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Do you have specific questions about doing business online? Here’s your opportunity to ask!
Here are examples of questions I’ve been asked of late…
- How do I find a profitable niche?
- How do I put an email capture form on my blog?
- What’s the difference between Wordpress and Bluehost?
- WHY should I use Wordpress?
- Is this the right time to start a new business?
- Is PLR safe to use?
- Where do I find a good ghostwriter?
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I just want to say – I made my first sale!!!!
Thank you so much for your support. You may not realize it but by answering my questions you’re such a help. It can feel really isolating feeling like no one understands or believes in you to make money online. But now I know I’m not crazy.
-B
Congratulations, Brynn!!! That’s terrific… and you’re right. You’re not crazy. That first sale is the biggest hurdle to cross. Now all you have to do is repeat the process.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Ros
Hey Ros,
What about getting paid 1%-4% on computer systems? Is this a reasonable fee?
Lamaris,
Please see Barry Wheeler’s reply below.
Rosalind
Hi Rosalind,
it’s me again the newbie. Anyway, any advice for Asian affiliates? Do you think the US networks there mostly will accept Asian affiliates?
As a start, do I really have to register my business as company ? Well..i don’t have a lot of money now (consider as broke.. he he) , I think maybe I can set it up while the business is going.
I think most of affiliate business run by sole proprietorship..start from the scratch..and no need to register as company (in the beginning).
A bit confused here..
Thanks and cheers,
StL
10 January 2009 01:01:32 Central Standard Time
Hi Stella,
Frank Eckdall here. I hope this information helps you out!
Start as a sole proprietorship. Then when the money starts coming in file as a Limited Liability Corportation, ie LLC. Most people make their application as a Corporation in the state of Delaware, because it is much easier there and you don’t actually have to reside in the state of Delaware.
However, I believe you may have to have a mailing address here in the USA to qualify as an affiliate with many companies, not to mention start a Corporation!
Here is your solution! http://www.earthclassmail.com
“a prestigious U.S. street address to show customers an enhanced business presence, incorporate, use a registered agent service, or appear in local search-engine results”
This opens the way for you guys and gals in Asia or Europe
or UK to have a US mailing address
They will scan your physical mail and send you an email
when it arrives and send you a digital scan of your physical
mail to your email box as a PDF.
Check it out, when I finally leave (Hick Country) Emporia, Kansas for Spain, Venezuela and/or México this is what I will do. I studied Medicine in Spanish
and I am getting really tired of just speaking English all the time and conversing
with Hill Billies and cows etc.
I speak fluent Spanish and English.
What languages do you speak?
Kind regards,
Frank Funston Eckdall
Unix Administrator
Esquire
1%-4% on computer systems seems to be the going margin right now. I don’t think that is reasonable in my opinion. Margins can easily be improved through effeciently marketing and optimizing a business, it’s web content and becoming a leader for service in the niche occupied.
Hi Ros,
I am Anson from Singapore! My site dealing with affiliate products from CJ, Shareasale and Linkshare has been launched 1 and a half month ago but I have not yet generated any sales…I found my niche in gift ideas and my site is a gift ideas by horoscope site which helps people to find unique gift ideas online.
I have checked a few competitors and they are gift.com, findgift.com and suprise.com…I am wondering if they are doing well too and do you know how much are they earning per month?
My girlfriend and I have been into internet marketing since 3 years ago and both of us have quitted our job to focus full-time on my online business. We have been following and attending seminars by stephen pierce, derek gelh, allan gardyne, michael cherney and many others…We’ve learnt alot of knowledge on internet marketing throughout these 3 years and have only just recently launched this business site of ours…however, we are still unable to earn any sale from any of the 3 major affiliate networks…
Our site uses blog marketing, article marketing, social media sites, blog communities, web directories and keyword research(SEO) to generate traffic…Our site is also content-rich…My alexa ranking is at 3 millions…is this why we are not making any sales as our site’s traffic is simply too low?
Dear Ros, I am really desperate to see results for my site. Can you give me some strong hints and tips on how to breakthrough and make my first sale online?
With Love,
Anson
Hello Anson,
I would love to be able to help you, but without a link to look at your site, I’m afraid that’s going to be very difficult.
Rosalind
Hi Ros,
I have provided my website’s url for your assessment. Kindly have a look. Hope to get some valuable pointers and advises from you Ros!
With Regards,
Anson
Hi Rosalind,
I have joined the super affiliate program, but I’m having problems installing the link into my blog.
Thanks
Richard
Hello Richard,
There’s a simple cut and paste link on the affiliates page.
Cheers,
Ros
I read your profile in the FEEDFRONT Magazine. It was about your participation in the Affiliate Summit. I then read your profile and felt that you could help me with some of my goals.
I need tyour advice regarding social networking and how to grow my business. I am on Twitter,facebook.com, startupbiz,linkedin and plaxo. I have been helping thousands of students to graduate from high school and college. In fact I launched a national initiative to help students to stay in school. I have written three books the Seven Secrets of How to Study, the Parent’s Ultimate education Guide and the Ultimate Scholarship Guide at sevenbooks.net . I have been trying to user social networking to drive traffic to my website. It is working but no one is purchasing. I have a new landing page and which offers a free e-book titled How to help your child to Succeed a studytips4kids.info . What are your tips for getting more interest while using social networks?
Hello Dr. Jones,
The link you provided goes to a site where someone named Coco is talking about shape-shifting.
May I suggest that you might be interesting in my consulting program?
http://www.netprofitstoday.com/pages/Services.html
Cheers,
Ros
Dear Frank Eckdall,
Wow.. thanks for the reply. Really a hint for me. Will check it out the earthclassmail. Anyway, I’m from Indonesia.
Thanks for your support. Will do my homewrok now…
Cheers,
Stella
Hey Ros,
I just had one more question to ask of you and that is, is there enough content available to write on the jewelry and watches niche?
Hi Lamaris,
I know people who can wax poetic about jewelry as the day is long and others who can do the same with watches. So, to answer your question in a nutshell – yes.
Cheers,
Ros
Dear Ros,
I just finished reading your book “Make a Fortune Promoting Other People’s Stuff Online”.
First of all I wanted to tell you that your book is great, very informative and has a lot of helpful links and references. I was really new to the affiliate marketing world, but I learned a lot from your book.I have a few questions before I get started if you could please help me and point me in the right direction.
1) I am writing a directory-like website with different advertiser links grouped in the various categories. I will also specify the ad format myself, according to the info submitted by my advertisers. These advertisers will have a choice to move up on a list by joining my own PPC program. (I will set PPC minimum price/bid price for each category, etc.) It has to automatically sort the listings in each category, placing the highest PPC advertisers at the top. Where can I find the affiliate marketing solutions for publishers that would offer affiliate marketing PPC structure/management/software/etc. for my own advertisers? All the PPC companies I contacted (i.e. Kontera, Miva, etc.) only deal with their own advertisers (by automatically placing ads that I can’t change on my pages) and they do not track my own advertisers. Companies, such as MyAffiliateProgram, Assoctrac, UltimateAffiliate, etc., seem to provide solutions for merchants, not the other way around.
Also, the same exact question as above but for PPA (pay-per-action) advertising. Maybe the same company/software will handle both, PPC and PPA functions for what I am looking for.
2) My other question is (it’s not related to the one above): I wanted to set up a comparison shopping website (sort of like NexTag) with PPC Product Advertising. Do you know of any big companies that do Product PPC? I contacted many of them, but they all do only keyword advertising PPC, but not Product PPC. (Commission Junction for example does Product PPA, but not Product PPC).
Any information, anything you can help with would be great!
Thank you in advance for your help,
Emily
Hi Emily,
Sorry to take so long to respond to your question! I admit, I’m completely swamped!
Having read my book, you know that I specialize in affiliate product review sites, warn against ‘mall’ type sites and prefer pay-per-sale programs to PPC – so I haven’t much experience with either ppc software or coupon / shopping comparison site software.
My little bit of poking around to find reviews on such software didn’t bring too many results. Not enough to be able to point you in any specific direction, anyway.
You might want to check with the good folks at Webmaster World and see if they are better able to help you.
Sorry I couldn’t be of more help.
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Ros,
Thank you very much. Much to think about…
I think I’ll be pursuing pay per sale vs. PPC.
Thanks again,
Emily
Hey Ros,
I currently with 1&1 web hosting services, and I was wondering if they was good enough for my affiliate website, if you have the time could you review the features and suggest to me if 1&1 web hosting services will work or do I need to go through Site Build It!.
Lamaris,
If you are happy with your hosting service then I suggest that you stick with them.
Here are the services that I recommend…
http://www.netprofitstoday.com/articles/31/1/Recommended-Web-Site-Hosting-Services/Page1.html
Cheers,
Ros
“My first choice for getting traffic through content placement is always article marketing on the directories however.”
Thanks, Rosalind.
Which ten article directories do you think are the best to submit to?
Hi Rezbi,
Top of my list is EzineArticles.com. But I don’t do manual submissions having used Article Announcer for years now. Here’s an article that details Article Announcer’s benefits — explaining what happened when I first tried the software.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Ros
Thanks, Rosalind, I appreciate the help.
Forgot to mention, if you click on my name you’ll go to my latest site – I’ve had it up only just over two months.
I’ve used the advice you give out here and my site reached a PR3 in less than two months.
And that was a brand new domain.
Thanks, again,
Rezbi
Hey ros,
Do you think its better to integrate the wordpress blog into my website or just have a link that goes to a blog site of mine? Because I’m having a little trouble integrating it into my website.
Hi Lamaris,
I highly recommend going straight Wordpress, even if you have to do what I did at 101Date.com and copy and paste all your content into a new Wordpress blog. In the long run, you’ll find that maintaining it is easier.
Ros
Hello Rosalind:
How are you doing? First of all, thanks much for providing such a great place to discuss affiliate issues or concerns. I have a request for you if you can review my site and give me any suggestion. Affiliate marketing is a new learning curve for me so trying to make it correct by seeking your advice. I have included Website URL as part of the comment submission field. I would be highly thankful to you if you can provide me some suggestions including adword tips.
Thanks much!
Best Regards
Leo
Hi Leo,
I’m well, thanks kindly for asking.
I see that you’ve done a TON of work on your site with tons of content and incorporating datafeeds… good for you!
My only suggestion would be to continue what you’re doing with the blog (adding content) and perhaps hire someone to create a really nice logo or header graphic for a little more professional look and visitor appeal.
If you would like a more in-depth review, you can ask for one in the forum and I’m always available for consultations.
Continued success to you!
Cheers,
Ros
hi again ,
dont know if my last comment got through.. sorry if it did..
so you have a niche and researched a market…so is it best to blog first or build a website?? is there a better choice first ( i know blogs get traffic) and if you do blog first do you then build a website around it? how does this stand if you want to do a review site:::
so sorry if the question seems silly but the blog and or website thing at the beginning confuses me..knowing which is best or whether it is related to what your niche is in? As a reminder i am interested in juicing,smoothies,health from it….
thanks you kindly
Hello Mel,
A Wordpress blog is a website. What you’re looking at now is a Wordpress blog.
Wordpress is an online content management system that allows you to create posts within categories (that you set) as well as individual pages.
And you mentioned the best reason to go with Wordpress… traffic.
So, that’s always my first choice.
Stay tuned, if you haven’t already bought your domain yet, we’ll be starting to offer free Wordpress blog installations real soon.
Cheers,
Ros
Dear Rosalind,
I purchased the Super Affiliate Handbook about 10 months ago and have been really applying myself with several affiliate offers. Your book was so helpful, and I have gone from having no clue about how to build a website to learning HTML, CSS, PPC, SEO and all of that good stuff. However at the moment I am feeling extremely discouraged and really don’t know where else to turn for help. Here’s why:
Every time I use Pay Per Click I get killed. The math just doesn’t work.
For Example, I am trying to market a popular weight loss product from Clickbank. It has a gravity of 747 so it’s obviously selling, and it pays $26.30 per sale. My problem is that the PPC is way to expensive to turn a profit. If an average affiliate converts at 1% that means I have to get clicks for $0.26 to break even. This is simply not possible. Lets assume my landing page is very good and this product could convert at 3%. Then I break even with $0.79 clicks.
I have found one keyword with slow but steady traffic on Yahoo that I can get position 4 for $0.42. Using this keyword as an example, with a 3% conversion rate, I spend $42 on clicks to turn a $36.90 profit. This works, but I will be 86 years old before I make five sales at this rate!
I need lots more cheap keywords to get any significant traffic volume and, well, they’re all over $1 per click! The cheap keywords seem to have no traffic volume.
If the Clickbank gravity is over 700 then this thing is selling like hot cakes. What am I doing wrong? If you wouldn’t mind offering some advice I would really appreciate it!
Best Regards,
Steve Anderson
Hi Steve,
I trust you don’t want to wait until you are 86 to make those sales.
Your question is so good however, that I’m going to ask you to wait a day or two and I’ll answer it via a blog post.
In the meantime, I’d highly recommend that you pause those campaigns.
Cheers,
Ros
I have a 2007 copy of Super Affiliate Handbook. I couldn’t get started right away and have found out about your 2008 revision. Do I need that one when I start again? Is there many differences? Is there a way to get either the differences only (updates) or do you give free updated or discounted versions? Please guide me as to what to do.
Hello Duane,
Yes, I highly recommend that you get the latest revision and I’ll be releasing another one real soon as there have been so many changes in the last year.
Provided you have your original receipt, contact Joel through our Customer Support Desk (Contact link at the bottom of the page) and he’ll set you up with access.
Best of success!
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Ros:
I’m an extremely happy newbie reader of the SAH. (Took it to my local Staples for copying and binding at 5 pm and stayed up till 5 the next morning studying it!!)
I have been floundering around trying to get educated in this internet marketing field for a while now and, as you know, about 90 percent of what’s out there lies somewhere between simply misleading and outright fraud. Fortunately my lessons so far have been fairly inexpensive. Once bitten twice shy.
So your book and this forum are most gratefully received….AWESOME!!
One question: Given these difficult economic times, I want to do something along the lines of “Advice for Pennypinchers”. Obviously with a domain name like that, there would be a million subjects to explore, but is it too general? Would it be better to explore more specific concepts for several different sites? “Save Money by Doing Home Improvements Yourself”, for example. Or a review of “Coupons” sites. I hear the whole “coupons” thing is huge and growing rapidly.
Thanks for everything you do….
Paul Mollon
Hi Paul,
I’m happy to hear that you are so happy with the Super Affiliate Handbook.
I love your PennyPinchers idea. It’s a topic I too have thought about covering many times and if my plate wasn’t so full, it would be one near the top of my list. The timing is perfect.
I would advise against having different sites for the reasons I talk about in the ‘One Topic: Multiple Domains?” section of the book.
If your domain name is general, you can focus on building out different categories as you see fit. I personally like the idea of going broad with this topic because you’ll never run out of things to blog about.
Too, think about branding yourself… ie. Paul the PennyPincher or PennyPincherPaul. Alliteration is always good for making a name more memorable — but more importantly, feature yourself down the road as CNN’s PennyPincher adviser.
It’s good to think big.
I’d stay away from the coupon site review idea, primarily because most of those coupon sites are affiliates. I’d go with the first idea with the goal of setting up your own coupon download section.
I hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Rosiland
I have a copy of S.A.H., and have found it very helpful. I am promoting a ClickBank product for which I have built a website. My affiliate code is in several links and a few JPEG “Click Here” type images. I know you recommend an affiliate link cloaker, would it be a good idea to use one in my situation?
Have a grand day,
Lance
Hi Lance,
If your niche is outside the business opportunities market (particularly Internet and Affiliate marketing) you don’t really have to worry about cloaking your affiliate links.
Surfers in mainstream markets aren’t generally savvy enough to swap out affiliate links.
That said however, doing php redirects for your affiliate links is the way to go with any affiliate site, in any market, for 2 reasons:
1) A link like http://netprofitstoday.com/recommends/bluehost.php is more Google friendly than the straight affiliate link.
2) If you have 20 or 30 of the same affiliate link posted in reviews around your site and the merchant changes the link, you have a lot of work to do to change those links. With a php redirect, you only have to change the one link.
I hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
Rosalind,
I would first like to take this opportunity to thank you for sharing your skills and knowledge in Affiliate Marketing. I am sure I’m on a smoother path because of you, and I’m sincerely grateful for that.
I am brand new to Affiliate Marketing, and I am currently reading your book “The Super Affiliate Handbook”. It has been very helpful as I know nothing about this field. There are two key points I am focusing on at this time. One is how to find a Niche, specifically what software do you use and what process/criteria do you take to qualify a good Niche, and the other is how to write a good article that will 1.draw my customers to my site. 2. keep customers attention (stickiness). 3. Converting a sale (and repeat sales) from customers.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Ty
Hello Ty,
Thanks for stopping by and my pleasure to help.
Here are a few quick links / answers to your questions:
7 Sins Approach to Niche Market Research
10 Ways to Build Trust and Increase Sales
How to Write a Product Review
You’ll find more info about each of these topics in the Handbook. Suggest you read through the book in its entirety once, then go back through it while you work the process.
Best of success!
Cheers,
Ros
I am 70yrs old I know little about starting a bussiness, no product, no list ect. What are my chances a making any money at this?
Hello Larry,
Thanks for your comment and sorry for my late reply… I’ve been off camping in the no-internet zone.
As to your chances for making money at affiliate blogging, I don’t see age as a negative factor at all. In fact, it’s a very positive factor! You have more life experience and therefore more knowledge. Put it to good use and prosper!
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Rosalind,
Reading thru your eBoom, THE SUPER AFFILIATE HANDBOOK and came to the part about submitting articles. I like to write and believe in the concept.
Went to the site to pick up Jason Potash’s “Article Announcer” software and it didn’t seem to work. Some ERROR message on the “thank you’ page about his database was full.
Is that still a viable, recommended tool to drive traffic? If so, how can I get it. If not, do you have an alternate recommendation?
Thanks.
GREAT book by the way. Very complete. I’ve owned a traditional insurance agency for 30+ years and I know what it takes to make a business work. I know many people expect to throw up a website and be making money in a couple days. While it might happen sometimes, I’m sure the formula involves a lot more nurturing than that.
I look forward to your reply and your guidance.
Dennis Volz
Hi Dennis,
Sorry for the late reply… I’ve been off-grid camping for the last few days.
Thanks kindly for your compliment about the Super Affiliate Handbook. Glad to hear that you’re finding it helpful.. and you’re absolutely right about ‘nurturing required’. If everyone realized that, almost everyone could be very successful.
As for Article Announcer, yes it is still a valid program for generating additional traffic from article distribution. I still use it. Sorry about the link problem, please try this one… http://netprofitstoday.com/go/articleannouncer
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Rosalind,
Here’s a domain question…
After searching for a good domain name, I find most .com’s (that I can think of)are taken, but lots of .ca’s are available (I’m in Canada).
It doesn’t seem like it would make much of a difference, but I see you always use .com’s.
What are the advantages of .com’s over .ca’s?
Thx
Hi Ros, i have just purchased your handbook and b4 this, I have also subcribed 2 membership site on internet marketing. Can I know, am I over doing it?will that be sufficient to read your handbook only?
Thanks
Dear Rosalind,
I am interested in initiating my own affiliate business.
I do not have any former experience in the field, so like you did, I am starting from scratch.
Here in Greece the specific topic is not very developed so I think it is a good timing to get started.
However, I would like to ask if it is possible to be active internationally or is it necessary to develop some kind of business for a niche market specifically for GReece.
Looking forward to your reply.
Thank you
Sincerely Yours
Dionysis
Hi Rosy, Thanks for everything. I don’t want complicated informations on internet money making analysis, ‘cos I ‘m not educated so much. I simply want all informations about your simple formular of your Cash 1234 System and everything it takes to become expert on that line. That is all i need, that is where i belong. Then, the next thing you need to help me built up is my website or webpage. Few days ago, I opened (My Site Chintamanigoswami)but not fully website, ‘cos i did not pay for it, so to say, it is not a high class website, so, how can i develop it, as to attract costumers to it? How do I creat blog etc. My site ID is as follows:(http:/sites.google.com/sites/chintamanigoswami)Rosy, you are now my Guru,apart from the above inquiry, whatever else you think that is appropriet for me to know as a beginner, you may let me understand as well.Thank you for now as it is, looking forward to hearing from you,
regards,
Chintamani G.M.
Dear Rosalind, Compliments of the seasons. Yes, many people talk of internet money making, and i am also interested to do such kinds of job. Unfortunately all the people i was introduced could not satisfy my interest to join the internet online money making, therefore, i am hesitating to continue. Here again, my friend is introducing me to your site about the same issue, how will i believe this will proofreal?
I heard you have a very simple formular of Cash 1234 system different from other’s, so please could you explain to me how it works. Also I have no website, how will people know what i have? I am a new person in this line and have no knowledge about this internet job, so how can you help me? If i can succeed, i will introduce many of my friend’s to your site.
Thank you, I look on to hear from you,
regards,
Anoz Thapa.
Hello Anoz,
You mention a Cash 1234 system… I sell a affiliate marketing manual called the Super Affiliate Handbook available at http://superaffiliatehandbook.com.
In the book you will learn how to start you own website (blog) as well as how to do business with merchants to sell their products online.
I hope that helps answer your question.
Cheers,
Ros
Yes, one other thing, other people talk of master cards, visa cards and credit cards, paypal etc. all these systems are a bit confusing, and i do not have visa or master cards, so payment through this means is not easy for me, i hope yours might be different. You also speak about blog, what is it? What is niche, bluehost,and Ghostwriter etc, please kindly explain all these to me.
Hello again Anoz,
It is helpful to have a credit card with which to pay your hosting fees, however it’s not completely necessary as Bluehost (a web hosting company) accepts checks and Paypal. http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/did-you-know-that-bluehost-accepts-checks-and-paypal/
For answers to your other questions please see our glossary at http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/glossary-of-internet-marketing-terms/
Cheers,
Ros
I just purchased and read you book “super affiliate handbook”. I have a question about joining Comission Junction. I don’t have a web site yet so it won’t let me join. I tried listing a newsletter but still no success. I wanted to verify that products are availible for the market I want to sell in before I pick a web site domain name.
Thank You
Robert
Hi Robert,
It’s always best to have your site together with core articles before applying to the big networks.
To see if there are affiliate programs in your niche, type in the name of your topic and “affiliate program”, i.e. fishing tackle “affiliate program”.
I hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Rosalind,
Quick question, please.
My son is helping me construct the above site and we’re trying to duplicate the type of ’summary’ section at the top of your categories like you have at http://101date.com/ I’ve put some examples below for clarification.
I’m guessing this might be a plugIN of some kind but we can’t seem to find it. We’re working off of the LIFESTYLES THEME just as that site is.
Thanks for your help.
EXAMPLES:
Click DATING SITE REVIEWS: http://101date.com/dating-site-reviews/
(you’ll notice it lists the sub categories on that top section w/ the Magnifying Glass)
Click REGIONAL/ETHNIC DATING and you’ll notice the same summary section at the top that now lists the individual posts.
http://101date.com/dating-site-reviews/regional/
Thanks…
Dennis Volz
Hi Dennis,
Thanks for the question! I’ve set up separate pages for the top-level categories, named according to their category ID, i.e. category-149.php.
At the tops of those pages, I call the category title only on the first page with:
if ( $paged < 2 ) { ?>< ?php $current_category = single_cat_title("", true); ?>Note: I’ve removed the php calls, so you’d have to add them.
Then the description..
echo category_description($category); ?Lastly, I ask it to list the sub-categories with
wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=1&child_of=1&depth=1&title_li=');
I hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Rosalind
I purchased the super affiliate handbook, signed up with bluehost and purchased a theme at studiopress. I gotta tell you for someone just use to checking emails and surfing the web, this is very slow going. What might take an experience person 1 min to do takes me a day it seems. I don’t want to farm it out because of money and I want to learn. Kinda stuck just trying to change a heading on a theme. Studiopress dosn’t seem like they like those kinds of questions in there blog. I’m very excited about doing this. Working hard and putting in a lot of time. Any suggestions.
Thank You
Robert
Hi Robert,
Brian’s Support Forum over at Studio Press includes instructions on how to change the header for most themes… I don’t know which one you purchased.
But go to the Forum and look for your theme name then you’ll likely find a post titled something like “How to Replace the Logo Image with Dynamic Text Header” which will be a good thing to do until you get a graphic header together.
I hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
Rosalind,
I’ve bought some books and programs on internet marketing and promised myself not to buy any more until I made my first sale. Yours will be the first book I buy when I do make that sale, but in the meantime can I get started on the site without buying the book?
I found out about you from the latest program I bought – Bob Bly’s Internet Retirement program. He had great things to say about you on it and that is how I found your site.
So I want to start a site on negotiating for everyday people. I negotiate in my job for a living and have a bunch of rental real estate units on the side. I was wondering if you think this topic is too broad and what are the chances of putting products on this site?
Also, do you think a wordpress blog is the best way to get started – just writing down tips and techniques? Bob Bly’s program talked about having squeeze pages and building your list. How do I set all that up?
Thanks and I promise to buy your book – just want to make a little money first,
Hal
Hi Rosalind
I am about to start my articles.
My question is about how many keywords should I use per article ? Also should I use general words like “blinds” that get more hits or more specific words like “vertical blind” but not searched as much?
Thanks for all your help so far.
Hi Robert,
I suggest that you write naturally – for people, not for search engines.
Go for more specific topics, rather than the general ‘blinds’. If your main article topic vertical blinds or blind cleaning, you’ll just naturally have those keywords sprinkled enough times throughout your article without making it sound cheesy (terrible).
Do be sure to include the main topic in the title of your post, though.
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
Rosalind
When should I start writing reviews?
Robert
Hi Robert,
After you get your ‘core’ articles together and published on your site. Then you can start applying to the affiliate programs that interest you and write reviews about their products. But make sure that your site is in A1 shape before applying.
Cheers,
Ros
I’m an Affiliate Marketing beginner. I just purchased Your “Super Affilaite Handbook” and joined BlueHost. I have an elementary question about posting adds on my web site: Do I need to do anything with the Affiliate’s Tracking URL or can I just post the link/banner code on my site and still get credit for generated sales?
Bob Harris
Hello Bob,
I checked out your site and see that your ads are definitely coded with an affiliate link – so you will credit credit for any sales made through those links.
I would suggest however that you add commentary to each of those posts to get more juice from Google and give your readers a reason to buy.
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
Hi, Roz. I purchased your Super Affiliate Handbook and found it very informative. I’ve learned a great deal from your book. I want to enter the affiliate marketing business and have been researching different affiliate programs. I am familiarizing myself with different terms and am not sure what Total Clicks: ___ (number amount) means when it is included in certain Affiliate Program Details. I know you covered PPS (pay per sale) and PPC (pay per click) in your book, but what does it mean when the number amount is say 300 next to the Total Clicks column for one program and Total Clicks: 59 for another. Pepperjam has 3931 clicks in the Total Clicks column.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Susan
Hi Ros
I just hand wrote 5 articles. I getting ready to ask my wife to type them since I’m a 2 finger typer. My question is what program should I use, I was going to use ms word but I saw in the Super Affiliate Handbook you talked about notepad. Thanks
Robert
Hi Robert,
Wow! You’re going gangbusters!
You can use Word. The later versions of Wordpress now let you paste from Word. Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Robert,
Thought I’d jump in here for what it’s worth. Notepad gives your a purer text as there’s no code or formatting. I like to use GOOGLE DOCS. It keeps your material centralized and you can organize in folders just like WORD on your computer. Word is certainly viable if you don’t want to mess online. Just have to experiment and see which format pastes best into your site or blog.
Dennis Volz
Hi Ros
Have the articles all set. Still working on the logo and color theme. Question today is with the stuff on the right side of the page. I purchased the church theme and not sure how to deal with ..Archives…Admin …blogroll.
Can these be changed ? Thanks
Robert
Hi Robert,
Great to see that you’re still working really hard at it. Good for you! To remove archives, blogroll, etc., go to the Widgets panel and drag the widgets you want into (or out of) sidebar bottom/left/right
Let me know if that doesn’t make sense.
Too, Studiopress offers a great support forum at http://www.studiopress.com/support/
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Ros,
After reading your Super Affiliate Handbook, I bought Brian Gardner’s Lifestyle theme and am having trouble with it on Wordpress. When I enter a new blog and publish it, I see it on my webpage under “Uncategorized” in 3 places. Is there a tutorial for Wordpress that will help me edit the Lifestyle theme on my website that’s written for beginners? I tried the StudioPress tutorials and unfortunately, they were too advanced for me. Thanks.
Susan
Hi Susan,
Not a problem! Go into your Wordpress Administration Panel, then under Posts, click on Categories. You’ll see the categories listed in the main window. Click on Edit and rename that Uncategorized category to whatever name you wish. You can also add new categories from the interface there.
I hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
Hi, i just stumbled on your site when doing a research on how to open an online store….i was really wanting to know how to open one up? if i needed to register my business here in the U.S and how to promote it.
Okay i done alot of searching on the internet for a good home based business..but when i go to Google Search and enter the Business’ name + Scam or review..i am horrified at some of the comments i have seen..i know there is alot of junk out there..but i would like to keep my business as simple as possible..no website..just an affiliate marketer doing text ads on Google Adsence PPC…I have an account with Clickbank and also Paydot.com for products to promote..now i need a good place to go to find out more about the ad placement and cost…Can you possibly steer me in the right direction somehow ?…….thanks…..Mike
I want to set up an info-product-for-sale on my site. I registered for the email for people to subscribe to my newsletter, and I have a couple of Clickbank products I want to sell. But I don’t know how to get a download-able product on my website that a visitor can opt to buy. Do I need a shopping cart account? Will that allow me to download a product that the visitor can buy?
Hi Ros,
I rec’d an invite in my mailbox this morning from a company promoting Internet Business. I was intrigued, as it spoke to me. They were advertising that companies would pay for people to type articles, or whatever for them. I love writing, and write alot. As a matter of fact, I have been sick these past 3 days, the only thing that stays constant, is my penchant for writing. As I continued reading I decided to check the Testimonials. I saw your face and liked your smile. It seemed honest. So I picked you. When I scrolled down I noticed you were the only female. I feel like I have chosen correctly.
I read your profile, and like your humble beginnings. I am not great on the computer. The only thing I do really, really well is typed. I just learned there was a key at the back of the keyboard to restart the key board. I’ve had a computer for years now and didn’t know that.Yet, I know I have to do something drastic to turn my financial situation around.
Here comes my first question, How do I turn my desire for writing/typing into an Internet business, specifically targeting businesses who require that service?
I love baking and cooking and entertaining. However due to present health issues, I can only do one. My friends have been encouraging me to do a website for my cakes. I make a mean cheesecake, so I’ve been told. Smile.
My second question is, How do I set up such a website to attract caterers, event planners, etc?
Hello Pearlyn,
Thanks for submitting such a GREAT question… and yes, you are the perfect candidate for turning both your love of writing and your ability to bake into a real Internet business through blogging.
I will re-post your question in a blog post soon (soon is sometimes relative), and in the meantime, I suggest that you go through the site here, taking special note of this article… http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/cook-up-success-with-a-recipe-blog/
Question for you… why do you want to attract caterers? To sell your cakes?
Cheers,
Ros
Pearlyn, I am looking for someone (paid service) to write articles for me right now. (who speaks good English like you do!):o) If you’re interested, you can click on my name and contact me through my web site.
HI Ros
Web sites almost there. Started mid Oct. Everything is new to me so it’s slow going but I’m enjoying every minute of it. My next step is to get the links from advertisers. I was accepted by an advertiser in CJ. Question is how do I get the URL to link to. I see the HTML links but not sure that is what I want.
Thanks
Robert
Hi Robert,
Hmmm… sorry. I guess you didn’t receive my follow up.
I always go for the HTML links. Just cut and paste them where you want them in your post.
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Ros, I’m sorry, if there was a follow up, I must have missed it. I’m having a hard time understanding this. Where in the post do I paste the HTML link? The links in CJ don’t look anything like a URL link to me. There are several paragraphs of HTML. If there were a site that would explain all this I would be more than happy to study it, but so far I have tried 2 forums to no avail. I appreciate all that you have taught me, just really stuck on this part for some reason. Thanks for your help. Robert
Rosalind, I have just purchased your handbook, and want to say thank you for writing it and exposing me to the world of Affiliate Marketing. I had a question though, I am a little confused about the order of things. I know in your book you focus on building the website first and then signing up with affiliates like commission junction, etc… But I am confused as to why you would try to develop a site first with out knowing if there is a product or service that an affiliate organization is offering for you to promote on the site. Wouldn’t it make more sense to find a product that you like and are interested in, and then begin to build a site around the promotion of that product?
I appreciate your insight on this matter in advance.
I look forward to having a 1hour mentoring session with you in the future. As soon as my business will pay for it.
Thanks
Patrick
Hi Ros, I have a question for you, I am totally blind and am interested in starting an affiliate marketing business. There may be many skills that I either don’t have or I may need additional help with. Do you know where I can get additional help? Thanks Sol
Hi Sol,
Hmmm… interesting question. Would you consider starting a blog with a partner? Other than that, you can always outsource certain parts of your project (design, some programming) to contractors at Elance and Rentacoder.
Does that help answer your question?
Ros
Just started this new blog that will cover a wide variety of topics, almost like a website directory but only in a blog format.
My biggest problem is no matter how much info i consume from even the best and most popular minds it seems i can’t get back intot he saddle.
My goal right now is to be a full time internet marketer, and my first task is to bring my monthly income up to $5000 per month, which i know is very achievable.
i’m actually a web developer and can build or clone almost any web model, i can even build wordpress themes from scratch, literally from a blank document.
i really need to develop a few reliable monthly income streams, and i think i might just need to get a mentor to hand over a few reliable campaigns.
on the upside i’ve just joined dave guindon’s online videos and copped a copy of mike filsaime’s 7figurecode.
i’m desperate to be taught 1-3 simple campaings that i can start using right now
Hi Ros
I’am thinking of adding a question/answer column to my site. Do you have any opinion on doing this.
Hi ms Gardener, my name is cedric. Let me start out by saying that i loved your book. this is my first time subscribing to anything dealing with afilliate marketing as i plan to start my online buisness tommorow. I’m very new to this so bear with me.
hear are my questions.
Can a basketball website be profitable?
what items sell on the internet?
have you heard of vintaly Grimblat, the rich jerk, and ewen chia, are they scams? vintalys 1-2-3 power system, ewen chias auto-pilot profits, and the rich jerk is supposedly supposed to give you free traffic. are these legit?
also i have limited money do you have any suggestions on what i should do to make profit faster?
is making a website hard using html. i plan on taking a web-design course in college should this help my online buisness?
sory for posting so many questions im just so exited about geting this up and going. i want to do either a basketball website or a electronic website. which would you recomend? sory for posting this long, and if i overlooked in rules for this message board. thanks again mrs.gardener and congratulations on your succsess.
Hello Cedric,
Thank you for getting in touch. Rather than answer your questions, I’m going to suggest that you go back through the materials again to determine your own passions / niche etc. and use the tools to discover whether that niche is profitable. Unfortunately, I cannot make those decisions for you.
Cheers,
Rosalind
Rosalind,
So glad I signed up for your newsletter. I hope to learn a lot from you. I plan on writing product reviews to promote the products of the companies I represent. My problem is: How do I write a convincing product review without testing the product first since I I’m not in a position to purchase the products?
Thanx
Kwasi
Hello Anson,
Overall, I think your niche is a good idea, and I’d play the horoscope /astrology aspect up more on the homepage copy for additional seo. I’d also perhaps shorten up the copy and put in a couple more pics. “About Horoscope” is an awkward phrase – probably should be “About Astrology”.
I would also suggest that there’s still some design work to be done with the odd extra right hand sidebar that only includes the search form. Breaking it up and bringing your primary categories closer to the top will highlight the focus better.
For a more complete review, I offer a consultation service at:
http://rosalindgardner.com/consultations/
Or, stop by our forum and request a review.
http://netprofitstoday.com/forum
Cheers,
Ros