There is so much money to be made out there, and there are so many affiliate marketers who are scared of losing out some money, unless we can break this train of thought somehow, it is going to be very hard for any new affiliates to get there feet wet making money this way.

The contest rules and how to enter vary a bit between the blogs that are holding the contest. You can check out the official posts by clicking on your favorite blog to read below. Your going to love the prize line up as well.

Zac Johnson

John Chow

Unique Blog Designs

Here is my entry into this contest and I would like your thoughts on it as well!

Here are the steps I would take to start promoting an offer from Market Leverage, the offer I have chosen for this example is the AB Rocket offer. I choose this offer because I think anything related to health will always have a market online. Get ready though, this is not going to be a small comment but the over all outline I will be showing you here I personally know works as I use it myself.

Seeings how I am sure there are a lot of people like me who want to do PPC (pay per click) advertising but just don’t have the budget to get into it this is a great way to start to build a solid foundation for yourself online for making money. I personally believe if you want to succeed online you need to build your income stream on a few different levels. A great place to start is by building quality affiliate websites. As I mentioned above I am going to look at the offer from Market Leverage for the AB Rocket. I am going to assume that all my research is going to tell me that this should prove to be a good offer to run with, but for all of your reading this keep in mind this is only an example and if you try and copy this exact layout for the exact offer it may not work.

Step One.

First thing you are going to want to do is check out what type of domain names are available that you can get that are related to working out or mostly working out yourAB’s, seeings how the product we are working with or starting off with pertains to your AB’s, It would be good to get a name that fits are product. To do this research, I use Google’s keyword Tool. I will start off with a basic term like “working out” and see what other related keywords come up with the search. The goal behind doing this is to find a keyword phrase that fully relates to our product that has a steady amount of search traffic to it. Lets say we found a phrase using this tool that shows we have 2000 searches a month for it, and at a steady incline with a low AdWords competition. This term would be (example only) “working out abs”. Your next step would be to go to your hosting company ( I use BlueFur dot com) and see if that exact name is open in either a dot com or a dot net name. It’s not open but for the case of this example lets say that it is. Before you register that name you want to see who is all on the first page of Google for that term. Google it and take a look. I am going to assume you have the SEO plug in for Firefox so you can check the PR of sites, there back links and there domain ages. This information is important because if the first page of Google shows that all the sites are very old with high back links and PR, it is going to be very hard for you to rank that site and get a steady amount of organic traffic to it. So lets say everyone on the first page of Google are all lower then PR 3, less the 10000 back links and they are all younger then 3 years. When you were looking at the first age in Google you also noticed that all the sites that rank for the term “working out abs” all have some sort of weird name for there domain name. That is perfect and I will explain that in a second. Now I would register that name. While you are waiting for everything to go through and for your new site to be pointing to your server, its time to get some content.

Step two

Google your search term you want to get ranked for again, and get idea’s for original content. Get a few article’s together and also search for related news articles to your product. For now, just copy and paste the news articles links and titles and save them somewhere. You will use them later. Finish writing up your content articles (don’t forget to sprinkle your keyword phrase “working out abs” through your articles and do a complete review of your product “AB Rocket” with a few bad points but focus a lot on the good ones. Also grab some pictures for your product. Try and use a reporters view on your product, not a salesmen’s view.

Step Three

Now that your new site is pointing to your server and you can start building your site, install wordpress on it. Find a theme that fits with your site, but is clean. I like using the Flexx them from ithemes. Now that you have wordpress on your site and your ready to go, build your site, install your plug ins you like working with but also the wp-sticky post plugin. Your first article you are going to put up is going to be called “working out abs” and also post it under the category called “working out abs”and that post is also going to be your review of your product. With the sticky post plugin installed and activated, make that post the sticky one. It will always be the first post every visitor to your site sees first or your “sales page”. Your other articles just time stamp them to release over the coarse or a few months or so.

When your building your new wordpress affiliate site make sure you add a privacy policy page to the site as well as a contact page. You will also want to grab some other offers from Market Leverage that fit with the niche of your site. Seeings how you are building a site about working out “getting in shape type of thing” you would want to grab the ML offer for the nutrients pill they have. Do a small review of it and build a page for it, repeat this step if ML has a lot of related offers. The more pages your site has the better you will do. Do the same keyword research for that page that you did for your sites name. Now, you have an affiliate site focusing on two products or offers from ML and you are targeting traffic just with how you set things up. Regarding your news articles that you have links to and the headlines for you can either two do things with them. You can either build a page on your site called “related news” or something like that or you can hyperlink to the articles from a widget in your sidebar. The only reason why you want these links is to show Google that you are linking to other sites that are related to your product.

Step Four

Now that your site is built, you have links to your products, maybe a banner or two, 4 or 5 pages built of original content and everything is ready to go, bookmark the hell out of that site and every single article you have on it and the pages too. Do this over the coarse of a week. A good way to do this is to use “Social Marker dot com” After that is done just leave it for a while.

Did you pick up on the secret to ranking your site?

In a few days after you bookmarked your site you should see that you are on page one of Google for your chosen term “working out abs” The reason why you are on page one so fast is for two reasons. First is that your are using wordpress. Google loves wordpress! The Second is, your site is 100% relevant to your keyword of “working out abs”. Your sites name is your keyword, your first article’s title is your keyword which is under the category that is also your keyword, and you have used your keyword in your meta tags. Google loves you now because they know with out a doubt what your site is all about. I just used this exact method over this past weekend to take a 2 word (9 characters only) keyword phrase for a site name and place it on page one of google. I all ready have steady traffic to my site and clicks registering for my product I am promoting and one sale so far. Cool eh! The really cool thing about building a affiliate site this way is if you watch Google trends, you can have a site placed at the top of searches for term before everyone else and be ready for the wave of traffic.

What can you do after your site is built.

Build more sites! If you set a goal of building 20 sites this way covering all different niches you will spread out where your income is coming from so if one niche or product lines falls off your not stranded with out money coming in. When you do get money coming in for your affiliate sales, bank it and use it for your PPC budget. When the time comes you have 1000 or so saved up, which ever product you have that is doing the best with sales and converting build a PPC campaign around it. Now that you have a site with good page rank that is converting your quality score for your campaign should be good because your already ranked for that term with your site. Ahh Haa! You guessed it, because of how you built your site using the keyword phrase or phrases you have you are now paying less in AdWords so by using this method of building an affiliate site you were able to pull off more then just one thing.

Another Strong Tip!!!

Don’t be stupid by putting Adsense on your site. All you are doing is sending your traffic to MY AFFILIATE OFFER! Adsense is the absolute last resort for making money on a website. If you are going to promote affiliate offers, stick with them.

So that is my entry, its fairly simple. All you have to do really guys is give a tip on how you would market an offer from Market Leverage and you could win.

Now get out there and get involved!

Congratulations!

The next draw will be held over the next week for weekly winner number 3, then its the big draw for the $50.00 cash plus the remaining prizes.

Thanks again for all who left a comment and entered!

Hey everybody, I hope you all had a great weekend and did not eat to much Candy. As promised over the month of November I am having a blog comment contest here on Feed Flare which was sponsored by my friends at Neverblue Ads.

Here’s how you enter the contest!

I am going to make entering this contest very simple but I would also like you to strongly consider doing something for me as well but it will not be mandatory for entry. To enter the contest all you have to do is leave a comment when ever Feed Flare creates a new post on this blog. Also I would like you to consider signing up for Neverblue Ads as well, seeings how they have sponsored this contest it would be great for them to get a few new affiliates.

Here is how the comment contest is going to work!

The more comments you leave over the coarse of a week the more chances you have to win a prize. (you can respond to other peoples comments as well and really increase your chances of winning)  Each comment counts as one entry. At the end of each week I am going to take everyone’s name who has left a comment on this blog (for that week) and draw one name who will then be the winner of one of the 5 prizes Neverblue Ads has sent me.

Each week I will start the comment contest over for a new prize and you could be eligible to win again. There is no set limits to how many times you could win this contest, you could win 5 times and get everything Neverblue Ads has sent me including my personal cash prize which will be at the end of the month!

At the end of the month I am going to take everyone’s name who has left a comment for the entire month of November and draw one winner for a $50.00 cash prize that I will send you via paypal.

Weekly winners will be able to choose which prize they want. There is only 4 weeks this month so the last weekly winner will get two prizes. The last winner will not get to choose which prize they want so they will get the last 2 prizes I have.

Here is a photo of the prizes Neverblue Ads has sent me!

Neverblue Ads has sent me two very nice shirts (that I would like to of had, there a great quality), a stainless steel coffee travel mug, an aluminum water bottle, and a tuque! They also sent me a package of popcorn that had there name on it but I ate it so I can’t give you that

Well, I think that is about it. Told you it was a simple contest!

Now, leave a comment and you could be the first winner!

Good Luck Everyone!

*Note*

I will send prizes anywhere in the world so everyone has a fair chance of getting something.

As of yesterday afternoon I have confirmed the delivery of some very cool Neverblue Ads swag that I will be giving away to all my readers for leaving blog comments here on Feed Flare.

This contest is going to be running all November long where once a week I will take everyone’s name who has left a comment after any of my weekly posts and I will enter there names into a draw and the winner will receive something very cool from Neverblue Ads, just for leaving a comment!

This is something I wanted to do for a long time now and I can’t wait to send my readers some free stuff. I am not even sure what is all coming to me but I do know there are some shirts and some other things. (It’s a secret) I should have the package from Neverblue Ads by mid week, next week so look out for my contest releasing post.

Time to have some fun guys!Neverblue Ads

Well Nate and his crew are celebrating there first year anniversary as a company online. Very good job guys. And to kick off year two they are hosting a small giveaway or contest if you will where they are going to be giving away an Apple Ipod Touch and a new theme they have called the Cirrus. Entry is simply, all you have to do is leave a comment on the post which I will leave you the link for and blog about there contest if you want an extra chance to win.

I wouldn’t mind a new theme for one of my other sites but I honestly am very happy for Nate and the rest of the crew over at Unique Blog Designs. Good job guys and I look forward working with you again one day.

To view there contest post click here!

That’s right, your read that correctly! There is going to be more then one winner today. When I started this contest I did not know what kind of results I was going to have so with that I was a bit conservative with my prize. So seeings how I have had over 70 responses to my prize of a years worth of a free text link add here on Feed Flare I have decided to up my prize to 2 winners.

So with out further adieu here are the 2 winners for this contest, and I would like everyone to please send out a congratulations to them both. Both draws were held by Random dot org.

1 – Louis Liem

2 – QTpies7~

Thanks again guys for entering this giveaway just by leaving a comment. I will be contacting you both by email later today.

So in closing, you see how easy it was for 2 people to enter this past contest and win a prize valued at over $200.00 , if you want a chance like this in the future please consider subscribing to my full feed RSS and keep updated on our next giveaway.

Like I stated in the video, this week Bloggy Giveaway dot com is hosting a carnival where a whole bunch of bloggers listed there giveaways and I decided to get into the action with Feed Flare.

Here is what you can win by entering here!

I have decided to give away a years worth of text link advertising valued at over $200.00 here on Feed Flare. Your text link ad will appear in the right sidebar, and again will stay there for one year! There is no limitation to what country this prize is for so everyone can enter.

How long is this give away going to last?

The give away has started as of today, April 21st and will run until April 25th. Over next weekend all entries into this give away will be entered into random dot org and a lucky winner will be selected and then contacted by email from me to get there text link ad information.

How to enter?

Entry is very simple, all you have to do is leave a comment after this post saying that you want to win and that is your entry. Simple eh!

The bloggy giveaway carnival is huge with well over 200 different contest running on a bunch of different blogs. If you want a chance to win a bunch of different types of prizes I would strongly urge you to go check out all the entries by using the following link.

Bloggy Giveaways Quarterly Carnival Is Here!

Good luck to all who enter and I wish nothing but huge success for all who host a giveaway on there blogs. I will be seeing most of you very soon

Well March is over, and it is time to announce the winners for my Grand Opening March Contest. Before I get into who the winners are I want to thank everyone who has entered and made this contest such a huge success. I have never ran a contest before so I was not sure what to aspect, and what I received in return was nothing but great support for one of the best communities in the world “The Blogsphere”

Ok so here are your winners:

Grand Prise of $500.00 in cash via paypal goes to Dawn Lee from My Video Blog

Advertising voucher with Bidvertiser worth $200.00 in free clicks (value – $200.00) – random draw- Betshopboy

Win a free advertising spot on the “You Can Learn Series” blog in the form of a 125×125 ad button (value per spot – $5.00) – random draw – Vincent Chow

Win one of 2 copies of the “Written Promptly Everyday” E-Book donated by The Prompt Writer (value per book -$5.00) random draw – 1st winner is Lori – 2nd winner is Bunny B

Win a copy of “How to launch a profitable free lancing business for under $50.00? donated by the “Self Made Chick” (value – $12.00) random draw – Blogger King

Custom banner design and the size will be of your choice donated by Dat Money dot com (value – $50.00) random draw – Paula

One month free 125×125 advertising on Jason Boom dot com. (value – $20.00) random draw – Henbima

25000 Entrecard credits – Blue Licorice

Congratulations to all who have won and thanks again to all who have entered this contest. It was a lot of fun and I have also met some great people.

How to claim your prize

Just visit my contact page and fire me off an email with all your contact info so I can get a hold of the sponsors and get you you’re prizes. All contest sponsors who have donated Entrecard credits please send them to me so I can send them to the winner. Please note, if you have not recieved your free One Buck Wiki page yet just for entering please let me know as well so I can get your information over to Max, the host of the site.
Thanks again everyone for your participation and come back tomorrow where I talk about the results of this contest a bit.

Hey, I just wanted to let everyone know that there is only five days left to enter my Grand Opening March Contest. I am so excited to see who the lucky winner is going to be who wins the $500.00, who knows right it could be YOU!

Watch today’s video!

The prize we are giving away today is for the blog branding package proudly donated by Graphic Identity. This prize package is worth $200.00 and includes the following free designs, Favico, header, logo, 125×125 button.

The winner of this blog branding package is Christine Senter.

Congratulations Christine and I hope you enjoy all the great designs coming your way to help promote which ever blog you want.

If you have not entered our grand opening contest yet you can do so by clicking here. On March 31st we will be announcing the grand prise winners for the 25,000 Entrecard credits as well as the $500.00 cash prize, so make sure you get your entry in as there is not much time left.