I am beginning to make myself known around the web. Publishing an article on one site with 42,000 daily readers, has provided an opportunity to network with some very experienced bloggers, affiliate marketers, and search engine marketing experts, and discovered a great way to earn residual income indefinetly.
My lijit searches ( www.lijit.com ) have come back with web search results, that Google www.google.com is beginning to index some of my blogs.
I just added a podcast at http://nachase.podbean.com/
A comment from www.guitarbench.com has already been received, from the United Kingdom.
I have recorded some clips of my 1951 Martin 000-18 acoustic guitar, one solo and one with drums and bass. Check out the article on The Guitar Blog: http://wwwnachase.wordpress.com
Found a great interview with Jeremy Shoemaker and John Reese www.shoemoney.com where he compares the results of placing adsense ads on your blog, to blog ads via 'monetized blogs', and selling adspace to advertisers on your blog.
Also he touched upon 'bumping-up' your payouts, by requesting this from your Affiliate Manager at the ad networks you use. He stated that you do not need a ton of traffic, just informing them that you will work very hard to promote their offers, and increase their ad's visibility on your site.
I continue to add friends to Social Spark, and approving selected EntreCard ads to run on my blogs. Not so much to market to these friends initially, but to get the pulse of what are the emerging trends, so that I can select the appropriate niche to begin my Yahoo Search Marketing efforts, and Google Adsense campaigns as I become more profitable.
It has been quite an education so far. I will be attending Search Engine Strategies in San Jose this month, that should provide additional contacts and education required for SEO techniques being used by the 'guru's'. For now I will continue to join ad networks, and expand my reach and web-presense using the methods above. To your continued success! Respectfully, Nicholas
A start-up company chronicles the processes used to make a decent living online through various marketing techniques.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Progress with Social Networking
I have completed my initial goal of creating five blogs, four of which are slowly being monetized with various offerings based on the blog's purpose and audience. A fifth blog, has been created for the sole purpose of learning Wordpress, the language used to create web page layouts quickly.
Here is a list of the blogs I have created:
The Debt Blog - where I assist a friend in extracting his family from excessive debt
View Blog
The Guitar Hub Page - a new site that inserts Adsense and Kontera ads for me.
http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Guitar-Hub
And the no-ads blog:
The Guitar Blog - where I review some of the guitars from my collection, and accessories
http://nachase.wordpress.com/
By creating these blogs, I hope to have Google 'index' them. In this way people can find me through 'organic-search', the non ad supported results in Google. Also SocialSpark lets you place a code in your .html to validate and add your blogs to your profile page on SocialSpark.
I have already achieved some success through EntreCard, and the contacts you make through their service. I have had one article posted on a website with 42,000 readers daily. Another article will be published in a soon to be released book! The receipient gifted me over 7,000 EntreCard credits, which you can spend in their shop for web design, advertising on other blogs, buying products and more.
I have joined SocialSpark, digg, FaceBook, LiJit, and a few more Ad Networks to compare offers for ads to place on my blogs. Now I am linking to other bloggers and marketers out in cyberspace. We'll track the results that other marketers are having using Social Networking.
I have continued the daily practice of commenting on the top bloggers blogs, and linking comments that I make on my blog back to them. One day I hope to be a guest blogger on one of these sites. I have an appointment to strategize with one of my Affiliate Managers in New York next week.
This will start my adsense portion of my on-line marketing efforts. Here is where the big money is spent, on 'clicks', and made, on 'click-throughs' to buy.
Thank you for reading my blog, and please do leave a comment! Respectfully, Nicholas
Here is a list of the blogs I have created:
The Dieting and Weight Loss Blog - My personal story of weight loss and cholesterol lowering (Some exciting news here today with my weight loss results!)
View Blog The Way To Success - The Future Super Affiliate Marketers Blog - (the blog you are reading)
View Blog The iPod Review Blog - where I review my family's iPods, accessories and iTunes
View BlogThe Guitar Hub Page - a new site that inserts Adsense and Kontera ads for me.
http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Guitar-Hub
And the no-ads blog:
The Guitar Blog - where I review some of the guitars from my collection, and accessories
http://nachase.wordpress.com/
By creating these blogs, I hope to have Google 'index' them. In this way people can find me through 'organic-search', the non ad supported results in Google. Also SocialSpark lets you place a code in your .html to validate and add your blogs to your profile page on SocialSpark.
I have already achieved some success through EntreCard, and the contacts you make through their service. I have had one article posted on a website with 42,000 readers daily. Another article will be published in a soon to be released book! The receipient gifted me over 7,000 EntreCard credits, which you can spend in their shop for web design, advertising on other blogs, buying products and more.
I have joined SocialSpark, digg, FaceBook, LiJit, and a few more Ad Networks to compare offers for ads to place on my blogs. Now I am linking to other bloggers and marketers out in cyberspace. We'll track the results that other marketers are having using Social Networking.
I have continued the daily practice of commenting on the top bloggers blogs, and linking comments that I make on my blog back to them. One day I hope to be a guest blogger on one of these sites. I have an appointment to strategize with one of my Affiliate Managers in New York next week.
This will start my adsense portion of my on-line marketing efforts. Here is where the big money is spent, on 'clicks', and made, on 'click-throughs' to buy.
Thank you for reading my blog, and please do leave a comment! Respectfully, Nicholas
Monday, July 28, 2008
Monday at The Way To Success
Greetings! Hoping your weekend was as excellent as mine was.
I was invited to an informal networking and strategy-sharing meeting of successful Affiliate Marketers on Saturday afternoon. What a great experience this turned out to be...
The group numbered fifteen in total, with four newbies, and the rest very experienced SEO and PPC marketers. The place we met had outstanding coffee, to fuel my listening skills for the following two hours of great tips, stories of success and failure, and overall expressions of hope for the economic future on-line.
There was discussion about legendary marketers and bloggers, such as Jonathan Volk, http://www.jonathanvolk.com , John Chow, www.johnchow.com , ( currently reporting $32,000.00 monthly, approaching $40,000.00 soon!) Jeremy Shoemaker, aka Shoemoney, http://www.shoemoney.com (received a $132,994.97 check from Google, for one month, of adsense income in 2005! He reported his income at $10,000.00 per month).
Some of the alternative campaign techniques were discussed, and how some marketers have been caught using techniques that Google considers outside the bounds of 'fair-play'. Google's mantra is a 'relevant search result experience', for the users of Google. Practitioners of these 'gaming-the-system', techniques are often found, and punished, through a process called the 'Google-Slap'.
'De-indexing your site', and stopping your revenue should get the marketer's attention quickly!
The use of these techniques comes at a considerable risk to your on-line reputation. However, some may want that image of themselves discussed and debated. I prefer to take the long view, and the higher ground even if it means less initial profit for me. I cannot compromise these values that have served me well for many years.
My reputation, both on-line and offline, must be a lasting and positive one. Others may choose to implement these techniques as they choose. I cannot imagine there is a 'long-term' benefit in these strategies.
Some brand-new marketers were asking the same questions I did when I started my on-line marketing business. It was fun answering their questions! I started out reading everything I could find on the web about SEO and Pay-Per-Click strategies.
Questions ranged from 'How to start a blog and monetize it?' - to 'How do I avoid spending all of my money 'hosting-adsense' ads on Google, before I see a profit?'
The exchange was free and open, and I was amazed how quickly the time passed. After two hours they were still going strong. Another engagement took me away, or I would have stayed until they closed.
For this week's update, I have created more ads on my blogs, excepting the Guitar Blog which is hosted on WordPress.com. They do not permit ads there, but I may do some reviews of products carried by one or more of my Ad Network's, with a link to the landing page for that specific product. I started this blog for fun and to learn WordPress, the prefered application for page layout on the web.
When you create a link on your blog, as provided from your ad network, the link includes your affiliate number, so the ad network can track your impressions and click-through's and credit your account. Did I say $$$? That is the basis by which Affiliate marketers receive payment.
On this blog, barely one week old, I have 33 'impressions' for one ad, and eight on another. So that tells me that the visitors are finding content relevant to their search. 'Impressions' are merely another name for 'curiousity-clicks'. The visitor is curious about what the offer might be, but may not be ready to buy. So they click around gaining knowledge about the product or service they are researching, before committing to buy or 'click-through'.
'Click-through's' are the goal, when the visitor actually buys the product or service they land upon, after that first click. I just added another ad that could potentially be huge, for an expensive seminar with a high commission. I'm hoping to get a lot of click-through's on that one!
As you build your on-line business, remember to be respectfull to all of those you deal with. They will remember you if you are kind and patient. I have had several mentors tell me the only reason they responded to my comments on their blog, was because I placed link's in my blog's body text here: www.johnchow.com, and linked-back to their blog post on my blog through my Blog List on the right side.
I am getting ready for a large influx of visitors, once all of my blogs get indexed by the major search engines, Google, MSN, and Microsoft.
The next post will include further data on the success I am experiencing.
Please do leave a comment! Respectfully, Nicholas
I was invited to an informal networking and strategy-sharing meeting of successful Affiliate Marketers on Saturday afternoon. What a great experience this turned out to be...
The group numbered fifteen in total, with four newbies, and the rest very experienced SEO and PPC marketers. The place we met had outstanding coffee, to fuel my listening skills for the following two hours of great tips, stories of success and failure, and overall expressions of hope for the economic future on-line.
There was discussion about legendary marketers and bloggers, such as Jonathan Volk, http://www.jonathanvolk.com , John Chow, www.johnchow.com , ( currently reporting $32,000.00 monthly, approaching $40,000.00 soon!) Jeremy Shoemaker, aka Shoemoney, http://www.shoemoney.com (received a $132,994.97 check from Google, for one month, of adsense income in 2005! He reported his income at $10,000.00 per month).
Some of the alternative campaign techniques were discussed, and how some marketers have been caught using techniques that Google considers outside the bounds of 'fair-play'. Google's mantra is a 'relevant search result experience', for the users of Google. Practitioners of these 'gaming-the-system', techniques are often found, and punished, through a process called the 'Google-Slap'.
'De-indexing your site', and stopping your revenue should get the marketer's attention quickly!
The use of these techniques comes at a considerable risk to your on-line reputation. However, some may want that image of themselves discussed and debated. I prefer to take the long view, and the higher ground even if it means less initial profit for me. I cannot compromise these values that have served me well for many years.
My reputation, both on-line and offline, must be a lasting and positive one. Others may choose to implement these techniques as they choose. I cannot imagine there is a 'long-term' benefit in these strategies.
Some brand-new marketers were asking the same questions I did when I started my on-line marketing business. It was fun answering their questions! I started out reading everything I could find on the web about SEO and Pay-Per-Click strategies.
Questions ranged from 'How to start a blog and monetize it?' - to 'How do I avoid spending all of my money 'hosting-adsense' ads on Google, before I see a profit?'
The exchange was free and open, and I was amazed how quickly the time passed. After two hours they were still going strong. Another engagement took me away, or I would have stayed until they closed.
For this week's update, I have created more ads on my blogs, excepting the Guitar Blog which is hosted on WordPress.com. They do not permit ads there, but I may do some reviews of products carried by one or more of my Ad Network's, with a link to the landing page for that specific product. I started this blog for fun and to learn WordPress, the prefered application for page layout on the web.
When you create a link on your blog, as provided from your ad network, the link includes your affiliate number, so the ad network can track your impressions and click-through's and credit your account. Did I say $$$? That is the basis by which Affiliate marketers receive payment.
On this blog, barely one week old, I have 33 'impressions' for one ad, and eight on another. So that tells me that the visitors are finding content relevant to their search. 'Impressions' are merely another name for 'curiousity-clicks'. The visitor is curious about what the offer might be, but may not be ready to buy. So they click around gaining knowledge about the product or service they are researching, before committing to buy or 'click-through'.
'Click-through's' are the goal, when the visitor actually buys the product or service they land upon, after that first click. I just added another ad that could potentially be huge, for an expensive seminar with a high commission. I'm hoping to get a lot of click-through's on that one!
As you build your on-line business, remember to be respectfull to all of those you deal with. They will remember you if you are kind and patient. I have had several mentors tell me the only reason they responded to my comments on their blog, was because I placed link's in my blog's body text here: www.johnchow.com, and linked-back to their blog post on my blog through my Blog List on the right side.
I am getting ready for a large influx of visitors, once all of my blogs get indexed by the major search engines, Google, MSN, and Microsoft.
The next post will include further data on the success I am experiencing.
Please do leave a comment! Respectfully, Nicholas
Friday, July 25, 2008
Friday Status Report
I have started three new blogs this week.
The Diet and Weight Loss Blog, which chronicles my personal diet and weight loss lifestyle modification project. You can read all about this here:
http://dietingandweightlossblog.blogspot.com/
I have also started The Debt Blog, about one family's debt and solutions to resolve their debt issues. You can read all about this here:
http://wwwthedebtblog.blogspot.com/
I'm also teaching myself how to use Word Press at my third new blog called the The Guitar Blog.
www.nachase.wordpress.com
My purpose in creating these blogs is to populate them with rich content, and begin adding advertisements gradually. Struggling a bit with blogger, and creating a six-box advertisement button area near the top right of my blog, emulating some of the top Super Affiliate bloggers like John Chow, Jonathan Volk, and Zac Johnson's blogs.
Word Press does not allow advertising on their site's blogs, so this will be a training ground for learning the features and tools in Word Press to eventually roll-out world class web pages elsewhere in my Internet Marketing Empire...
I have earned over 600 EntreCard credits, throughout three of my four blogs, by posting new blog post's, and writing one article for a book project soon to be published.
EntreCard has been covered in a previous post, but the strategy is to have people click on your EntreCard button on your web page, and you can visit their web p[ages and 'Drop' one credit, once per day. EntreCard credits can be used in their 'Shop' or to buy advertising on other EntreCard buttons. Your ad is in rotation with others, and costs EntreCard Credits, deducted from your account by EntreCard.
If the site hosting your ad is popular, the 'Credits' deducted can be quite large!
Ok, back to blogging, emailing and promoting my four blogs with ads.
Eventually as my web pages get indexed by the major search engines, I may see a trickle of revenue from my Affiliate Network offers.
Late Breaking News: An opportunity to earn 5,000 EntreCard credits has just been received! I only need to write an article over 1,000 words on the subject. Here we go...
To your online success! Respectfully, Nicholas
The Diet and Weight Loss Blog, which chronicles my personal diet and weight loss lifestyle modification project. You can read all about this here:
http://dietingandweightlossblog.blogspot.com/
I have also started The Debt Blog, about one family's debt and solutions to resolve their debt issues. You can read all about this here:
http://wwwthedebtblog.blogspot.com/
I'm also teaching myself how to use Word Press at my third new blog called the The Guitar Blog.
www.nachase.wordpress.com
My purpose in creating these blogs is to populate them with rich content, and begin adding advertisements gradually. Struggling a bit with blogger, and creating a six-box advertisement button area near the top right of my blog, emulating some of the top Super Affiliate bloggers like John Chow, Jonathan Volk, and Zac Johnson's blogs.
Word Press does not allow advertising on their site's blogs, so this will be a training ground for learning the features and tools in Word Press to eventually roll-out world class web pages elsewhere in my Internet Marketing Empire...
I have earned over 600 EntreCard credits, throughout three of my four blogs, by posting new blog post's, and writing one article for a book project soon to be published.
EntreCard has been covered in a previous post, but the strategy is to have people click on your EntreCard button on your web page, and you can visit their web p[ages and 'Drop' one credit, once per day. EntreCard credits can be used in their 'Shop' or to buy advertising on other EntreCard buttons. Your ad is in rotation with others, and costs EntreCard Credits, deducted from your account by EntreCard.
If the site hosting your ad is popular, the 'Credits' deducted can be quite large!
Ok, back to blogging, emailing and promoting my four blogs with ads.
Eventually as my web pages get indexed by the major search engines, I may see a trickle of revenue from my Affiliate Network offers.
Late Breaking News: An opportunity to earn 5,000 EntreCard credits has just been received! I only need to write an article over 1,000 words on the subject. Here we go...
To your online success! Respectfully, Nicholas
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
All is well at Comission Junction now..
My last post detailed some issues in getting my first link activated at Commission Junction. I am happy to report that all is well now!
The vendor was aware of the small glitch when modifications to the standard payout are made. The 'Performance Incentives' to the payout amount needed to be selected, then "accepted" by the marketer (that would be me...), in order for the link to become live.
I was so very happy, after a 12-hour wait and lots of emails, the issue was resolved. The vendor even offered to contact CJ Support to highlight this issue for them to resolve.
Now I have a highly popular service offered with a larger than standard payout which runs until the end of 2008! Excellent... Now the challenge is getting my site indexed by the major 'Search Engines', and creating a buzz around my offer through other marketing strategies.
This is all a challenge for even someone who has a bit of proficiency with computers, it's still a lot of work to:
1. Create a web site with Google-required elements, Rich content, Privacy statements, Contact Information, No Spam Policies, Not Sharing your personal data with anyone etc, etc.
2. Find the Affiliate Network with the highest payouts
3. Join that network and set up payment options, PayPal, Check etc
3. Select a banner, button or link to place on your website
4. Copy the linking code either java or .html to your website
5. Choose the location for the ad to run
6. Drive traffic to that location from indexing, submitting your site to directories, (carefully!)
7. Tweaking your ads to raise more search engine page results for your ads
8. Work with your Affiliate manager to find more opportunities to advertise
9. Repeat...Repeat...Repeat the above until you see results.
I am enjoying the assistance from people who have the attitude that now that they are successful, they are willing to share what they know with others.
John Chow (www.johnchow.com), Jeremy Palmer (Quit Your Day Job), Jonathan Volk (Super Affiliate), Jeremy Shoemaker(Shoemoney.com) and Zac Johnson are a few of the Top Affiliate Marketers who are willing to share what they have learned with others.
As I continue to grow my online business, I will be consulting with all of these fine gentleman as the need arises. They are highly successful yet humble at the same time. A very fine quality to find in a business that sometimes reveals the dark-side of some people who are ruthless in all aspects of their lives.
My next post will reveal the success or failure of my first attempts to make a living online.
Respectfully, Nicholas
Zac Johnson has an excellent comparison of different Affiliate Network payouts here: http://zacjohnson.com/my-affiliate-program-pays-more-than-yours/
The vendor was aware of the small glitch when modifications to the standard payout are made. The 'Performance Incentives' to the payout amount needed to be selected, then "accepted" by the marketer (that would be me...), in order for the link to become live.
I was so very happy, after a 12-hour wait and lots of emails, the issue was resolved. The vendor even offered to contact CJ Support to highlight this issue for them to resolve.
Now I have a highly popular service offered with a larger than standard payout which runs until the end of 2008! Excellent... Now the challenge is getting my site indexed by the major 'Search Engines', and creating a buzz around my offer through other marketing strategies.
This is all a challenge for even someone who has a bit of proficiency with computers, it's still a lot of work to:
1. Create a web site with Google-required elements, Rich content, Privacy statements, Contact Information, No Spam Policies, Not Sharing your personal data with anyone etc, etc.
2. Find the Affiliate Network with the highest payouts
3. Join that network and set up payment options, PayPal, Check etc
3. Select a banner, button or link to place on your website
4. Copy the linking code either java or .html to your website
5. Choose the location for the ad to run
6. Drive traffic to that location from indexing, submitting your site to directories, (carefully!)
7. Tweaking your ads to raise more search engine page results for your ads
8. Work with your Affiliate manager to find more opportunities to advertise
9. Repeat...Repeat...Repeat the above until you see results.
I am enjoying the assistance from people who have the attitude that now that they are successful, they are willing to share what they know with others.
John Chow (www.johnchow.com), Jeremy Palmer (Quit Your Day Job), Jonathan Volk (Super Affiliate), Jeremy Shoemaker(Shoemoney.com) and Zac Johnson are a few of the Top Affiliate Marketers who are willing to share what they have learned with others.
As I continue to grow my online business, I will be consulting with all of these fine gentleman as the need arises. They are highly successful yet humble at the same time. A very fine quality to find in a business that sometimes reveals the dark-side of some people who are ruthless in all aspects of their lives.
My next post will reveal the success or failure of my first attempts to make a living online.
Respectfully, Nicholas
Zac Johnson has an excellent comparison of different Affiliate Network payouts here: http://zacjohnson.com/my-affiliate-program-pays-more-than-yours/
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Ad Networks and Support Issues
I joined Commission Junction and was approved, using JohnChow.com's, increased commissions in the form of 'Performance Incentive' signup promotion. On Commission Junction's - 'Get Links' page for the offer I wanted, it stated that there was a 'Performance Incentive' associated with the vendor, and the vendor confirmed the offer of higher payout in a subsequent email. However Commission Junction had placed a STATUS: 'Delined Application' in this field on the search results page.
I contacted the vendor again, and he stated that he wanted me to get the links,and that this had happened before with CJ. I have received two CJ-Customer Support emails, with a long list of reasons why an Application may be 'Declined', none of this was relevant to my particular issue, so I replied to CJ Support again, and the vendor, stating that the vendor wants me to have the link!
We'll see how long this process takes, meanwhile I cannot promote the offer which has a high payout and extends until the end of 2008. It's causing concern for me that my first contact with CJ Support was not well handled, and Zak Johnson has a current post on his blog today about this very issue:
http://zacjohnson.com/five-reasons-why-your-affiliate-network-sucks/
As a new Affiliate Marketer I am trying to take the high ground, and be as professional as possible. I am discovering that just like any other industry, Affiliate Marketing has it's professionals and amateurs, all trying to play in the same sandbox.
Please comment on my post, and let's all try to pull together and insist on better performance out of all of our Ad Networks! Respectfully, Nicholas
I contacted the vendor again, and he stated that he wanted me to get the links,and that this had happened before with CJ. I have received two CJ-Customer Support emails, with a long list of reasons why an Application may be 'Declined', none of this was relevant to my particular issue, so I replied to CJ Support again, and the vendor, stating that the vendor wants me to have the link!
We'll see how long this process takes, meanwhile I cannot promote the offer which has a high payout and extends until the end of 2008. It's causing concern for me that my first contact with CJ Support was not well handled, and Zak Johnson has a current post on his blog today about this very issue:
http://zacjohnson.com/five-reasons-why-your-affiliate-network-sucks/
As a new Affiliate Marketer I am trying to take the high ground, and be as professional as possible. I am discovering that just like any other industry, Affiliate Marketing has it's professionals and amateurs, all trying to play in the same sandbox.
Please comment on my post, and let's all try to pull together and insist on better performance out of all of our Ad Networks! Respectfully, Nicholas
Monday, July 21, 2008
Monday Update and Goals
It's Monday, and as we all begin our work week, exchanging our time for dollars, I thought I would continue the dialogue on all things Affiliate Marketing.
Monday Status update.
So I have been accepted at Commission Junction www.commissionjunction.com
Tried to create my first ad campaign, but I just faxed my W9 today, so I assume that my payment account will not be live until tomorrow.
My first campaign is with eDiets.com, and the new blog is located at:
http://dietingandweightlossblog.blogspot.com/
My current strategy is to create a blog for a need, such as weight loss or dieting. Write some rich content that is really relevant to this market for the search engines to crawl and index. Have the blog indexed by Google, by using the Google Webmaster tools.
Write more rich content, and place one or two ads on the page. Wait and write more content, maybe add some video or some audio to the page. Wait, and Wait, and Wait.
Create traffic to my site by commenting on other blogs and leaving my link in the comments. Visit a few diet and weight loss sites and leave comments there. Start linking to the sites or ask for a link from my site to be placed on their site.
Duplicate the above scenario 25 more times, for 25 blog pages, with relevant content and a few ads.
I will report my success on this strategy as time passes.
Respectfully, Nicholas
Monday Status update.
So I have been accepted at Commission Junction www.commissionjunction.com
Tried to create my first ad campaign, but I just faxed my W9 today, so I assume that my payment account will not be live until tomorrow.
My first campaign is with eDiets.com, and the new blog is located at:
http://dietingandweightlossblog.blogspot.com/
My current strategy is to create a blog for a need, such as weight loss or dieting. Write some rich content that is really relevant to this market for the search engines to crawl and index. Have the blog indexed by Google, by using the Google Webmaster tools.
Write more rich content, and place one or two ads on the page. Wait and write more content, maybe add some video or some audio to the page. Wait, and Wait, and Wait.
Create traffic to my site by commenting on other blogs and leaving my link in the comments. Visit a few diet and weight loss sites and leave comments there. Start linking to the sites or ask for a link from my site to be placed on their site.
Duplicate the above scenario 25 more times, for 25 blog pages, with relevant content and a few ads.
I will report my success on this strategy as time passes.
Respectfully, Nicholas
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