Does Your Page Have Too Many Ads?

Posted on January 1st, 2008 in Affiliate Ideas by Steve

The thought of making big money does strange things to people. Everyone knows what a huge turn-off it is when landing on a page which is 25% written content and 75% ads.

It doesn’t matter if the ads are AdSense ads or affiliate ads; too many ads on a page are counter productive.

Yet, beginners do it all the time; they fill up every nook and cranny of the page with every affiliate program they can join and all the AdSense ads which are allowed on one page. Of course the beginner is HOPING all those ads will somehow “force” the visitor to click on them. Unfortunately, the only button a visitor clicks when coming to a site like this is the back button!

It really is quite simple. A page FULL of quality content and just one well placed affiliate ad and/or one well placed Adsense group will outperform a page filled with mostly ads.

Affiliate Marketing is NOT “Free”!

Posted on September 23rd, 2007 in Affiliate Ideas by Steve

Beginners often start their affiliate marketing career by submitting ads with their affiliate link to free classified sites.

I have talked to a LOT of beginners who have tried this. I have yet to talk with ANYONE who has had any success with the free classified method.

  • Have you ever purchased anything by clicking on a free classified? I haven’t either.
  • You and about 100,000 people are trying this because it’s free and they think they will wake up in the morning a few hundred dollars richer.
  • It really does take money to make money.
  • Fortunately, most of the “money” need not be in the form of dollars. Time is also considered money. Most of your investment in affiliate marketing should be in the form of time and NOT dollars.
  • Forget AdWords as your primary marketing method. Instead, take it slowly, keep AdWords simmering on the back burner as you SLOWLY learn with it.
  • The BEST chance of success you have is with an $8.95 domain, $5.00/month hosting, and a lot of time spent building an optimized website for a niche area. If you have not done so yet, start working on this now! No, you can’t make one site and promote 10 different niches with it!
  • After, and ONLY after the site gets indexed, and preferably ranked well in the search engines, should you put ANY affiliate links on the site. I know this is hard for beginners, but trust me, you DO NOT want to slap affiliate links onto a brand new site and risk the search engines branding it as “just another affiliate site”.  Oh, and don’t think you are smart enough to fake out Google with fancy redirects either.

Affiliate marketing is just that easy! Be smart and don’t waste time trying to make money from day one. Affiliate marketing can be a great career, but it requires work!

Steve