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21 Top Performance Marketing Networks of 2010

Will Blears — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:48:11 +0000

The ninth part of the Bullet Proof Blogging series highlights the 21 key performance marketing networks currently available to Internet marketers and web based companies world wide. These have been given priority within this exclusive list in accordance to their clientel, customer support, ease to use their interface and performance from both a publishers and advertisers point of view. You may be thinking, well surely you haven’t tested them all out? Well that would be true, however I have used and do use the majority through the company I work for and for my personal projects. So here you are, remember they are not in order of importance/rank.

Affiliate Window – Brilliant Interface which they are currently updating, excellent support, easy to use and a large network of both advertisers and publishers.
Media Trust – A top network with impeccable credentials.
Epic Advertising – Brilliant network, fast growing, highly support, great interface, top performing…words cannot describe.
Share A Sale -A fast growing network, which I am currently in talks with about adding an excellent world famous company to.
Commissions Junction – Great Interface, simple to use, a massive array of physical and digital products to promote.
NeverBlue – A brilliant network for those who like cost per lead or cost per action. A massive selection of advertisers with some great conversion rates.
Clickbank – A well known digital marketplace for both affiliates and vendors. If you haven’t yet signed up to Clickbank, nows the time to do so.
Plimus – Similar to Clickbank in that it hosts its self to publisher and affiliates of the digital world. However a much smoother interface and some exceptionally fancy customisation abilities for your payment pages, sure to increase your conversions.
Clickbooth – Brilliant support and good guideance from day one. Whether your a publisher or advertiser a great company to start with. Voted top 10 network in 2010.
Link Share – A dedicated network owned by a Japanese company, respectful, supportive, good communication and overall a smooth running network.
Hydra Group – A sister company to Adknowledge, you know your in the right hands with these guys.
PepperJam – An online marketing powerhouse, incredible support and choice of advertisers to promote.
Click2Sell – A slightly small network with a good support team, good interface, good products and good sales funnel.
CX Digital Media – A brilliant two-tier network with a massive if not the biggest pull of US traffic out of the networks in the list.
Max Bounty – A clean, refreshing website, a beautifully laid out interface. Although quite a small network it has a lot of big affiliates and big advertisers.
Revenue Street -A small but growing network and a sister to The Media Crew, definitely one to watch.
Market Leverage – I’ve used these a little bit and found the interface to be lacking some what however their support was excellent and the product options for promotion were great.
Advertising – Bold claims from Advertising to have over 2 billion impressions a day. Worth looking in to since it holds over 70 of comscores top 100 sites.
Media Whiz – With over 30,000 affiliates, 3,000 advertisers and a whopping $100 million in sales 2007 Media whiz is definitely a strong marketing network.
Amazon Associates – Since day one, this has been one of my favourite networks to work with. A unique benefit to Amazon associates is there choice to pay you not only for the product which you were advertising but anything else the customer may purchase in that single transaction.
Google Affiliate Network – With a whole array of high quality products to promote, an excellent support team and hundreds and thousands of expert affiliates makes Google affiliate network a tempting place for any Internet marketer or web based company.

I hope you found this post useful and if you have any problems applying for any of these networks or getting in contact with these networks then please just leave a comment and I would be happy to try and help you out with this. Please share the Bullet Proof Blogging series with your friends and don’t forget to social stamp this page.

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Video Marketing – Full Guide On Video Marketing

Will Blears — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:39:31 +0000

Video Marketing Through YouTube

First things first, let’s get one thing out of the way – videos are the future.

It’s important to realize that now is the time to learn the power of videos. They are picking up speed ridiculously fast and it won’t be long until every internet marketer and his grandma are trying to monetize using video content.

However, also remember this, that if you provide quality videos with top notch content you’ll never have to fear a lack of audience. If one thing is certain it’s that there is a demand for good entertainment, information and performance.

This guide isn’t about how to create a video. This is what to do with the video once you have it. For those of you wondering how to create videos let me put things in perspective.

The only reason you would want to learn how to make videos is if it’s up your alley (you enjoy presenting). Otherwise you’ll most likely find it a painfully daunting task. If this is the case remember that a good internet marketer always outsources work to save themselves

· Time

· Effort

· Money

When outsourcing your videos make sure you see some samples beforehand, voice is very important. Should be calm, relaxed and emotive.

So I’ve Got My Video!

Congratulations, the next step is picking some keywords to rank and optimize your video for. Aim for three or two word keyword.

When you’re picking your keywords look around on Google because you’ll eventually want to get a Google box (will pull in a lot more traffic). See if there are any videos all ready ranked, with enough backlinks and the right strategy (keep reading for more info on this you can take their spots.

Great, now that you’ve finished the keyword research you’re going to want to change the video file name (before you upload to youtube) to the keyword that you wanna rank for, you’ll find that this alone will help you with the ranking process.

Optimizing Your Video

Once you start uploading your video you’ll be given an optimization page. You’ll have to fill out a Title, Description and keywords. Let’s talk about the best way to optimize each of these areas.

Title: It’s important to put your main keyword at the front of your video, with a title (and secondary keyword if possible) following suite

Example: Video Marketing – What You NEED To Know

Formula: [Keyword] – [Catchy Title + Secondary Keyword (If Possible) ]

This will tell YouTube and Google that you’re content oriented towards those keywords. Also if possible, try to have the keywords spoken within the first bit of the video. Sources have reported that voice technology is all ready being used to identify video content.

Description: The first thing you’re going to want in your description is a link to your website, make sure that the link is short (http://YourSite.com) and that all words in your website are capitalized. Next write a short blurb about what they’ll find, make sure you incorporate your main keyword within the first few words.

Keep writing, think of this as content for your video, don’t hesitate to keep writing (paste an article, this seems to help) using your keywords and inserting link (where necessary).

Keywords: Finally you’ll have the keywords, for YouTube you’ll have to put quotations around the keyword phrases and spaces in between. When entering keywords make sure you try variations of the same keyword phrase but with characters in between,

Example: “video marketing” “video-marketing” “what is video marketing” “what is VM?” “VM”

You want to cover as many keywords as possible. A great way to find the top keywords in your niche is to view the top 5 videos and write down keywords that they feature. Then combine them all and you’ll have some killer keywords.

However research your own first to cross reference for best results.

Your Video Is Uploaded

Now that your video is uploaded hopefully filled with yummy keywords that you’ve picked out. The next step is not to just let it sit and mellow but to start a very subtly and powerful ranking process.

The key here is to keep repeating this until your video has taken over the #1 in YouTube and Google, make sure you don’t over do it, follow the time frames specified here (or mess around at your own risk, be an entrepreneur! But don’t get sandboxed .

1. Your video is uploaded – Bookmark it with proper keywords @ ping.fm

2. Write up three articles of three hundred words with different but similar keywords. Submit one copy of each to EzineArticles.com, GoArticles.com, ArticlesBase.com, Squidoo, Blogger every 2-3 days. Then use Ping.fm to social bookmark the properties.

3. Get a free (and completely awesome drip feeder) account at IMAutoMator.com, use it on all of the properties that you make (you receive 10 free daily submissions so use them up every day!).

Alternate between 30 days for some and 90 days for others. I would suggest longer for your main link as it will appear more natural because all of the surrounding links will steadily be gaining power for 30 days, then the main link will still have juice trickling in long after they are done.

4. Set up Facebook and Twitter fan pages, hook up your video with these so you’ll get automatic linkbacks every time you post a video. If you keep posting quality content you can grow in authority on both these websites and hopefully have people spread your content, very powerful if done correctly.

5. This is an optional step but one that I always take. One of the ranking factors in videos is their views and whether they’re being found or not. To just generate tons of views is difficult which is why I actually use a service on all my videos to send an initial burst of traffic.

This helps tremendously with the ranking process.

That’s it for the ranking process. Keep this up and treat every article, lens and property that you make with dignity and respect, you only have to make ONE per day and then social bookmark it (and ping it aswell), so don’t forget to add pictures (with proper keywords), videos (also with keywords) and to link to a major website apart from yours.

How To Naturally Pull In Views

While you’re waiting for the SEO process you might get bored and start wishing you had some activity. The great thing is that the YouTube community is pretty responsive.

My suggestion is to start commenting on niche related videos. But before you start commenting on everything you see do one thing first. In your channel set it up so that the video you want promoted is set to auto play everytime somebody loads up your channel.

We will be directing people to your channel with the desired video being featured because that will entice them to subscribe, comment and befriend your profile more.

When you’re looking for niche related videos just comment on the related videos that pop up with yours. A small note of warning;

make sure that you leave the video on until it’s over otherwise YouTube will sense you are posting too many comments too fast and your comment abilities will be temporarily suspended.

So when it comes to comments remember as with many other hobbies: use but don’t abuse.

Also make sure your comments are relevant to the video, be honest, truthful and informative when possible. Don’t push people to check out your videos but it’s all right to mention it every once in a while.

You can comment on more then just videos though, the most effective method I’ve found is to go directly to users profiles and to subscribe, friend request them and then leave a comment there complimenting their content and page.

If you leave a nice enough comment (add more details but base it around a compliment, because people love being complimented!) you can promote your page on their site, an example of a post would be;

Hey Jim,

I checked out some of your videos and I’m impressed by the level of professionalism you bring to the table.

I just subscribed, looking forward to more great content!

You should come check out some of my videos by the way, I also do a lot of stuff in the ‘your market keyword’ area.

-Sam.

A simple example of all it takes to generate some clicks towards your profile and another subscriber + friend (added naturally), believeme, social intereaction plays a HUGE part in the authority indexing at YouTube.

The more videos you add and the more you interact with the community the more you will start coming up in the searches. You will rarely see an account with just one video which is super popular, most often they will have multiple.

So don’t get discouraged if your videos don’t instantly pop up. Keeping following the ranking plan provided and interacting with the community. Try to upload a new video with original, fresh and quality content at least every two to three days, or if possible daily.

When you reach twenty videos you can slow this down but the ideal is to break 50 and eventually 100, by that time you will have videos which are ranked and practically all the videos you put up will gain both natural and organic views.

YouTube Marketing Monetization

There are a number of ways to monetize with YouTube. To list just some of them;

1. CPA

2. EMAIL SUBMITS

3. YouTube Partner Program

4. Affiliate Marketing

5. Generating Leads/Building A List

And I won’t explain each one but to be successful in any of them what you require is good content. Good doesn’t mean expensive, it means that it delivers on the title and whoever is watching will be satisfied.

All though these steps aren’t the easiest to take they are the ones that work. Remember to mellow out and relax, this is a gradual process, don’t rush it. Just let it happen and it will happen.

Don’t go around counting your backlinks, checking your SERPs, just keep building your backlinks until you see that spike in traffic. Use that money to re-invest into new videos and expand your networks.

Always re-invest and keep working, never stop and you will see increase in money. Don’t get comfortable, your account could be banned so always play by the rules and keep your content user friendly, helpful and non spammy.

With that being said, go ahead and implement what’s been said in the guide. It can all be summarized within 5 main points of action;

1. Get an original video

2. Optimize for chosen keywords

3. Follow ranking process

4. Send views

5. Interact with community

Follow these 5 points of action, repeating the top 3-5 until results are obtained. No more then 1 property + 1 social bookmark directly to video per day.

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How To Properly Submit An Article – What You NEED To Know

Will Blears — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:09:29 +0000

How To Properly Submit Articles

Article Marketing – The Lurking Giant

Article marketing is considered to be pretty out dated now to be honest. However there’s still a fair bit of traffic and money within it, which makes it a viable source of income - regardless of how out dated it is.

The problem is that there still (even after all these years) seem to be marketers out there who don’t know how to properly submit articles.

And if you’re not properly submitting your articles it’s the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot. Doing it right could be the difference between grabbing a keyword or not showing up at all.

With that being said, know this, I’m not trying to scare you – far from it. I’m demonstrating the power of doing it right as opposed to doing it wrong. To prevent you from making article submissions mistakes again, keep reading and I’ll explain exactly how to properly submit articles.

How To Properly Submit Articles – Full Guide Starts Here

To start things off you’ll need an account, through this guide I’ll be using ezinearticles.com.

The first thing to do is to pick an author (your pen name), which will appear as the publisher of the article. Next you’ll find the most appropriate category and specify a sub category, make sure you check all of the choices, all though this typically doesn’t do much for SEO, certain categories will get your more free ‘ezine’ traffic then others.

Article Summary/Description: Here you’re going to need to write a short blurb detailing your article, people WILL see this. Make sure it’s short n’ sweet and also incorporate your keyword within the first sentence.

Article Body: Take the time to customize your article, add in some headings/subheadings, underline and bold certain parts (to show the reader what’s important), add a list and split it up so it looks pretty. Don’t get lazy, presentation is IMPORTANT!

Keywords: This is where you enter in your keywords. I suggest entering 3 closely related keywords (i.e puppy dog training, how to train a puppy dog, dog training) which will SEO cross reference together the best.

The Resource Box – Make It Count!

What are resource boxes? Basically the resource box is your shot to glory, it’s where you’ve got a small bit of text to make a pitch to the prospective reader.

You get to put in 1-3 links (depending on site) into the resource box which will allow the reader to click through to your main site.

Anchor Text: The highlighted text within a resource box (the link) is known as the anchor text. Typically people will use their keywords in the anchor text for further SEO purposes. However it’s good to mix up the anchor texts that you use as too much of the same anchor text could be viewed as spamming.

For these reasons, it’s important that the resource box is done correctly to ensure a high CTR (click through ratio) which can be viewed by going into ‘Author Tools’ > ‘View My Ezine Reports’.

Resource Boxes Are Important!

Because of this, I want to take a little extra time explaining resource boxes and a few strategies you can employ when writing them. Remember that a good resource box is short n’ sweet – TO THE POINT. 50 words give or take 15.

What makes a resource box strong is the call to action. Which directs the prospect where to go, it tells them what they need to know and it focuses their desires to get them to take action.

Potential Techniques To Implement;

#1 Spark Their Curiosity

When writing a resource box it’s always good to create a sense of curiosity about the information that you’ve got to share. So for a weight loss product something like this could do the trick;

Discover how I lost 83 lbs over 9 weeks using this top secret weight loss method.

That would be a good hook for a resource box, resource boxes like this typically spark the most interest and highest CTR.

#2 Provide A Personal Opinion

If the article you wrote is informative it’s best to just nudge them in the right direction and not over sell. Sometimes it’s best to simply suggest another place for them to search.

If you’re still not sure which car is right for you then why not head on over to used cars sales to find the perfect car for you.

A little more laid back, but still very effective.

#3 The Double Call To Action

This is a must in all resource boxes, considering most sites will allow you two links you have to know this. Only the first anchor text is counted towards SEO points, the second one isn’t counted because it’s a link off the same page (doesn’t matter how many times you link from one page, it’s still only one page).

With this knowledge you can make your first anchor text with the keyword, but the second with the purpose to get the prospect through (2 call to actions always better than one). Using two in succession is a GREAT way to increase the power of your resource boxes.

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So in this resource box the main focus is the ‘CLICK HERE’ and the first link is used solely as an anchor text. Keep in mind that the page source code is crawled from top to bottom, so the top link should generally be directed towards the money site with the main keyword.

The bottom one can be more of a catcher to increase the resource boxes reach.

So Remember

To Properly Submit An Article You Need

· A good description incorporating the keyword within the first sentence.

· A well formatted article body which is presentable to the reader.

· Properly selected, mutually beneficial keywords.

· A short n’ sweet resource box with a strong call to action, employing curiosity, subtly pushing the prospect or a double call to action (or all 3) to increase the effectiveness that it provides.

So keep all these points in mind when submitting an article and remember that doing it right will yield much higher results then doing it wrong.

It’s worth the extra effort, and if you don’t feel like doing it yourself you can always outsource the task, just make sure that whoever you outsource to follows the right procedures on how to submit an article.

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