Website Marketing Tips – Why is marketing your website so important? So you have a website  but somehow it isn’t delivering the financial nirvana everybody said it would. You’ve spent time, money and more trying to make your website look awesome and it does. You’ve even got killer content on it but you aren’t able to generate leads or sales or achieve whatever your end game is. Life sucks, huh?

So, what’s the problem? Any guesses? Is it possibly not enough traffic (visitors)? I think I am spot on here because the biggest problem with most people is that they do everything else but market their website. Marketing is a comprehensive term that involves the complete process of traffic generation and conversion but it must start with traffic. I mean having a great converting business without traffic would be pointless. The great thing though is that generating traffic on the Internet is quite simple (it’s not rocket science) but keep in mind that it’s a bit tedious (of course you can use technology to make your life a whole lot easier).

Top 6 Website Marketing Tips

1. Pay-Per-Click Advertising: If you want speed then it doesn’t get much faster than this. Pay Per Click refers to online advertising where you are only charged for your ad when the visitor your are targeting cllicks on your ad (Cost Per Click). With Facebook Pay Per Click you also have the option of paying per thousand ad impressions (CPM). While paid advertising is very effective, if you know what you are doing, it is just as important that your website and your marketing system or sales funnel works really well otherwise you’ll be left with a big hole in your pocket and a negative ROI (return on investment).

2. Search Engine Optimization: This is probably the slowest way to market your website but the most effective in term of longevity and best of all it’s totally free. Search Engine Optimization or SEO involves optimizing your website so that it can rank on top Google search and other search engines for particular keywords. Once there your site will benefit from a steady stream of free laser targeted visitors. SEO is great because unlike PPC advertising (where your visitors stop the moment your budget is exhausted), you’ll continue to receive visitors long after you’ve done the hard work of ranking your site or blog.

3. Article Marketing: The old war horse of website marketing. Still works great today which is why I still use it. Writing articles and then distributing them has many benefits. It generates traffic, establishes you as an expert and can help you generate tons of backlinks for a high position in Google and other search engines for free and residual traffic (SEO).

4. Social Media Marketing: This strategy is focused all around websites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (even Youtube is considered social media) to name a few. These places are buzzing with people and have the added benefit of providing you or your website with great credibility through social proof (in the form of likes, comments, followers and other means of social validation). Social Media Networks also allow you to build a real marketing asset for your website and business by helping you create and grow your network. The great advantage of social media though lies in its viral nature which can spread your message like wild fire.

5. Video Marketing: The fact of the matter is that we all love video and Youtube’s popularity is an attestment to that. Sites like Youtube have so much traffic that promoting your website on Youtube is definitely worthwile. With Youtube you can actually build a marketing asset for your business or website through subscribers to you channel. You can create short product demos, helpful tutorials, Q&A type videos, powerpoint style videos or anything that is VALUABLE content. The other awesome thing is that you can use your Youtube video to rank for competitive keywords in Google search which might otherwise be impossible. Of course, there are other video sharing sites as well and you should syndicate your video content to them after submitting to Youtube.

6. Blog Commenting: Blog commenting is an extremely effective multi reward website marketing strategy and best of all it’s 100% free. By commenting on other people’s blogs in your niche you can generate high quality laser targeted traffic to your website or blog and get high quality (and High Page Rank) backlinks to your website or blog for top rankings in Google and other search engines. The other great thing about blog commenting besides the fact that it’s a totally free strategy, is that it’s a superb way to create a presence in your niche. You can use this free software to help you find high authority blogs. This software makes blog commenting really easy. Recently I used this software to promote a new blog I had started. I did around 20 – 25 comments daily and I did so for about 40 days straight. The results surprised even me. Just using blog commenting my site started pulling about 600 visitors daily. Not bad, eh!

My advice to you is this. Website marketing isn’t an option but a necessity so get rolling with it. If you can afford it outsource it, otherqise choose one strategy and master it and don’t even try another till you’ve mastered it. That proably is the best tip right there. Hope this post was helpful. Would love to hear your thoughts on these website marketing tips so please leave a comment and don’t forget to share this or like this or tweet this, adios for now.

Getting a lot of questions from folks struggling to make money online (like a significant income online), so here’s a post about some undeniably profitable  and “game changing” affiliate marketing tips. A lot of hardship people suffer trying to make it online is a result of just doing things that don’t work or follow strategies that are plain wrong. Fortunately, that problem is easily fixed.

I think that affiliate marketing is by far one of the easiest, fastest and coolest ways to get started making money online. These affiliate marketing tips and tricks have helped transform me from an amatuer to a professional Internet marketer (and man I’m totally loving it). The great thing about affiliate marketing is that it integrates superbly with any business, it can help you explore many niches and create multiple streams of income as easily as making youself an omlette (okay, so it’s not that easy but it feels like that once you get a hang of it).

So, without any further delay, here they are…

My Top 5 “Kaching” Affiliate Marketing Tips

Kaching Tip #1: Promote Products With Fat Commissions
Hey, it takes the same effort to generate say a thousand visitors to a $10 e-book as it does to generate a thousand visitors to a $500 something. Go with the higher commissions. even if the conversion rates are lesser you will still make more (heck of a lot more). Folks this tip is the one that bought me from the brink of failure, so try it.

Kaching Tip #2: Don’t Feel Shy Making Irresistible Offers
Honestly, don’t forget that you’re marketing. Offer something, anything. Make people feel that you are giving them much more than what they are paying for. That’s the feeling you want  to go for. Offer them free shipping or cash rebates or some bonuses; be creative and think about what you’d like. The advantages of this strategy are many fold. Firstly, this way you can tackle your competition head on (truth be told where there is money there’s competition). Secondly,once someone buys from you that means they “know”, “like” and “trust” you which means that they will be happy to purchase from you again in the future. Also, one major positive with this strategy is that you get better conversion rates and a significantly lower refund rate provided your extras offer real value.

Kaching Tip #3: Make Sure The Affiliate Program Captures Leads
How many people perish trying to earn money online because they put all their efforts into promoting an offer that doesn’t capture leads. A very tiny amount of people will actually buy upon their first visit (THIS IS A COLD HARD FACT, ACCEPT IT). To make a meaningful income, capturing the lead is a MUST so that there is scope for more interaction with the lead. This will give you the best conversion rate and the ability to promote many times over and many offers as well(Interpret that as a cool and sustainable income).

IMPORTANT: Make sure that the affiliate program you join offers lifetime commissions so you will get paid every time your lead buys something. In such a case it’s okay to promote something cheap because it is being used to attract people into the sales funnel (inside which are the “fat” commissions).

Kaching Tip #4: Look For Residual And Lifetime Affiliate Commissions
I sort of referred to lifetime commissions in the previous strategy but expand that further by including products that offer residual commissions. Residual commissions are those commission which you earn on a recurring (maybe monthly or quaterly etc) basis. With products that offer residual commissions you do the work once and benefit many time over. What more do I say but that residual income is definitely one of the most powerful ways to grow your wealth.

Kaching Tip #5: Track EVERYTHING
Marketing without tracking is just plain silly. Through tracking you discover what works and then you do more of it and you discover what doesn’t work and you avoid it. The data you get from tracking helps you tweak and fine tune your marketing system and a lot of times a simple tweak can yield very dramatic results. I mention a PPC example in the video so watch it.

Are these all my affiliate marketing tips? Heck no! but this post has gotten long enough. So check back for part 2. Meanwhile try these strategies and let me know how these affiliate marketing tips work out  for you (and don’t forget to comment and share this!).