Series 1
Building your eBay Affiliate Storefront website was just the first step. As with any new website, it is going to do you no good unless people know about it. So you must now put on your Affiliate Marketing hat and start promoting your site and what you have to offer the world. Yes, The World. With your new website you will be marketing and selling to anyone who finds your site no matter where they are located on Gods Green Earth.
This little blog article will be the first in a series of posts that explains Affiliate Internet Marketing and some of the tools and techniques to get you listed on search engines fast and to get your eBay Affiliate Store in front of as many people as possible.
If you are new to Internet Marketing you will hear of the term SEO or Search Engine Optimization. What this means is that you must make sure that the top search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN / Bing like and can read your website and it’s contents. Every so often these search engines unleashes a program called a Search Bot that scours the internet for new sites and catalogs or indexes each sites content. This way when someone does a search, they would already have a database full of results.
One of the most affective ways to help the Bots out is to include a few HTML Meta tags onto each page your site serves up. The key Meta Tags are Title, Description and Keywords. With My eBay Script, this is done automatically for you and changes regularly with each menu option clicked and on each search results page.
Search Engines not only indexes your sites content but they also rank it. Meaning that if they feel that you have a website that is very specific in a particular area and have solid unique information. They will rank you higher thinking that people searching for an answer in your niche area, will actually get what they are looking for from your site. This is very key to getting tones of traffic but is not always an easy task.
Another very important part to help Search Engine Ranking is to have other websites in a like niche market as yours, link back to you. This is called inbound links. This type of linking tells the Search Engines that not only do you think your content is good but others in your niche market do to.
More on SEO Tips and Tricks in future series.
Ok, lets get your indexed within 48 hours of going live.
Press Releases
I am saying contact your local newspaper or radio station all though that is not a bad idea. But I am talking about doing a little write-up on you, your business and what your website has to offer and submit this to some online Press Release sites. Here are a few that I use and they are great.
Writing Articles
Lets say you have built an eBay Affiliate Storefront that sells wood working tools and you have been working in this industry for years and have many wood making ideas and projects. Cool, write a few articles explaining how to do something or how to properly use a tool or which tool is best for which job. Write an article about 5 or 6 paragraphs long and submit it to some of the online Article Farms. These farms or websites is where people go to get articles for there site or news article or even magazine article. At the end of your article you place a link back to your new affiliate site. When someone wants to use your article on their site. They will copy it in it’s entirety with your link in it. Now you have an inbound link. Remember that from above when we where talking about SEO? Here are a few good Article Farms of choice.
Blogs
Unless you were born yesterday, you must have heard of Blogs. What you must do here is find a blog that talks about the same thing that you have designed your eBay Affiliate Store for. Using the same example as above in the Writing Articles section. Find a blog that talks about wood working. Join it then get engaged in the conversations. You need to find a blog that allows you to make comments and generally you will see that you must type in your name and website then your comment. For the name, you don’t always have to use your real name. Try for example, WoodWorkingKing. Then include your website URL. Then add a comment that is worth while. If you just put in garbage or gibberish. The moderator of the blog will just mark it as spam and your comment will not even show up.
Here are a few more tips to get your site out there and also to promote some of the products that you are offering.
Social Networks
Social Media seems to be the craze now and millions of people all over the world are joining and chatting. Join up with some of them and start talking about your site and products. Don’t make it sound like advertising but just conversation. Some of the well known Social Networking sites are:
I also like to use:
Forums
Forums are much like the Blogs I talked about above. Find forums that discuss your niche market and start contributing to the conversations. Some forums allow you to have signature blocks. What this is is when you post to a forum at the end of your post there will be a section for your signature. Almost like that of an email signature block. What you do here is configure your signature block to say something like “Wood Working Specialist” on the first line then your website URL on the second line. If you provide good sound advice or comments, people will think you know your stuff and will venture to your site to see what you have to offer.
These are just of few good eBay Affiliate Website Promotion Tips to get your started.
More tips coming soon.
hey very good information.
you have mentioned all good points for promoting ebay affiliate website.
if anyone just follow some rules and strategies, then eBay affiliate website will make that person rich in very short period of time. i always says that eBay is a good way of making money online faster and easily.
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