Tried and True – Email Submits & Polls

When you start out to learn internet marketing, it can be a confusing time. It can be overwhelming for many people. Hopefully you have found a good forum or blog where you can ask questions and receive guidance in your new business venture.

It often happens that new internet marketers are greeted with an overwhelming amount of ideas, methods, and tools. It can be confusing to know who to believe and what to try. One internet marketing method which still works after all these years is the simple “poll”.Perhaps you have heard of this method. It consists of running simple YES/NO polls on the content network on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. This idea has been around a long time. It has been around for years. Some people say this method is outdated, or that it’s a waste of time. I disagree. I enjoy the process of creating poll questions and I start a new one each week.

There are programs available that make it so easy to create a poll on any WordPress blog. You simply search for a hot news topic, write a poll question, find an image related to the topic. Once visitors vote Yes or No on your poll, they are redirected to an email submit offer which can pay .75 to $2 per submission.

Polls are a good introduction to internet advertising. You learn several key skills including market research, keyword research, targeting, poll and question creation, ad creation, tracking, PPC methods on the main search engines, and so much more.

However, if you are an experienced affiliate marketer, and you are comfortable launching high volumes of campaigns on the search engines, then you may not need the learning experience that polls provide. Perhaps money is your motivator? Once you know what you are doing, you can always return to polls to increase your income.

Either way, it’s worth doing a little research into this method of internet marketing. It’s effective, simple, and easy to duplicate once you know what you are doing.

You Can Easily Get Accepted Into CPA Networks

Getting accepted into the CPA networks is something that frustrates many marketers. That’s because so many are used to the automatic acceptance that comes from most of the affiliate marketing networks. CPA networks are pickier because they want a higher quality marketer.

Still, you can get accepted! You’ll want to follow the strategies below if you are turned down (and even before that happens!) by the networks so you can start making money from cost per action offers as soon as possible.

The first thing you need to do is select the networks you want to join. That’s right — you’re going to join more than one. That’s because there are likely a wide variety of offers you want to choose from on the different networks. Something that is available on one network may not be available on another network. Also, you should pay close attention to offers that are available in more than one network. That’s because the payout is not always the same! You might find that the same exact offer pays quite a bit more on another network.

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A Snafu In Niche Blog Monetization

As some of you may know, the iBlogaholic team also designs custom niche blogs via our sister site, TotalTreasureChest.com. One common question we get from potential clients is how to best monetize a niche blog. They all want a basic plan – something to download that will give them all the answers they seek right away. Unfortunately, if you want your blog to be successful, a little more research and planning is going to be required.

Niche blogging, for those who don’t know, is blogging about a specific topic. For example the topic ‘cats’ is a very broad niche. Your blog most likely is going to be buried 300 pages deep in the search engines without some major $$ spent building it up. Building your blog around ‘cat food’, you are now narrowing down your niche and targeting a much more specific audience, that is more likely to find what they are looking for on your site. An even better choice would be to micro-niche your blog further into something such as ‘organic cat food’. Now you have a very specific target audience and can map out a solid marketing and monetization plan.

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