I feel there are so many angles from which I could make a review of Andrew Hansen’s new blogging software Firepow.
I thought I might focus here on one particular element of the program which I consider to be particularly intregal to the success of a blogger, namely, the ability to drive traffic to their blog.
If you’ve ever started a blog, or any form of website trying to earn some cash, you’ll know it’s not exactly a case of “if you build it they will come”.
Even a great blog doesn’t guarantee traffic and a major part of a bloggers focus has to be spreading the word about their blog in a variety of ways in order to continually increase traffic and profits.
Sure, I could have talked about the blog creation and management aspects of Firepow, which I know so many new online marketers and bloggers will find so valuable. But for me, I’m more concerned about how the program can help a user increase traffic and make more money.
Anyway, that said – I thought I’d make a brief mention of some such features of the program in order to open your eyes to the ways this program might be as much a benefit to you as I predict it will be for me.
The first thing I like, or perhaps category of thing I like, is the ability the user has to easily generate backlinks to their blog once it’s up and running.
When you start a new blog, you want enough search engine spider juice to your site to have it able to rank well for long tail uncompetitive keywords, purely by on page optimization, within a few days of being created.
In addition to giving you powerful on page optimization capabilities (like allowing you to set the meta data AND h1h2 tag data for every post or page), Firepow lets you quickly generate the spider juice you need to get indexed and potentially ranking for an uncompetitive term.
For example, as soon as your site is created, you can click a button to have your RSS feed submitted to a bunch of RSS directories. You’ll get some valuable link backs, plus some great spider activity right off the bat. Not to mention the ping from your post.
Furthermore, if you choose to, you could use a tool called BlogLove Builder, to quickly and easily implement a trackback to a popular blog post within your own blogs first post – and instantly generate more link juice, and even a few visitors right from the get go too!
Furthermore, if you focus on search engine traffic you’ll know about the importance of link building in locking in long term rankings. Initial spider juice can get you a quick ranking, but for a LASTING ranking, you need an assortment of relevant quality backlinks establishing your page as an authority on that keyword.
Firepow has that more than covered, giving you the ability to obtain links from social networks, blog comments, and in content links from Firepow’s own network of high PageRank blog sites as well.
I stress that even what I’ve mentioned here isn’t close to all of the tools Firepow gives you to drive traffic to your site. And it’s for that reason among many that ‘m recommending all my blog readers to check it out for themselves.
Here’s the link:
http://getfirepow.com/?&aff_id=3248
Affiliate marketing may be defined as:
“Selling products of other people on the internet”
Affiliate Marketing is a simple but powerful concept. It is known as the easiest and the quickest way of earning on the net.
The basic concept of affiliate marketing is to sell the products of other companies on a commission basis, on the internet. The affiliate marketer receives a sales commission on every sale, from the merchant.
You need to follow these simple and easy steps to start earning as an affiliate marketer.
1. First of all you need to search a market which you think is the best to start with. Health, sports, clothing, computers, etc. are examples of some hot market areas for an affiliate marketer.
2. Register with some suitable affiliate program. Choose product(s) to sell. These products are called affiliate products.
3. For every product, you will receive a specific affiliate link. Now you need to promote your affiliate link to get more and more sales. The success of affiliate marketing depends on this step.
4. Finally, after selling the product, you will receive the affiliate commissions from the merchant.
How to Choose an Affiliate Product
Before choosing any product or market, the basic thing you should always remember is that you must have a complete knowledge about the demand and worth of the product. You should choose a product which has a big demand plus it is also more profitable. There are some products which are very demanding but they do not give a healthy profit. Some products carry both the qualities and are ideal for you to start with.
Promote Your Affiliate Link
After choosing the products, you will receive your affiliate links for each product. You can use many ways to promote your affiliate link. The most popular methods are websites, newsletters, emails, blogs, classified directories etc. You can use all these methods of promotion, at the same time, for best results. There are many other tools and methods to do this. The key point is how to drive the traffic that is really interested in what you are offering. If interested and serious, people will visit your website etc, thus being greater chances of sales.
When a visitor clicks on your affiliate link, visits the merchant’s website and makes a purchase, you will receive your commission. So the number of sales directly depends on how many people see your affiliate link and visit the merchant website.
How Payments are made to Affiliate Marketers?
There are different ways of paying the commissions. You can get the commissions through checks (to any country of the world). If you have an online account, then you can be paid through PAYPAL as well. International wire transfer procedure is also used for this purpose. Different merchants offer different ways to transfer money. Usually commissions are paid on the start of every month after verifications.
What is the Benefit of being a Merchant?
Merchants, who want to sell products, have two options. The can sell their product on their own or choose to have affiliate marketers. The affiliate marketers will do a promotion of the products and sell the products for the merchant. If merchant chooses to sell the product through the affiliate marketers, it takes less effort and cost to promote the products. Now it becomes the duty of the affiliate marketers to promote the products. Greater are the number of affiliates, greater are the sales for the merchant.
The Blogger software is very user friendly and best of all free to the user. It has all the features that you need like widget ready and the ability to rearrange the layout with a simple click and drag. There are a dozen or so templates to choose from to give yourself many options.
There are various widgets to choose from here a list of them
Slideshow Add a slideshow of your photos to your blog.
Poll Survey your visitors by adding a poll to your blog.
List Add a list of your favorite books, movies, or anything you like.
Link List Add a collection of your favorite sites, blogs, or web pages.
Picture Add a picture from your computer or from somewhere else on the web.
AdSense Earn revenue by displaying relevant ads on your blog.
Text Add some words to your blog – like a welcome message – with our rich text editor.
HTML/JavaScript Add third-party functionality or other code to your blog.
Feed Add content from an RSS or Atom feed to your blog.
Labels Show all the labels of posts in your blog.
Newsreel Automatically add current headlines from Google News to your blog.
Video Bar Display clips from YouTube and Google Video for your readers to watch without leaving the page.
Logo Choose from a variety of Blogger logos to add to your page.
Profile Display information about yourself.
Blog Archive Display links to older posts.
Page Header Display your blog’s title and description.
It also has an edit html section that you can change your page if you happen to know html.
Your blog will also ping after every post. There is also a feature to that allows you to email your blog with articles
to post.
You also can moderate comments you receive from your blog. Blogger has some great features to get yourself a blog up and running in no time.
