Learning how to promote your affiliates using Ezinearticles and a simple Google Search query is easy, extremely effective and completely above board with Google.
If you have ever read any articles published on Ezinearticles.com, you may have noticed this synopsis or something similar to it, at the very bottom of each article.
This article has been viewed 65,954 time(s).
Article Submitted On: May 06, 2009
Savvy affiliate marketers have learned how to use this article summary along with the search query below to discover which Ezine articles are the most popular for any keyword or keyword phrase, the most read within any given year or for any other time period.
They then write a similar ezine article using the exact same keywords to promote their own affiliate products, web sites or squeeze pages.
Remember that this Google search query is not “black hat” or anything like that; it is a 100% legitimate way to search for articles in Google.
Here are the steps to follow using this search query.
site:ezinearticles.com (space) ::
- First, use this basic query and insert the keyword you are looking for within the two double colons.
site:ezine articles.com (space) :(keyword):
This query entered into Google’s search engine will give you all articles in ezinearticles.com with that particular keyword.
- Next, refine your search by adding from the ezine articles synopsis the following:
“this article has been viewed 65,954 time(s).”
Select it exactly as you copy it from the ezine articles article and add it to the search query after a space.
The search query should now look like this:
site:ezinearticles.com (space) :(keyword): (space) “this article has been viewed 65,954 time(s).”
- Next, change the number of times viewed into a search variable that the Google search engine uses.
Delete the number of times viewed number (65,954) and insert (5000..99999) which is a low and high end search query.
This opens up the search for a greater number of views for that keyword.
The search query now should read as you see it below.
site:ezinearticles.com (space):(your keyword):(space)”this article has been viewed (5000..99999) time(s)”
- Next, add the remainder of the article synopsis from the ezine exactly as you viewed it from below the Ezine article you selected; in this case Article Submitted On: May 06, 2009.
site:ezinearticles.com (space):(your keyword):(space)”this article has been viewed (5000..99999) time(s)”(space)”Article Submitted On: May 06, 2009″
- Next, change the Month in the date (May) to (*) and the day (06) to (*). Leave the year remain at whatever year you want your search reslults to reflect. In this case 2009.
The revised search query should now reads as follows:
site:ezinearticles.com (space):(your keyword):(space)”this article has been viewed (5000..99999) time(s)”(space)”Article submitted on: (*) (*), 2009″
Or More Specifically (without the parens) below:
site:ezinearticles.com :article marketing: “this article has been viewed 5000..99999 time(s)” “Article submitted on: * *, 2009”
When you remove the keyword and simply leave the “” Google will give you the results for any keyword that was viewed over 5000 times in Ezine articles for the year 2009.
To promote your affiliates using Ezinearticles and the results from your Google search query; you will need to pinpoint exactly which keywords were used in the article or articles.
The keywords that are being used in the articles are what is funneling traffic to these articles. This is why they are the most frequently read by ezinearticles.com readers.
Over 90 percent of the time, the main keyword will be found in the Title of the Article.
- After you isolate your keywords, the next step is to copy the exact article and rewrite it.
You can do this yourself, have someone rewrite it for you or use “spinning” software that will do it for you.
The whole point of this scenario is to create an article that gets read by as many visitors as possible so you can more easily promote your affiliates.
To make sure you have the right keywords that are sending traffic to the article, you can use Google’s “keyword tool“.
Go back to the ezine article, get the website URL for the article and insert it into the “keyword tool”.
Google’s tool then goes to that url and extracts all the keywords from that article for you.
When you have isolated all the keywords you need, you need to find out where the article ranks in the search engines for each of the keywords. This takes some time, but is absolutely necessary to achieve the best results.
Simply insert each keyword into the Google search engine to see if it comes up on the first page of Google.
You can also use a tool at keywordenvy.com to finalize your keyword selection.
Paste in the keywords and the URL from the ezine article you selected and put a check mark in all the search engines to see where each keyword ranks.
When you know where each of the keywords rank, you will need to find out if anyone is actually searching for these keywords.
To do this, go back to Google’s tool (AdWords Keyword Tool) and put the keywords back into the query box to get the monthly searches for each keyword.
Getting all this information will give you a pretty good idea where all the traffic for the original ezine article you selected was generated from.
When you fully develop these keywords, you can be assured that the rewritten article you create to promote your affiliate product with ezinearticles.com will generate the maximum amount of readers possible.
Learning how to promote your affiliates using Ezinearticles and a simple Google search is only as good as the affiliate products you are promoting, so make sure your affiliate product is worthy of the time and effort you exhausted to generate the necessary amount of visitor traffic.
As the current economic downturn continues to deteriorate the bottom line profits in your market niche, it may be time to evaluate whether or not your niche has any useful life left in it.
When you see that a market has changed and is no longer profitable; there is
absolutely nothing wrong with dropping out of your market niche and looking for
a more lucrative alternative.
If you happened to be the owner of a horse and buggy franchise or a livery stable when Henry Ford first came out with his horseless carriage; even though you may not have realized it at the time because of the effects of the great depression, the assembly line manufacture of the automobile doomed your market niche.
The depression slowed down or halted everyone’s business. But, it also spurred the innovation and creativity that forced business owners to create new market niches to replace their failing businesses.
In order to create a greater demand for their products and services, business owners can always be counted on to provide solutions to a down market.
If new innovations directly impacts your market niche, you could be in deep trouble with your business; otherwise many of the same niches will continue to survive.
Businesses that do not survive are those business whose owners do not become proactive.
Whether or not your market niche is doomed to failure by our economic downturn depends entirely on how you approach the changing market in your market niche.
If you bend, are pliable, and become more adaptable to the changing market, your chances of surviving a downturn will increase dramatically.
Here are some things you can do in an economic downturn to see if your market niche is in any jeopardy of becoming obsolete.
- Review your advertising campaigns and make sure they are still relevant.
- Determine where your current traffic is coming from and if any of it has changed.
- Check to see if there is still a steady demand for products or services in your market niche and if there is not, find out why.
- Find out who is still buying products or services in your market niche and why they are not affected by the economy.
- Be as proactive as you can possibly be and ask your customers for feedback.
- Conduct surveys or polls to get additional information from your customers.
- In order to help your business survive an economic downturn, it’s important that you become as proactive as possible.
- Use your common sense and try to predict, without emotion, the direction of the prevailing winds to see how you can benefit from it.
Right now a so called GREEN economy may not be any threat to your business; but what happens if Congress passes another stimulus bill or decides to enact additional roadblocks to businesses in your market niche?
Unfortunately, new government regulations enacted during this economic downturn, can have an adverse impact to your market niche almost overnight.
Business owners who will remain in the game when these occurrences come to fruition are those who can identify and quickly adapt to changing conditions.
Be proactive, keep a watchful eye, make informed decisions, and change your marketing strategies as long as your market niche remains viable; otherwise, close your doors and look for another niche.
Many people erroneously use fancy video squeeze pages to get visitors to their sign up to their list assuming that a video will translate into a higher opt in rate.
This thinking is not necessarily correct; in fact video squeeze pages may actually reduce the number of opt ins you receive.
Fundamentally, there are three main reasons why you should not use video squeeze pages to build your list.
1 – Videos generally take a long time to load.
As you already know, people are impulsive and impatient creatures; especially in this day and age.
Video squeeze pages could cause impatient visitors that would normally sign up to your list to leave. This leaves you with opt ins from visitors who are the most patient, but also who are the least impulsive.
Since the biggest spenders and most frequent customers are also usually the most impulsive buyers; it stands to reason that using video squeeze pages will build you a list of the least impulsive subscribers.
Not only is this a bad way to target your audience, it’s bad business.
Why would you want to take a a chance of scaring off impulsive buyers by using a video squeeze page?
If you make your squeeze pages simple, easy to understand and fast loading; your prospects can opt in to view your video at their leisure if they care to learn more.
2 – Unprofessional looking video squeeze pages will drive away visitors.
Squeeze pages should be professional looking and focused on the task at hand; which is getting visitors to opt in to your list.
Don’t put the cart before the horse. The same impatient people that you might lose by using video squeeze pages would probably view your videos after they have opted in and had a chance to learn what you’re all about.
Unprofessional or tedious looking video squeeze pages could actually be driving away traffic and potential opt ins from your site.
When you hear people say “you can’t judge a book by it’s cover”, don’t think for a minute that visitors can’t and won’t judge your squeeze page by it’s appearance. They do.
3 – There is no need for video squeeze pages.
When you stop and think about it, squeeze pages don’t require a video.
Everything you need to say to get people to opt in to your list can be stated in a well written headline.
If you have a complex benefit offer to convey to your visitors, just use the proven tried and true method of using bullet points to get your message across .
Dressing up your squeeze pages by adding fancy videos to them does nothing but slow down the process of getting subscribers to your list.
If you doubt this statement; do your own testing between your video squeeze pages and squeeze pages without a video. I think you’ll be surprised with the results.
Squeeze pages are not intended to improve your name recognition, do any selling or branding; they exist strictly for building an email marketing list for your business. Nothing more.
Once you have your email list compiled you can concentrate on building a relationship with your potential customers and selling your wares.
The easiest quickest way to make a ton of sales and generate free targeted traffic is through the use of your email list so don’t waste your time with fancy video squeeze pages, just keep it simple and build your list.
