Affiliate? Blogger? Publisher? Merchant? What do you do?
One of the biggest puzzles you have to solve in learning to make a living online is which of the several ways of earning an online income is best. We look around energetically for the answer and we have no shortage of answers to consider.
Affiliate
The affiliate is a middle man who makes a commission on every sale they make without really being a salesperson. An affiliate may have a website or blog and refer to a product, leaving a link to a website where it is sold. If someone clicks on that link and then buys the product at the website, the affiliate gets paid. This seems a good model to follow. You do not have to persuade someone to buy or even talk to them but you can still get paid, perhaps 50% of the purchase price.
This way of doing things sounds so good that thousands of people pour into the affiliate marketing community every day wanting a piece of the action for themselves.
It all looks so easy and it looks like there’s no real problems – the sales page does the selling after all. All the affiliate has to do is get people to the sales page.
That’s all!
But it is a very big “all”.
There are plenty of affiliates earning over $100, 000 a year but most don’t make a single sale!
What’s wrong? What’s missing from the picture?
“Traffic” is the one word answer. For us that means being able to produce a large flow of people through our affiliate link! Just how can we do that? Because if we can crack that problem we can begin to make some decent amount of money….
The Affiliate must become a Traffic Expert, or if not an expert they must learn how to get at least one type of traffic flow to work. Whether they do through Article marketing, Pay per Click advertising or buying ads in ezines you need to get your link in front of thousands of people, any way that works is fine! That is how an affiliate marketer works.
Summary Affiliate Marketing is simple to understand but not easy to do. One workable method of promoting your webpage is all it takes but you may have to learn several methods and try some of them out before you find the method that will work for you.
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Search Engine Optimisation (S.E.O.) just means adjusting your blog or web page to get the best out of the search engines. This is pretty simple stuff really despite the impression that so many people in the Internet Marketing world seem to think.
S.E.O. takes place in two different places – the web page (or blog post) and off the web page / blog post. On page S.E.O. means paying attention to the small tags that go into the HTML and tell the web crawlers from the search engines what they need to know about the page.
The most important of these is the title tag. You will find this on every web page and post and it is the title tag that makes the words appear that you see up on the left hand side in the title bar of the web page.
If you look in the HTML code you see <title>put your keyword phrase in here</title>
Here is a real example <title>HeadSpace2: Advanced meta-data manager for SEO titles, tags, descriptions, and more | Urban Giraffe</title>
As I said this is the most important part of the SEO that you do on the blog Since the whole purpose of a plugin is to tweak and tune your blog to be as you want without having to get too technical with code and so on – you’d expect there to be an SEO plugin to help you You are right and wrong because there are several SEO plugins -but there are 2 main ones and I’m going to recommend 1 of them .
The SEO plugin that you will see most often see recommended is the “All In One SEO Pack” but I was recommended to use a different SEO plugin called “HeadSpace2″ by Christy & Stacie, the creators of “Static Blogging” .
HeadSpace2 is easy to use – at least at my level and allows you to choose between different ways of presenting the title tag and many other less important and VERY technical matters that would give you a headache. Despite the power HeadSpace2 has, it is, I repeat easy to use.
Despite this short video it is easy to use too… 
All I would say to any fans of the All In One SEO Plugins is – give it a try – you might prefer it. But you must have one of ‘em. Using HeadSpace2 After pasting or typing your post into the WordPress text editor – a subject for a post itself you still have 3 jobs to do before the fun bit of pushing the publish button Choose a category for the post Choose the tags for the post And then fill in the HeadSpace2 panel under the text editor 
The main point of this is to tell the search engines what they need to know
leaving you to be witty with the title of your blog post. Without a clever plugin
your post title has to be written in what looks like poor English - you HAVE to use keywords
that search engines like and this can make your blog look boring or spammy.
:-)
Your witty title can go at the top and your search engine title is put into the HeadSpace2 box at the bottom.
That way you please your readers and the search engines…which is what we bloggers have to do!
Resources Here's where to download the plugins
- http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
- And here is where to check out Static Blogging
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