Make Money Online with the ‘Big Ten’ Affiliate Networks

This is the first guest post to appear on this blog! It has been kindly contributed by Jim from theNetFool.com. I will be inviting more guest posters in the future and will publish a post with more details about that in a week or two. In the meantime, Jim covers a topic which is out of my knowledge area - affiliate networks. Over to Jim…

Hey guys, this is the man that’s bullish on the net… Jim from theNetFool.com! I write about ways ordinary people can make money online, so check me out if you haven’t before. On to business!

Affiliate marketing is one of the “easier” (albeit not effortless) techniques that can allow you to earn huge amounts of money. It can, in fact, take longer than expected… but with the right preparation and affiliations, the rewards are sure to come pouring in.  Affiliate marketing, simply put, is a partnership arrangement between a marketer and a merchant whereby profits are shared by both for business generated from a visitor who is directed to the merchant’s site by the marketer.  Unlimited commission can potentially be earned by an effective marketer who works strategically.

A true affiliate marketer can recognize the breadth of opportunities for earnings made available with the right partnerships.  In an affiliate marketing program, the marketer partners directly with the merchant of the products and services he wants to advertise in his site.  Another way to make a killing in the market is to have affiliations with affiliate marketing networks.  This way, a marketer is able to capitalize on the strengths of the network he is joining, enabling him to carry more products and services of multiple merchants by just dealing with one network in terms of tracking, accounting, and commission pay-outs. Every network has their unique spin on things, and almost every network is free to join. Putting two and two together, wouldn’t it be smart to try as many as you can?

Here’s a run through of what I feel to be the “Big Ten”names in affiliate marketing networks:

1.    Commission Junction

This network is one the very first networks to get into the affiliate marketing business.  It has in its roster of affiliated companies in the Top Fortune 500 companies that nobody else can claim.  The network boasts of an international network that generates top statistics and affiliate marketing tracking systems.  Affiliate marketer training and support facilities are available in this network, and earnings are at around 3% to 15% with the maximum pegged at 50%. A must-join!

2.    ClickBank

Another world-renowned professional affiliate network, this network is exceptionally good in its statistics and tracking systems.  Pay-outs are done every two weeks for affiliate marketing programs in digital download products.  Commissions are in the area of 40% to 50%.  This network could work well for you if you focus your marketing efforts towards saturating your own target niche market as competition is high among marketers in this network.

3.    LinkShare

LinkShare, though a bit smaller, is also one of the first affiliate networks in the industry.  Many of the Top Fortune 500 companies are in fact listed in this network as well as in Commission Junction.  Commissions in this network are paid on a monthly basis, and are very reliable

4.    Affiliate Window

Top brand companies and good commission rates are offered by this UK-based affiliate marketing network.  This company offers a broader market as it is not limited to the American market.  There is less competition and therefore more opportunities for earning.

5.    Amazon

Another excellent and professional affiliate network, this network has a lot of products to sell with links that are so easy to create on your website.  Commissions are lower than other networks but because of its popularity and its reputation as a trustworthy online company, but joining the Amazon network could bring hordes of customers buying from your site.

6.    Shareasale

ShareASale is known for being an easy-to-use network.  In this network, there are nearly 2000 merchants wanting to sell their products and services.  The network is user-friendly and pays commissions every month. A great place for beginners!

7.    Google

Who does not know about Google?  Through its Adsense program, Google has entered the affiliate marketing network scene.  This network, owing to its vast usage, can yield healthy returns for any affiliate marketing practitioner. If you aren’t in AdSense, I definitely suggest applying today!

8.    LinkConnector

This network is a relatively new entrant in the affiliate marketing network business.  But its already established track-record evidences a reliable statistics and reporting system.  It offers the major three methods of affiliate marketing: pay per click, pay per sale, and pay per lead.  In addition, Link Connector uses complex affiliate marketing techniques (like direct linking) to enhance affiliate marketing performance.

9.    CPA Empire

This network focuses on email marketing and promotions, and is more concentrated on lead acquisition.  For this purpose, it honestly can’t be beaten. If you are interested in jumping into this new niche, definitely consider applying for a spot at CPA Empire. Working with this network requires follow-through efforts, so be prepared!

10.    Independents

There are other smaller networks that you can join to open up other income generating opportunities. We’re talking about guys like Market Leverage, Never Blue Ads and Motive Network.  Affiliate marketing partners in this network are sometimes not listed in any of the more popular networks, which gives you room for more income. Try an independent broker for some serious residual income today!

Income generation can be made faster by joining affiliate marketing networks.  Aside from riding on the popularity of these networks, you enjoy the variety of products and services available in each network.  With affiliate marketing networks, you get the advantage of having multiple streams of income at once… so try out the ones you like, and let us know what you think!

Social Media Spam - How to Protect Yourself

Most social networks such as Facebook, StumbleUpon, Twitter and all the others have some kind of friend system which allows additional privileges once a two-way friendship has been established. Friends are good, but spam is not. I’m seeing an increase in the amount of social spam these days, are you? If you are, don’t worry because you can easily take steps to avoid it in future.

Facebook Spam

One of the nice things about Facebook is that it is a closed system. People can’t email you on Facebook without being part of Facebook. It used to be that when I logged into Facebook that the only emails I got were from real people, however I’m starting to get an increasing number of spam emails. What do I consider spam? In the most part - a mass mailing that has been sent to a whole bunch of Facebook users, promoting something or other.

The way I deal with it is that I immediately remove the friendship status but recently I have been getting emails from people who don’t even appear to be on my friends list. Group owners can send a mass mailing to their group members but that gives you the option to leave the group when you get the message. People with fan pages can also mail their fans. So I’m not entirely sure how I have got these messages that don’t seem to be friends, from groups I belong to or owners of fan pages. Maybe it’s time to clean up my Facebook account!

However, no matter where these mails come from, there is a very easy way to prevent it from happening again and that is to block the user. After you have logged in, mouse over the ‘Settings’ link and click on ‘Privacy Settings’. There’s a section called Block List and a search box, search for the name of the spammer and that will do the usual Facebook search but give you a ‘Block person’ option against each one. You can also unblock them from this screen.

Stumble-Spam

This seems to be the biggest culprit at the moment. Most people know that StumbleUpon can drive a lot of traffic to your site but the traffic algorithm works mainly on the number of thumbs up votes that a particular piece of content gets. They have a system that allows you to ’send a page to a friend’ which will then force that StumbleUpon user to see your page along with a message from you when you next use your toolbar. Clicking on the usual Stumble button cycles through all of the sent pages first before drawing from the usual pool.

When you start getting a lot of these it becomes irritating because you see that you have 14 on them waiting for you (what prompted me to write this post heh!) and it makes you just not want to use the toolbar. Until recently StumbleUpon limited the number of mutual friends you could have to 200 which also limited the number of these that you got. I am open here and if somebody puts in a friend request I will always approve it. There is no need to be selective now that the limit has been raised.

However, there are ‘friends’ and there are complete strangers. Over the last year or so I have got to know a lot of people online and even though I have never met them I would consider them a kind of online friend so when those people send me stuff via StumbleUpon that is fine. But when somebody I have never heard of puts in a friend request and then immediately bombards me with a request to thumb something up - that is just spam.

Plus, one of the wonderful things about StumbleUpon is that it learns your preferences. You choose the topics you are interested in and it learns what you like so you should never stumble onto something you don’t like. However, the send-to-a-friend system bypasses these interests and people can send you anything. The original idea is that friends can recommend something that they think a friend might like but of course that has now just been reduced to an opportunity to plug something that you want traffic for. When people send me links to political debates (something I strongly dislike) I know that person has absolutely no clue who I am, what I like and is just spamming me. The result? A thumbs down to their page and instant friendship removal.

If somebody sends you something via the toolbar, a box with their profile name and a message (if they left one) drops down. Click on their name to be taken to their profile. From here it will show you are friends and you can simply click the ‘Remove’ link underneath it. If you want to go one step further, you can block a user on StumbleUpon too. Scroll down to the bottom of their profile and click the link ‘Flag User’, in here you can flag them for something or you can just block them.

Twitter Spam

For some odd reason, many people beleive that it is good manners to follow somebody back if they follow you. That’s fine on other social networks but on Twitter it makes the system unusable after you get past a certain number. I can’t handle more than about 100 people or it is just too much noise and I lose the people who I am really interested in. Despite having over 2000 followers I only follow around 70 right now. So as a result of this, I don’t get the Twitter spam that I am about to describe.

With Twitter, you can send a message to an individual by prefixing their username with the @ symbol, eg “@cmiddlebrook you rock!”. Most twitter clients will highlight this in some way and some also have a replies section that is separate. However, all the followers of the person who sent that reply will see it too so it is not used by spammers because all of their followers would see them spamming :-) The only way to spam on twitter is to send somebody a direct message. This is achieved by prefixing the letter ‘d’ and a space, eg “d cmiddlebrook you suck!”. Again, most twitter clients will highlight these direct messages in some way (I also have mine emailed to me), but the big difference is that the only person to see this message is the recipient - the other followers of the sender do not see it.

Now in order to be able to send somebody a direct message in Twitter there must be a mutual following so you can see why I don’t get many of them - I only follow around 70 people, so the other 1900+ that follow me can’t use this mechanism. But as I said, most people will follow back anybody who follows them (how do you guys keep up??) and thus are subjecting themselves to such spam.

The solution is obvious of course - remove the follow status. Click on their profile and click on the ‘Following’ link and then click on ‘Remove’. You can also block a user in Twitter - there is a link in the right sidebar of their profile.

Promoting Yourself Without Spamming

Now what if you are on the other side of this equation? What if you want to promote something and you want to use a mechanism such as Stumble-Upon’s send system? Follow a few common sense guidelines:

• Use the name of the person you are sending to. When somebody sends something with a message that starts with, “Caroline, I think you’ll like this” at least I know that they aren’t just mass mailing everybody.
• Tailor what you send to the likes of the recipient. This is a no-brainer but people don’t do it! On StumbleUpon especially you can look around somebody’s profile and see what they like so you should know whether what you are promoting is to their tastes or not.
• Promote sparingly - when I go away for a weekend and I come back and find 3 or 4 requests from the same user, I remove them twice as fast, even if it is somebody I know. Abuse the friendship and the friendship will be no more!

It’s all common sense really :-)

Link Building #2 - Web 2.0 Properties

The last post on link building with social bookmarking is a great way to start building links with very little time and effort. However, you tend to get what you pay for (in this case we’re paying in effort not money) and most of the bookmarking sites are low-PR. In this post I’ll discuss link building with web 2.0 properties which has better rewards but also requires a lot more effort.

What are Web 2.0 Properties?

An Internet property is basically any kind of web page and web 2.0 is generally thought of to be interactive in some way allowing people to contribute to the site, rather than just read from it. A blog is web 2.0 (for the blogger), Facebook is web 2.0, Flickr is web 2.0 and social bookmarking sites are all web 2.0. It’s a broad word that encompasses many kinds of sites but what we’re interested in here are web 2.0 sites that allow you to have a slice of the Internet property for yourself - somewhere where you can create your own web page.

How do Web 2.0 Properties Help Build Links?

Well quite simply, you build one of these pages on these sites and you work some backlinks to your own site. As described in the last post, not all backlinks are created equal and a link from a high PR site that is related to yours is worth more than a link on an irrelevant site with low PR. The social bookmarks are a great place to start but those sites are not specifically related to your site (well the niche ones might be) so they are not all that valuable. Plus, the individual bookmarks are buried amongst thousands of others.

When you build a page on a web 2.0 property that is designed for this purpose (I’ll give you some specific examples in a moment) you can create a page of information that relates completely to your own site. Because the page is on a high PR site that Google already loves, the link will be worth much more than a bookmark. Also, if you carefully create your page with SEO in mind, it has a good chance to rank in the serps for your chosen keyword - most likely above your own site! This is a good thing because that page is designed to drive traffic back to your own site so it’s another way to capture some of that traffic. Lastly, these pages will often gain PR of their own over time making those backlinks even more valuable.

Page Building Basics For Any Site

I’m going to mention a few specific sites that you can use and they are all different but there are some points that you should keep in mind whenever you build a page at one of these sites.

• Optimise your page for a target keyword - it does not have to be the same keyword as the page you are linking to but if they are related that will help. Make sure that you use your keyword in the URL, titles, headings, tags, the body copy etc. You could even go as far as to use your keyword as the username with which you sign up to the site. It’s a good idea to look around some of the more popular pages already in place to get a feel for where your keywords can go.
• Observe the rules of the site - These are different for each one. For example, Hubpages is onto the fact that we marketers use them for link building and so to reduce spam they are strict about the number of links you can place. The maximum is 2 and if they feel your page (hub in their case) is too commercial they will not publish it.
• Write real content and not a sales pitch - you want these pages to rank well in the search engines in their own right. In many cases you can make money from them directly by including affiliate links (and some people make a living doing this) but for this exercise our primary goal is to get a few high quality backlinks to our site so make the content relevant, and include some of those long tail keywords in your copy.
• The performance of these sites in Google varies over time. For example Squidoo was brilliant when it first came out but it became a spam-fest and Google ’slapped’ it so the lenses that were previously ranking well were nowhere to be seen. However, Squidoo did an overhaul, got rid of the spam and now the lenses are rising in the serps again. I’m giving you a couple of specific sites here but if you read this 6 months after I publish it they may have changed a bit. A great place to find out about new sites is keeping an eye on blogs such as TechCrunch.
• Build backlinks to these pages! This may seem like double the work (and it is!) but remember that until your site gains authority, there is more chance of a page at one of these web 2.0 sites ranking in the seach engines than the very same content placed on your own site. If you just do a round of social bookmarking to these pages it will help give them a little boost which helps them get PR which makes that all-important backlink to your site even more valuable.
• Take care over backlinks to your site - When inserting the backlinks to your site - link once to the home page and if possible insert additional links to internal pages. The most important factor is the anchor text.
• Decide how many pages to build - so far for my experiment I have chosen to build 3 web 2.0 pages for each of my niche sites and I have simply built one page at each of the three sites that I have mentioned below but this is your call. You could create more pages on these web 2.0 sites than you have on your own site if you want to!
• Keep the content unique - if you wanted to, there is nothing stopping you from taking an article from your own site and simply pasting that into a page at many other web 2.0 sites but if you don’t mix it up a little then Google is likely to regard it as duplicate and you have no control over which copy that Google decides to show in the serps. Therefore it is best to try and make each page unique and that’s why this method is a lot more work than social bookmarking!

Keeping The Pages Fresh With RSS Feeds

Most of the sites allow you to incorporate an RSS feed into your page - you can usually specify how you want to pull data from it. For example you might be able to grab just the first 100 characters of the latest 4 headlines. What is great about this is that assuming the RSS feed that you pull data from is updated on a regular basis, every time the feed updates your page gets updated too! Remember that Google prefers sites that are updated regularly so this is an excellent way to keep your pages fresh without having to manually edit them!

There is a drawback though - if you use the same RSS feed to populate several pages, there’s a chance that Google will see this as duplicate content and disregard it. You’re not penalised but it means that you miss out on the benefits of having the RSS feed there. In a separate post I’m going to show you a technique for building your own RSS ‘mashups’ - so that you can build totally unique feeds for every one of your web 2.0 pages. In the meantime, you could always use the RSS feed of your own site and go back and change it later.

Your Author Profile

One thing to consider before you start building pages at these sites is who do you want to represent yourself as? These are not anonymous pages, you have to create an account, give yourself a username and these will be prominently displayed on the pages. You might want to consider using a pseudonym for your niches. For example, if your niche is pregnancy you might want to consider using a female pseudonym. Note that the next article in this series is article marketing and you face the same question there though most article directories allow you to use many pen names under one account but sites like Squidoo and Hubpages don’t support that so you might want to consider creating one account for each niche if they are wildy different.

Getting The Right URL

If you are using this strategy to build backlinks to niche sites then it is highly likely that other people will have had the same idea already and the most desired URL’s will be gone. The ideal keyword is this:

http://www.web2site.com/yourtargetkeyword.html

You can choose to use dashes in between the keywords like this:

http://www.web2site.com/your-target-keyword.html

… but Google has stated that an excess of dashes looks a little spammy. If your keyword phrase is only two words then go for it but if it is three or more then use the next method of simply appending a number to the URL:

http://www.web2site.com/yourtargetkeyword1.html
http://www.web2site.com/yourtargetkeyword2.html etc

If you use the number, you’ll always be able to get your chosen keyword!

Link Building with Squidoo

Squidoo is the brainchild of Seth Godin and the pages are called lenses. Each lens is built up of modules and you add these with a very simple drag and drop interface. You have basic modules such as text and graphics but also more sophisticated ones such as RSS feeds, YouTube videos etc. A few notes on using Squidoo:

• You need a minimum of three modules for the lens to be deemed complete
• You can include an RSS module
• You can include as many tags as you want

Browse the top 100 squidoo lenses to get an idea for what you can do.

Link Building with HubPages

HubPages is another very big site and works very similarly to Squidoo in that you just drag and drop the pieces that you want onto your page. One thing to note is that HubPages will no-follow your links until it thinks that your hub is good enough. They are strict on content and they don’t like overly commercial hubs (unlike Squidoo where you can write a pure sales pitch if you want), so you have to be more careful.

The only real rule is - maximum of 2 links.

Check out some of the hot hubs and the best hubs. All hubs have a score between 1 and 100 though this is an internal score and says nothing about the ability of the hub to rank in the serps.

Link Building with Weebly

I like Weebly more than the other two because it allows you to build a totally ‘clean’ site. You’ll notice that Squidoo & Hubpages will display their own ads on your pages (which is how they make their money) but Weebly doesn’t do that.

There are a couple of things to note with Weebly. When you first create your page it will not be setup with SEO in mind. You need to go into ‘Settings’ and alter the site address - use your target keyword here. Also, in order to add tags you have to do that under the settings menu too.

Weebly is really designed to allow you to create an entire website and not just single pages but you can just create a one-page site if you want to. You need to pick a design for the site but don’t stress over this as it doesn’t really matter - we’re link building remember :-)

A Few More to Keep an Eye On

Here are three more sites that I have had a brief look at but haven’t used yet:

• Webjam
• Docstoc MyDocs
• Issuu

Note that if you have never used sites such as Squidoo this whole idea might seem a little alien but don’t worry there is lots of help around. Go to YouTube and search and you will find many instructional videos for all three of them including the 30 Day Challenge videos.

Link Building #1 - Social Bookmarking

This next part of the project with focus on the link building methods I have been using to drive backlinks to the niche sites to help them rank for their chosen keywords. The first technique that I use is called social bookmarking but as this is the first post in the series I’ll also give a short introduction to link building in general and why we want to do it.

The Purpose of Link Building

To give a very simplistic view of link building, if Google sees two web pages that have been equally optimised for a particular keyword, then it will look at the backlinks to determine which one to rank higher. There’s only so much you can do in terms of on-page optimisation. Once you have your keyword in your title, your url, tags, sprinkled throughout your text, perhaps in image tags and so on, at that point anything else that you do to the page itself will have minimal impact and it all falls down to backlinks.

Not all Link Building is Equal

You can get a little bit too simplistic and think that it is just about the number of links but that is not so. There are many factors that determine how valuable a particular backlink is, for example:

• Whether or not it has the “no-follow” tag
• The PageRank of the linking page
• The anchor text used in the link
• The relevancy of the linking page to the target page

The best quality backlink would therefore be a do-followed (or, lack of no-follow to be accurate), high PR link from a relevant site using the anchor text of your target keyword. A poor quality backlink would be a no-follow link from a PR0 site that has no relevancy to your site and uses totally irrelevant anchor text. Just one good quality backlink can be equivalent to thousands of low quality ones - it is not just about quantity!

With regards to PageRank there is a rough formula that states that a PR1 backlink is worth 10 PR0’s and a PR2 is worth 10 PR1’s and so on. So you can imagine the power of getting even just a handful of backlinks from relevant PR6 or above sites!

Poor Quality Backlinks Are Better Than No Backlinks!

Some people get obessive about the quality of backlinks and refuse to employ certain types of link building methods deeming them as inferior to the good quality links that I describe above. However, even a very low quality link is worth more than no link at all. However there are exceptions… if you get backlinks from what Google determines is a ‘bad neighbourhood’ then that backlink can actually hurt you. You don’t want to be getting backlinks from porn sites, gambling sites, or anything that seems dubious! But other than that, it is worth getting all the links you have time for.

How Does Social Bookmarking Help Build Links?

Social bookmarking is a bit like your browser favourites but stored online on a website rather than on your computer and associated with a browser. The social part comes into play by those bookmarks being public which allows other people to see what you have bookmarked. There are tons of these kinds of sites around and there are some subtle differences between some of them which I’ll discuss in a moment.

The cool thing about this practice is that you can bookmark the individual content pages of your site and not just the home page. This is called ‘deep linking’ and its a good thing to do because very often it will be an individual page on your site that ranks for your keyword and not necessarily the home page. Not only that but because there are so many of these bookmarking sites to use, if you get into the habit of submitting every piece of content to a bunch of them you can build quite a lot of backlinks fairly quickly.

Do-Follow Social Bookmarking SItes

Over a year ago I wrote a post which listed around 20 social bookmarking sites that were do-follow. Most of them either use the no-follow tag or they use some internal linking mechanism that hides the real URL and so does not count as a backlink. This post is one of my highest trafficked posts on this blog and to keep it relevant I update it every couple of months. The last update was at the beginning of October.

I suggest you start with that post. The list in that post is what I have used to bookmark all the content from my niche sites for this project and I use the method described in the post. However, that post is a list of what I call ‘pure bookmarking’ sites - I do not include any site that has any kind of voting system. The reason for this is described at length in another post I wrote about social bookmarking vs story submission but the essence is this: when you link to your content at a pure bookmarking site, you are just storing it for your later retrieval. But when you link to your content page at a site that has a voting element you are effectively saying to the community, “hey look at my page - I think you’ll like it, please vote for it”. Now that is absolutely fine if your content is relevant and therein lies the problem for so many Internet marketers that begin with this bookmarking without fully understanding it.

Sites like Social Marker make it very easy to bookmark your link to a whole bunch of sites at once but they lump them all together - they will even throw StumbleUpon in there and I have also warned of the dangers of including StumbleUpon in your social bookmarking efforts. When you submit to a site that allows the community to vote, you must be respectful of the kind of content that the community likes. Why? Well firstly it’s the right thing to do, but for the ethically challenged - not doing so gets your account banned so it is simply a waste of time not to play by the rules.

Guidelines for Responsible Bookmarking

This is one of those areas that can venture into spam if you’re not careful but where do you draw the line? Well let’s get one thing straight here - bookmarking sites want your links! Without them they would not exist so don’t feel bad for using many of them in your link building campaign. However, what they don’t want is fake accounts, duplicate content, spam content and so on.

I’ve been getting irritated by some of the shortfalls of social bookmarker and have been looking around for some better automated tools. The best of the bunch seems to be one called Bookmarking Demon but I won’t link to it as I don’t recommend it. The copy of the sales letter seems to promote spam. They advertise a feature to allow you to automatically create an unlimited number of accounts at the sites so you can bookmark the same links over and over! This is pure spam! So even though some of the features of the tool look good, I can’t bring myself to buy it though I’d be interested to hear opinions of those who have used it.

So rule number 1 - have only one account at each site, and bookmark each page only once. Secondly, think about SEO before submitting. When using a tool such as social marker to speed things up its easy to get lazy and just do it as quickly as possible but then you are missing out on the benefits. The idea of link building is to increase the keyword authority of the pages within your site. Most of the bookmarking sites will want a title, a description and some tags as well as the link. Make sure your primary keyword is in all of those places and don’t forget to use tags for those awkward keywords that are difficult to write for.

Lastly, I don’t have a list of social news sites such as Digg, Reddit and so on but I know a man who does :-) There was a blog called Traffickd which I think has stopped publishing now but they have posted a great list of social sites organised into niches. There are other such lists on the Internet if you Google around. Find your niche, find relevant social sites in that niche and add those to your submission routine.

One last point but its a trickier one to implement - ideally, you would spread out your backlinks over time. This is especially relevant if you have an existing site and have not used this method. Don’t go and bookmark all your pages in one go and add hundreds of links at once because Google will view that as suspicious. Social marker is an immediate service unfortunately so if you want to spread your links out over a period of days you have to do it manually. But a reasonable guideline to follow is - don’t bookmark more than one page from the same domain in any one day. What should you do if you are using this technique with a busy site that publishes lots of content daily? Simple - pick the best piece of content each day and bookmark that, leave the rest.

Link Building with Social Bookmarking Sites Summary

Here are the golden rules:

1. Only bookmark good content, don’t bookmark your porn site!
2. Only bookmark one page from a domain in one day
3. Use only one account at every site
4. Bookmark at all the generic bookmarking sites
5. Bookmark at a handful of niche-specific sites
6. Always optimise your submissions for SEO

101 Ideas for “How To” Internet Marketing Blog Posts

Whilst trawling through my web stats at the weekend I noticed that I have a large amount of traffic coming to my site from keyword phrases of the “how to” variety. I have already written on a handful of these topics (which is how I’m getting the traffic in the first place) but many of them are phrases that ask a specific question on a topic I have only covered loosely so there is a lot of potential here.

These are real searches and they are already generating traffic so any one of them could be written out into a SEO’d proper blog post to drive even more traffic. If I had the time and the inclination then I’d do it myself but I have neither so here they are, enjoy! I expect to see you guys outranking me for these terms soon!

1. how can i make a living on line
2. how can i make a pretty table to import into wordpress?
3. how can i make a video blog using wordpress
4. how can social bookmarking help my website?
5. how can you make your tumblr show up on your twitter?
6. how can you possibly leave a comment to all your friends on myspace
7. how can you use the knowledge to sell the product
8. how do comments on other blogs help you
9. how do i build a money making web page from scratch
10. how do i embed a youtube clip in my website
11. how do i insert a chart into wordpress
12. how do i insert an excel file into a wordpress blog?
13. how do i install my favicon?
14. how do i know if blog is do follow?
15. how do i leave a comment on twitter
16. how do i post in other blogs
17. how do i send out a marketing e-mail campaign
18. how do i stop my tweets from updateing facebook
19. how do niche websites make money
20. how do social websites work
21. how do we build effective networking techniques with people far away
22. how do you get adsense to parse your page again?
23. how good are my blog stats?
24. how good is wordpress.org for money making blogs
25. how hard do you work
26. how i can change my face on my webcam image on real time?
27. how many blogs do you have
28. how many ebooks are sold on clickbank
29. how many internet marketing blogs are there
30. how many keywords in domain
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