Comments on: Make Easy Money With Articles, Videos and Affiliate Re-Directs (Fast, Fun & Almost Free)

By: google home income scam or real

google home income scam or real — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:05:47 +0000

Finally, a good site that isn’t in my face trying to constantly sell me something. Thanks, please keep up the good work.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:38:16 +0000

Genius stuff Ian, and actually quite simple as well, I’m smacking myself in the head for not doing this because it really is just so SIMPLE especially with article directories that instantly publish, like Articlesbase which I love and ranks well and allows redirects that aren’t top level.

I think, generally, it’s just a great idea to do all CPA offers with direct linking to the offer. Why send them to a review page/flog when theyre already presold from the article?

Also, I’ve been reading your other stuff on copywriting and making huge headlines and it’s damn good. I’ve never been big on article marketing because I could never get the titles and resource boxes good. But now, I know how to do it.

After a quick search in Ezine and looking at what the most viewed articles are like, they’re very similar to your style of titles writing.

As for the resource boxes, most authors I see STILL are doing the big no-no of “Author is a music lover that blah blah blah….” All of those 5,000 views per week going to waste with a crap resource box…

Thanks Ian, I am so glad I found your blog.

By: ian

ian — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:37:27 +0000

Alan – it’s very simple – you simply use a root level redirection – with your affiliate link..:-) It’s totally compliant within their terms of service – it’s done every day by thousands of people – and it’s nothing that’s going to get your article “kicked” at all. (you can’t redirect from the page or post level of a blog or website and remain within TOS – but we have hundreds of root level redirects – and they are never a problem)

By: alan

alan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:24:19 +0000

come again? on redirects? explain how to write an article on Ezine articles and not get it kicked by showing a direct link to affiliate site…

Thanks

By: ian

ian — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:47:39 +0000

Thanks, Neo! And those “fake” review sites are getting a lot of people shut down – and some in some serious trouble…..Google doesn’t like them, the legitimate affiliate networks don’t appreciate them and ultimately, the “genuine” product manufacturers that have viable products to offer are recognizing that those splogs only generate unhappy customers who were “duped” into buying free trial products that they want to return right away. (which leads to a whole new can of problems for everybody) Overall – it’s a bad business model, and the defintion of something worth avoiding! (even though, yes…..I know alot of the CPA “gurus” are promoting packages that are thinly veiled promotions for that sort of site – trust me – they ain’t gonna work for long – plus I’d love to see some of those affiliates go to a Turkish prison and bunk with the guy from the movie Midnight Express who had one eye an an overactive libido.

I have some good stuff on the blog coming ( I think) next week for some article automation tools with a friend of mine who makes some really good ones that I use and are not widely known – so look out for that – and other than using free automated social bookmarketing tools (like onlywire) and doing really good keyword research, the articles sort of “promote” themselves as if you use EZA they will rank well pretty fast. ( you can use the mass article blast services, too – use the article video service I recommend here – etc – the key is simply BUILD-A-LIST with your articles, and everything else will fall into place!)

By: Neo

Neo — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:26:37 +0000

Hi Ian,I am really very grateful for this great information. This is exactly the info i was looking for…..

Actually, i got bit discouraged from some sorts of “review type” sites, where site-owners were TELLING fake stories(especially in health related CB products ) about the prodocuts while pre-selling….That seems bit unethical to me….
And i think redirection is best solution for me at start.Really very thankful to you…….

IAN i have a question, What possible strategies can we use for Promoting an article? And what sort of autmated and free tools are available for this purpose?…..
And how much effort should we put for promoting a single article….? I know possibilities are endless, just asking about simple viable strategy.

Hope to hear from you very soon,,,,,And really very impressed by your great contribution…….

Bless You!:)

To your Success…..
Neo

By: Patt

Patt — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:22:34 +0000

Thanks again. I wasn’t trying to call you out. I have to confess that I was secretly hoping that you would come back with something like, “Of course, you can put a live link in a video, you silly lady. It’s something that I have been keeping under wraps and now I am going to share it with you, my faithful reader”. But, I will definitely settle for the little tidbit you gave about placing random CTR’s throughout the video. I know I would not have thought of that myself. Cheers.

By: ian

ian — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:54:25 +0000

Thanks, Patt…:-) And you are RIGHT (oops!) I was wrong about the link out – you CAN watermark the video obviously – and it stays “put” throughout the show – and of course – the URL at the end as well displays in the credits – BUT – the watermarked URL requires a manual type in. ( I truly didn’t recognize this until yesterday – when I was looking at some of the vids we had posted that are ranking really, really well – BUT – when I tried to click on that pesky link “in” the url we watermarked….it wasn’t going anywhere. If I hadn’t had like 5 glasses of wine first – I would have immediately said “oooops..” – but instead, being stubborn I just figured brute force would make it work eventually..:-)

The one thing we’re doing to help that along in terms of CTR – is just plugging in some random calls to action in the middle of the video – i.e. – little breaks just using (go to xyz.com now for special this or that, etc). Overall I’ve been extremely impressed with the service – and other than having “howcast” politely remove most of our videos as “not real how to’s” – it’s really a great way of promoting stuff. (especially REAL stuff – I’ve been doing all affiliate products so far – but it has even greater promise for “real” content and articles, etc)