By Jimmy D. Brown of "Affiliatenaire"

Using ezine articles is a great way to promote your favor

affiliate program.  What I'd like to do in this article is

provide you with a simple system for effectively writing

an ezine article that strategically promotes your offer.

There are five steps…

1. CHOOSE THE OFFER YOU WISH TO PROMOTE

This one is kind of a no-brainer. It all begins with deciding 

what you want to promote. What offer would you like to 

send traffic to.

    HINT:  You can promote your affiliate link directly, but 

    what works better is to promote a list at YOUR site which 

    you then use to promote your affiliate link over and over 

    again after the visitor becomes a subscribers.

2. DETERMINE YOUR "USEFUL, BUT INCOMPLETE" APPROACH.

I love to use what I have coined as the "useful, but 

incomplete" approach when using freebies of any kind. 

(Ezine articles, free eBooks, reports, eCourses, etc.)

What I mean by that is simply this: You provide your reader 

with "useful" information (something they find of value and 

are able to actually apply) but make certain that it is 

"incomplete" in that they can better use the information 

by making a purchase.

That's "useful, but incomplete." And it works like a charm.

The idea is to use your content to build up to your desired 

response. You provide the reader with content, and then 

you make an offer that allows them to fully utilize the 

content, gain extra insight from the content or maximize 

the content in some additional way.

Let me give you an example -

     If I wanted to promote an autoresponder service in an

     ezine article, how could I do it?  I'd write an article

     that explains how to benefit from using autoresponders.

     My article would exlain different uses of autoresponders

     and how the reader could profit from implementing the

     ideas.  

** I.E.  7 Ways To Create Revenue Streams With Autoresponders

Naturally, they will need an autoresponder service in order to

use the information, right?  And I just happen to know of a 

great service they can use.  More on that later.

OK, so that's an example of how to promote a SERVICE offer 

with your ezine article. What about a software product or an 

eBook?

Want some examples?

Good, because I've got two…

TO PROMOTE A SOFTWARE PRODUCT.  Let's suppose you want to promote 

a software program that creates "ecovers".  How can you do it? 

– Write an article outlining how important presentation of your

   offer is, and how creating a cover graphic can increase response

   rates by up to 1300%

– Write a step-by-step tutorial article for "do-it-yourselfers",

   explaining how to design your own graphics from scratch.  Then

   promote the software as a super-simplified way of doing it.

TO PROMOTE AN EBOOK.  Let's suppose you want to promote an ebook

that teaches advanced list-building strategies.   How can you do it?

– Write an article that covers the "basics" of building lists, 

   and then promote the eBook as the "advanced" tactics.

– Write an article on how to profit from a list, and then promote 

   the eBook as the "how to build the list."

See how easy this is?

That's how it works. Determine what your "useful, but incomplete" 

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Keywords are vital to your online success. Your goal is to organically (naturally) rank high in Google in and other search engines, so you need to implement certain SEO (search engine optimization) strategies and keywords will play an important role in those.

When you conduct keyword research, you’re doing it to learn how your prospective customer is utilizing search engines to find the information or products that they want. You then take the words (and phrases) and use them on your site, to ensure it’s relevant for your target audience.

In the old days, keywords could be stuffed and hidden all over a website to trick search engines into helping a site rank high. Now that they’ve caught on, you have to use them with a more whitehat approach or risk getting de-indexed in Google and other search giants.

Where do your keywords generally need to be? Don’t discount Meta tags in your HTML code. These are still important, but they may not be the most important tactic to use anymore. 

Keyword placement depends on what type of page you’re building. If it’s a web 2.0 property such as a Squidoo lens, Hub Page or Google Knol, then you want a keyword in the URL that you register, in the titles, subtitles and content that you write, and also in any tagging space they give you the opportunity to fill in.

If you’re making a blog post on your blog, then the keyword should be in the URL, too. But you may have to check to ensure that your blog template is using this strategy. Under settings and then permalinks, you’ll be able to set your preferences.

For instance, many blogs default to give your post a number like this: http://www.yourblogname.com/?p=123.  You’ll need to choose custom structure and enter this code: /%postname%.html – this will make your blog post URL appear with the title of the post, where your keywords will be, like this: http://www.yourblogname.com/title-of-blog-post 

Use keywords within all of your content, especially the first paragraph and preferably in the first sentence, so that the initial snippet Google shows has your keyword included (it will appear bold if the person searching uses this exact keyword in their search).

Experts disagree about what density you have in regards to keywords. Some say 2% and others go as high as 10%. What you really need to do is write both human visitors and search engine spiders alike. That means enough keywords so that the searchbots see your content’s relevancy and not so many that it turns off your reader because it reads awkwardly. 

As you already know, blogging is very effective in improving your ranking on search engines, driving traffic to your website and increasing your sales. However, many people do not maximize the benefits which they can get from blogging.

These 5 tips outline essential steps that you can take to make blogging more effective, drive more traffic to your website and earn more money.

   1. Blog regularly.

This is a very important factor that determines how successful you can be in driving traffic to your website through blogging. You must blog at least once per day. Serious internet marketers who earn six dollar income online blog several times per day. You must consistently add fresh, useful and captivating content on your website so that you can keep readers coming back for more. By doing this, your internet business blog will rank high on search engines, which will increase traffic to your website. The more you blog, the more you improve your visibility and ranking on search engines. You can write your blog posts in advance and save them and then just make sure that you publish them on your blog everyday. Read the rest of this entry

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