Smart Affiliate Commission Hello Internet Marketers, I'm Fmasagar, I am a full-time Internet marketer for a long time and I have benefited from the use of many methods, and in some ways we have seen the inferior. Actually, to achieve success, use the method to know the exact time and the correct method. For the most part, I'm attempting to share the technique or framework among the understudies of this field, whatever strategy that is helpful for working and results. I want to help them, because they have failed in the past or have achieved little success. So, trying to find out their problems and give them the right solution So let's talk about METHOD, be careful and read slowly and do not forget to take steps because the steps will never get success without this method.

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These are the basics of how affiliate marketing works step-by-step. The following diagram shows you the process of how affiliate marketing programs work.

If you do it well, it’s a total win/win for you.

The first step of how to get into affiliate marketing is to actually become an affiliate. You need to sign up for an affiliate program. An affiliate program is simply an agreement between you and a company as to how you will promote their products and services, how this will be tracked and how you will be paid.

There are quite a few factors to take into account when joining an affiliate program, such as where your audience is located (there is no point using a UK brand for a US audience), the commission percentage and how well the brand is known (your readers will be more likely to buy through a company they recognise). To make money with affiliate programs, the ideal is that the program:

1. Is for a well-recognised brand (so your readers have already heard of it)

2. It services the georgraphic location of the majority of your audience 3. It has a big commission percentage 4. It has a long cookie duration

The good news is that most affiliate programs will take on beginners and it doesn’t matter if your traffic is low. It is still worth applying. Welcome to the Make Money Online Zone and our step by step guide to become an affiliate marketer for beginners. This guide is designed with beginners in mind. You will also find this guide helpful if you have tried affiliate marketing in the past and didn’t make any money. You can get started with this guide. Before we get started with the main step by step guide to building your online business, there are a few things that need to be said. It’s not uncommon to find people who are looking to become very rich from affiliate marketing. And there is nothing wrong with that. We all need to have goals, hopes and dreams. However, over the years I have spoken with lots of people who have really high expectations from affiliate marketing. These people want to earn thousands, millions in some cases, within a very short space of time.

For this reason, step1 is a wake up call. The first step to becoming a great affiliate marketer is in understanding how the process works and why you probably won’t get rich within your first month. The reality is that affiliate marketing can bring you a lot of money if done correctly. There are a few secrets to getting the most out of your marketing efforts, but the biggest secret… IS HARD WORK! It’s no secret that affiliate marketing can be very profitable. But how much can you REALLY expect to make as an affiliate? Well, there are lots of different factors that could potentially change the outcome of your earnings. First of all your earnings will be majorly affected by the amount of time and effort that you are able to put into your online business. Secondly, the “niche” or products that you promote will also be a deciding factor in how much you earn.

This section explains the necessary concepts for working

as an affiliate on W+/ClickBank/Any others.

1. Succeeding as an Affiliate 2. Earning Commissions & Getting Paid

1.Succeeding as an Affiliate There are many ways to be successful as an affiliate, but here lays out the process that we have found to be the most reliable and sustainable while still being very inexpensive. Many affiliates try to skip steps 2 & 3 and go straight from picking a product to immediately promoting it. This makes it

really difficult to succeed, and doesn't set up your business for success, so make sure to implement the steps in the order they're listed here. By reading this guide, spending plenty of time working on each step, and taking consistent action every day, you have a much higher chance of being successful as a Warrior+Plus/ClickBank affiliate. The following subjects are covered in this article: Step 1: Choose Your Niche Step 2: Build Your Platform Step 3: Grow Your Audience Step 4: Promote Products Next Steps Step 1: Choose Your Niche One of your first tasks when creating an affiliate site will be to carefully choose your niche.The more you focus your efforts on understanding one area, the better you will understand the needs of the customers in that area. We teach you the first step to becoming a successful Warrior+Plus/ClickBank affiliate:

Spend plenty of time on this step! Don’t rush it.

Three questions to ask: What are you interested in ? Do People spend money in it ? Are there products to promote ?

What are you interested in ? So the best niches you can look for are evergreen niches that already have:

● A proven track record. ● High demand. ● Lots of easy to find customers online. ● Endless products on sale. ● Lots of websites, ● social media groups and forums. ● Competition.

These makes much more sense as you know there is definitely money to be made.

Whatever you pick,make sure you’ll stick with it. You’ll need to consistently create content & be involved in the niche and its community. Your goal: Become an authority in the niche!

Do People spend money in it ? This section will help you find some popular trends and profitable markets. Here are some online resources that literally give away profitable niche ideas on a plate. Go through them one by one and take notes of

EVERYTHING you find. I'm going to show you how to evaluate each idea for profitability later.

Clickbank.com Clickbank is the #1 digital marketplace online. The Amazon of digital goods. Their marketplace listings much like Amazon show a list of niches and sub-niches with a list of products available. Go to Clickbank.com and click 'marketplace'. On the left hand side you'll see the categories section.

The top level categories are broad markets or niches, click the little arrow and it'll bring up a list of more focused sub-categories or sub-niches.

Click on the sub-categories and you'll see a list of products, these will give you even more ideas. If there's a lot of products available on certain topics it's a good sign that this is a profitable niche. People don't tend to make products that no one is interested in. Write these ideas you stumble upon down. Talking about stumbling upon ideas....

Amazon.com The worlds biggest online retailer sells pretty much everything and is a great place to find red hot niches and products that are selling. And that you can promote as an affiliate. You can find sub-niches of topics you have an interest in. Or niches you never knew about. Let's look at how to do that below…

Here's the step by step process: 1. Click on the 'All' tab at the left of the main search bar it will show a list

of categories or 'niches'. 2. Click on a specific category, that interests you or at random. 3. Then leave the search box blank and hit 'Go'. 4. A new page will display and on the left hand side a whole list of

sub-categories or 'sub-niches' will pop up. 5. Click a sub-category and it'll take you further down into the niche into

a more specific sub-niche. 6. You now have drilled down into specific niches and can drill further

still. By doing this, you'll find a niche and get an idea about the products that sell in it. The image below shows lots and lots of sub-niches by doing this.

And even better is you're seeing actual products which sell. You can 'sort' by 'new and popular' to find new 'hot' products or sort by 'customer review' to see what people in the niche think of the products. How To Find Amazon Best Selling Products Even better is you can choose 'best sellers' from the navigation bar at the top of the page just under the search box and see what's currently selling best.

This is updated hourly. There's no way you wouldn't be able to find a niche through Amazon. There's plenty. And you can use the world largest digital product marketplace too...

Stumbleupon Stumbleupon allows people to find websites based on their interests. Here's the process for finding niche ideas:

1. Go to http://www.stumbleupon.com/interest 2. Click 'popular'. 3. You'll be shown a list of different interests as wide ranging as Action

Movies to Crochet to Astronomy

Or alternatively use their curated list option:

1. Go to http://www.stumbleupon.com/discover/lists/curated 2. Click 'most popular'. 3. Each category represents a different topic which you can click. 4. Clicking one any of them then brings up a number of sub-topics or

sub-niches. Each topic represents a possible niche, just think about whether it's something people spend money on.

Yahoo Trending Yahoo shows popular topics that are 'trending' in the news. This can be a good way to find hot upcoming niches that you'd otherwise never know about.

● Go to Yahoo.com

● You'll see the 'Trending' section on the right hand side of your screen.

● Consider whether any have the potential to be a profitable niche.

It shows trending news and products. Think about whether it's something people spend money on. Remember and write anything interesting down to save repeating this task later. This next resource is an little known goldmine for niche finding…

FindAForum.net Find A Forum adds only the most active and largest forums to it's databases. That means if there's a huge and popular forum on the subject there's a big demand for it.

1. Go to Findaforum.net 2. Click to the "top forums" section here:

http://www.findaforum.net/Statistics.aspx 3. Scroll through the list looking at all the different forum topics.

4. Alternatively use their categories feature here: http://www.findaforum.net/ShowCategories.aspx

Some of the most popular forums are a skyscraper and a tractor forum, who would have known? Here's some of the other popular niche forum topics from their list:

● Christianity ● Poker DIS ● Car Modifications ● Major League Gaming ● Star Trek ● Mixed Martial Arts

If there's huge discussion communities around a niche then chances are it's very profitable. Write down any that interest you for later. And remember right now you're just brainstorming ideas. I will show you how to

check if each idea really is profitable later. Twitter is also a really good place to find trending topics…

Twitter Trending Logging into twitter and checking what's 'trending' on the left hand side of the page (you know the #hashtag stuff you see) can bring up some hot, new, trends.

Sometimes you'll find nothing but random nonsense of the day. Other times you'll find hot new markets and products. It's worth a look. Note anything that interests you and / or people spend money on for later. This free tool by Google is a great resource..

Google Trends Google Trends shows hot searches of the day / month / year meaning you can can find out about some currently popular search trends and niches.

1. Go to https://www.google.com/trends/ 2. Scroll down the page to the "stories trending now" feature. 3. Alternatively click on 'All Categories' at the top and choose one. 4. The "Science / Tech" category can bring up new product and tech

trends which are usually profitable. 5. Browse through the different categories taking note of ideas that

interest you or that people spend money on. 6. Or use the https://www.google.com/trends/hottrends feature to see

trends across all niches. 7. Or the https://www.google.com/trends/explore feature.

Note down any ideas you get from it. Anything that interests you or that people spend money on is worth taking note on. This next one is an absolute goldmine for finding profitable niche ideas…

Magazines.com https://www.magazines.com/ lists magazines and publication on sale. Real world magazines that people buy and subscribe to. If a topic has magazines available for sale then you know it's going to be profitable. Big publications don't print magazines in unprofitable niches. Here's how to use it to find niche ideas:

● Click on the 'all categories' tab at the top. ● It will bring up a list of sub-categories as a drop down menu.

● Click on any topic that takes your interest. ● I chose the hobby category. ● It will bring up a huge list of magazine subscriptions available.

Here are just a selection of niches I found: ● Puzzles & Crosswords ● Golf ● Fine Woodworking ● Bass Fishing ● Jewlery Artist ● Teddy Bear Review Crochet ● Murder Mysteries

The lists go on and on. Each one represents a profitable niche.

Step 2: Build Your Platform Building a platform gives you a means of communicating with                   potential customers. we walk you through the process of developing and building                   your platform, which will be the basis for growing your audience                     and promoting products to them. 

What is a Platform ? 

 

 

Why Do You Need One 1. Control of your brand:Don’t let third parties take it away !

1. Trust & Reputation : Perception is reality

1. Easiest path to success: The best place to sell

Kind of platform

Four Key Steps in Platform Building Step 1: Create a brand

Step 2: Get a Domain and Hosting

Step 3: Create Your Blog

A step-by-step guide to building a website with WordPress

WordPress is self-hosted which means that you need a domain name and hosting to get started. Choose a domain name Think of your domain name as of your identity on the web. Take a moment to choose one and make sure it represents your website well. Things to consider when choosing your winning domain name Make it pronounceable and easy to type

Don’t make people wonder how to say and spell. Don’t use a hyphen, slang, and words difficult to spell. Your domain name shouldn’t be confusing. Read it aloud or even say the name to your friends and ask them to spell it for you. Keep it short, but not too short The longest possible domain name for a website can contain 63 characters, but that’s much more than you need. The best domain names should be less than 15 characters. Do research Infringing on a trademark can lead to legal troubles. Avoid brand names in the domain name. You don’t want to be sued and forced to give up the domain. Use an appropriate domain name extension There are many extensions available from geographical to niche ones. Go after “.com” unless you are sure that you will provide a country-specific content. Dot-com domains are the most memorable and well-established. When people are not sure about the extension, they will most probably type “com” first. Don’t make it too narrow In case you want to promote products from a broader niche, a specific name can make it impossible. You don’t want to limit your options so give yourself a room to expand. Choose a web hosting provider

Once you have your perfect domain name secured, the next step is to choose a hosting provider. You can keep your domain name with the registrar company, separate from your hosting account or purchase both from the same company. In case creating a free hosting website crossed your mind, I suggest you drop this idea. Sure, it is possible to create a site without spending the money but only if you don’t want to monetize it. You can’t run advertisements or make money from free web hosting websites. No affiliate links are usually allowed. Bluehost, SiteGround, DreamHost or Hostgator are just some of the most popular of web hosts available on the market.

Install the free WordPress software If you want to create a WordPress blog, you’re going to, unsurprisingly, need to install the WordPress software. We know this might sound a little intimidating – but we think you’ll be surprised by how easy it is to install WordPress. When you completed the sign-up process in the previous step, you should have received an email from SiteGround with details on how to log in to the SiteGround Customer Area. Go ahead and log in to SiteGround. As soon as you log in for the first time, you should see a popup that says something like Welcome to our Website Setup Wizard! In this popup:

● Check the box for Get WordPress pre-installed on this account ● Click Proceed

Like so:

On the next screen:

1. Enter your desired login details. You’ll use these to log in to your actual WordPress blog.

2. Choose a WordPress theme. Don’t stress too much about this choice – we’ll show you how to change how your blog looks in a second.

3. Click Submit

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After a few seconds, you should see a success screen:

Go ahead and write your first blog post – you earned it! Now that you learned how to create a WordPress blog, you’re probably excited to get to blogging! We’ll show you how to change how your blog looks and functions in a second. But first, let’s go over just how easy it is to write a blog post on your new website. When you first log in to your blog’s WordPress dashboard, you should see a screen like this:

To write a blog post:

● Hover over Posts ● Click Add New

This will launch the WordPress Editor. If you feel comfortable using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, you should feel at home in this interface. We encourage you to explore and get a feel for how to use this interface. But here are some basic things you can do:

● Add a title at the top ● Type your blog post text in the main editing box ● Add formatting to your blog post using the toolbar ● Insert images using the Add Media button ● Add a category using the right sidebar ● Make your blog post public by clicking Publish

How to change how your blog looks When you create a WordPress blog, one of the major benefits that you get is access to WordPress’ huge collection of themes and plugins. Here’s a quick overview of the two:

We’ll cover the former in this section.

As soon as you create a WordPress blog, you already have a theme active. This is either the default WordPress theme or the theme that you chose during the SiteGround Setup Wizard. But there are actually thousands of themes available for WordPress, so you’re by no means limited to that small selection.

How To Create Your Lead Magnet There are many different ways to create your lead magnet, but I'm going to share with you two very simple ways to do this. 1. Canva.com Canva is a creators dream. Their platform is simple and packs a punch.

Once you create an account with Canva, you will have access to tons of online digital creation tools that you can use for free. In this case, we want to navigate to the Ebook to create our free lead magnet.

Once inside the Ebook section, type out your free lead magnet. Keep in mind that you can link to other websites and tools within your lead magnet to further help your subscribers. Income Tip: Use affiliate hyperlinks within your lead magnet to sources you recommend to increase your profits. Once you have your lead magnet created, you can publish it right within Canva and get a unique URL for it, or download it and re-upload it elsewhere. You can upload it straight to your website, to dropbox or host it within Clickfunnels if you're using them as your landing page service. 2. Google Docs

So many people forget about Google resources, which is sad because it has so much to offer; one of which is their Google Docs.

Creating a document with Google Docs is very simple. Once you're logged in, simply create a new document and type out your new lead magnet.

Once you've finished creating your lead magnet document, you need to publish it to the internet with a specific URL. This url is what you'll be sending people to after they option to your landing page. You do this by clicking the share button at the top right of the document.

After you click the share button, you will need to name your document. Give your document a name then hit save.

The next screen you'll see is how you'll be able to share it with others. You can directly send it to people via email or get a shareable link. In this case we want to click on Get shareable link at the top right.

The next screen is your final step in obtaining your shareable link.

This is the URL you will copy and send people after they optin to your lead magnet. And that's it, you've created your lead magnet.

Increase Traffic To Your site Free With This Sneaky Tip

What if I told you that in less than 60 seconds you can increase traffic to your website. And at the same time, build new backlinks without lifting a finger? Well: Today I am going to show you exactly how to do that! This method is 100% free! It's EASY like taking Selfies and Post to social media! Crazy ya??

All you need to be able to do is copy and paste – it really is that simple. # 1.The Forgotten Sharing Tool Copy and pasting is one of the most powerful sharing tools on the web. It’s the internet equivalent of word of mouth marketing. Whether someone wants to share your content in an email, social media or a blog post – it’s likely they will use the copy and paste function.

In the past month alone 135,656 page views has seen content leave my site 5,762 times via copy/paste. That means 4.3% of my traffic is highlighting my content, copying it and then pasting it somewhere else. The problem with that though, is more often than not they don’t include a link back to my page. So how do we harness the power of the most powerful sharing tool on the

web to increase traffic to your website free? Increase Traffic To Your Website Free With 33Across

33Across (formerly known as Tynt) is a free service that helps you harness the power of copy/pasting once and for all! It tracks the copying/pasting of your content across the web and provides detailed reports.

It has a bunch of neat features-

● Tracks number of content copies ● Tracks number of new backlinks generated ● Tracks traffic coming from copy/pasting ● Adds social media sharing button pop ups ● Identifies keywords/phrases people used to leave your site (more

below) How Does It Work? Whenever someone copies a piece of text or image from your site, 33Across will automatically add a backlink to the page the content was copied from. For example if I copy some text from this post and then paste it into a new email, this is what happens-

You’ll notice it has automatically added a unique link to the post, optionally you could also automatically add a link to your Twitter profile or Facebook page as well. Try it out for yourself – just highlight this line of text hit copy and paste it into something to see it in action for yourself. This is truly a great method to get free backlinks & traffic for your website! Setting Up 33Across Is Easy Just sign up for a free 33Across account. You will be given a piece of Javascript code that you need to paste into the header of your site. Make sure you are installing the SiteCTRL script–

They provide instructions for most platforms including WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr & Joomla. Once you have added the code jump back to 33Across and test the installation. If your using a caching plugin, don’t forget to clear caches first!

Once you’ve done that the installation is complete! 33Across is now up and running =D Tinkering With 33Across Next jump over to Settings > SiteCTRL Settings to tinker with things a bit! There are a few options for you to configure here so I’m just going to show you how I have it setup. Attribution & SEO Link This is the setting that automatically adds a backlink to your site and an optional link to your Twitter profile or Facebook page. The settings are pretty self explanatory but here is a screenshot of mine-

Once setup it will automatically add links into copy/pastes! This is the only 33Across feature that I have enabled, but feel free to experiment with the others below. Address Bar Tracking Personally I have this turned off because it adds the unique # reference to the                             end of URLs in the browser address bar. 

 I think it looks a bit strange and might be off putting to the average user. Plus                                 if someone is copying/pasting your URL – your still going to get the                         traffic/benefits of that anyway.  

SpeedShare Widget This is another feature of 33Across I don’t use on the blog but you might find                               it handy. 

 When someone copys text it automatically pops up social sharing buttons for                       Facebook, Twitter, Linked and Google+ It will also add Pinterest buttons to                       images when people hover over them.  

My 33Across Results So Far! Let’s take a look what that tiny bit of Javascript I copy/pasted has done for                             the blog in the past 30 days with 33Across!  

  As you can see I have URL copy tracking disabled. If you look at the top 5 at                                   the bottom – it’s amazing to see just how many times people have copied                           text/images in the last 30 days!  

Website Traffic 33Across has helped to bring a total of 376 unique visitors and 492 page                           views to the blog in the last 30 days. That alone is worth the 60 seconds work                                 it took to setup! You can get more detailed statistics showing you which                         posts brought the most 33Across based traffic. 

  You can dive a little deeper and get more detailed statistics about each page. 

Just click on the page you want to learn more about- 

  This will also tell you where the traffic has come from as well.  

Social Traffic You can also get statistics on how the automatically inserted link to your                         Twitter/Facebook profiles performed.  

  In the past 30 days I have had 47 extra visitors to my Twitter profile through                               other peoples copy/pasting efforts!  

How To Increase Backlinks To Your Website 33Across has also detected 8 new backlinks due to copy/pasting in the last                         30 days. 

 The only problem with this is someone has to click the link to your site from                               the linking page in order for 33Across to detect a new backlink has been                           

created. So this isn’t the most reliable metric and the actual number of                         created backlinks is more than reported as not all of them will get clicked.  

Inbound & Outbound Keywords This is one of the coolest features of 33Across in my opinion. It shows you                             which keywords were used to not only bring people to your site, but also to                             leave your site. Knowing which terms/phrases your users are copying to                     search for more information on is a gold mine!  

  Pay attention to the keywords on the right hand side here. These are the                             

terms people are highlighting on your site to search for more information. The                         Majestic SEO & SEO Spyglass ones suggest I need to create reviews for those                           tools. Where as the ahrefs (free/paid) – 11,227 & backlinkwatch (free) –                       1,517 keywords are actually headers from this article telling me I need to                         make those headers links. The backlink checkers one is another good                     example. I have a post all about that subject so I need to go back and add an                                   internal link to that post!   Hopefully your seeing just how useful that is – just a shame they only show                             data from the past 24 hours :(   

Wrapping It Up 33Across is free for anyone to use and helps you get the most out of your                               traffic. It takes less than 60 seconds to setup and you only have to do it once, its set                                   & forget. Not a bad investment of time huh? And it’s 100% free!   

  

  

Spend 5 Minutes Boosting Your Reddit Karma   # 2.Reddit Growth Hacking Techniques I used to hate Reddit. Everything I posted would get clobbered by Redditors. So I put in the time to figure out how to beat the system. And now it’s one of my favorite growth hacking techniques. Now I get a consistent stream of traffic from Reddit whenever I want. It really comes down to 4 things:

1. Understanding and researching Subreddits 2. Posting relevant links

3. Authority (karma and gold) 4. Well timed Upvotes

Numbers 1 and 2 are straight forward. Step 1 – Reddit Research Research Subreddits to make sure your content is relevant. It’s vital that you do research before by using the home page search bar. Otherwise, you’re posting blind.

Step 2 – Posting Links

It is very important that you don’t spam links. Make sure whatever you’re posting aligns to the Subreddit guidelines and is similar to what other Redditors post. Most of you have probably tried marketing on Reddit before and know d*** well those 2 steps still don’t guarantee success. There’s something else you need… Step 3 – Increasing Karma A Reddit account gains Karma when links and comments are upvoted by other Redditors. An account with Karma shows that Redditor consistently posts good content, i.e. not spam. Since Reddit is a desktop only network (no official app), Redditors can (and will) view your profile to see Karma count and post history. More Karma = more trust = more traffic. Therefore, you need an account with Karma.

Method 1 (White Hat): Post Links That Get Upvoted Instead of posting links to your sites, post links to popular sites. It’s much easier when you do it within topics you’re interested in. I’m a sneakerhead – I simply grab images from friends on my Instagram feed and post them to sneaker based Subreddits.

Easy Karma. This can be easily outsourced to a VA which makes it one of the best growth hacks but it still requires effort. So, meh, let’s find an easier way.

 

Method 2 (Black Hat Growth Hacking): Buy it Yep, that’s right. I bought two accounts with a boat load of Karma.

Now, every time I post I get quality traffic.

All I did was Google “buy reddit accounts with karma” and found a ton of vendors. I’m not going to directly promote any businesses (unless I’m paid to) so I’ll just say this – I bought my accounts from vendors on the first page of that exact search. So far I covered points 1, 2 and 3. But what about 4? Step 4 – Upvotes Upvotes are crucial – they bump your post onto the first page of the Subreddit and that’s when you see explosive results. I buy upvotes from Fiverr. You can’t just buy a gig and hope for results because Reddit’s algorithm is sensitive. You need the upvotes within a certain time limit of posting for it to be effective. That means you have to coordinate with your freelancer when you’re going to publish and upvote. Send them a message and get their Skype contact info so you can chat in real time. Before you post your link, message your freelancer and make sure they’re available to send their upvotes. The results?

Epic.

Google+ Growth Hacks For Lots Of Traffic

This one isn’t that exciting, but it’s effective. I mean, look at how much traffic I’ve driven from Google+ the last 2 months:

Dead network my a**. More importantly, I’m driving thousands of valuable ranking signals. Example 1: I had a client who wanted to rank higher in YouTube search.

If you know about about video marketing and YouTube marketing, you know that social signals and “engaged” views play a huge role in the ranking algorithm. From one post, I was able to drive 12 +1s, 1 share, 5 comments and over 100 views.

Without any links built at the video, it shot up to #2 in YouTube search for                               their main keyword.  

Example 2: As previously mentioned, I sell white hat SEO and content marketing services to Fortune 500 companies. I put together a technical SEO guide and posted it to SlideShare (a tremendously powerful platform to reach high level executives). I wanted to rank it in organic search for “technical SEO” related keywords so I posted it to Google+. It drove 27 +1s and 30 Shares.

Within just two weeks it punched up to spot 6 in Google for “technical SEO audit”.

Since March, the document has gotten well over 3,000 views.

Ok, you get the point. Let me show you exactly how I’m doing it. Step 1 – Finding relevant Communities I have a pretty good following on Google+, but I never post to my profile page. I only use Communities. Some of them have over 500,000 people in them – they’re a tremendous resource for driving traffic. Start by logging into Google+ and navigating to the Communities section.

Then, type in some keywords relevant to the content you plan to post. For the motorcycle example, I typed in “motorcycle”. For the SEO post, I typed in “SEO”.

Hopefully you’re taking notes – it’s crazy complicated.

Step 2 – Spam Check Click through on a bunch of them and look around – you want to make sure they’re engaged and spam free.

● Look for a moderator’s note and active presence ● Check if posts are getting +1s and Shares ● Make sure not every post is a link – we want active and engaged

communities Step 3 – Join The Community Don’t be that jack a** who joins and instantly starts posting links. You’ll get banned immediately. Instead, just copy and paste this:

Step 4 – Post Your Link Give your intro a few days to settle in. Then, come back with your link ready to dump it. It’s important that you take the time to write 100 – 150 word intro about the link you’re posting. Any quality Community will require you do so. Also, it helps drive more engagement on your content. Step 5 – +1 Everything This is where the magic happens. All you have to do is scroll down and +1 past posts – do as many as you can until your hand falls off. What this does is drive attention back to your profile and your most recent post. Its basic, but trust me, it works! Creating A Twitter Army With Spam This one is devious. Promise you won’t judge me for it, ok? I started doing it to build natural social signals but it ended up driving quality traffic to my website. NOTE: I recently stopped using this technique. Not because it

doesn’t work, but because I’m working with some large clients who frown upon this behavior (sad face). I want you guys to meet Stephani. She’s a smart, hip, attractive digital marketer that Tweets industry news and funny memes.

Stephani has [had] hundreds of friends on Twitter and for some crazy reason, they all loved sharing my content. Sorry guys, Stephani isn’t real. She only exists in the wonderful world of internet spam – where people will believe anything. Twitter is notoriously lenient on spam. It was extremely easy (and cheap) for me to set up dozens of these profiles that were actively Tweeting out my links to their followings. Yes, they all had hundreds of followers. Like I said, people will believe anything. Here’s how I did it. Step 1 – Buying Phone Verified Twitter Accounts If you’re on a tight budget, you can create them yourself. If you’ve got $50 to spare I suggest you buy them. Just search around Google and you can find a number of providers for this. Step 2 – Setup Your Profiles Again, you can do it yourself, but I suggest you enlist the help of a VA. Here are the instructions I gave him:

1. Search Google for random American names (Dan, Doug, Stacey, etc) 2. Take a screenshot of their picture 3. Upload it to a Twitter profile

4. Add a short blurb (Digital marketing expert. Dog lover. Craft beer enthusiast). You know, whatever the kids are putting there these days.

5. Rinse and repeat for each profile

Like I said, pretty shady stuff. Sorry Dan(s)! Step 3 – Schedule Tweets I used TweetDeck:

● Easy integration with dozens of accounts ● Schedule Tweets across all accounts from one screen ● FREE

I had my VA schedule out 6 months of random Tweets across the accounts – this ensured the accounts looked real. I then created a Google Sheets document with the Tweets and links to my blog posts I wanted to promote.

He followed a simple rule: for every 10 – 12 text Tweets drop a link to one of the posts. I’m not someone who likes to waste my time – we went the extra mile to make sure everything looked real. Step 4 – Automation Unleashed For a while I was using a Twitter bot to grow my personal account. The bot “favorited” Tweets containing certain hashtags, grabbing the users attention and driving them back to my profile. Matt ran a similar case study using Tweet Attacks Pro with great results.

The tactic worked well – my profile grew nicely during that period. I had my

VA set up the bot on all of the fake profiles (we used http://www.followliker.com – 1 time cost of $98).

We set it up to “favorite” and ReTweet hashtags relevant to digital marketing (#seo, #webdesign, etc). After that, we were done. I let the bot run for 3 months and we drove well over 2,000 visits

There’s a bit of legwork up front but once you get it set up you’re done. You can receive a steady stream of social signals and targeted traffic on autopilot.

High Ticket Affiliate Programs While promoting low ticket products through affiliate networks can create a good amount of passive affiliate income, high ticket affiliate programs puts this on steroids. What Is High Ticket Affiliate Marketing? Through this post you've learned all about affiliate marketing; what it is, how to get started with it and how to make money with it. Now, let's talk about high ticket affiliate marketing. While making some money through affiliate networks like Clickbank or Amazon associates is nice, high ticket affiliate marketing programs are a different story.

High ticket affiliate marketing is where you can earn $500 or more in commissions per sale. Many times high ticket affiliate programs allow you to make between $1,000 - $10,000 in commissions per sale. Your job as an affiliate of a high ticket program is no different than that of a normal affiliate offer. Your job is to connect products with people, but with a high ticket program, the payout on the backend can be in the thousands, and that's just for one customer.

How To Make Money With High Ticket Affiliate Programs

As an affiliate of a high ticket program, you will be responsible for acquiring a new customer. This involves you marketing either pre-made sales funnels that the program has put together for you, or coming up with your own lead magnet, which you should be able to create from reading this post. Either way, on the front end you'll be marketing a low ticket front end offer. This will be anywhere from $1-$37 dollars. The only point of the front end offer is to acquire a new customer. If you're spending money on ads to obtain these new customers, understand that the objective is not to break even on these low ticket front end offers. In fact, you will more than likely be in the negative on the front end, and that's okay. All the money is made in the back-end with high ticket affiliate programs. Why? Because you will have products that your customers can purchase paying you handsomely, anywhere from $500-$10,000 per sale. This is powerful. Now you don't need to have 100 customers buying a $50 product every month to make a full-time living from your affiliate commissions. Just one customer purchasing a high ticket product per month can create a 6-figure income for you.

Above all Respect Your Audience.

Traffic Sources There are many different ways to get traffic, both free and paid. Each has their own advantages and disadvantages. Free Free traffic, such as organic search engine visitors, video marketing, or social media/forum traffic, can be a great way to get highly relevant visitors to your website without paying for each visitor. Building a platform that delivers free traffic can be a great long-term affiliate marketing strategy. However, the downsides of free traffic are that it can take a lot of time and effort before you start seeing results, and can be unreliable. Conversion Rates Your conversion rate is the percentage of order form visits that become purchases. It depends on many different factors:

● Where is your traffic coming from? (Free vs paid, warm vs cold)

● How well does your audience know, like, and trust you? This can have a huge impact on your conversion rate.

● Conversion rates can vary widely, even among products in the same

niche. Things such as sales copy, valuation, page decoration, and vendor's fame may have a big impact on how many hops can be used to convert a sale.

Because there are so many different factors that can affect you. For some affiliates, it may take some of the hops, while others may take hundreds or more. Affiliate marketing is a great way to make additional income, or make a full-time living. Over to you!