How To Use Twitter for your Affiliate Blogging business

Affiliate blogging can only be made successful if you have consistent web traffic coming to your blog. One of the many ways of getting traffic is by using social media marketing and the best place to start is no other than Twitter. If you don't have a Twitter account yet, better start one now. It's the hottest social media networking service right now and by far the easiest way to get traffic for free.

Why Twitter?

There are millions of people using Twitter as we speak. People all over the world are using it to share views, latest update, latest gossip, new gadgets etc. And it's all done with a simple tweet message that is no more that 140 words. You get to follow friends and people of the same interest and at the same time their friends can follow you. The idea is to get as many people to follow you and update them with the latest article/blog that you would like to share. The best thing about Twitter is that when you tweet, your friends can re-tweet it to their friends and their friends can do the same thing and the word can be spread to a whole lot of people which in turn gives you a whole lot of exposure. So that's what makes Twitter a great tool for your affiliate business.

The main thing is to get as many followers as possible. Here's how you increase your followers.

• Put up a brief but thorough profile of what you're about and what you're into. This will make it easier for people to know your interest and learn a bit about you. Remember to put a link to your blog in your profile. Make a statement by setting up your own background. There's a lot of cool backgrounds that you can try out. A really cool place I would like to suggest is FreeTwitterDesigner.com. You can design your background there and then for you to upload onto your Twitter.
• Start by following your friends or people with the same interest. If someone follows you, be sure to follow back. The more you follow, the more people will follow-back. But be aware of robots and spammers who only uses twitter to advertise stuff. It's no fun having a bunch of ads on your page your not even interested in. The main idea of using twitter to get web traffic is to get REAL people to follow you and share your stuff with REAL people.
• Tweet about whatever you want. If you're not used to it. Start by tweeting about what you're up to or what you're feeling right now.You'll get the hang of it eventually and start tweeting about other stuff like the latest buzz or updates on your blog. Once in a while share fun-facts, hot gossip or whatever Justin Bieber's up to (apparently he's a hot topic right now). Re-tweet whatever you think is interesting. Make your tweets human. You don't want to be annoying your followers by sounding like a robot 24/7. They may end up blocking you if you do.  
• You will reach a point when you get to many followers that it's hard for you to keep track of them all. When you do, you can use an Auto-follow service (which is free) like 'Social Oomph' that allows you to automatically follow anybody that follows you. But then if you want more followers and you want to do it the easy way there are a few Auto-find services that allow you to automatically find people for you (with a small fee) without violating the Twitter follow policy. It you're interested, I would suggest Tweetomatic Profiteer 
• You can make your tweets viral to get more twitter followers. How it works is actually you join a service and follow a number of people and you are given a special link to a particular web page. If you promote that link to your friends or others (via email etc.) When they reach that page, they subscribe and they will have to follow you. And they would have to promote their link for other people to subscribe and get other followers. And this would go on 7 levels down. For example, if you are able to send 4 people to follow you and each of those people promoted and got 4 people to sign up and after 7 levels down you would have had 87,380 followers. This is also something free you can try out to get more twitter followers. Although it might get you a handful of followers in a short period of time, it may not be 'targeted' but would still work in giving your blog more exposure.You can try it out here.
• Maximize exposure of your Twitter account by putting links to your twitter account on your Facebook, Myspace and also your blog to increase your exposure. There are a number of cute badges that you can choose from and since most social media networking services are already integrated with Twitter, it won't be something hard for you to do.

Okay, So understand everything so far. The idea is to increase your followers and turn them into your web traffic or leads. The more followers you have, the higher the chances are that they will check out your blog. But try not to promote stuff to them too often. Remember, we're all humans. Don't be an annoying salesman. Because nobody wants a sales-robot as a friend.

How to get web traffic for free

Having a regular web traffic coming to your blog is very important. You wanna make money online you have to have people coming over to see your stuff in your blog. Let's face it. No traffic, no blog. So what can you do if you don't wanna spend money to get traffic to your blog?

1. Article marketing can help you build back-links to your blog. This idea would need a bit of effort from you since you would have to write new articles/posts every other day. But article marketing is very effective in terms that it would help show off what you can offer to your readers and in return help you find loyal people coming back to your blog.
2. Social media marketing For example, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Digg  etc I'm sure is nothing new to you. Another important aspect when you want to make money online is networking. You heard what they say about if Facebook is a country it will be the 4th largest country in the world? This sort of networking if done right can bring you a lot of web traffic to your blog
3. Making videos will get people's attention. Anyone can write, but adding your own 'how-to" video will be an added advantage. Youtube is a great tool to use to gain web traffic to your blog. 
4. Commenting is another sure way of getting traffic. Leaving comments on other people's blog would help create back-link to your blog and get the robots crawling over on their page to crawl on yours too. So leave some useful comments on other articles. This tactic not only get those curious ones to check you out but you can learn some useful things from others along the way.

So there you have it. Easy ways to get traffic for free. Yeah sure it's easy. But these tips don't get you the results you want overnight. It will take some time and a whole lot of effort from you to get those people to come to you. So be patient trying it out ok. Good luck!

Start Blogging Today!

Blog today! It's very simple. Once you have picked your niche, everything else should be a breeze with some proper blogging tips and tricks, of course. I like to start blogging with blogger because it's easy to start compared to other blogging platforms. So here's how you start a blog with Blogger.

1. First off, you have to register with Blogger by signing in with your Google account (Gmail, etc.) here. If you don't have one, you can easily open a Gmail account here.
2. After signing in, you have to choose a name and address for your blog. Pick one that is related to your niche. For example, it you're into hair care (i.e. haircarewithkatie.blogspot.com). Make it simple and easy for people to remember your blog. Putting a name that is related your niche would help your blog ranking and indexing in search engines.
3. You should pick a simple theme for your blog which is readable for your your viewers. A good tip about picking a theme that I've learnt is to have your blog posts on your left while the gadgets on your right.This is because some experts claim that search engine robots read your blog from left to right.
4. Then post your introductory post. Make a short post introducing yourself and what your blog is about. 
5. Finally set your blog settings according to your preference. Just remember to have your blog set to public view by picking 'yes' for "blog to our listings" and "Let search engines find your blog".

And there you have it! Your first blog. I'll be posting more blogging tips that would be useful for you soon. In the mean time, keep your blog filled with content. Update your blog with posts from time to time and remember to be consistent and put your keywords in. Have fun blogging!

How to start as an affiliate blogger

Being an affiliate blogger is one of the many ways to make money from the internet and it's not that hard. There's no cost and not much of a hassle to start being one. Basically, being an affiliate your job is to help a publisher sell his product. You don't even have to make a sales pitch to sell it. You just have to put a link in you blog that directs your readers to the sales page and your readers can buy it from there. So, interested to start??

Here's what you should do to be an affiliate.

• Register with an affiliate program. Publishers would have an affiliate program if they want affiliates to sell for them. Like Malaysian publisher, they usually have their own affiliate program while American publishers like to put their products in Clickbank, the biggest affiliate program in the world.
• Get your affiliate ID. After registering, an ID will be given to you and also a link which you can put on your blog.
• Place this link anywhere on your blog for your readers to click on and you're all set.

When someone is interested, the link that you put in will take them to the publisher's sales page for them to buy the product and you will get the commission if a sale is made.

Sound pretty simple so far right? What's the catch?

Well, affiliate blogging is pretty popular and a lot, i mean A LOT of people are doing it. So there are a lot of competition out there depending on your niche. But that doesn't mean it's impossible to earn money from affiliate blogging. The key idea is to build traffic and a few other tips that you have to follow to get people to click on your link. But that will be discussed some other time, okay?

Intrested to try out Affiliate Blogging?

What is affiliate blogging exactly. To make it simple. It's just you promoting someone else's product and getting profit from it. Sound easy, right? Well, not exactly. In case you haven't noticed yet, there are thousands and I mean THOUSANDS of affiliate bloggers at the moment. Some already made it big time and the others are trying to get there.

So why sell someone else's product and not your own? Just like any other product, you wouldn't buy something from a brand you don't trust right? Take cosmetics for example. If some new brand comes out and you have no idea where it's from, what ingredients they use, or even who made them would you dare to put that stuff on your face and PAY for it? Same goes for internet marketing. People have to know who you are and trust you enough to take out their credit cards and buy your product. So that's why you do affiliate blogging to earn some extra bucks while you build your list and get people to know you better.

Since there are already too many affiliate bloggers out there here's a few tips on how to make it work for you.

• Pick a good product : It's best that your product is something you already tried yourself and think it's beneficial for others to try it out too.
• It's all in the marketing. : There are a bunch of ways to market your product. Social marketing(facebook, twitter, etc.), article marketing, email marketing. Make the most of them all.

Being an affiliate blogger has it's benefits. With all the linking with other websites, building your list and getting all that traffic to your site will make you rank well in search engines and make you well on your way to earning money online. Go for it! :)

Welcome!!!

Hi!

Thanks for dropping by. I bet you're here because these questions also haunts your mind.

• Is affiliate blogging a fact or scam?
• How will you know it's real or not?
• Can you really make money online out of it?

Well, this blog is to share with you my opinions about these issues and to know what you think about it too. Come back again for more of my posts k?