Affiliate Marketing Tips

Squidoo provides modules with RSS reader capability to enable you to easily add RSS feeds to your Squidoo lenses. All you have to do is enter the URL of the RSS feed and add a description and your Squidoo lens is updated automatically whenever you add something to your feed.

Four basic steps to leverage your writing through Squidoo

Here’s the process I used recently to leverage my writing via Squidoo:

1. Set up the RSS feed to your Squidoo lens

You create a RSS module in your Squidoo lens and add the RSS feed of your blog to this module.

2. Make a blog post

You make a post to your blog on a topic relevant to your Squidoo lens. The stimulus for this post could be a resource you received via email, a purchase or a giveaway product. It could also come from a forum posting or blog comment you made or even from a response you provided to an inquiry from a subscriber or prospect.

3. Edit your target lens

You can add a tag or two to your Squidoo lens to reflect your blog post. When you then re-publish your lens it will be updated with your new tags and the new feed from your blog entry.

4. Advise your mailing list of the new blog post

You can incorporate your post in an email to your mailing list. Alternatively, you can provide the post title and link from your blog - this way people will be encouraged to visit your blog. With this latter approach, you can add a brief review of an affiliate product or service mentioned in your blog post. In either case, ensure that your email includes a link back to your Squidoo lens as well.

The result: leveraging your writing

So, with one piece of original writing, you have updated your blog; updated your lens; kept Squidoo, the search engines and your subscribers happy; boosted your Squidoo lensrank; encouraged visitors to your blog; and improved the Google ranking for your blog and your Squidoo lens.

If you have another related lens (as I have), you can enter the link of the blog post with a short commentary. This will compound the effect of leveraging your writing.

It is not uncommon for a Squidoo lens to appear on the first page of Google within two weeks. Recently, I built a Squidoo lens targeting a particular keyword for affiliate marketing and the lens was ranked in the top ten Google results for that keyword in 8 days.

Squidoo affiliate marketing is made easy by the RSS modules and tag facilities. The impact of your writing is further amplified by Squidoo’s special relationship with Google. Squidoo provides an easy way to leverage your writing and grow your affiliate income.

Ron Passfield, PhD, is the author of an e-book on Squidoo affiliate marketing (and weekly updates via email subscription): http://www.squidoomarketingstrategies.com

Visit Ron’s Top 100 Squidoo lens for access to his email course and Squidoo marketing strategies, tools, tips and techniques: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies

Ron’s blog on how to do affiliate marketing with Squidoo: http://www.affiliate-marketing-coach.blogspot.com/

Copyright 2007 Ron Passfield All rights reserved worldwide.

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-Neil Morrical
www.proeaffiliate.com

What is the top affiliate marketing opportunity today? Is there such a thing? In a nutshell no, why? Because absolutely any industry that you choose to promote to, can be made profitable, even in the most competitive niches.

What I am trying to say is that absolutely any niche you promote to, provided that it is a hungry niche, can be a good affiliate marketing opportunity. The big secret here is knowing how to market properly and perform more than adequate research on your chosen niche.

Notice there that I said more than adequate research. The reason why I said that is because mastering research will allow you to identify exactly what your target audience is searching for, and the underlying questions that they need answering. Find out what concerns your niche has and provide them with a product or solution to solve their problems, sounds simple and it is. In essence, this is how you market as an affiliate successfully.

There is a lot of money to be made in the affiliate industry. So many people don’t see many of the opportunities that affiliate marketing has to offer because they are constantly looking for the next top affiliate program, or e-book that promises them instant riches. Instead of constantly looking for the next best thing, you should focus your time on learning how to market effectively, and concentrate on earning those first few dollars as an affiliate. Once you can make one dollar you can replicate this and make $2, you get the idea?

The lesson here is to stop looking for the next top affiliate marketing opportunity, and concentrate on perfecting your craft. By this, I mean learn the techniques that bring in the money in those competitive niches and understand why you make money and not just how. Do this and every industry has the potential to be the basis of a highly successful campaign because you will have the formula to make money when you need it and be able to out sell your competition.

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-Neil Morrical
www.proeaffiliate.com