Ronald B. Wilson Jr.

Copeac Affiliate Marketing

2008-07-15T14:26:00.000-07:00

I am taking a very hard look at Copeac. They have some pretty good affiliate program with a wide assortment of available offers. The AM that I have is very helpful and is always willing to give me advice. If you are thinking about getting into a new affiliate program, you should give Copeac a try.

Affiliate Marketing Is Frustrating

2008-07-15T14:22:00.000-07:00

Affiliate marketing can be very rewarding. It can also be very frustrating. While I had a very good month last month, this month is shaping up to be very miserable. The key with affiliate marketing is to learn how to consistently make income from month to month. It is also important not to have all your eggs in one basket. I learned that the hard way. I would recommend having several different profitable campaigns running at the same time. That way if one offer goes south, you have others to fall back on. If you have several running, then your income will be a bit more stable and it will not be as frustrating.

Test Affiliate Offers

2008-05-10T20:47:00.001-07:00

One of most common tips that are given across all of the affiliate blogs is the value of testing. If you are going to make any money at affiliate marketing you need to test the offers. You are going to find only a few offers that are going to make you money. You need to be patient and persistent. Try several offers and see which one converts for you the best. I usually will start out by direct linking the offer to see which ones have promise. Then, you can start to scale up your campaign. Happy Testing!!

I rank #1 in Google

2008-02-19T16:14:00.000-08:00

I own a domain that ranked #1 in Google. Now it was not a website that had the word iPhone or Ringtones but it was a niche site regarding mobile ringbacks. Chances are you might not even know what the term means but I can guarantee you that people searched on it. I was receiving a fairly substantial amount of traffic from the #1 ranking thus resulting in sales.
You probably would like to know how to achieve the number #1 ranking. You need to choose a domain name that is related to the keyword you are trying to obtain the ranking in. Then you need to get as much traffic from backlinks and reciprocal links as possible. If you link using those keywords, then you will be able to obtain the #1 ranking.
Have you ever had a website that #1 in Google?

$100 YSM Coupon

2008-01-21T07:27:00.000-08:00

If you are looking to get started in Affiliate Marketing, you need to start with the PPC approach. Here is a free $100 YSM coupon to get you started with Yahoo. I will be sending out other PPC coupons as I find them. This is a good coupon because I have used it myself. The only catch is that you will have to spend $30 dollars. That is a great ROI.
$100 YSM Coupon

What is Affiliate Marketing?

2008-01-20T11:47:00.000-08:00

Several months ago I decided to spend my spare time working on affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is the concept of driving traffic to other companies offers in the hopes of making a profit. This activity takes a lot of work and effort. It is not something that people can pick up and make bunches of money right from the start. It is very similiar to my professional career and it involves a lot of trial and error and a bunch of testing. What works for one offer might not work for another. There are many people out there that claim to make a lot of money with very little effort, but this is simply not the case. Chances are they are trying to sell you something in order for them to make a profit. Affiliate marketing is a lot of work. It is also true that there are great rewards possible. I estimate that it will take several years of persistent work in order to be successful. This blog will catalog my journey through lots of trial and effort, persistence, and patience.

My Professional Career

2008-01-20T11:37:00.000-08:00

My professional career started in the Retail world. I was a Manager for J.C. Penney for 5 years. I was responsible for everything from ordering merchandise to unloading trucks. I decided that I wanted to get out of the retail world due to the long working hours and low pay. So I got into the Information Systems arena in the world of Software Testing. My career has moved through several companies and several different states. I have worked for EDS, eMIS, SAIC, CACI, and I am currently working for CenturyTel as a QA Manager. I have lived in many places including South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica. That is just a little bit about me. Over the life of this blog, you will hopefully learn much more about who I am.

Ringtone Affiliate Market Saturated?

2007-11-26T07:14:00.000-08:00

I have been doing some testing in the Ringtone Affiliate Market. I have seen numerous posts in the forums about the Ringtone Affiliate market. I have done a test myself and I agree. There is a lot of competition in the Ringtone Affiliate program. You are going to pay some good money for PPC keywords such as ringtones in order to get the traffic. However, I did clear a profit on it. I hav since moved to new niches. It is probably not a niche that you want to focus on if you are first getting into the Affiliate business.

4 Steps for Making AzoogleAds Work

2007-11-23T19:15:00.000-08:00

It is really easy to make some good money with Azoogle.

1-Signup. You can Join Now.

2-Find Niche. Find a niche that you would like to try. Sometimes you have to try a few niches and find one that works.

3-Create Landing Pages. There is much discussion about this. You need to have a landing page to entice people to join the programs you are promoting. Would will need a website and hosting as well.

4-Drive Traffic. To do this, most people use Pay Per Click campaigns. Most people use MSN, Google, or Yahoo.That is all there is to it. It is actually quite simple.

Longtail Keywords

2007-11-20T07:18:00.000-08:00

I have seen a few posts on longtail keywords and I am fascinated by the concept. I know that many people really use this concept and have done quite well with it. The concept is really quite basic but it can have some huge payouts if followed properly. For example, if you are running a PPC campaign and have ringtones as one of the keywords. There is very steep competition on ringtones and you are going to pay a pretty penny to be ranked number one. However, if you choose something like ABBA ringtones, the competition for that keyword is not going to be as intense. And people that are looking for ABBA ringtones are going have a pretty narrow search and they are going to be more serious about buying ringtones if you can point them to ABBA ringtones. Chances are you are going to get better conversion ratios with the longtail keywords and they are going to cost you less to bid on. The downside of the longtail keywords is the fact that you are going to have less traffic, so you are going to need to have many more keywords to compensate for the limited traffic. I would be interested to see how many people are using longtail keywords and if they are seeing positive results from their testing.

11 Steps to Increasing Blog Traffic

2007-11-20T07:16:00.000-08:00

There are several ways to increase traffic to you blogs. Here are a few ways:

1-Tell everyone you know.

2-Use Digg. You can get some great traffic if you write within a niche and make it to the top pages.

3-Use Technorati-There are a ton of blogs in Technorati, but you can get some good traffic from it.

4-Get active in forums within the niche. You will gain credibility and others will really start to visit your website. This will give you repeat traffic.

5-Have contests. People love contests, especially when you are giving something away for free.

6-Use PPC. You can use PPC to help you get a loyal audience. Then users will keep coming back.

7-MyBlogLog. This one is my favorite, as if you cannot already tell.

8-Get Links. It is a good idea to see if you can get links from credible sources.

9-Network. You will learn a great deal from those that are within your same niche.

10-Directories. Submit your website or Blog to as many directories as you can find.

11-Comments. Comment on similar blogs. That will help to get traffic.