Good Friday

• Follow FridayPeople tweet suggested users to follow on Friday.
• Google Chrome OSGoogle presented more information about their browser-based operating system this morning and opened-sourced the project as Chromium OS (Nov. 19).
• VoicesTap Tap Tap and MacHeist are giving away Voice Candy for Mac to celebrate the release of Voices on iPhone. The apps allow you to manipulate voice recordings.
• #justbecauseIf one thing is true, it doesn’t mean other things can’t be true.
• Cockermouth
• Team Jacob
• #nottosayonfirstdatePeople are tweeting things you shouldn’t say when making a first impression with a new romantic interest.
• #whatdoyoudo
• #killingenglish
• Edward

Well, today Trending has changed alot compared to yesterday.  But lately, It doesn’t really affect much rather than daily searches.

What are your Twitter searches today? Mine was mostly related to NBA and Individuals.

Previously, I have posted about viral marketing for online advertising. Now, I want to share a little bit further more about viral marketing and why should we use it in order to drive massive traffic to our websites.

So, cut to the chase, WHY do we use viral marketing techniques?

1. quick to drive traffic (once it’s starting to spread, there’s basically no limit, the message will pick up the speed faster and to the bigger audience)
2. cost effective (once again, no limit, easy to start and cheap to expect the traffic, make sure your site has some to offer for your visitors to become regular)
3. niche gathering (you will eventually find where your niche is headed and your target audience in no time as long as you offer unique content that are original, photographer offers photoblog whereas geek-blog offers all technology news)

Bottom Line, traffic means money, relevant niche means more money, cost effective mean more money. So, what else shall I say?

viral marketing

So, this comes the question, WHAT are the techniques?

1. I am going to repeat this again, provide quality content, products or services. (provide something which is unique for your visitors)
2. Give something away (I would recommend gmail service to my friends because they basically gave away free service for e-mail, don’t they? you gotta offer something so that will create buzz).
3. Recommendation or referral on your site. (something like share this post, email to a friend, etc etc, that will create more buzz because I would really recommend to my friend if a particular website offer something nice)
4. Have some video clips, or free e-book to give away or have a personal blog about your interest on the site (that will also give some kind of expose to your visitors and yes it does really attract traffic)
5. Social bookmarking icons and links (They are basically helping you to bookmark or submit to the sites, either way, they are good for traffic, easy for search engine to index, my personal favorites regarding SEO are reddit, technorati and digg)
6. Use RSS feed or any sort of Feed (Some of my audience like RSS feed because they are firefox fans, some of them love email feed as well, so feedburner or similar service sites can offer, I use feedburner of course, you can set up either RSS feed or email subscription)
7. Do what others do not generally offer (It’s very simple but sometimes it is easily overlooked in many cases, for example, I enabled “do-follow” plugin in my wordpress, which default is “no-follow” for commenters, so I would get more visitors who will want to have do-follow link on my site and will write more comments as well.
8. Run on-site competitions (Many internet gurus are still using this method, and that’s how they get massive traffic and regular visitors)
9. Build a community and relationship with your visitors (Communication is the key to success, if you interact with your visitors, you will build the better relationship between you and your visitors that is very good for long term)

Ok, There are main 9 methods I have tested and experimented in the past and they have created impressive traffic for me.

So, start right now because what I have suggested will cost next to nothing. You can basically start with no-investment methods such as adding referal scripts, RSS setup, email subscriptions and some fabulous content first.

Thanks for reading. Now, I will go back to build my viral marketing for another site

Today, I just joined a forum which is called BRL (Build Reciprocal Links). That site is pretty cool to participate and I think I will stick there for a while, If the payment is pretty good to learn new things and help other people, I am thinking I will stick there for very long.

First off, you can use your AdSense publish ID for revenue sharing, normally revenue sharing is not really high.  But the more you participate in the forum the more money you will earn, which is fantastic. I will summarize a bit about the site that I am now currently very active. So, I hope to see you all soon. All you need is either AdSense account or Paypal. If you have both, it’s better than EVER.

I have just found this forum and I would like to invite you to be a part of link-exchange and web-master community.

Click here to Visit BRL Discussion Forum

This is a paid-to-post forum and have excellent resources available online.

BRL Forum is Webmaster oriented forum which allows you to earn money for posting and be active on their forum board. They have own good and advanced point rewarding system where you can easily earn money.

This forum have many users and you can easily find many interesting webmaster related stuffs and more. Their points are called BRL$. 100 BRL$ equals 1.11 USD $. Once you get 200 BRL$ you can request payment via PayPal.
List of BRL$:
Birthday Credit – BRL $25 (Your birthday.)
Positive Reputation Credit – BRL $3 (Awarded when you receive positive reputation.)
New Thread Credit – BRL $3 (May varies forum by forum)
Rate Thread Credit – BRL $1
Posting Credit BRL – $1 (May varies forum by forum)
Post Size Credit – 100 Words x BRL $0.001
Poll Create Credit – BRL $1

Additionally, if your answer is informative and chosen as best answer in Q&A knowledge section, you will get $50 BRL points as well.
….and many more with more details.

Daily BRL Forum admins and community posts many useful awarded contests and promotions where you can earn even more money. Once you get minimum required amount for payment request PM admin with your PayPal details and payment will be processed to you. Peoples who uses this forum says that payment is fast – usually in maximum 42 hours from your request! Register now and start making money the way you want it – it’s free of course!

Click here to Visit BRL Discussion Forum
For evidence, you can check the discussion sub-forum where all the members confirmed the minimum payout at $200 BRL points, which you will get about $150 BRL points just after joining, uploading photo, entering all the required data for your public profile. Basically, you earn money within 2 days if you make about 20-50 posts depending on the points. What is the catch for them? The BRL guys will receive advertisement generations and they will also receive valuable members who will be participating everyday.

Thanks for reading and happy making money.

Well, you have great content on your website/blog, you have regular visitors, that’s when you may think of having some affiliations on your website, so that you can generate some money. 

What is affiliation?

My own words? It is make-believe pre-sales. You can get this done by two easy ways. One, Find a reliable and trustworthy affiliates or Another, write a review or article about particular affiliates you are referring. Most affiliate programs are FREE. And I suggest you utilize them. 

Why make-believe pre-sales? 

It’s best if you are brutally telling the truth about the products or services you are reviewing (It is best if you have used or currently using the parcitular product or service you are offering). Both critical or analytical reviews bring positive consequences. Nowadays, the potential buyers are not stupid, They know exactly what they want and they will do better research than 10 years ago. And as an affiliate, you don’t have to explain in details about what, when your reader/visitor  smells you are trying to sell rather than guiding them to explore the options to buy, they will never check out your products and services, probably, they will not even come back.  If so, there’s nothing to be sad. Bottom line, never sell. Just pre-sell, give relevant info, be helpful and guide what the readers are looking for. 

The basic technique is 

Your Traffic -> Your Visitors -> Your Content -> Your potential buyer

In each step, you would lose 50-90%, but if you can create sales of 2-4% into final stage, that means you are doing great. So, It is always important to learn,  How to decide whether I would make money online rather than normal daily crap, Make Money Online, join me, and you ask others to join you thing.  Never make money with techniques that you require to invest or resell. 80% of the time, you are just becoming a seller, rather than affiliates. And you lost money more than you make. 

Why pre-sell is good?

You create trust between your readers and yourself. You become a bridge to your merchants (affiliates). Your readers will come back for more because they know you are not trying to sell, however, always provide the relaible links according to your recommendations. You don’t need to pitch to your readers, you give your opinions. Your readers will decide what is best for them.  So, let’s say, convertion rate from readers to buyer is highly dependent on what you offer.

So, 

Sales Pitch = Turn off potential buyers = low conversion rate 

Recommendations = Turn on potential buyers = high conversion rate

(well, these two equations were compiled from the idea of Ken Evoy’s article, you can download and read totally FREE at (Affiliate Masters Course))

Well, that’s all for today. So, when you decide to work on affiliate business online, you need to make up your mind how you will implement successfully. Because making money online is not complicated, but need to becareful, with that being said, it can’t be achieved overnight as well. You need to input constantly and continuously in order to make it work.

P.S. I am not a super writer or a thinker. Sometimes, I miss some points because I have never though about it. So, Any comments and suggestions are always welcome. It is always nice to see comments that contribute these posts.