliate marketing goals. Hire Michael to write guest posts, blog posts and copy to boost your sales, leads and web presence.

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Making $200,000 a Month with Pay Day Loans

It’s always great to hear about how others are making big money online. Not only does it inspire us to do better, but it also expands the opportunities and reach for many marketers who aren’t thinking outside of the box. In a recent interview on oDigger, LeadsMarket‘s co-founder discusses how their top affiliates are generating over $200,000 a month in commissions through the promotion of pay day loans!

You can read the full interview at the interview link above, or review two of the most important questions covered in the interview below.

Why should affiliates consider promoting payday and cash advance offers?
There are 7 reasons why affiliates should promote payday offers:

1. Potential payouts from promoting cash advance offers is huge. Top publishers earn millions of dollars a year.

2. Unlike some saturated industries there is not that much competition to promote payday loan offers.

3. Popularity of payday loans have increased tremendously in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom mainly because of the economic recession and now depression.

4. People in need of a payday loans tend to fill out the application at an extremely high rate. Typical conversion rate from search traffic is about 70%.

5. Publishers can start promoting payday loan offers without having a large advertising budget. Email works very good for generating payday loan leads.

6. There are lots of low competition keywords in the cash advance space that can generate huge ROI for search marketers.

7. It is a great time to get started in the payday loan industry. Number of people that need a payday loan keeps increasing every day.

How much do your highest earning affiliates make in a month?
One of our publishers makes about $200,000 a month.

As you can see, the pay day loans business is doing quite well and it’s quite motivating to see affiliates generating over six figures a month from their efforts. This also shows that LeadsMarket knows what they are doing and how to turn their affiliates into true money machines! The way LeadsMarket treated their affiliates is referred to as the “Royal Treatment”.

Tell us about LeadsMarket’s Royal Treatment Program for affiliates.
We pay affiliates weekly. We have a full time in house IT stuff that can accommodate affiliate’s custom requests within very short period of time. We give affiliates lion’s share of the revenue. Each affiliate gets a dedicated account manager and technical support manager to help them with their account. We always give our top affiliates bonuses, gifts, and take them out to have fun during conventions.

So big deal… there are big players and six figure money makers with every ad network. The big question and interest is for all of the smaller players out there, and if they can really make money in the pay day loans market. This is another topic that was briefly covered in the interview.

Tell us a story about an affiliate who found success with LeadsMarket.
We signed up one affiliate from overseas few months ago. He is from a small country. We showed this affiliate the ins and outs of making money generating payday loan leads. We helped this affiliate with his website, hosting, helped set up his paid search campaign, supplied him with keywords, gave him FORMA widget. First month this affiliate made about $4,000 in commissions. Second month he made close to $36,000. He was so happy with results, he referred us 11 more affiliates from his country, some of which are his cousins whom he taught how to advertise online himself. All of these 11 affiliates are now making high commissions with LeadsMarket.com.

As you can see, there is plenty of success and great training behind all of the affiliates and affiliate managers at LeadsMarket. I highly recommend you take a look at the full interview and also sign up for LeadsMarket and talk with their affiliate team to see how you can be one of their next big success stories!

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How Getting Banned from Google Adsense Can Be a Good Thing

It’s been a few weeks since I first wrote about Google Adsense banning my account and graciously taking the money that I was earning in my account. It wasn’t much, but money is money and it’s always nice to have…. however that isn’t the topic for this post. Instead we will discuss how getting banned from Google Adsense can be a good thing.

It’s important to note that I really hadn’t been using Google Adsense for the past several years to generate any significant income. The sad part is that my account was super aged and had more personal meaning than anything else. It was one of my first big money accounts, with over six figures in earnings over the past decade and was loaded with tons of great stats and memories… nonetheless… we move on. Instead of sulking and being sad, as internet marketers, web site owners and people in general… there is a gold lining it nearly everything, which is the end focus of this post.

How Getting Banned from Google Adsense Can Be a GOOD Thing!

Granted… there is nothing good about getting banned from anything, especially if you had owed money in your account and that also gets taken away. However, with more and more internet marketers and site owners coming out with their own stories every day about how they are getting banned from Google Adsense, it an lead to some improvements in your every day business life. Instead of looking at the negatives of getting banned from Google Adsense and potentially looking at just giving up, here’s a complete spin on the concept…

Share Your Stories and Become a Voice

Since going live with my first post a few weeks back, I’ve had a lot of people email me and even link back to the site from several articles across the web. Heck, I was even listed on Problogger today as a result of the story. I’ll gladly take that type of exposure any day. Back to what I was getting at… the accounts getting banned from Google Adsense is nothing new, and many people wouldn’t know this unless people were making this public and sharing their stories. Spencer Haws was another well known name who was doing a nice amount of volume with Google Adsense, then had his account banned as well. Behind just the few of us, there is a long tail of names going through the same experience with Google.

Remove the Clutter, Increase the Gain

I must admit… For years I’ve had a massive amount of domain names and niche web sites floating around the internet. This would result in most of the Google Adsense revenue that would trickle in, but it would also result in hundreds to thousands of dollars every month to renew all of the domain names. Once my Google Adsense account was banned, I simply said “Screw it!”… I no longer wanted to waste time with all the little sites and ideas I had over the years, and if there wasn’t any PageRank associated with the domain names, I simply let them expire. The result? A lot less headaches and annoyance, while also allowing me to focus on the projects that matter.

Better Monetization and New Partnership

This one goes out to the many other people who were running Google Adsense, or still are. There are plenty of ways to monetize Google Adsense, and if you are willing to lose your traffic for just a few pennies, you really need to learn about better ways to monetize your traffic and site content. As mentioned, since I was banned from Google Adsense I also removed a ton of the clutter and smaller sites I had laying around. This allows me to focus on bigger long term monetization, such as product build and working with direct advertising and branding.

Life After Google Adsense…

As the terms and conditions say, once you are banned from Google Adsense you are pretty much banned for life. IF you have a serious business and were chugging out mega money with their platform, you have two different options. The first is to create a new company name and business, then sign up for a new account… but don’t associate it with your sites in your banned account. The other option is to move on (like I did), and just forget about Google Adsense and find better options that allow for better profits and growth for your sites.

The bottom line is, Google Adsense is going to make millions of dollars every day for millions of people around the world… and their business is legitimate and makes it EXTREMELY easy for any web site to start making money without any marketing knowledge. With that said, there is a reason why Google Adsense is so stupidly easy to use, and that is because they are taking a huge chunk of the profits. It’s up to you to decide how you will monetize your sites and if you would rather be lazy and make a few dollars with your current ad system in place, or put in the time and work to make more money and grow your web sites and business to new levels.

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Don’t Put All Your Easter Eggs in One Basket

First off, I’d like to wish everyone an excellent and Happy Easter! I thought today would be a fun and creative way to just stress the reminder and importance of not keeping all of your business focused on one traffic or revenue source.

As we all know, my Google Adsense account was banned last month and while it’s not a big deal for me, it could have wiped out anyone’s business over night if they were simply relying on Google Adsense as their only income month after month. While Google Adsense probably isn’t used for many successful marketers, there are thousands of web sites that generate four or five figures a month off their advertising system. Instead of just relying on Google Adsense, web site owners could also be selling their own ad space, using affiliate programs, text links and contextual advertising… this is the concept behind “not putting your all of eggs in one basket”… as something could easily knock the basket out of your hands and break all of your eggs (revenue/business model).

With all of that said, the same can be said for spreading yourself too thin… just like you can find multiple sources of revenue for a web site, there are also plenty of ways to run online ad campaigns. From pay per click marketing to CPV and media buying, you could easily setup too many ad campaigns and find you are not spending enough time in each market or method to truly understand and master the traffic source. The goal is to master one or two traffic sources and make the most out of what you have, while also finding the perfect room for growth and success.

Just a few inspirational words and concepts to think about when moving into new areas for your business. Have a happy Easter!

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Ads Direct – Performance Marketing at It’s Best

With all of the affiliate networks out there, it’s always a game in itself to find out which are bests. Ads Direct is a network that has been doing extremely well with running all of their own internal offers and are looking to expand their network of affiliates to drive leads for their network.

Unlike other networks out there that share all of the same offers, Ads Direct has a great reputation for pushing some amazing volume and high quality leads in the health and beauty niche. Ads Direct was recently named the #1 Performance Marketing Company. This is mainly due not only for the quality and volume that Ads Direct can provide, but also that the company has expanded their reach to more than thirty countries across the world and have established themselves as a top international performance based marketing firm.

Publishers and Advertisers Find Success with Ads Direct

As mentioned, Ads Direct is mainly focused on the health and beauty niche, but they are always looking to expand their business opportunities with new publishers and advertisers across the world.

Ads Direct is known not only for its “possibilities,” but also for its execution. The company focuses on generating the best-qualified traffic, and ultimately delivers its clients an average of 27% increase in customer retention. Ads Direct offers an insightful approach when managing media buys.

If you are looking for amazing new offers to promote and generate revenue with, or looking to expand the volume and reach of your health and beauty relates business, either as a publisher or an advertiser, you need to look into joining the Ads Direct network.

Ads Direct Blog & Resources

In addition to running a successful ad network, Ads Direct also has an excellent blog with quality content. Though there isn’t a ton of blog posts on the site so far, the ones that are available are quite informative and interesting to read. I’ve listed a few of them below.

Be sure to visit Ads Direct and see how you can start making money with their top rated ad network.

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