Should you give your products away for f.ree?
Find out in this edition of the Friday Podcast.
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A client of mine showed me their blog, and asked: “I’m not happy with the income my blog is generating. Can you help me increase my profit? I run both google adsense and affiliate offers“.
While I can’t show the blog or do a screencapture due to confidentiality reasons, here are some points to help you bring your blog monetization to the next level.
Nothing beats a well-tuned blog. This means tracking your analytics and conversions, and making the improvements and tracking, and repeating the cycle.
Broadly, you need to understand the intention and outcome of every visitor to your blog.
Are they there to browse? To make a comparison? To make a purchase?
I’ve found that AdSense publishing is suited for browsers who are still looking for information and aren’t close to making a buying decision yet.
I’ve found AdSense to provide a fairly low ROI (return on investment), so I’ve focused on my affiliate marketing efforts.
You can’t have it both ways…
It’s unlikely that a visitor will both click on an adsense ad AND buy a product from you – It’s either one or the other.
I’ve heard pseudo blogging “experts” say that you should have both adsense and affiliate offers on your blog, because someone who doesn’t buy, will click on your adsense ads instead.
THIS IS COMPLETE NONSENSE.
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New Internet Marketers should stay out of the Internet Marketing niche…unless they apply some of the following techniques in this video.
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DerekBeau’s blog post: How I Became A Professional Affiliate Marketer
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Is Web 2.0 all it’s cracked up to be? Or merely a fragment of its potential?
Friday Podcast 12 Oct 2007: The Web 2.0 Face Off
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If you’ve been in Internet Marketing for some time, you would’ve heard of forum specialist Lee Dodd and his Cruise Line Fans forum. A number of his forums are generating income in the region of $xx,xxx and you can read his story at his “My love of forums” post.
Lee also happens to be doing a promo for his Earners Forum site, targeted at Internet Marketers, with a “Webmaster Inspiration Month” contest. To sweeten the pot, there’s $5,500 worth of prizes at stake, including a iPod Touch, cash prizes and other assorted goodies.
There’s about 7 contests within the competition, each with a distinct winner, so you could submit a blogging-related entry, a forum-related one, affiliate marketing, SEO, or a rags-to-riches one.
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I have a personal beef with network marketing, even though I’m an affiliate marketer.
Find out why in this edition of the Friday Podcast.
Friday Podcast 4th Oct 2007: What Is Wrong With Network Marketin
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