A Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Generate Traffic and Make Money from Myspace (Part 1)

Myspace.com is the largest social networking or web 2.0 website with over 1 billion members in their database and their membership is continued to grow steadyly. For people who want to socialize online, it is definitely a great place to make friends, share your content and build your own groups. But for Internet marketers, webmasters and bloggers it is a great tool to generate free targeted traffic and make more money online. So, how Myspace can be used as a marketing tool to generate targeted traffic? The below step-by-step instructions will show you how:

Step 1
Obviously the first step is go to Myspace to sign up an account. Once you have set up your Myspace account successfully, you proceed to login and you'll see the following main features:

• Edit Profile
• Account Settings
• Add/Edit Photos
• Add/Change Videos
• Manage Calender
• Manage Blog
• Manage Address Book

Edit Profile
Profile is one of the most important myspace marketing tools you can use to promote your website, blog or online business. Clicking the 'edit profile' link will allow you to add details to your profile and make it searchable by the 'friends', e.g. the people or niche group you want to attract on Myspace. Here are the options available to customize your profile:

* Headline
It is the place to add a title to your myspace profile page.

* About Me
This is the section to add details and information to promote your website and blog. It is important not to make your about me section read like a blatant sales page as this against Myspace rules. You can start introducing yourself, What you are doing, your area of expertise, tell about about your website, blog and business, some descriptions about your site and blog, share your knowledge, experience and so on.

Myspace allows HTML code in the about me section. So add in some images, graphic, features to make your page look more interesting. You can even change your layout and background using one of the Myspace editors at http://www.strikefile.com/myspace . Keep you Myspace page looks clean and neat.

* I'd Like to Meet
This is the section you tell people who you like to meet. You should focus on finding friends that have interest on your website and blog content, and your products and services.

* Interest, Movie, Music......
Let other know more about you by telling them about your interest and hobbies.

Add/Edit Photo
You need to upload your own photo onto your MYspace page to make friends in Myspace. It will make your Myspace profile a little more interesting and people are more likely to approve your friend requests if they can see your face. Pick the best photo to upload.

The rest of the features you can choose not to use. But they can help in your Myspace marketing if you use them.

A List of News Sharing Sites that Share AdSense Revenue

Google AdSense revenue sharing not just occur in community forums and article directories, it happens in news sharing websites too. Below is a list of news sharing sites that allow you to earn with Adsense by sharing news and articles:

Kick.ie
Kick Have a long list of news and story topics you can post. Share 50% of the AdSense revenue generated on all your published content.

Techtagg
A technology news related sites. Welcome submission of links to your blog stories. Earn 100% of AdSense on your content posted in Techtagg, if you the first 250 members of the site.

SharePointKicks.com
This is a media site focuses on news and content related to Microsoft Sharepoint technologies. Also allow other topics submission. It shares 50% of AdSense income.

10 Mistakes in Affiiliate Marketing that Can Stop You to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing

Although anyone can start an affiliate marketing business but not everyone can achieve success in affiliate marketing. What is the reason? Well, there are 10 of them, actually. There are 10 affiliate mistakes that deter people from succeeding in affiliate marketing business. To avoid all these mistakes, you first need to study them and understand them thoroughly.

1. Believing that visitors would only click on their affiliate links. Although the task of an affiliate is only restricted to pre-selling, pre-selling isn’t just limited to displaying the affiliate links. It also entails enticing visitors to click on them by listing out the benefits of the affiliate products, giving positive recommendations by writing reviews to encourage readers to check out the products.

2. Promoting too many affiliate programs at the same time. If an affiliate markets 8 affiliate programs at the same time, he or she will have 8 affiliate marketing campaigns to handle. Most probably, the affiliate will find difficult to manage all his campaigns and unable to concentrate on each one of his or her affiliate programs in this situation and ends up losing money.

You should begin with one affiliate program; choose a program that you are passionate about. Then put your best effort to market the product. Test different marketing strategies to see which one works best. Once you are making a steady commission with the product, then maybe you can look for second affiliate product to sell.

3. Believing that using a single method of marketing technique is sufficient. There are people actually think that submitting a few articles to article websites will generate the amount of traffic they expected. But this is wrong. Focusing only one marketing technique will limit the number of potential buyers you can send to your affiliate merchant’s website

4. Failing to improve the performance of your marketing campaign. Many affiliates tend to concern on checking their daily commission only and have no interest on studying and analyzing their marketing campaigns performance. When their campaigns don’t work as expected or don’t generate sales, they will fail to make corresponding adjustments because they don’t know which aspects of their campaigns need to be improved. It is essential to learn every aspect of our marketing strategies. Which marketing techniques are attracted most visitors? How many unique and returning visitors generated? How long do they stay in our website? Where they come from? These are the questions that could help us enhance the performance of our affiliate marketing business.

5. Promoting affiliate products that are lacking of demand. Some affiliate programs offer extremely high sale commission to their affiliate. But the products aren’t sellable and thus earning nothing.

6. Failing to find an affiliate program with a proven record of consumer satisfaction. The trustworthiness of a company relies on how people view it. If the affiliate program has established good relationships with their customers, then it has established a brand which is recognizable for its excellent service. You will find easier to pre-selling such an affiliate product.

7. Failing to keep abreast with the latest developments in the industry. There will come a time when the marketing knowledge we know would become obsolete, more so in the field of internet marketing where everything transpires at a rapid pace. You have to constantly update yourself with the newest trends, techniques and news in this field to always keep your competitive edge.

8. Failing to invest on knowledge. Knowledge likewise evolves and you have to evolve with it. Buy noteworthy eBooks, special reports and the likes… those which would teach you the latest tactics to help you conquer your field.

9. Resting on your laurels once a semblance of success is achieved. Success is not eternal. You have to sustain it. If you leave your business alone once it shows the promise of success, you’re just setting it up for failure.

10. Though that affiliate program can help you become rich fast. No, affiliate program isn’t a “get rich quick” scheme. You have to put in a lot of effort and time, and some capital before you can make money in affiliate marketing.

An Important Reminder on A Google AdSense Policy

Displaying AdSense ads just below interesting pictures or images in a website use to be a great way to generate high AdSense click-through rate. But Google has disallowed this optimization technique recently.

There are still websites using this technique. Some them may be not aware about this new policies and some of them knew about it but thought that Google will not take it strictly, may be just a warning if Google found their website against this rule. But my advice to you is remove the AdSense ads that place next to or near your pictures immediately if you are one them who uses this technique because your AdSense account might be banned for this reason. I was told by a webmaster that his AdSense account has disabled by Google due to this reason and most probably his AdSense earning will be disabled as well.

Here are two examples I taken from http://adsense.blogspot.com that don't comply to this policies:




And here a page of a website against this policies currently

http://www.moneymakingstuff.com/internetmarketingseo/

Google is pretty strict to the AdSense publishers. So, do take some time to review your sites and blogs to make sure you are fully comply with the policies of Google AdSense program.

AdSense Master Plan - Guide to Starting an AdSense Business

Kurt Chrisler has written an AdSense e-book. The e-book is called AdSense Master Plan which contains a step-by-step guide from creating an AdSense content-based website to promoting the site in order to generate Google AdSense advertising revenue. You will learn some of tips and ideas such as how to locate underdeveloped niches, perform proper keyword research, ways to build AdSense site, methods of driving traffic to your site, how to optimize your AdSense ads to achieve high click-through rate and more.

Kurt is currently offered this e-book free to the public at http://www.adsensemasterplan.com. To sign up to download this e-book, you need to give your name and e-mail address.

A Free AdWords City/State Keyword Tool

If you are using Google Adwords for your online businesses, This new tool might interest you.

AdWords City and State Keyword Tool

It is created by Jonathan Leger to help people target your geographical market in USA more easily in your AdWords campaign. This tool will take any keywords that you supply and inject the city and/or state combinations for every city in the USA in the keywords for you.

For example, let say you type in 'debt Consolidation' and selected 'California' as your state, and then click generate keyword list. The tool will return:

debt consolidation Los Angeles CA
debt consolidation West Hollywood CA
debt consolidation Bell CA
debt consolidation Bell Gardens CA
debt consolidation Beverly Hills CA
debt consolidation Compton CA

etc.

500 Secret Marketing Strategies

You now have a chance to learn 500 marketing strategies that you may not hear before. Larry Dotson has put together 500 secret marketing strategies in his membership site and you can join his membership site at no cost now to learn the strategies. Here's the link to gain instant access to read all the strategies

http://www.smarketings.com/

Larry claims that these strategies are useful for Internet marketer, copywriters, auction sellers, entrepreneur, home business owner, info publishers and sellers. Below are some of the strategies:

- The Full Profit strategies
- The Just One strategies
- The Lucky Order Button strategies
- The Bonus Lock Down strategies
- The Product A Day strategies

Hope you enjoy reading the tips and strategies.