Affiliate Programs
Inktomi MSN Search AOL Search Hotbot
Inktomi is a search engine that does not offer its search services through its own site, but through Partner sites - prominent ones being MSN Search, AOL Search, HotBot and others. Inktomi, through its crawler, creates three different indexes. Best of the Web index has around 110 million pages that it indexes on the web and considers high in link analysis. The next set of around 390 million pages is indexed as Rest of the Web, considered as lower in link analysis. The third index is of paid...
Joining an Affiliate Program
As with any marketing venture, you need to be careful in the selection of an affiliate program. The benefit of an affiliate program is that it gives you another way to make money from your website visitors. Instead of selling them a product yourself, you send them to a partner and take a cut. On the downside though, your affiliate ads will take the place of a different ad that you could have put in that same spot. You have to make sure that each advertising position on your site is bringing in...
Ezine Joint Ventures
You must be creative in your advertising. Instead of asking for cash in return for newsletter or blog advertising space, you could ask for a reciprocal promotion on a partner's newsletter. As long as you're not competing, joint ventures with complementary businesses are a great way to increase your customer base and boost your sales. For example, you could trade banner space, text links, articles, etc. In fact, you might even join each other's affiliate programs and agree to promote each...
Autoresponder Programs or Scripts
The other choice for an autoresponder is to purchase (or lease) a program or a script (usually written in perl, requiring CGI access on your server.) Several of these are available. These types of autoresponders allow, potentially at least, for increased flexibility. Some are quite powerful in their own right, while perl scripts can generally be modified to suit your needs for a fee. A good example of a script-based autoresponder that you can install on your site and never pay monthly fees to...
Finding a Writer
If you don't want to do the writing yourself, finding a writer for your ebook is easy. Finding a good writer though is the tricky part. A lot of people think they have what it takes to win the Pulitzer if someone would just give them a chance, but even most college graduates have a hard time constructing a sentence, let alone writing a complete book. And you don't want any old book. You want a book your readers will enjoy reading in a style that speaks to them. If you've already hired someone...
Using Ebooks for Affiliate Marketing
If you've been delving into affiliate marketing at all, you're no doubt aware of the viral potential for ebooks. It's the affiliates who make them viral, after all, passing the word about the product to their website visitors, ezine subscribers, and clients, with the goal of earning a commission from a sale.