I started a direct link campaign the other day on the Google Content Network. The product is a higher priced Clickbank product, and is not internet marketing related.

I bid .01 for search since I didn’t feel like setting up the ad groups to be tight with relevant landing pages, etc. etc.

I bid about $0.22 for the content network and kept my daily campaign limit to $25.

I checked my CB account today and saw a nice ~$100 commission from 1 click from the content network.

I was pleasantly surprised. This just shows you that not all content traffic is bad. Advanced PPC marketers know this. You can get incredible traffic (in quality and amount) from content networks. If you try it, just make sure to keep your bids low at first and set a low daily budget and TRACK. See what sites convert for you and what sites don’t.

More on this later…

Vinnie

PS - I use Keyword Radar for all of my tracking.

Affiliate Elite Review - First there was SEO Elite. Then there was Keyword Elite. Now, the latest Elite edition is called Affiliate Elite. First, you should know that if it’s from Brad Callen, it’s probably going to be very good. Brad Callen is known for putting out some excellent pieces of software, so let’s take a look at Affiliate Elite.

On the surface, Affiliate Elite does look extremely powerful.

Here are some of what you can do with Affiliate Elite:

Find profitable affiliate products to promote…

Copy entire marketing strategies of top affiliates…

See what keywords are making them sales…

See the highest converting webpages for affiliates…

You’re probably wondering how Affiliate Elite does all this. Here’s some more details…

Project #1: Find Profitable Affiliate Products to Promote - Search Clickbank and PayDotCom like you never have before. The advanced features in Affiliate Elite make it easy to compare several different factors among several products at once. For example, you can see the gravity, how long the product has been in the database, or the percentage referred to the site. Of course you can do all these things without Affiliate Elite, but it becomes much easier and less time consuming when using Affiliate Elite.

Project #2: Reverse Google Search - Enter a site url and Affiliate Elite returns keywords that people are bidding on for that url and what position they are in. Other products that do this can run pretty high compared to Affiliate Elite’s cost. What value does this have? Imagine all the affiliates promoting a piece of software like SEO Elite. Think that a few hundred or a few thousand affiliates can come up with a pretty thorough keyword list? There’s a lot of power in groups and Affiliate Elite takes advantage of this.

Project #3: Analyze Adwords (and Yahoo) Competition: Take your keywords from Project #2 and see who is bidding on which keyword. And, you can use this over time to see how often certain competitors ran a particular ad for each keyword.

Project #4: Find Super Affiliates - Extremely powerful. Finding Super Affiliates is not only powerful because you can “copy” their strategies, but you can also leverage this knowledge when planning joint ventures or product launches. When you can easily find SuperAffiliates, you’ll be able to more easily do business with them in the future. Affiliate Elite finds Super Affiliates by seeing which affiliate id is promoting a certain product. In addition, you’ll see info like Alexa Rank, Google PR, Google/MSN/Yahoo backlinks, and Whois information for each site.

In addition to all the projects, Affiliate Elite offers ridiculously thorough video training and daily webinars.

Bottom line: Affiliate Elite isn’t the cheapest piece of software you’ll find. But considering Projects 1-4 and Brad’s reputation for keeping his products up-to-date and an active forum, the investment is well worth it as long as you actually use the software.

You’d be surprised how many affiliate marketers purchase an ebook or piece of software and let it collect digital dust on their hard drives. I’ve been guilty of it myself. Don’t let it happen to you! Get a copy of Affiliate Elite and use the hell out of it.

-Vinnie-

Article Marketer Review - One of the best ways to promote yourself and/or your website online is through article marketing. Article marketing allows you to get some of your content out on the web in a way that has tons of sites linking back to your site.

This strategy is suitable for all internet marketers, beginner or not.

I used to write an article and then hand submit them to a few sites, but it never made a huge impact. Then, I tried using a “free” article announcer tool that I got as a bonus with an ebook I bought. This software was a little buggy, and I never got great results from this either.

Recently, I decided to try Article Marketer. There are a few different packages that you can try ranging from Free to a Lifetime membership.

I actually decided to go with the 1 year membership for $199, which I believe is now $169 with a discount.

Once your article is uploaded and approved (within 1 business day), Article Marketer submits your article to over 4000 sites and over 67,000 people. It does this over the period of a year. This way, the search engines see you gaining backlinks over time, and not all at once. This ensures that your article marketing will be seen as a “white hat” strategy. Your site won’t be punished by the search engines.

The thing is now that I’ve used Article Marketer, I’ll never go back to the old way of doing things. It simply saves me too much time.

Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed this Article Marketer Review and learned a little bit about the service. A few days ago, Article Marketer came out with an Instant Savings program that has some heavy discounts on quarterly, annual, and lifetime memberships. Plus, now they’re including custom written articles with the membership so there is no reason not to get started. At the very least, try out the free program.