What is Monetization and How Do I Generate Income With It?

When I started affiliate marketing years ago, one  of the first words I kept hearing over and over again was " monetization." I'm like what is Monetization? Is it some kind of secret code or what?" I did some research and I discovered that wasnt the case at all. In fact I found out that monetization was simply the process of generating the traffic that I drive to my affiliate blog/site into cash.The cash could come from contextual advertising or, direct sales from affiliate programs. I also found out I could automate my monetization such that once I set everything in motion I can generate the cash without breaking  a sweat. The good news is you too can monetize your site and generate your cash without breaking a sweat. But you do need to know what you are doing in other to generate your cash without breaking a sweat.  Some of you are probably wondering, "How Do I make Money with It?"  Well, let me show you a few ways of rolling in the doe with monitization.

Recommending  Affiliate Products 
Recommending affiliate products is one way of monetizing your site. Here, you write original  articles  using the product you are promoting. Your job will be to convince your readers about how valuable the product and how their lives will never be the same once they start using it.  Once you are able to woo your readers, hopefully they will click on your affiliate link and purchase the product. If you're selling an Affiliate Marketing handbook on your affiliate blog/site, make sure the content on your site is about affiliate marketing. That's the only way you are going to convince your readers to purchase your product.  Also, there are many vendors willing to pay you agenerous commissions each time you make sales on their products. You can find these vendors on platforms such as amazon, Linkshare, Pepperjam, Commission Junction, Clickbank, Google Affiliate Network .e.tc.


Creating A Mailing List
Another popular method of making money from monitizing your affilaite site is creating a mailing list.  Instead of offering your products direct on your affiliate site you create a mailing list where you send emails to your list subscribers updating with information about your latest affilaite products.  Have your readers sign up on your opt-in form and then you send your email offers as newsletters. To achieve this This is probably the most effective monitization strategy for most affiliate marketers as the marketing campaign is more targeted. To accomplish this task you need to subscribe to an email marketing service.  Email marketing services as Aweber and Get Response are quite popular among affiliate marketers.


Creating Sponsored Blog Posts
Creating sponsored blog posts is also another popular method of monitizing your affiliate site. Here, paid to blog sites connect advertisers with publishers(or bloggers).  The market places then help advertisers introduce their products to publishers who then write reviews of these products on their blogs.. The neat thing about this arrangement is that they decide how much they want to get paid dependent on the agreement on the advertiser.This is perfect for those who are into writing product reviews. Just make sure your content mirrors the products that the advertisers want you to write about. There are so may such paid to blog sites looking for publishers to hook up wirth advertisers. Just google paid to blog and voila, you have a huge list of paid to blog sites. One popular site that I write for is Social Spark. Here you decide how much yyou want to charge for each post. .




Placing Pay Per Click Ads on Your Site/Blog
Placing Pay Per Click ads on your site/blog is the easiest way of generating income. .All you have to place ads on your blog/site and you get paid each time a reader clicks on the ad. the more content you produce, the more clicks you receive on your ads. This method works for blog/site owners  with high traffic and whose sites have been online for a while.  Pay per Click programs such as Adsense, Chitika, and Adbrite are quite popular among affiliate markers.




That's a wrap on "What is Monetization and How Do I  generate Income With It?"  Monetization is a great way of turning your affiliate site into a cash cow. If you do it right, you could set yourself up for life with this arrangement. Good luck!

What Are BackLinks and How Do I Build Them

If you want humongous traffic coming your affiliates way, you have to build backlinks.  The more backlinks you have, the higher your ranking on the search engines, the more traffic you get which translates into sales. Yea I can hear some of you saying"What are backlinks and how do O build them? okay,  let's deal with one question at a time, starting with the first part.

What Are Backlinks?

Well, backlinks, are incoming links to a page to your affiliate site or the entire affiliate site. Popularly known as inbound links, backlinks are links of websites whose content are similar to yours. Backlinks are the drug of search engines. When those spiders crawl your site and they like your content they give your content a higher page rating or PR, as it is popularly called. Upon seeing that your content mirrors that of theirs, webmasters refer their sites to your affiliate site, creating the backlink.  Consequently, you get a higher ranking because of the quality of the backlinks. And the more back links you have, the higher your page rank. Now to the next question:

How Do I Build Them?

Well, there are a few ways of doing that.

Write a Testimonial About a Product

You can write a testimonial about a product you bought online. You may not know this but writing product testimonials are great backlinking opportunities. By inserting a link to the product link to your site you're proving to your potential referral that the the testimonial is legit and not fake. If the company likes your testimonial they will use it on their site. Just make sure the testimonial is legitimate and honest.

Be a Guest Blogger

Yes, be a guest blogger on another blogger's site. All you have to do is to send an email  message to the blog owner saying you'd like to guest blog on his site.Once you send him the article and he likes what he sees , the owner then publishes the post on his blog. Hopefully, it's the beginning of numerous guest posts and an avalanche of traffic to your affiliate site.  No to mention the fact that you get a backlink from the blog owner and his blog too. This strategy should definitely help shoot your affiliate site up the PR charts.

Article Marketing

Contrary to what people are saying, article marketing is not dead. In fact Article marketing is not only the most effective backlinking strategy, but it is also an effective traffic driver. Just  submit your articles to as many article directories as possible and you should see your backlink count shoot through the roof and your PR rating climb up significantly. You can do the submission two ways. You can submit manually or, if you are pressed for time, use Article Marketing Robot to automate the process for you. Just input the information and it will do the rest. 

Add  your link to your Forum Signature

Forums are not a great platform for getting backlinks.  After you post your comment,  add your link to your product to your forum signature. Once forum members  appreciate your contribution to solving people's forums, they will start driving in droves to your sight through the link to your forum signature. Make sure you sign up to as  many forums as possible so as to get traffic from different sources instead of just one forum.  

Your Affiliate Site Should Be People Centered

People make the mistake of building their sites for the search engines. But in truth your affiliate site should be people centered. After all, it's human beings who view your blog/site not robots. The people want to see your blog for information so you should tailor your site as such. Do not plaster your site with too many keywords with the intention of impressing the search engines. The spiders will catch on to this in flash and you will get penalized. Just  insert the keywords in your content such that  your content doesn't lose its relevance. Do that and your audience will come swarming and  increase the number of linkbacks.

Well, that's awrap on" What Are BackLinks and How Do I Build Them?" Backlinking  is the engine of all search engines. Through backlinks you get traffic to your blog/site which translate into sales. Follow these suggestions and you'll have traffic driving to your affiliate site.

Dont Make Affiliate Marketing Look Like Rocket Science

These days, the Internet landscape it's almost like the virtual version of a refugee camp. The online population is choked you're probably wondering to yourself "With everybody fighting over the same online pie, there is no way I'm going to make any money!" Well, to put a twist on a famous song, as it was in the beginning, so shall it be always. What I'm trying to say  is that you can still  make money in this day in age just as people were making money when the Internet first broke out two decades ago. The key here is not making affiliate marketing look like rocket science. You need to be efficient with your time. Dint get caught up in tedious tasks that can affect your ability to make a profit. Let me show you what you need to do so you don't make Affiliate Marketing look like rocket science

Learn The Basics

If you want to succeed as a an affiliate marketer, you need to learn the basics. Take the time to invest in an affiliate marketing ebook . You will then  gain the knowledge you crave to succeed as an affiliate marketer. The last thing you want to do is jump into the deep end of a swimming pool before you start swimming. It's nod different from Affiliate Marketing. You need to learn the basics before you dive in. Once you've covered  the basics then you can start making money. But you need to be strategic about it. They ingredient here is letting affiliate marketing work for you. Spend more time targeting your audience and less time wrapped up in how good your product is. Yes it's important to advertise , join multiple forums, write as many articles as possible. However, all this may come to nothing if you don't work smart.

Target Your Traffic.

 Don't promote your product for promotion's sake.  You need to target your traffic. By that I mean, the right people must see your site. Take time out to know your audience. Once you have identified who your audience is, driving traffic to your affiliate site should be a breeze. If you're advertising dog food , make sure your website is about dog food not laptops. You could consider guest writing on websites that focus on dog training, or grooming dogs. This should go down well with dog lovers who read your articles and, most likely, visit your affiliate site.

Check Out Your Competition

It doesn't hurt to check out what your competition in your niche is doing. Check their websites and blogs to as to what they are promoting. Hopefully, you will be hit by a bolt of inspiration for your next article or blog post or  new promotional technique.

Well, that 's a wrap on "Don't Make Affiliate Marketing Look Like Rocket Science" How you succeed  as an affiliate marketer is dependent on how you manage your time. It's totally pointless plastering a  numerous  and busting your gut after a disinterested audience. Get to know them first and once you identify what it they want from you, making money as an affiliate marketer should be a walk in the park.