Automated Traffic Training

Although I am here to teach people how to make money with their own blog, it seems mostly all I do is show blog marketing tactics. There is actually a very good reason for that. The reason is because its easy to set up a website, but getting people to visit it is a whole different matter. Imagine opening a store but having no customers to sell products to. Big bummer. Blog marketing is the biggest part of owning a blog as a source of income.

Today I am going to talk about something different though. Today I want to start talking to you about how to turn the traffic you have generated through blog marketing into cash and profits. In order to do this you have to understand the traffic of the internet.

There are basically three types of people on the internet. There are people who are online to socialize, meet people, and make friends. There are people who are online to learn about topics and be educated about things. Then there are people who are online because they want to make money. This means the vast majority of traffic you get from your blog marketing are people not looking to spend money!

These are key facts for a blogger to know. This is why blogging is so successful. First your blog adheres to the people who like to socialize. People can come to your blog and they can comment back and forth with other people who share similar interests with them. They can also get to know you, the author of the blog, who they already know shares an interest. The interest of course is whatever your blog is about.

These people rarely want to shop online and cheap impulse buying is what they do best. Products and software that are cheap and/or free are the easiest things to advertise to these people. They are not looking for anything but friendship, so unless something really catches there eye and says “buy me now” they are not likely to spend money.

Next if you paid attention to my very first articles you will no that I believe you need an actual topic to focus your blog on. This topic can be anything from paintball to pets or from cars to dating. The point is your articles or blog posts should be teaching people something. Perhaps the newest and greatest in paintball gaming news, perhaps you are teaching how to sew, or perhaps you are teaching the latest video games cheats. The fact is you are teaching something in each of your posts.

Now the people who are coming to your blog to learn something are not exactly looking to shop, but they are not entire against it if they see something worth buying. Each article you create should in some way promote a product or service that would benefit readers of your blog. This way when someone says “hey I didn’t know they came out with a new paintball gun 8000? or when someone says “wow this site really gives me access to all that” they have both learned something and become interested in a new product they otherwise didn’t know existed.

Although the people who visit your blog to learn something are not specifically looking to spend money, if they learn the right things are also not opposed to it. This is the type of blog traffic that you can advertise more expensive products and services too. These are people you want to sign up for monthly based services that can make you money each month when they pay their bill. For example if you are a blog talking about the latest new movie releases you may want to be trying to sell a monthly service to netflix. This way each month when a person renews their subscription you make money.

The last people are actually the easiest to deal with and the ones who unknowing make you the most money. These are the people who are looking to make money! These are the least important people to your blog, but the most important people to your success. This is what makes or breaks a blog and this is the hardest part to figure out.

People who are looking to make money and find your blog, found it because they want to make money the same way you do. This is effectively how you create the infamous downline. What is a downline? A downline are all the people who you get to sign up and make money for you!

What do I mean? It works exactly like this, you sell 5 products for company xyz. Company xyz pays you 50% of every sale you make. So if you make a $10 sale company xyz pays you $5. Company xyz also offers to pay you 25% commission of each person you can get to signup under you and make sales.

This means if you get your friend johnny to start selling products for company xyz and he makes a $10 sale, company xyz will pay you $2.50 for his sales. If you can find 100 people like johnny and they each make $10 sales, then you have made $250 and you haven’t even done anything.

This is the secret of the MLM scam. However we can use the scam that is MLM to help us make money off of others looking to make money. The trick is not finding a great MLM and building a downline, but rather finding products you like and just selling them. After you find the products you want to sell, its just a matter of making it convenient for others to signup under you.

The first question is where do the products come from? You don’t just magically have an unlimited supply of products to sell right? Actually that’s wrong. You do have an unlimited number of products. Most quality companies have what is called an affiliate program. An affiliate program is a program set up by a business so you can become and affiliation of their company. This is basically a glorified way of saying you are a commission based salesperson.

When you signup for a companies affiliate program you get access to special banners, linking codes, and other means of advertising that company and their products. Each time a person clicks your special code and makes a sale on their website you make money. Sound confusing? Its really very simple.

Take friend blaster pro for example. When visiting their website you can see a link at the top right that says “affiliates”. After signing up on that page you receive a banner (seen at the top right of this blog) with a special linking code. Now each time someone clicks that banner and buys a copy of friend blaster pro you get paid $12.00.

So now that you know a little about affiliate programs its just a matter of finding the programs that are selling products you like and can offer on your blog and placing the appropriate advertising in the correct location on your blog. That’s the last thing I am going to discuss with you in this article. How to correctly place your advertising.

Keeping in mind the three different types of people that come to your blog, you want advertising placed in a way that appeals to each market. For your social traffic, those people who buy on impulse, you want advertising that is clearly seen throughout your site. These are your sidebar banners and your top of the page banners.

Imagine if you will that you have a blog about raising children. Your social visitors are coming to your page to learn about you and your interaction with your children. They are likely parents and want to interact with other parents. Like I said before, these people are not looking to buy products.

However if they are visiting your blog and see you have a banner to the Nickelodeon magazine or to the highlights magazine they just may say to themselves “I haven’t seen this magazine sense I was a child and I loved it. I am going to buy a copy for my child”. This is impulse buying at its finest and you have made it super easy just by placing a banner to the right product.

This differs greatly from your traffic that has come to learn something. Using the same parenting blog example lets talk about that traffic. Lets say you were researching a topic about parenting and you came across a new type of stroller just released by Gerber. Now honestly no parent is going to buy a new stroller on impulse. Its either something they need or something they don’t. This is the type of product you can educate a person about!

You make a blog post talking all about strollers and your experiences and perhaps how the back wheels of the model you bought kept sticking making it a pain to use. You mention this new stroller and tell of all its features. Now if someone looking to be educated about strollers finds your blog, they are three times as likely to read a post and make an educated buying decision as they are to just look at a picture and say “that’s the one I want”. Honestly the people who want to look at pictures and decide, are not shopping online! People you educate are the people your blog posts are geared at. These are also the people your highest commission based payouts come from.

The last type of traffic is the ones looking to make money. They come to your blog and see what you are advertising and say “hey I want to do this”. Well you want to make it really easy for them. You want to have a page set up entirely to helping them making money. To do this you do nothing more or less then create a page on your blog that says something to the effect of “webmasters” or “make money” or “affiliates”.

On that page you add links using your affiliate codes (Make sure you check you code. Some affiliate programs give you different code for people to sign up under you). You just list all the companies who you sell products for, a brief description of the types of products they have, and your payout rate. For example you may say something like like this:

Friend Blaster Pro: A great affiliate program for those who get a lot of social traffic. Easy to sell to myspace visitors. They pay $12.00 per sale and 20% for each affiliate referral.

Now when people come to your page looking to make money, they see your affiliate recommendations and sign up under your name. They set up their own blog or website and start making sales for themselves. Only by doing this, they also make you even more money.

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