NEW Google Backlink Tool: Google Sidewiki

October 6, 2009 by admin  
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Officially launched on September 23, 2009, Google Sidewiki enables people, or more specifically those who have the Google Toolbar installed on their IE or Firefox,Chrome,Safari web browsers, to make and share comments about websites and web pages with other people, particularly those who also have the toolbar installed on their browsers.

Truth be told, Google Sidewiki is MORE THAN just a commenting system. You can utilize this powerful commenting system to promote your brand and build backlinks in the process. It is a system for annotating pages across the web and is envisioned to become a community where experts can share their expert opinions and high quality comments.

The Google Sidewiki comes in the form of a browser sidebar which, when expanded, shows comments as well as blog posts that Google has deemed appropriate and/or related to a particular web page. Although anyone will be able to comment on a webpage, not everyone’s comment will appear.

Yes, you read that right. Although Google Sidewiki enables anyone and everyone to leave their comments on the websites they visit, not all their comments get displayed.  So, which comments get displayed and which do not? From my understanding comments that do appear will be deemed as expert commentation from users with a high quality score. (sounds like adwords)…

Well, Google has not released an official and clear-cut gauge regarding the factors involved in determining which comments will end up on the Google Sidewiki. What Google did say is that Google Sidewiki uses multiple signals based on the quality of the comments, the authors’ reputations, as well as user-contributed signals (i.e., voting and flagging) in determining which comments get displayed and in which order. This selection process, according to Google, ensures that only the highest quality and relevant entries will appear in the Sidewiki.

So, just how does Google gauge a comment’s quality? Determining a comment’s quality is generally based on the language used. Note that “language” here does not pertain to the various languages of nations and people but rather it pertains to how the comments/entries are composed/constructed.

It looks like Google has in its disposal a language sophistication detector of some sort that can gauge the degree of sophistication of statement constructions in 14 different languages.

And, apparently, Sidewiki gives more weight/credit to entries that use sophisticated language. For example, “This page stinks!” and “This site rocks!” are not considered as expert languages.

With regards to author reputation, Google takes into account the consensus about a particular entry based on the votes and flags given to it by other users.

In addition, Google also takes into consideration how long a particular author/user has had a Google Profile and how long he/she has been commenting.

Can you see how this tool can be used to market your brand and build powerful backlinks while doing so? Researching related niche websites and providing expert commentation and you will be rewarded for your insight threefold.

NEW Market Research Tool: Google Fastflip

October 6, 2009 by admin  
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What is Google Fast Flip?.  In simple terminology Google Fast Flip is a “visual” version of Google News.
No, that does not mean that the news articles on Fast Flip are more “media-rich” (or, in other words, contain more images, videos, and such) but, rather, the news articles on Fast Flip are presented in image/graphic form.
What Fast Flip does, basically, is that it takes screenshots, or snapshots if you may, of recently published news articles from Google’s various news publisher-partners (e.g., BBC News, New York Times, and the Washington Post), aggregates them, and presents them in a sequential order allowing users to browse, or as the name suggests, flip through them quickly and find articles easily. With Fast Flip, there’s no more need to wait for the various elements of a news sites to finish loading.
Using Google Fast Flip

Go to http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/ Scroll the article thumbnails by clicking on either the left or right arrow located at either ends of the thumbnail strip.
If you’ve selected an article that you’re interested in, just click on the thumbnail of that article.

This will hyperlink you to a page with a much larger version of the screenshot.

If you want to read the full article, just click on the screenshot. This will take you to the source page of the article. By the way, you can also browse for other articles on this “enlarged” screenshot page by clicking on the blue left and right arrows on either side of the screenshot. Through this page, also, you can email the article to anybody by clicking on the Email link near the upper right corner of the page beside the article screenshot. Note: you need to log in to your Gmail account to be able to do so.

With Fast Flip, users can browse/scan through more articles with far less time, allowing them to keep up with the latest news with less time and effort. From the viewpoint of market researchers and/or marketers, with its quick browsing facility, Fast Flip can serve as an invaluable tool in keeping themselves up-to-date on what’s hot online, what people are reading about, and what they are presently interested in (with the “Popular” news filter). In short Google Fastflip is google news on CRACK!.

The Different Types Of Affiliate Marketing :

Affiliate marketing programs has never been as popular before as it is today. Why? There can be a number of reasons. The most probable reason, however, could be the fact that the benefits of affiliate marketing have become clearer to a lot of people now than they were before.

Today, both the merchants and the affiliates can see clearly that affiliate marketing can work for both of them. The merchant sees affiliate marketing today as the chance to advertise their products at a lower cost. The affiliates, on the other hand, sees affiliate marketing as an easy way of earning profits online by doing what they like most, and that is by creating websites.

Just as the popularity of affiliate marketing has shifted into greater heights, so has the people’s outlook about it changed. No longer is affiliate marketing considered today as an alternative method for the merchant to advertise his products, or as a source of additional income for the affiliates. For merchants and affiliates alike, affiliate marketing is now considered as a main source of profits and revenues.

So the question now is what type of affiliate marketing will work best for you? Are all affiliate marketing programs the same? Are the benefits the same? Or are there affiliate marketing programs that work better than the others?

There are actually different types or classes of affiliate marketing, and the number of types will depend on how one will classify them. The most basic affiliate marketing programs, however, falls under two categories: pay-per-click (PPC), and pay-per-performance (PPP).

Pay Per Click (PPC) PPC is the most popular type of affiliate marketing for affiliates with small websites, and probably the easiest way for them to earn money. In this affiliate marketing type, the merchant pays his affiliate whenever a visitor is referred to his site, that is whenever someone clicks through the merchant’s banner or text ads. The affiliate gets paid a certain amount even if the visitor he referred does not purchase anything from the merchant’s site. However, typical fees for PPC affiliate programs are small, usually not exceeding a dollar for every click.

Pay Per Performance (PPP) PPP affiliate marketing is the most popular among merchant and is also the most lucrative type for the affiliates. In this type of affiliate program, the merchant only pays the affiliate whenever his referral translates into an action-that is whenever the visitor he has referred actually buys something from the merchant’s site or when the visitor becomes a lead. This means a lot of savings for the merchant. On the other hand, it becomes the most lucrative type for the dedicated affiliate, for commissions in PPP affiliate marketing usually comes in the range of 15% to 20% of the actual product sales.

Pay-per-performance affiliate marketing can be further classified into two popular types: pay-per-sales (PPS) and pay-per-lead (PPL).

o Pay Per Sale (PPS) In a pay-per-sale type of affiliate marketing, the merchants pay the affiliate a certain fee whenever the visitor he has referred to the merchant’s site actually buys something from the merchant’s site. Affiliates are often paid on commission basis, although other merchants would opt to pay a fixed fee. But no matter what the basis of the fee is, it is generally higher than the fee paid to affiliates in a pay-per-click affiliate program.

o Pay Per Lead (PPL) The pay-per-lead type of affiliate marketing is a slight variation of the PPS type and is often used by insurance and finance companies and other companies who rely on leads for their company to grow. In this type of affiliate marketing, the affiliate is paid whenever the visitor he referred to the merchant’s site fills up an application form or any similar form related to the business of the company. Compensation for this type of affiliate marketing is based on a fixed fee whose rates approximate that of the fixed fee in the PPS type.

Aside from these three specific types of affiliate marketing, a lot of other affiliate marketing types exist. If the classification is based on the depth of the affiliate network, it can be classified as single-tier, two-tier, and multi-tier affiliate marketing. There is also another type of affiliate marketing that pays the affiliate each time the customer he has referred purchases something from the merchant’s site.

Single-Tier, Two-Tier, and Multi-Tier Affiliate Marketing These types of affiliate marketing are based on the different levels or tiers in the affiliate network by which payments are made. In a single-tier affiliate marketing program, the affiliates are only paid based on the direct sales or traffic he has referred to the merchant. All the previously mentioned affiliate marketing types (i.e. PPS< PPL, and PPC) fall under the single-tier classification.

In two-tier affiliate marketing programs, the affiliate is not only paid for the direct traffic or sales that he refers to the merchant’s site, but also on every traffic or sales referred by various other affiliates who joined the affiliate program through his recommendation. Multi-tier affiliate marketing works the same way, although the affiliate gets additional commission for a wider number of affiliates in different tiers in the affiliate network.

Residual Income Affiliate Marketing In residual income affiliate marketing, the affiliate gets paid not only once for every customer he has referred to the merchant’s site. Rather, the affiliate is also paid whenever the customer he has referred returns to the site and purchase another product. Compensation for such type of affiliate marketing is based on either sales percentage commission or fixed fee basis.

The different affiliate marketing types would virtually work differently for merchants and affiliates alike, and each would generally have their own list of benefits. Which type of affiliate marketing will work best for you? It is not really for me to tell. Rather, it is for you to choose which type of affiliate marketing program will suit your needs and characteristics best.

Marketing Tips: Product Selection

October 6, 2009 by admin  
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Most affiliate marketers are naturally going to promote best selling products in each category and the most popular category which love by most affiliate marketers is internet marketing  make money products.


You can help build your own list simply sending visitors to your affiliate websites through your affiliate URL is not good marketing. For your affiliate marketing website online, don’t just post the referral links to the affiliate websites.


However remember, without action, you cannot blame this affiliate marketing article or any article for that matter. In any case, affiliate marketing is set up to be that of a finder’s fee situation because you are bringing new businesses to the client.


No doubt affiliate marketing can make you a lot of money, but if you want to be at the top of the food chain and make the kind of riches that the top guns make, you do need your OWN product. As the market leader in affiliate marketing solutions, Commission Junction offers many advantages for both merchants and affiliates. More Guidance” Cutting Through the Information and Finding the Right Program for You” Whether you have already decided on which affiliate network marketing program you are going to use to make money on the internet or you are still looking for more answers to your questions there is place where you can go to receive more help than you will from any actual program out there. The only thing Dell lacks that can benefit affiliate marketing is great landing pages that explicitly outline the details of the coupon.


The Pay-Per-Impression and Pay-Per-Click Model are not common to be used in Affiliate Marketing anymore. In affiliate marketing, the affiliate is compensated for every visitor, subscriber and/or customer provided through his efforts. It is feasible to make as much money with affiliate marketing as it is through a conventional online business that sells products or services.


Product Endorsement: You’ll realize very quickly that the Affiliate Program is just a form of the Product Endorsement Joint Venture that we’ll talk about now, so hopefully we have taken a commonly understood form of internet marketing and will begin now to expand the scope, and your understanding.


In Reselling you are taking the offensive, instead of the defensive approach to affiliate marketing or online advertising. The only way it can be easy for you is if you keep learning and researching the strategies and tricks of affiliate marketing, but most of your knowledge will come from personal experience. Google Adsense is actually some sort of an affiliate marketing program. Finding help and resources for making money online or by affiliate marketing are some of the most sought after subjects on the internet.


There are design principles that you must follow when you build your website to achieve success in affiliate marketing. Truth: Affiliate networks are a powerful solution to the knowledgeable Internet Marketing Merchants. “Pay per lead affiliate programs” allow you to develop multiple streams of income from one business, one marketing effort, and one website.  The PIPS is a service that supplies a complete website setup on your own domain name and hosting account, and promotes affiliate products from the best affiliate programs online, namely SFI, Empowers, Internet Marketing Centre, Internet Marketing Warriors / Host4Profit and Traffic Swarm.


Be sure to listen to the affiliate marketing e-book recommendations made by people who have been involved in affiliate marketing for a number of years. For that reason, understanding just what affiliate marketing is and how it works is how you’ll know if this is the right place for you to be in. But if you are prepared to put that time and energy into your affiliate marketing business, then you will, in time, reap the rewards of all your hard work.


Affiliate marketing is quite complex, and it would be impossible on the limited space here to explain all you need to know to succeed in affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is quite complex, and it would be impossible on the limited space here to explain all you need to know to succeed in affiliate marketing.