Sunday, July 22, 2012

Posting Your Links

Alright... You've got your Affiliate products. You've written your sales letter. It's enticing. It's intriguing. It's exciting!

Now what?

You certainly can't depend on your Facebook page and family and friends forever. Let's be reasonable here! That's really only going to get you so far for so long. If it gets you all that far. You want this FREE money to be flowing regularly into your bank account. Right?

I mean, we're not just talking about getting a boost of income for one single purchase, and then just walking away from it. If you are, then this probably isn't the site for you. Way too much reading!

What we're talking about is making it so that money is flowing regularly into your account. Hence the words FREE Flowing Money! It's free, and if you set it up right, it's going to be flowing freely into your pocket.

So, keeping that in mind, what you're going to need is a public place where you can post your sales letter. Somewhere that traffic can be drawn to it, and it can work for you. It won't do you any good sitting on your computer collecting dust, and if it's somewhere that can't be seen and read... Well, it's not going to be any good either.

The best option I can suggest that won't cost you anything is to start up a blog. The obvious benefits are that it's free to start, free to maintain, and it's easy to use (especially for those who aren't computer savvy). You're already on a blogger site, so why not just sign up and start from here? This is a pretty popular one and interfaces with Google and Facebook already!

The down side to posting on a blog? It's not as easy to generate search engine traffic to a blog, as it would be for other means. Also, a blog has restrictions pertaining to mailing lists, and they don't always give you as much freedom with layouts and appearance, or other coding options for the more advanced users. All things that are worth working around if you're working on a strict budget or have no budget at all to start out with.

What are other alternatives? Well, the best options if you're able to utilize it, is to go ahead and get your own domain. There are many options available out there that you can choose to go with that bill on a monthly basis for those with low budgets.

However, be warned that if you do not have software to build websites, or don't know what you're doing, that you ensure whatever hosting service you go with includes it's own site-builder software with it's service fees. Also, if you're going to be promoting products that are of an adult nature, make sure whoever you go with allows that sort of content or you risk being shut down before you even begin.

Once you establish where you're going to post your sales letter, you then have to decide on a name. Sounds simple, right? Not so much! Your blog name (or especially your domain name if you go that route) will affect traffic flow and your own popularity.

Something catchy is always a great route. However, catchy will only go so far if it doesn't relate to whatever product (or products) you're promoting. If you call your site "The Ziggity Zone", people may see that and have no idea what you're promoting! Sure, it's a fun name, but you're going to have to work harder to get traffic to it. And really, only people who know the site, are going to know what it is when they hear the name.


Let's take a look at an example, shall we? Let's pretend you take a look at at Clickbank, and you decide that you're going to promote FullMovies.Com.  This is another one of my favorite items. 


"If you want to watch premium movies from a variety of genres on your computer with NO monthly payments, NO extra hardware, and absolutely NO restrictions, then FullMovies is your best choice..." 


It's a great annual membership site for people who love to watch movies, but don't want to worry about having to deal with rentals or buying a movie and then end up not liking it. So, it's really easy for me to write a sales letter promoting this website as one of their affiliate marketers. 


Then, all I have to do, is name my location. If I'm lucky enough, the blog address fullmovies will be available, but most likely not. So, I then would have to come up with something else. The smartest route is to get as close to FullMovies, or Downloadable Movies as I can without getting complicated or fancy.


Why? Those are the two terms that people are going to be looking for, or remember if they want to return to my site or refer someone else to it. 


But be careful that you don't try to get fancy about it and use alternative characters or letters. If you label your site FullMoviez (with a "z") and someone refers their friend to FullMovies (with an "s"), what have you just done? You've just given your traffic to someone else! And if they happen to actually be promoting FullMovies.Com, or something comparable, then you've not only given away your traffic, but your affiliate sale as well!


You always want your name to match your purpose or content if you want to have the easiest time getting traffic and referrals. Keep in mind, word of mouth is not only FREE money for you, but FREE traffic too!

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