When I first started marketing links for this site, I was very excited about the ability to submit my rss feed to a site and have it link to mine. Well, I’ve lost that spark. Why? Well from what I can tell, out of all the sites I’ve submitted my feed, I’m barely receiving any traffic. In fact, what I’m finding is that these sites are getting traffic that my site should get.
So, the question now is, why should I submit my rss feed to a site? Honestly, I don’t know. I have submitted my site to the Google’s blog Search (blogsearch.google.com), but that’s it. All of the other sites seemed to have absorbed my RSS feed and are now using it for their own traffic and content. So, those days are over.
So, my advice. Maybe only submit to Google’s Blog search. Otherwise, prepare to have your site beat in the searches by your OWN content on someone else’s site!
Ok, so, I started a new blog today on blogger.com. After putting up several posts, I figured I’d register it with YouSayToo. I don’t know why, but YouSayToo is producing more links than any other RSS Feed. So, I went to the sign up screen, and instead of choosing the regular text link, I chose the graphic. I posted this in my HTML template and it caused the error:
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The element type “img” must be terminated by the matching end-tag “”.
I looked at it closely. Essentially, there is an img tag in the text, I simply added the / into the tag so it resembled . Well, that worked for Blogger/Blogspot, but it didn’t work for YouSayToo. So, back to adding the text link which is at the bottom of my posts.
After starting to learn more about affiliate marketing, I ran across MarketLeverage.com after cruising some of the forums. Had heard some good things as well. So, I signed up to see what they had to offer. I signed up late at night Sunday and Monday, they called me and sent an email.
I followed up with Katryna at Market Leverage. Pleasure to speak with her, very helpful. She asked me a couple of questions, had to make sure I was legit. After about 2 minutes of talking she gave me some hints on which affiliate programs were working for their publishers. Wow, I’ve only been talking to them for a couple of minutes and I’m learing something. She signed me up guided me through some of the next steps and followed up with an email detailing my publisher contact. Pretty cool. Awesome experience, professional, to the point, and knowledgeable.
Tonight, I signed into the site and looked around. They have some pretty good programs. The payouts are high, try $42 high. I’m sold, contacting my publisher contact tomorrow to check out any more tips.
Had a little more time and investigated them a little more. Well, found out, they have MarketLeverageTV for their publishers. The videos are excellent. Each video gives some highlights of new vendors and a recap of the latest news. Feels like I have my own station. Anyone looking to just learn about affiliate marketing would enjoy them just for the content.
So, experience is top notch. I’d definitely sign up, high payouts, and some pretty good vendors. Click Click Here to sign up with MarketLeverage.
Check out these latest videos from MarketLeverageTV!
So, the deal is, to get more visitors to your site, you have to have more links to your site. Well, this is extremely time consuming. So, I went out looking for a plugin that would help me do this. Looking around, I found OnlyWire. OnlyWire allows me to submit my posts to several accounts each time I publish an article. I find this extremely helpful.
In order to get it running on WordPress, I had to install the OnlyWire Multi Autosubmitter. Then, I had to add a link to OnlyWire to my site. Have OnlyWire verify it and I was up and running. Granted, you don’t have to do this if you want the paid version. I can stand one more link for free services.
One good thing about OnlyWire is that I was alerted to several other feed networks I haven’t been using. So, a lot of my time with OnlyWire was actually signing up for these other services.
Also, in case you’ve been following my most recent posts, the changes made here have produced some good results. Granted, this isn’t the most popular site on the internet, but here are some results after one week of changes.
Statistics for a week ending 12/13/09
At this time, here are a list of all the services OnlyWire will Distribute to:
When writing an article, it may come easy or hard. I find it pretty easy once I get the first sentence. But, if you want your web page to be found on the internet, you have to do a little bit more. I know some of what I’m going to say may sound pretty obvious, but somehow I forgot these simple things. So, here goes:
Use Header tags
Structure your page with different sections. For example use the h1, h2, h3 tags. This tells search engines a little bit more about your page and what are the important aspects of your page. So, add these before different sections.
Use descriptive links
Whenever you’re creating a link somewhere, don’t have the hyperlink text say “Click here”. Instead, make it state what the link is about. It may seem hard at first. At least it is for me, so I’ll make 2. In the sentence I’m writing, I’ll describe where the link will take them (make that a hyperlink) and then make a click here hyperlink. For example, If you want to know more about part time webmasters, click here.
Get the point across in the first 2 sentences
Most people won’t read beyond the first 2 sentences. So, get the point across and capture their attention. If the person is interested, they’ll read on or click somewhere else. As a matter of fact, that’s a pretty good concept. If someone isn’t interested immediately, give them something else to click on… hmm that should drum up some ideas.
Keep the minimum word count to at least 250
A lot of people say to keep it even longer. But, sometimes, I just don’t feel like writing an entire document and just want to send out a tip. But, the more text you have the better off you are.
