In a recent announcement to all Amazon Associates, it appears that Amazon have been extremely beneficial towards their affiliates – by adding the ability to send a shortened affiliate link to Twitter from any of their products that you care to promote.

If you are already logged into your Twitter account, this is a one click process and a fantastic way to promote Amazon products to your followers on Twitter. If you don’t have a Twitter account (or, if you do but don’t have many followers yet) then watch this space for my next post about Twitter. Read the rest of this entry

Niche Marketing – Part Two: From the Niche Marketing – Part One post I suggested that you need to work out the 2 main metrics for competition and profitability of your intended niche. To start off this process I want to consider keywords.

What is a Keyword?

As a simple definition, a keyword is a word or phrase that a visitor enters into a search site such as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc., to find information or products they are interested in.

As an Internet Marketer, discovering the correct keyword(s) to use on your web pages is THE most important research that you will undertake. These are the money words that will deliver to you, targeted visitors. Once you have these visitors, your web page must close the sale, or at the very least it must pre-sell the product or service, before you direct the visitor off site, through your affiliate link, to make their purchase and your commission. Read the rest of this entry