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Hi Kids,
I've lived in Ohio my entire life and the
weather never ceases to amaze me. Here it is early December
and it's like 60 degrees outside. That makes absolutely
no sense but hey, I'll take it.
My birds are driving me nuts this week they
won't stay on their perch insist on flying around the house
every chance they get. Dakota keeps licking his chops so
if they keep it up they'll probably be his dinner soon.
I guess in the German war camp days Miniature Pinschers
were used to keep rodents out of the food supply, by killing
rats, mice and other small animals. I guess this instinct
is still in his blood cause man he is a chaser when something
moves. Teddy is totally uninterested as I do belive the
idea of eating a live animal would be distasteful to him.
He's a very picky eater.<grin>
Have you noticed the slow down on the Net
lately? Once the holidays come the most people want to do
is go shopping and spend money on gifts so if you're selling
a service you may have noticed things dropping off. I know
I have. Have no fear come Feb it will pick up again but
in the mean time you'll want to do basic maintenance duties
you've been putting off. You minds well use the extra time.
As usual I'm snowed with way too many projects and only
so many hours in the day, but hey I'm dancing as fast as
I can.
I worked on thanksgiving so I never had any
Turkey that day. I made up for it by cooking one this weekend.
After spending 5 hours in the kitchen baking and roasting
it was delicious. Spending time in the kitchen is a strange
thing for me and not something I do too often anymore. What
is that thing that gets hot called again? (LOL)
In case you missed it last week I launched a brand new
ebook "50 Easy ways to Promote Your Website" that's
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1) Marketing News |
Yahoo Buys Small Startup
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2) Feature Article |
"How to Integrate Clickbank Affiliate Links Into
Your Website"
If you're trying to make money online, you either
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someone else's. Usually this is in the form of what's
called "affiliate programs."
Clickbank is the largest marketplace online for
finding products you can resell. You can earn
commissions from 1 to 75% on over 10,000 digital
products that Clickbank offers. There is no
charge to sign up as an affiliate. Once registered
you'll need to find the specific merchandise that
you want to promote.
So now you're all signed up and excited about
all of the money you're going to make but how
do you get people to click on your affiliate
links? There are plenty of ways to promote &
market affiliate programs from ezine ads to
using Pay Per Click Search Engines, but recently
some new ways have been developed that allow
you to easily promote your affiliate links
via your own website.
Similar to PPC Search or Contextual ads the
ads appear in blocks to the right/left or
top of your web pages. Your affiliate code
is hard coded into the ads shown and the
advertisements are related to the content of
your page. When people click on the links
and make a purchase, you earn commissions.
Let's examine a few of the options for
integrating Clickbank links directly onto
your website.
You select the search terms that relate to
your website pages or AffiliateSensor determines
them from the page title and headings and then
supplies you with related content.
Once registered, you'll need to paste some
JavaScript onto your pages where you
want the Clickbank ads to appear. Also
includes an easy-to-use script building
interface so you can customize your ad
blocks to match the look and feel of
your site. You'll enjoy real time
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There are no up-front costs to use Affiliate
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the ad block impressions to their own
Clickbank account and 5% to whoever you
signed up through.
Again, serving ads from Clickbank's database
of products. You choose the category of ads
you want displayed on your website and choose
the look of the ads shown.
Merchants can establish an ad campaign
account and bid for placement in the served
ads. Those who bid the highest will enjoy
higher placement. This is similar to PPC
Search Engine bidding.
You keep every penny your site earns. The
number of ads shown ranges from 5 to 15
you're in charge of how many ads you would
like to appear on each page. Format of the
ads is horizontal or tower ads.
You can also choose to place a search bar
on your website which searches the entire
directory right from within your website.
Free to sign up, just make sure you have
a Clickbank ID first. The ads shown on
your web pages are targeted by keywords you
select. For example, if your site is about
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of your keywords, and the ads displayed on
your website would all be related to that
word. When someone clicks on an ad and
makes a purchase from the Clickbank merchant,
you earn commissions on each and every sale.
Not a service, but a powerful PHP script
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on your website. Again, these are Clickbank
affiliate product ads and you'll earn commissions
when someone clicks thru and makes a purchase.
There's no need to supply keywords, as the
script spiders your pages and then matches
each page with related ads. Once set up,
you'll cut and paste some JavaScript onto
your pages where you want the ads to appear.
They offer 11 different ad styles to chose
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Version 1 sells for $97.00 and Version 2, which
allows you to add as many affiliate programs
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A new concept that links the Clickbank ads into
the actual content of your webpages instead
of placing the ads in the right or left borders.
Free to use, you receive 80% of all hits and 7%
of hits from Webmasters who sign up under you.
13% of the clicks keyed point to Affiliate Text's
website.
To use this service, you'll paste some code onto
your pages which causes automatic linking to
relevant Clickbank products throughout the content
of the page. Your pages are scanned for their
most important keywords/phrases and products
related to those keywords are chosen from the
database of Clickbank ads.
So next time you're tempted to show someone else's
ads on your site, you may want to consider using
one of these Clickbank Ad Services instead. Why
earn pennies on the dollar displaying any adver-
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programs as integrated website content and earn
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Google Page Rank
A really cool online tool that allows you to
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