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Use Twitter For Affiliate Marketing | How To Guide
If you are reading this article then you are curious as to how you are going use twitter for affiliate marketing. Social network marketing has become one of the top ways to market your business or products over the past few years. Many people are having very successful results from directly working with the website Twitter alone. *Please note that the techniques discussed in this aritlce can be applied to other social networks.*
If you are currently using Twitter to market your referral links then you are thinking along the right path. Twitter has been the biggest buzz in social networking because the concept behind it is so different from the competition. Twitter takes the user's micro blog postings and pushes them to a real time database / search engine for anybody to read anywhere in the world. For an affiliate marketer that means instant search engine results with little original content. One could also say that Twitter is a free Adwords-type search engine!
Top 5 Best URL Shorteners | Why Shorten A URL?
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You may want to know why you should use a URL shortener for your web address'? Why should you make your links shorter and why would you want to have them pointing to some other website? Where would you even have the need to use short URLs, and why would you need to use them there? I know that these may be just a few of the questions that are floating around in your head right now because I asked them to myself.
The simple concept behind a short URL is just that your link becomes much smaller. Thus making it less over all characters so that you have more room for your message, idea, or thought. The shortener web applications will take a URL that is 65 (more or less) characters long and shorten it down to about 20 or less. Some are a little more then 20 characters long when shortened, and others are less than the 20. Regardless of the exact size of your new URL, it is still much smaller then your original longer version.
Free Backlinks With Article Marketing
How are you going to build free nonreciprical backlinks to your website? I know that it can be hard to do this and that it can be time consuming. I will tell you the most effective way that I know about how to build free backlinks to your website. I suggest you look into article marketing - submit articles to article directories and put a link back to your website.
Time is going to pass each and everyday and there is nothing that we can do about it, at least not yet anyway. You may as well as build a backlink daily or weekly so that over the course of a year you could put 52 to 365 solid one way and free backlinks to your website. I suggest using article marketing to leverage your website above the rest of your competition in your niche category.
Why use article submissions to article directories as a form of marketing? In short, article directories are huge sites and generally have a decent Google page rank. If you can get inbound links from large websites with a nice page rank then you can get above the rest of the pack in your niche area. This method has recently come about and has proven to work many times over. The concept of free backlinks is old, but article marketing is a new outlook on the old idea.
Will any article directory work or does it have to be a special one? Well, to answer that question I would say that no - any ol' article directory will not suffice. You should do some minor research on the directories that you want to work with. I suggest not submitting your writing to directories with a low page rank and duplicate content. Which brings me to my next area of discussion.
Can I just copy and paste my current blog articles into a directory and submit it? Yes, you can and no you can all at the same time. I say that yes you can because who is going to stop you? I say no you can because it will be a duplicate copy of your exact text that is already out there on your blog. Google is the main search engine right now and they penalize duplicate content. That search company would rather take both results out of their index than have both listed. So if you want to go backwards then go ahead and take the shortcut and replicate your content.
What should I do if I do not want to create new content just for the directories? I do not have the time to rewrite all my articles, but I want free backlinks. That is a great question that has been emailed to me about 250 gazillion times already. (Yes, slightly over exaggerated) To answer the question I would say that you should just copy and paste your currently written content and then reword most of it. Yes, this can be a royal pain in the rear however it will save you tons of time if you just rephrase your current text. Espeically if it is your work already - it is easy to spin off of a topic that you already know about. This is not the same as just duplicating your ideas because you will be converting the thoughts to new original works.
Alright - I am sold on the idea of how to get free backlinks with article marketing, but where should I start? If you are looking for a solid place to get started then you can utilize some of these directories below. I suggest using a few to get started with. I feel that it is better to use a few article directories multiple times for multiple articles rather then use many directories once for just one article. I typically use about 3-5 good article directories and so far I am happy with the results that they have been giving me.
Here are some great article directories that will help you to build free backlinks to your website.
- www.zimbio.com
- www.goarticles.com
- www.ezinearticles.com
- www.articledashboard.com
- www.helium.com
- www.buzzle.com
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How To Guide To Twitter Online Marketing | It's Free Easy and Highly Effective
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The safest way to use Twitter is to build solid relationships with humans and not computers. It is best to search and look for like minded people who share your same or similar interest. Twitter is a giant text message, so you will be able to find who is real and who is marketing. Once you get a person to follow go from there.
Your followers should become your low level acquaintances. Converse with them, and ask stimulating questions to help drive the conversation and the relationship forward. Avoid users that are just posting spam and are automated. (If someone can direct message or @reply you within seconds of your response then they are a robot.)
The above guidelines are the fundamentals to a solid referral base built by Twitter. The below is a simple 5 step How-To guide on the system.
1. To begin marketing yourself on Twitter you will have to first get on the network. Some people when signing up use false information, however you should use your real name and a real picture. Become what you are targeting. If you look like a person then chances are people will follow you. If you look like a get rich quick scheme then people are going to avoid you!
2. Find familiars who are like you or at least share the same interest as you. Seek out and follow a certain number of people each and every day. (Set a low number to achieve at first then work you way up from there.) Once you have followed these people go back to their sites and start to add all their followers. (Do not worry about the people that they are following though!) As always, when following new people, weed out the machines and do not follow them.
It is hit or miss to try to figure out a conversion rate or a percentage of follows to actual followers. I can just tell you how to play the system and how to beat it over time. Kind of like counting cards will give you an advantage at 21. These tips and tricks are very similar to having that type of insight into the instant social networking market.
3. Follow new people every single day. It doesn't matter if you just follow 100 each day or 900, just start following real people. Follow the method above about finding familiars and following them. This step is making step two habitual. There are great places out there to find followers. Use TwittFollow to build a quick and impressive follower train. People will jump in line and you will get your new followers this way effortlessly.
4. Strike up conversations with people using the @replies so that Twitter sees that you are an active member in the community. Twitter has been changing and evolving since the beginning. They now have bots that watch the bandwidth, conversations over the network, and they are blocking spammers. You wouldn't want to lose your account after the time t took to build a huge follower base and then get deleted because Twitter didn't see you say one single hello to someone via an @reply, do you?
5. Wait a few days and weed out the people that are not following you back. You have to do this in the beginning so that you can rise above the 2,000 following bar. Once you have over 2k in followers it will not matter how many follows you have in comparison to your followers. However, I would still thin out the people that are not followers and keep adding real and new people.You can use FriendOrFollow.com to help you to metaphorically pull your unwanted weeds from your garden.
If you can follow these few easy to learn steps on how to correctly market on Twitter then you will see high conversion rates for your referral links or whatever you are promoting. I use Twitter to let everybody know about CashCrate and how great it is.
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