Learn Blogging & Affiliate Marketing with Rosalind Gardner
Check out this video to see how easy it is to add Amazon and eBay product listings and reviews to your affiliate blog with the WP Shopping Pages plugin for WordPress.
The video shows how I am using it on MyEnergyPal.com.
For the amount of time this plugin will save you, at $69.00 it's an inexpensive investment in your affiliate marketing business.
Learn more about the WP Shopping Pages plugin.
I finally got a chance to play with the Thesis theme which I installed on RosalindGardner.com awhile back. This video is an 8 minute ‘quick overview' of the backend options. You'll see that Thesis is an intuitive, newbie-friendly theme for WordPress, with almost everything built right into the package.
Get more information about the Thesis theme for WordPress.
Note: More in-depth videos about working with this theme will be made available soon on Affiliate Blogger PRO.
Have you used Thesis? What do you think of it? Please share your thoughts below.
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Generally it takes couple of weeks to months to get ranked for high competition – highly profitable keywords as the competition for these keywords will be too high.
I always go for low competition – highly profitable keywords as the competition for these keywords is low and they are easy to get ranked in Google in a shorter time.
Here is my strategy for finding low competition – highly profitable keywords. The goal is to find relatively high-search-volume, low-competition ‘keyword phrases'.
Note: Approximate Search Volume is not exactly the search made in Google.com. According to Google, this column shows the approximate number of search queries matching your keywords that were performed on Google and the search network.
Go to Google.com (not a regional Google website like google.co.in) and start typing the keywords from the spreadsheet. Google Suggest analyzes what you are typing in the search box and provides relevant suggested search terms. You can choose one of the suggested key phrases by moving up or down the list using the arrow keys or mouse. As you type, it gives you you key phrases. You find few key phrases that are not in our spreadsheet. These are hidden keywords.
Try to find more and more key phrases by typing slowly in the search box and going alphabetical.
Examples:
“dog beds ab”
“dog beds b”
“dog beds ba”
“dog beds c”
Note down all such keywords. Put everything that you discovered to the spreadsheet.
Yahoo!'s version is called Search Assist.
However, unlike Google, Yahoo! suggests phrases that do not necessarily start with the letter or word you typed in. You find few keywords that do not exist in initial search of “dog beds” in Google Adwords Keyword Tool.
Try different terms and combinations to reveal more key phrases. Note all the keywords you discovered in the spreadsheet.
Since most people visit Yahoo! Answers to ask a question, you have very valuable data — the actual keyword phrases used to find information related to your niche or the product that you're selling.
Within the questions, we can spot phrases such “quality dog beds online” and “cheap place to buy dog beds“.
With a little imagination you can find more long-tail keywords that have little to no competition at all. Add all these phrases to the spreadsheet.
If you've read my “How to Get Expert Content for Free” post, you know that there is an art not only to getting the interview with an expert, but more importantly in how you conduct that interview.
One of the best interviewers with whom I've ever spoken is Heather Vale, and she is now offering a course to improve your interviewing skills called “Interviewing Unwrapped”.
Interviewing Unwrapped consists of three spiral-bound manuals, and seven audio CDs, plus an online membership area to get additional information — designed for you to use in a hands-on way. You can mark it up, highlight it, take personal notes, and keep it on your desk for quick reference while doing interviews.
The first 6 CDs feature 10 interviews with other top online interviewers, some of whom do things a little differently than Heather does; giving you a wider perspective with which to work! Note: The transcripts of those interviews are found in Book 2 (see below).
The 7th CD features an interview that another top online interviewer, Janet Beckers, conducted with Heather, on the very topic of interviewing for content-rich interviews, and the transcript is found in Book 3. Heather takes the microphone at this time, and she gives insights into her background, including how she came to be known as ‘the unwrapper', and how she was able to secure an interview with a previously un-esponsive Mike Filsaime.
The package also contains a copy of “Wonderful Web Women” in a spiral bound Interview transcript, in which I was a participant.
Book 1 is a 184-page manual that includes 46 chapters of practical interviewing advice and techniques to guide you from absolute beginner to skilled interviewer.
The manual is divided into the following sections:
1. Introduction
2. The Truth About Popular Interviewing Myths
3. The Anatomy of a Great Interviewer
4. The Anatomy of a Great Interview
5. The Anatomy of a Great Question
6. Presentation and Delivery
7. Content
8. Getting The Guests
Book 2 is a 182-page volume containing transcripts of the first six CDs of interviews with other well known online interviewers. The format is the same as the first book, with one or more pages for notes at the end of each interview transcript:
1. Interviews with Today's Top Online Interviewers
2. Conclusion
3. Bonuses
The tools in the back of Book 2 include a sample question template to keep on hand whenever you're conducting an interview, a testimonial solicitation letter that pulls close to 100% results, and much more.
The Action Steps listed in Chapter 10 will get you headed out with a PLAN, and the bonus Question Template from Chapter 11 is a good cheat sheet to keep your interviews on track.
Book 3 is a supplemental resource that includes an Action Plan and Cheat Sheet created by Janet Becker… see CD-7 and Book 3.
Interviews are a fabulous way for you to to quickly generate new and FREE content for either your blogs or new products.
If you want to easily produce great interviews with your chosen experts, you ‘must' have or develop interviewing skills.
“Interviewing Unwrapped” is the only online product on the market that will teach you those skills, by a truly great interviewer. It includes a 60-Day Money Back Guarantee if you decide that you don't want to become a great interviewer.
Avoid the pitfalls of rejection and poorly executed interviews, check out “Interviewing Unwrapped” now.
No small wonder — it seems like there is a new piece of keyword research software or a new service on the market every other day.
So, I'm going to help make choosing the right market research (or PPC campaign helper) simpler for you with my ‘short list' of keyword software and services… those that I've used and can honestly recommend.
But first, a quick blurb about keyword research…
Keyword research is essential for determining market size, competition in the marketplace and zeroing in on the specific products that your target market is searching for. To gather all that information, internet and affiliate marketers use keyword research tools.
For those quick keyword and keyword checks, I usually go first to Google's Keyword Planner to glean some basic insights into my target market. You'll need a Google Adwords account to use the Keyword Planner.
However, for more in-depth information, I tend to use one of the tools below, preferably Wordtracker. To find out why, read my | Google vs. Wordtracker article.
Get insights into your competitors’ strategies in display advertising, organic and paid search, and link building. You can cross, combine, and visualize SEMrush data to compare competitive domains and estimate keyword difficulty with a few clicks.
Nearly 1 million users depend on SEMRush for their market research.
Wordtracker is my personal favorite amongst all the keyword research tools available and perhaps the most popular keyword analysis tools being used today. From a massive 340 million keyword database you can learn exactly which terms your target audience are search for and how many times each keyword has been entered.
KeywordSpy really does spy on top affiliate marketers and then gives you a list of all the keywords that make money for them. So you can let all those smart Super Affiliates do the hard work of researching and testing to find the most lucrative keywords – and then you can turn around and use them in your own PPC ad campaigns.
Developed by Jay Stockwell – a qualified AdWords Professional – Speed PPC is a keyword research tool for more advanced Internet and affiliate marketers who want to lower their bid costs, increase CTR (click-through-rates), CR (conversion rates) and increase their Adwords quality scores.
Note: Most of the paid services listed above also offer a free trial version.
Did you find this post about keyword and marketing research tools informative and useful? If so, please share it with others! If you have a comment, question or suggestion, please leave a comment below!
Cheers,
KeywordSpy really does spy on top affiliate marketers and then gives you a list of all the keywords that make money for them.
So you can let all those smart Super Affiliates do the hard work of researching and testing to find the most lucrative keywords – and then you can turn around and use them in your own PPC ad campaigns. Watch the video below for a quick peek at what the Keyword Spy free trial offers:
Here is a list of the affiliate marketing intelligence that the KeywordSpy service offers:
Once you've checked out the competition, you can create targeted lists of keywords that are proven to generate sales in just a few clicks.
Want to find out which products are being promoted most heavily by affiliates on the Clickbank network – or how many different keywords are being used to advertise a specific product? You can do that easily with KeywordSpy. Affiliate networks supported by Keyword Spy include:
Of course, no keyword spy tool would be worth it's salt if it didn't also offer pay per click intelligence data. Here is a list of things that you get with Keyword Spy to dig up the dirt:
Want to save money on PPC advertising?
Use KeywordSpy to find the best keywords to use in your ppc campaigns and on your website without risking your money to experiment.
Yanik Silver and Michael Holland are holding a sale on the ‘unintentional' overstock of their Public Domain Goldmineâ„¢ Niche volumes. Clearance pricing is definitely in effect.
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