Affiliate Marketing - Never Too Early For The Holidays!

If you're an affiliate marketer, you know that the "holiday buying season" is the heavy sales time when you can make the lions share of your commissions.

So what should you be doing now? Well, this is exactly the right time to be setting up your product sales sites, working on getting them ranked, getting articles out there, etc.

If I think back to last Christmas season, I can recall some of the gifts I received, such as a Homedics Massage Chair, that can help stimulate ideas. What's hot, what are people going to be searching for and buying?

My brother recently had a baby girl, and I know one of the things him and his wife are consumed with is Baby Potty Training. Plenty of baby products to become an affiliate for and promote!

And thinking along those lines, I know my sister-in-law had been looking to get the best vacuum cleaner, and had been searching for Miele vacuums on sale. This is the sort of thing that should get your affiliate product brain percolating!

As an affiliate marketer, you should always be thinking of new products, and product categories to market into. Just imagine if you had latched onto the Nintendo Wii just when it was released, or Amazon's new Kindle reader, etc., etc.

In most cases, you can go to one of the major networks, such as Commission Junction, in order to find products, or to search for ideas. Some manufacturers have their own programs. Just go to Google, do a search on the product name, plus "affiliate" - or go to the mfg.'s home page and see if they have a link on their website.

These days, you can market virtually any product. And with all that money to be spend around the winter holiday season, it's never too early to begin positioning yourself.

It's much harder to "break into the pack" when the time is already here, so the work you put in today can have a huge payoff with a much lower effort!

Plenty of Internet Business Opportunities, But Plenty Of Scams!

Opportunities & Scams
By Isabel Allen

More and more people are getting attracted to online businesses and there are a lot of business opportunities and ideas available over the net.

While the number of opportunities grows, beware of the scams as there are a lot of fraudulent offers for online business opportunities that promises the viewers extraordinary results, often with false testimonials explaining the success stories of individuals who have made lots of money within a short period of time.

Beware of these scams so as you can save yourself from loosing your hard earned money. Not all the opportunities are scams, there are also genuine and highly profitable business opportunities that you can start online and work at the comfort of your home at your own preferred time and convenience. You can search the net to get a better idea for starting your own business online and earn those extra cash working part time.

You can even quit your job and start working full time once the online business succeeds and starts yielding huge profits. You can start your online business with your own business ideas and to promote them and to attract customers you would require to have an attractive, well designed and functional website.

Creating your own website and improving the traffic through search engine optimization is a very good source for marketing your business online and can attract more and more customers. The contents of the website should be interesting and informative that it convinces the visitors and induces them to try the product or services.

You can do almost any businesses over the net with the help of a website and the more you promote your website the more would be your sales. The online business opportunity spans over a large area since they are open to the whole world and hence there are chances of making huge profits if you get it the right way. You don’t require an office or huge investments to start online businesses but still can earn huge profits.

If you desire to do business from the comfort of your home and be your own boss then online business opportunities are the best option for you.

About the author: Isabel Allen writes for many websites. Most recently, she has written about the American Heart Association Diet Plan Online, a series of articles about Pain Suffering Settlements, and a guide book about What Happens After Foreclosure.

Back - And Blasting Out A New Experiment!

Well, after quite a long absence from marketing, I'm back with a renewed plan and internet marketing strategy.

I'm beginning with something of an experiment. Part of the experiment involves testing to see how long it takes to get a brand new site up, indexed, and ranking in the SERPS. I'm beginning the 'test' with five new domains and sites:


Homedics Back Massager
Pool Vacuum Cleaners
Gas Leaf Blowers
Portable Propane Heaters
Atomic Wall Clocks

Of these sites, there are two .com TLD's, two .org TLD's, and one .info TLD. I've gone through just the very basics of on-page SEO.

Off-page SEO - meaning back link building - has consisted of a very basic campaign. I've submitted the first page of each site to Digg, Blinklist, added it to StumbleUpon, and used Onlywire to tag them to about a dozen more social bookmarking sites.

In addition, each site has 1-3 articles submitted to article directories including Ezinearticles and Goarticles.

I'll be watching and tracking the progress, meaning how long it takes each web site to get indexed, where in the SERPS the initial ranking is, and how long it takes for the other backlinks to show up.

I'll post my results here as I get them.