Oct 17 2009
WordPress Blogs And Affiliate Marketing
Most of my blog posts so far have focused on helping business owners understand why a business blog can help grow their business online faster, cheaper, easier and better than using a traditional static business website.
In this post, I want to start discussing the benefits of using a blog, or blogging, to generate income online via affiliate marketing.
If you are new to the concept, Affiliate Marketing is simply a way of connecting buyers (people searching for something they need) with sellers (merchants) online. According to Wikipedia, Affiliate Marketing is a performance-based marketing channel on the Internet where a merchant pays a commission to an affiliate for generating clicks, leads, or sales from a graphic or text link located on the affiliate’s site.
For example, I own an online Audio Book store called AudioBookOne.net. If you own a web site and want to promote audio books related to your web site’s topics, then you can become an affiliate partner, which allows you to place specially encoded links and banners on your web pages. When visitors click on these links, they are sent directly either to the main audio book online store, where they can browse thousands of best-selling audio book titles on a wide range of topics, or to a specific page containing more information about a particular audio book title or category. As the referrer, you then automatically earn sales commissions on all purchases of audio books made by your site(s) visitors who clicked on your affiliate links.
Affiliate marketing is a great, low-cost and fast way to start generating an income or additional business revenue online, as you don’t have to carry any of the inventory, or provide any customer service – the merchant is responsible for this. There are literally hundreds of thousands of physical and digital products and services that you can promote as an affiliate marketer. Although it sounds simple and easy (and if you know what you’re doing it is!), affiliate marketing does require some “how to” knowledge in order to be successful and turn your efforts into a profitable investment of your time.
One of the best resources for anyone interested in learning more about how to succeed with affiliate marketing, is “The Super Affiliate Handbook” by Rosalind Gardner. Rosalind shows you how she created a $500,000+ annual income using affiliate marketing and teaches you how to create a foundation for a similarly profitable business.
WordPress Blogs And Affiliate Marketing
As most expert internet marketers will tell you, blogs and affiliate marketing compliment each other perfectly. A blog is very easy to set up and affiliate marketing is basically promoting someone else’s products, so in just a couple of hours, you can be making money online without requiring any technical skills, or even having a product or service of your own.
A WordPress blog is ideal for affiliate marketing. I earn a nice income online on auto-pilot each month from several dozen WordPress blogs that focus on promoting affiliate products to specific niche markets that I have identified as being profitable. If this sounds like a strategy that you’d like to know more about, then I recommend you check out a training product called Google Sniper (I describe this product in more detail in the section below).
Affiliate Marketing – Recommended Resources For WordPress
Google Sniper – This is a “how-to earn money online with affiliate marketing and blogs” product created by George Brown, a young online entrepreneur who started out as a furniture mover, before discovering at the age of 18, a simple system that he then used to make $115,000 in his first year online. George shows you the exact method he uses in his Google Sniper System.
One of the things I really like about the Google Sniper method is that it is based on creating automated “set and forget” systems that can be easily duplicated in any niche. This allows you to create online success through passive income made on autopilot, which is a wonderful thing to have.
The Google Sniper Method is very simple to understand and even someone who is completely brand new to Internet Marketing can apply the strategies by simply following George’s instructions and watching the ’step-by-step’ videos included in his program. Essentially, you get to look over George’s shoulder as he shows you exactly how to start your online business and turn it into a complete money making machine on autopilot.
The Google Sniper system works on a simple principle: find a profitable keyword with little competition then build a system around it based on setting up a highly optimized “sniper” site, then simply repeat the process of creating these simple yet highly focused “sniper” sites over and over again until you’ve reached your desired income goal.
In principle, the Google Sniper method sounds too easy, and most people are usually (and understandably) skeptical when they first come across it. However, when you understand the methodology behind it, you will quickly realize why it works extremely well. Not only that, but it only takes a couple of hours to set up each “sniper” site (i.e. dedicated affiliate marketing blog) and put it on auto-pilot. The site then goes off to start creating an income for you, while you build another one, and another one, and another one, and so on … all based on getting FREE traffic with no link building or expensive PPC campaigns to drive traffic.
Google Sniper is a great course for even complete beginners, as George goes through every tiny detail with you to help you create you first “sniper” site. The videos included in the training package are very easy to understand and can be watched over and over again.
Since one of the key components of making the Google Sniper work successfully is being able to set up a site that will automatically help you grow your business online, I have decided to offer a very special bonus to anyone who purchases Google Sniper using any of the links on this page. For more details about this great bonus, just keep reading …
Google Sniper Benefits
- The system is brilliantly simple and it works. If you follow the step-by-step instructions, you will have a duplicatable system for generating an income online from affiliate commissions in a very short time.
- You get a complete package. Everything you need to start making money online with this system is included, except for web hosting and a domain name for your sites.
- This works for everyone. Anyone can do this, regardless of their technical level or internet marketing skills.
- The information is not overwhelming and it gets right to the point. The ebook uses a systematic approach referenced with videos that show you exactly what to do next.
- The product includes customer support and lifetime updates.
Google Sniper Shortcomings
Although Google Sniper is an excellent method that works extremely well and only takes 2-3 hours to set up a a one-time create and forget money-making site, like most products, it isn’t perfect.
Some of the shortcomings of Google Sniper are:
- Comprehensive keyword research. George does show you how to find profitable keywords with low competition, but he doesn’t go into great detail on how to find keywords used by hungry buyers. This means that even though you may identify a hot affiliate marketing niche, you might miss some of the specific “low hanging fruit” keywords that could help your site rank very high very fast in Google. To overcome this shortcoming in the product, I recommend you check out this amazing Free course on how to identify “buyer” keywords:
- Although this is a “set it and forget it” affiliate marketing system, you will need to invest some time into the “set it” part before you can “forget it”. This means creating the sites. If you are a complete beginner, read my post on how to set up a webhosting account, and make sure to watch the video on how to register a keyword rich domain name which is included in the post.
- You’ll need to know how to set up, fully configure and optimize a WordPress blog. There are many resources that will explain how to install a WordPress blog, but very few that can show you how to fully configure and optimize it like the blogs used by those who make serious money online. This is where my special bonus can help you (see below).
*** MY SPECIAL BONUS FOR BUYING GOOGLE SNIPER FROM THIS PAGE ***
Purchase Google Sniper using any of the links on this page, then email me your purchase receipt and I will give you complete FREE access to my step-by-step video training package on how to set up and configure a fully optimized WordPress blog that will help you grow your business online faster, PLUS you also get all of the bonuses included with my package.
For complete details on what you will get if you purchase Google Sniper through this page, please go here: Wordpress Blog Automation Tutorials.
Click Here To Learn More About Google Sniper
Please note (important): I do not own the Google Sniper product. If you have any questions about it, please visit the Google Sniper Website and contact the product creator, George Brown. Also, this special bonus offer is only available for those who purchase Google Sniper from the links on this page, and only while Google Sniper is available for sale.
In other words, if you purchase Google Sniper from another site, you don’t get my bonus (please note: if you’ve visited the Google Sniper website before coming here, then you will need to clear your browser cookies before purchasing from any of the links on this page to qualify for my bonus). Also, if, for any reason, George Brown decides to limit the number of packages he is selling or withdraws his product from sale in the future, then my special bonus offer will also be discontinued and will no longer be offered.
For more details about this great product, visit the Google Sniper website.
I hope you have found the information in this post useful and please check out my Wordpress Blog Automation Tutorials if you are interested in starting a blog that can help you grow your business online faster.
Remember too that you can get my product completely FREE plus all the bonuses I make available if you purchase Google Sniper through any of the links in this page (see “Special Bonus” section for details).
In my next post, I’ll discuss some more great tools and resources you can use to do affiliate marketing more profitably using WordPress Blogs.
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