Affiliate Product Reviews
I have had a lot of success making money online by writing reviews for products with affiliate programs. These pages are the probably the most common copy used for promoting products.
Make it Easy for the Visitor
Reviews are an easy way to save the visitor time comparing products that propose to solve the problem they are having by listing the positives and negatives of each one. You want to make sure you list all of the information that the person will be looking for when making a purchase decision. Make it clear to them how each product can help them solve their problem whether it be to save them money, time, or increase their overall happiness. If they read your review and still have questions, they are going to go looking for answers somewhere else without having clicked through your affiliate links.
Headlines
You have to grab their attention with the headline. The best way to do this is to put yourself in their shoes and describe their pain. Are you tired of feeling insecure due to acne, do you want to build muscle quickly, get rid of those extra pounds, whatever it is that your products do.
The Reviews
I have found that is works best giving a brief description of each product with it's positives and negatives. How well does it solve the problem? How much is the cost, customer support, and money back guarantee? Have a call of action as the last sentence of each review and at the bottom of the page itself.
Rank them in the order of the best solution to buy (actually use #1, #2). People will see right through your copy if you are just trying to push the one that offers you the highest commissions. Your analysis on why the top product is the best out there should be convincing enough that the visitor will purchase it even if it's the most expensive.
Limit the number of products on the page from between three and seven. You'll want to use the most common products in the niche, but you can also add a few of the lesser knowns as well to differentiate yourself from other reviewers.
If you can use images next to the products you are reviewing then do it. It breaks up the text and gives the reviews a more professional look. Just remember to link to the site from all images using your affiliate link.
Testing
In order to write the highest converting review page possible you are going to have to test any change you make. The metrics that you will have to monitor are your overall traffic to the review page and then how many people purchase after going to that page.
If you are using advertising to drive traffic to the page you will be testing changes in your advertisements in order to increase the number of people to the page. If you are testing conversion rates, you want to see how changes you make on the actual page increase or decrease the percentage of people that purchase after coming to your page.
Your goal when writing product reviews is to convert your visitors to buyers. You have to motivate people to purchase one of the products and to click through your link to do so.
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Rob Benwell’s Auto Blog System X
Auto Blog System X is the underground $100 million loop hole that made the creator, Rob Benwell, $221,555 last month on auto pilot! He just sat back and watched the money roll in.
The best part is that you can start from scratch, no website needed, no list, no product, NOTHING!
Who is Rob Benwell? He is an expert Internet marketer from the UK who has made millions of dollars online. He is the founder of Blogging to the Bank, which is a site that teaches people how to blog and how to make money off of those blogs. He has seen 70,000 customers sign up for the Blogging to the Bank program since it's release in 2006.
Now he wants to tackle automated blogging. Earlier this year he found out about a loophole that is generating $100 million per year for those lucky enough to know about it. You can start today and make serious money in a week.
How confident is Rob? The guarantee is that if you don't make $1,000 in your first week then he will pay you $100 out of his own pocket, plus give you a FULL REFUND for your purchase.
Of course there is some bad news. The product only costs $37 and over 120,000 people are being invited to sign up. However, Rob doesn't want a lot of competition for his customers so he's going to limit the number of copies that he sells to 250. That means it's likely to sell out, and sell out quickly. Don't miss out on this easy money making system.
All you have to do to sign up is click here to go to the Auto Blog System X site: click the add-to-cart button to download the system and start putting it to use today and you will have an extra $1,000 in your pocket by this time next week, GUARANTEE!
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Auto Blog System X Review
What is Auto Blog System X? It's a way to make money online passively from home with the use of automated blogs. The person who created this system has been making over $100,000 per year! Now Rob Benwell has helped this client of his turn his system into a full course for everyone to take advantage of. If you want the chance to make $3,500 per week on autopilot then take a look at our Auto Blog System X review to find out what to expect from this course.
With the Auto Blog System X you will get the opportunity to purchase the 60-page ebook for $37. If you want to go beyond the basic text and ensure that you have the steps of the system down pat, then sign up for the $295 coaching program. You will receive live one-on-one coaching with a member of Rob's staff and gain access to the private coaching videos that actually show you how to get your automated blog started, all for only $295! If you don't want to do the one-on-one coaching, but still want the videos they will be available for $77.
Also available is the Auto Blog System X's free traffic training program. For $97 this program will show you how you can use free traffic sources to get visitors to your automated blog and start making your own passive income.
The launch in August 9th, 2010, but the program will not be available for long. Act fast or else miss your chance to set up recurring income from a blog that takes no effort on your part after the initial setup.
Is Auto Blog System X a scam? No. Some people do not like taking content automatically from RSS feeds for use on their site, but with enough content and enough PageRank, these sites can be very popular and make the owner quite a bit of money. For the low cost of this program it's definitely something worth checking out.
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Exit Pop Up Code
Did you know that 98% of people visit a website and then leave without taking any action at all? They don't place an order, they don't sign up for your RSS feed, nor do they sign up for your newsletter.
I know there isn't a lot of love for pop ups anymore, but you have probably lost these visitors anyway so why not take a chance to give them another opportunity to take action. Most have already decided to leave your site anyway! You can use the exit pop up code to do any of the following:
- Give the visitor a special offer (a discount to the product or a free trial)
- Remind them of the free giveaway you are offering to all subscribers to your list (you are building your list with incentives right?!)
- Show them related products
- And much more!
With the Exit Catcher Pro an unblockable exit pop up is triggered when your visitors click on the back button or when they try to close their browser. This gives the user a second chance to see your offer that is right in front of their eyes. Turn lost visitors into paying customers or subscribers the easy way!
Exit Catcher Pro is very easy to use and customize. You just enter the message you want the visitor to see, what target page you want them sent to, and what piece of audio you want to play. There are 10 audio files already loaded into the software for you to choose from.
I will be using this unblockable exit pop code to give my visitors discounts, downsell products, offer incentives for joining my list, showing related affiliate offers, and more.
This script can recapture 20% or more of your exiting traffic, so think about how much more money your site can make by using this exit pop up code!
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Getting LASIK in Des Moines
I didn't have terrible vision, but I couldn't see very well at a distance. I wore contacts for about 10 years, but started to have problems and was forced to wear glasses. That wasn't a big deal, but when running or playing any kind of sport the glasses could be kind of inconvenient when they fogged up or slid off of my face. So, I decided to have LASIK surgery.
I talked to quite a few people who had experience the procedure before deciding on who I was going to trust to operate on my eyes. I didn't want to go the cheap route because the complications due to a bad surgery could be total blindness, dry eyes, glares, night halos, or just as bad of vision as you had before. In the end I took my physicians recommendation and saw Dr. Sarno at Des Moines Eye Surgeons. He has been operating on eyes for over 25 years, so I felt like if he didn't have enough experience, nobody does.
It took a month to make an appointment for my evaluation, which was about an hour and a half process where they tested the thickness of my cornea, pupil dilation, and how bad of vision I really had. Supposedly around 10% of people aren't even a candidate. After deciding I was a candidate it took only 10 days to schedule the actual procedure. Evidently only set aside one day out of each month for all of the operations, and some months they take off completely. I had the option of either June 14th or I would have to wait until August. At this point I was too committed to delay.
The procedure itself was at times better than I thought it would be and at other times worse. The actual cutting of the eye wasn't bad, but when they made the cut with the laser I actually went temporarily blind, kind of scary. The removing of the corneal flap took longer than I expected, which almost caused me to panic thinking that there might be something wrong. In the end though, everything turned out normal.
My eyes are extremely blood shot, but I am seeing 20/20. I have had to take drops almost every hour for the past three days, but in the end I have been very happy with the results and the ability to wake up and see without needing my glasses or contacts.
If you are thinking about getting LASIK in the Des Moines area, then I would recommend Dr. Sarno without a second thought.
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Making Money with Review Posts
Another great way to make money online is to write reviews of sites, products, or services. You can make money with review posts either by advertisers paying you directly or by earning a commission when reviewing products that you are affiliated with. Sponsored posts can either be a solid money maker or can turn out to be a real dud. The trick is to give your readers a comprehensive, honest review of the product that you are reviewing. Don't just throw something out there that you haven't used yourself and can't give an honest opinion on. It goes back to building up relationships with your subscribers. You can't do anything that will jeopardize their trust in you or this method of making money will blow up in your face.
The amount of money that you will be paid to write paid reviews depends on a few different things. If you have a higher Google PageRank, the outgoing links will be worth more. If you have a high Alexa rank and can show how many visitors and page views your site gets, you will get paid more per post. Some advertisers want to make sure they are getting click throughs to their site, so the visitor information will be more important to them. Others are trying to build up their presence in the search engines, so they are trying to acquire pagerank to help their rankings. It won't matter to them how many visitors you send them, they just want the bump in rankings for their keywords.
What should your review cover? Basically you should answer the questions your readers would have about the product like, what does it do, how is it different from the competition, what are the advantages and disadvantages, who is it tailored to, and where can you go if you are interested in buying. By answering all of a reader's question about a product, you are encouraging them to take action. If you include pictures, video, and examples those will help alleviate any doubts the reader has with the product.
Whatever you do, make sure that you include both the good and the bad with your review. No product is perfect for every person. There are going to be things that you either don't like about the product or it's going to do something that isn't for everyone, just be honest.
While you are getting paid by the sponsor to write the review, you have to remember that your real customer is the reader. Keep them in mind while writing your review and explain the product in their terms. Do not get overly technical and definitely do not recommend a product to them that you can't see giving them value that makes it worth the price.
If you want to start writing paid reviews on your blog, then make sure to add that fact to your advertising page. It also wouldn't hurt to put that information on your contact page if you want to increase the number of leads you receive. If you want help finding products to review, then take a look at Sponsored Reviews. It's easy to signup and to add your blog. You can then look for opportunities to bid on and once accepted, get paid 50% of the price for writing the review. Payments come bi-weekly and you can earn $5 to $1,000 per post, with no minimum payout.
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7 Best Web Apps for 2010
Maximum PC put together a great list of 30 useful web apps that everyone should bookmark that had a few great sites that I hadn't checked out yet. If you are looking to get more out of the Internet, then you have to check a few of these recommendations out. Here are a few of my favorites.
1. Screen Toaster - This is a site that I will definitely be taking an interest in. On a few of our sites we want to provide video tutorials of how to sign up for a new account, reviews of sites, and more. Basically this site allows you to capture a video of yourself doing something on your computer and then upload it to the web.
2. FillAnyPDF - This site allows you to upload a PDF file, then easily write on it wherever you want, even if it's not in editable form. I have been having problems with Adobe, so this is the perfect solution to my problem.
3. Grooveshark - A large library of streaming music that allows you to search for a song, include it in a playlist or your personal library. A word of warning here as their legality has been questioned.
4. Mint - Want to plan a budget, keep track of several bank and/or credit card accounts, and monitor your investments? Let Mint pull all of the information for you into a single account.
5. YouSendIt - Do you need to send a large file? Now you can upload up to 100 MB then email the link to the person you want to send the file to.
6. Meebo - I have a couple of different accounts for work, so this works great. I can login to several different chats all on one screen, plus you can download a notifier so it works even when you do not have a browser open.
7. Zoho - I haven't checked this out yet, but I plan to do so soon. I use Google Docs quite a bit, and this is supposed to be a beefed up version that is more similar to Office.
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Where to Put Ads on Your Blog
One of the more popular questions I have been asked when helping someone start a blog is where to put ads in order to maximize revenues. The important thing to remember here is that not every blog is the same, which means that you are going to have to test some different designs and ad formats in order to increase your click throughs, which should mean an increase in revenue from advertisements whether it is through affiliate programs or cost per clicks.
The picture on the left shows the hot zones according to google adsense. These are the locations that their studies show ad placements generate the most clicks. While looking to see what the graph shows and mimicking it on your site might work out just fine, let's dig a little deeper and figure out why those spots are as premium as they are.
The first thing that you might notice is that above the fold ads do a lot better than below the fold. This stands to reason since the user doesn't have to scroll down to see the ads.
You'll also notice that ads on the left do better than ads on the right, which fits in the Western style format of reading a page from left to right.
Users also focus in on the content, so the top of the content area is the best place for ads. However, the end of the content area also does well, and in my research I find that this is a great place for text ads for relevant sites, simply because the user has finished reading your peice and is either looking for more information on the topic, or they are interested in the topic and any related products or services will catch their eyes.
A few additional points that I have noticed personally. Larger banner ads do better than smaller banners. I think this is because the advertiser has more room to put information on a large banner and thus can draw the user in.
I have also noticed banners do well when the user is forced to look over it. If you put a banner between the menu and the content, or if you break up the middle of the content with a banner, those two positions have worked out great for me in the past.
I also like the stripe ads at the top of the blog, you can pick those up by going to Max Blog Press. Text link ads inside your content also do a good job of generating clicks, so if you write reviews or just link to something relevant in your content. You can automatically change the keywords in your blog by using the Ninja Affiliate program.
These are just some of the things that I consider when I'm putting ads on a site. Do you have any additional tips or tricks? If so, I'd love to hear about them in the comments.