Another Local Market Beauty - That can go nation wide

Chasing the serps for local market is now turning into a fun past time for me.  Even though I am woking hard on my craigslist for car dealers service it still does not let the affiliate in my die.  It may be to my detriment some with me going after these local markets but it will still be fun.

I have talked about going after Tulsa special auto finance terms before.  I transfered a property that I had geared towards that market to someone for a trade out, but it is just to juicy to pass up.  The market there is soft and even the ones that think they know seo are losing thier local terms and they have a brick and mortar car dealership there.

The first site I created going after Bunswick GA used car terms is already showing a nice income after just two days. So I will wonder how long it will take before I see antything from the Tulsa bad credit auto loan market.

Capitalizing on Localized Traffic - Using Wordpress

Using various tools you can build nice local sites that will drive adsense and affiliate revenues.  Local traffic is a lot easier to capitalize on than national traffic in certain niches.  Using a variety of tools you can get a lot of content out there targeting local search terms and get better conversion, albeit lower traffic.

A site that I built to get traffic on Brunswick car dealers will have over 100 pages in the next thirty days and go after local terms like 2009 Shelby Mustang near Brunswick.  It will be monetized with adsense, ebay and auto lead affiliate programs.

This strategy to reach in market car buyers on a local level is far superior than chasing national traffic for car dealers with terms like Nissan delivers.  The traffic will be more substantial and last longer than a flash in the pan promotion.

This will also help me prove a case study on using wordpress for dealer micro sites on how to win the most local keyword the fastest.

Discovering Very Unlikely Niches Using Squidoo

There is no doubt about it I love squidoo.  In helping a persona recently we discovered a niche that is prime for the exploiting by accident.  We created one lens targeted to buy here pay here and the traffic is incredible for what I thought was a worthless search term.

Not only is the traffic good the income from the affiliate networks is nothing to sneeze at either.  This coupled with the squidoo traffic and the earning power of squidoo this is definitely a tool that any bum marketer should utilize.  Currently I earn a little over $300 a month from squidoo.  Nothing to sneeze at.

Oh well time to figure out some some other niche to exploit.

Automotive Marketing - Now is the Time for Affiliates to Get Geared Up

Right now car dealers are closing left and right and they are not spending money like they should online.  Mainly because car dealers do not understand it as well as traditional advertising.  The Internet is DrivingSales at an alarming rate and it is a way for affiliates who wish to captialize on the automotive industries weak internet presence will be way a head of the game when the industry starts to recover.

Just the other day I was speaking with a Hyundai Dealer who does not have a clue about the Internet and they were wondering why their website traffic was flat.  It is because affiliates were kicking their ass for their own name.  it is the dealers that are taking advantage of this soft spot that will win at the end of the day when the market recovers.

On another note the lens my protegie made to generate leads for Tusla Chevrolet Dealers is already showing in the search eninges on page five.  It will not be long before it is on page one.  I will estimate the time that it will take is about 2 weeks.

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Getting out of Mainstream Niches

One of the most often overlooked niches by affiliate marketers is the B2B niche.  I am not starting to launch some campaigns that will run to target business to business sector most notably small local businesses.

With the economy is as bad shapes as it is in now it is the time to capitalize on these on these markets to help them expand their reach.  I have been researching some affiliate networks that will help accomplish this goal while at the same time be affordable enough for it to be a minor investment for them and achieve ROI at the same time.

It will be fun to see if I can pull this off and make it profitable both for me and the businesses that choose to engage these products and services.

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Keeping it up

Apparently I am doing something right here. In just four days I have generated a little over $400 in affiliate income from my arbitrage experience.

I am adding three more campaigns today. I am sure that they all will not be as responsive as the one I am currently running. The good thing is I am over $400 in profit so I have some flexibility to experiment.

My ultimate goal is to have 15 campaigns going at one time and continually researching others. I have done this with basically no out of pocket money. If you remember I got $20 in free advertising from the Bidvertiser. (see button on left) I have now over spent the $20 but it is because I am in profit.

For my next three campaigns I will be dedicating $300 in advertising total. $100 for each campaign. I will post the details of each one in a later post.

Keep coming back it works...

Ebooks and why not to waste your money on them

I have recently gained access to to several hundred ebooks out there. I have found that most all ebooks about making money online are a huge RIP OFF.

All the crap they package up and sell is available for free. If you search hard enough it is out there for free on the WWW. Almost every ebook I have read over the last year is the same diatribe repackaged and full of affiliate links to other bullshit.

The only benefit in an ebook that I can see is a complete moron can use it as a foundation to build upon and learn what to look for. So if you are a complete moron go out and buy all the ebooks you can find and I will promise you will be out several hundred to thousands of dollars and just be poorer for the process.

Ok sorry for the rant but I had a recent phone call with an online friend and her desperation after spending so much money on this crap and she still has not made any more money due to the process.

The first thing you need to do if you want to make money online is to "Just Do It" don't sit on your laurels and wait for the magic formula to appear.

Get off your ass and do something, anything even if it is starting a crappy blog like this one.

My first experiement with traffic arbitrage

Well I have finally taken to plunge into trying my hand at traffic arbitrage. Chances are if you have found this page you already know what traffic arbitrage is.


If not here is the .02 definition:

It is buying traffic for one price and selling it for another. I am using contextual advertising on other sites to drive traffic to an affiliate program.

From dictionary.com

ar·bi·trage /ˈɑrbɪˌtrɑʒ for 1, 3; ˈɑrbɪtrɪdʒ for 2/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ahr-bi-trahzh for 1, 3; ahr-bi-trij for 2] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, -traged, -trag·ing. –noun

1.	Finance. the simultaneous purchase and sale of the same securities, commodities, or foreign exchange in different markets to profit from unequal prices.

Here is exactly what I did:

I purchased $90 dollars in advertising to drive traffic to an affiliate program that pays $28 per sign up for a $1.87 product sale.

I will have to generate 4 sales to be in profit on this gambit.

I should generate 250 clicks and with only a 2% conversion I will be in profit.

My ad should be approved in two days. I will post a follow up after the first 24 hours it is live.