… affiliate marketing website traffic

Sure, it’s a $5 commission and it’s 1 sale for $49.99
but it’s a sale, $5 more than $0 so how much could
you make replicating the strategy tenfold?

social-media-affiliate-marketing

I went back today to take screen shots of the ppc competition that I didn’t cover in the very first post about market research. Check out this post using online marketing strategy with the update about viable market research (hint: click the “online marketing strategy” underlined link about 16 words ago)

So, today, I fired up Market Samurai to check out the SEO competition and to look for sources of content so I don’t have the blank page blues.

Here’s a digital camera picture of my computer screen since Screen Grab For Firefox only does browser shots:

We see a lot of green (You Tube has only been around 4 years? seems like longer, though 4 years online is probably like 40 years offline) though we also see a lot of yellow as well. You can watch the Market Samurai Training videos to find out what that means because they’re the experts at their own software.

We see absolutely NO web 2.0 properties listed for the term “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” in either Google or Market Samurai other than the videos and ezine article. I did notice of both videos, both have ZERO back links to the page so could that be an opportunity?

So maybe a press release pointing back to the video, which directs viewers to my web 2.0 network of sites could be a winning strategy…

WE DON’T KNOW UNTIL WE TEST

If I had more time, I might contact the video owners to negotiate their You Tube account but I only have 5 more days so I’m leveraging what I have from where I am.

Sidenote: I thought about quitting this market due to what seems like a lot of resistance and lack of ranking web 2.0 properties like Squidoo and so forth. $#*#^ that though because I’m seeing this project through to the end and finishing it, and that’s that.

Successful people finish projects, learn from what didn’t work, throw the rest away, and put the lesson in their pocket to use later.

… ONWARD

After performing a search in Market Samurai for “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” under the Find Content & Find Backlinks tabs, I see few web two properties listed at all under the specific keyword “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” so maybe this keyword market isn’t hip to this style of marketing OR this market recently got smacked for being overly spammy.

Huh, so I did the same search for “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” and Quit Smoking Hypnosis and noticed the search results change dramatically from when I did the search even a day ago. Interesting…

So here’s what I did today:

1. Google search for “Quit Smoking Forum” to find the most common questions people are asking about quitting smoking so I can use those in editorial/news style articles for the web two properties I’m building

2. Ezine Articles search for articles answering those common questions, which I will rewrite in my own words.

3. Rewrote one article for Squidoo Lens: http://www.Squidoo.com/quitsmokinghypnosistips

4. Posted article and a picture to Squidoo Lens

5. Searched You Tube for a video related to quit smoking hypnosis to take the place for now of the video I’ll create tomorrow

6. Added Squidoo Lens Feed to feedagg.com

7. Went through Squidoo Health Checker module and added additional keywords to the lens (only part suffering other than no traffic, which is normal for a new lens)

8. Pinged squidoo lens

9. Went back and added a text module to the Squidoo lens under the video module containing a picture of two arrows with a link to the blogger blog directly underneath the arrows.

10. Twittered about the lens under TheQuitSmoking

11. Pinged the Twitter update

12. Added a link to the twitter profile straight to the Squidoo Lens

… And that’s it for now because today’s the 4th of July and after working hard, it’s time to play hard.

I may or may not do more work today depending on family members usage of the computer. That’s it for now, so be well and I’ll see you in the next post for IMRemarkable.

If you want to get in on the action, too, check out:

http://www.imremarkable.com/blog

but hurry up because the IMRemarkable competition only runs through July 9, 2009 at midnight. You have a chance to roll up in style to a workshop Howie is putting on all accomodations taken care of by the business builder (not a hobbyist) himself: Howie Schwartz.

We had to choose a niche out of a PDF Howie gave out containing 36 niches he has researched over time. The PDF also shows different strategies and marketing angles for various markets.

I chose the “Quit Smoking” niche because a few people close to me smoke, so it’s a topic that’s near to me. Maybe if they read the posts and/or find my content on the net’ it will help them to quit smoking, too. I used to smoke in the Marine Corps and have since quit and my lungs are definitely celebrating because it no longer feels like a midget is sitting on my chest.

I promise to post videos going forward to make it easier to see what I’m actually doing.

So what did I do so far?

1. Set up a blogger blog at Quit Smoking Hypnosis

2. Set up a twitter account at http://www.Twitter.com/thequitsmoking

3. Added the Twitter RSS Feed to the blogger blog

4. Set up a Gmail account especially for this project at quitsmokinghypnosistips at gmail dot com

5. Created this post to document my journey to help other smart marketers just like you follow my path to success.

6. Posted the first post to the blogger blog

7. Pinged the blogger blog in Google blogsearch

8. Pinged the blogger blog in Pingoat.com

9. Added the “RSS Feed Subscription” gadget to the blogger blog

10. Linked to http://www.IMRemarkable.com on blogger blog

11. Copied and pasted the list of social bookmarking sites from socialmarker.com so I can sign up for each site to have even more distribution channels for my content

• Propeller.com
• Slashdot.org
• Digg.com
• Technorati.com
• Del.icio.us
• Twitter.com
• Reddit.com
• Tagza.com
• Fark.com
• Newsvine.com
• Furl.net
• swik.net
• Connotea.org
• Links Marker
• Sphinn.com
• Blinklist.com
• Faves.com
• Mister-wong.com
• Spurl.net
• Netvouz.com
• Diigo.com
• Backflip.com
• Bibsonomy.org
• Folkd.com
• Linkagogo.com
• Indianpad.com
• Plugim.com
• Myjeeves.ask.com
• Buddy Marks
• Connectedy
• MyLinkVault
• Tip’d (Financial)
• Google Bookmarks
• Jumptags.com
• Fetch
• OYAX
• A1 Webmarks
• Bookmark Tracker
• myVmarks
• Mixx.com
• Wirefan.com
• SmakNews (Women)
• Dizzed
• Symbaloo
• Ximmy
• iZeby
• Erollover
• YuppMarks
• Health Ranker
• Ka-Boom-It.com

From what I remember in Howie’s free training, he says to do a full promotion for one keyword, so I’m starting with the “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” keyword since we only have 9 days.

I chose this keyword because I am an affiliate for Wendi.com and I remember one of her products is exactly that = quit smoking with hypnosis.

I’m not overthinking this one, I’m going with it since it’s the first idea that popped into my head. Overthinking it would cause me to still be thinking about it after July 9, 2009, and missing out on even participating in the IMRemarkable competition.

That’s it for now, have more work to do, will post what I did and results gotten to date.

Thanks for joining me on this online marketing strategy journey and stay tuned for videos, articles, podcasts, showing you the possibilities of online marketing when you get your back up off the wall and into massive action.

UPDATE July 4th, 2009: since I didn’t post the screen shots for my initial google research, here they are:

This first google screenshot reflects ppc competition, of which there were multiple pages of ppc ads. We see local search by PowerHypnosisChicago.com, along with other ppc ads containing the city of Chicago, IL on the right hand side of the page.

We also see two videos ranking on the first page for “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” from You Tube and Meta Cafe.

More google results with an additional keyword of  “Smoking Cessation Hypnosis” to write down in the business journal.

This is the second page of google results, and the 4th entry on page two is an article from Ezine Articles.com, which also goes in the business journal as a targeted content distribution channel.