Link Cloaking and Affiliate Marketing – Why You Aren’t Getting The Sale

So you made an amazing auto-responder email series, you wrote tons of brilliant articles, and you have an extremely catchy Landing Page that sucks in the leads. Yet somehow you’re getting almost no sells and you don’t understand why. Sound familiar? I know this is a pretty common problem, but it’s unfortunate that people still haven’t figured out what’s causing it.

I’ll try to explain a little of what’s happening to your sales throughout this article. Contrary to what you might be thinking – it is completely possible that your sales funnel is making tons of sales, but you’re not seeing any of the commission. Obviously this is a pretty big problem that you’ll want to take care of as soon as possible.

Basically what’s happening is this: the user is changing your affiliate ID to their own, or spyware on their computer is doing it. Both of these will stop you from getting credit for the sale even though you’re the one who made it. There’s no way that you can stop them from doing that, unless you cloak your link.

Link cloaking is when you program a redirect on your website that hides affiliate ID’s and makes it impossible for spyware or users to stop you from getting sales.

I hope you realize the difference this could make, you could be giving someone else all of your sales already. Instead of making money from your sales funnel you might be just handing it off to someone else.

Even if you make sales all the time without problems, some of them might still be stolen. It shouldn’t hurt anything to start cloaking your links so you lock in the sales. The problem is that it can be hard to make a good link cloak, unless you’re a programmer (or something of that nature).

Instead you can use one of the many link cloaking services on the internet, but I wouldn’t suggest you just use the first one that you find. Many of these will actually mess up the tracking cookies and you STILL won’t get credit for the sale. You need to make sure that you’re using a cloaking service designed for affiliate marketing – and there aren’t nearly as many of those.

I have heard horror stories of people who used redirection services such as TinyURL and Bit.ly – apparently they are notorious for often screwing up affiliate links and not giving you credit for any sales. Most other link shortening services will have these problems as well.

The best link cloaker is one that you can put on your own site so you don’t have to worry about anything breaking down or not working properly. As I mentioned earlier though, this can be difficult to make if you aren’t a programmer – or willing to pay one.

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How to Prevent Affiliate Commission Theft

Here are the top three ways to start banking more affiliate cash as soon as today:

1. Stop using direct affiliate links.

You probably already know that it’s a good idea to cloak (hide) your affiliate links. Doing so will help ward off the link hijackers who switch in their affiliate ID for yours, and thus steal your commission when they buy the product. It also virtually reduces the number of buyers who “cut off” the affiliate portion of a link and go straight to the sales page (perhaps thinking that doing so will somehow give them a better deal).

But there’s another reason to use direct affiliate links: Namely, because you could end up with hundreds of “dead” links all over the Internet.

You see, if you make a blog post, Twitter about an affiliate product or include your direct affiliate link in an ebook, then what happens if the vendor stops selling that product? You’ll have dead links. Maybe hundreds of them.

If instead you use a redirect link, you can change the redirect link to point from the dead affiliate link to a similar affiliate product in just a minute or two. And in doing so, you could potentially save thousands of dollars in affiliate commissions.

2. Look for these common sales leaks.

If you don’t vet the sales process thoroughly, you may find that the biggest thief is the product vendor! Sometimes the vendor is just a new marketer who doesn’t know any better. Other times, you may find vendors who are deliberately trying to rip you off.
Here are some things to look for:

Google AdSense ads on the sales page. Some marketers don’t realize that a sales page shouldn’t have any distractions, and that the only way to leave a sales page is via a back button or the buy button. Other marketers know exactly what they’re doing – you send them traffic for free, and they get the money every time someone clicks on their ads. Either way, avoid these vendors.

Alternative payment options. Another sneaky way product vendors reach into your pocket is by offering multiple payment options on the affiliate landing page. This is only troublesome IF you don’t credit if the customer chooses a different option.

For example, if the vendor uses Clickbank for affiliate tracking, then obviously you won’t get a penny if the vendor encourages customers to call their orders in.

Customer service reps that send visitors to a new page. Watch out for this sneaky trick: sometimes when a prospect has a question, the customer service rep (or the vendor) sends the customer to a different sales page. End result? You lose the commission!

3. Find out what loopholes the vendor will use to keep your money.

Here’s one last tip: Always read the TOS (terms of service) and affiliate agreement. Sometimes you’ll find outrageous payment thresholds that allows the vendor to legally keep your money until you reach that threshold! Other times the vendor charges a huge “accounting fee” just to cut you your check.

Did you know that many clickbank merchants are blatantly stealing your commissions from right under your nose?

It’s true. And the modus operandi of these thieves?

Simple … the float in subscription form.

Imagine the scene: You have just been charged $0.25 by Google Adwords for a click that has sent someone through your clickbank affiliate link to the product sales page. When they arrive there however, a form slides into view asking for their email address in return for a free download on the same topic, such as a sample chapter, a related ebook by the same author, or a demo version of the software.

As potential buyers, many visitors will want to look at this before making a purchase decision. So they surrender their email address and are forwarded away from the sales page to one asking them to check their email now for the download.

Moments later, “your” customer is reading an email they have received directly from the clickbank merchant and are are clicking back to the website with the vendors own clickbank link, and in so doing, overwriting your cookie with their own. Bye bye commission!

The solution is but one: Stay away from these vendors.

Some Affiliates lose a fairly hefty amount of my sales commissions to affiliate link hijacking. How do I know it’s a ‘hefty’ amount? Well, ANY money that is stolen from me qualifies as ‘hefty’.

There are two types of commission thieves, consumers and other affiliates. Consumers steal affiliate commissions by removing an affiliate’s ID from the URL prior to clicking through to the site. It baffles (and cheeses) me that consumers would deprive the affiliate of their rightful
commission. As it costs them no more money to buy through the affiliate, I must assume that these folks are inherently mean-spirited.

How do they change the URL to cheat the affiliate? Well, for example, my affiliate URL for the One and Only Relationship Network is: http://www.one-and-only.com/index.htm?AssociateID=6486
A savvy, but mean-spirited consumer will see that URL in their browser status bar when their cursor is placed over the link.

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for my yearbook, we are doing a theme of music. so for each page we are doing songs as the title. like for band its please dont stop the music. and for sophomores its stuck in the middle with you. i need a song for the opening page. something that wraps up the entire music theme of the yearbook. squeeze and spank you.

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A kiss for luck and we’re on our way.
And yes, We’ve just begun

Squeeze Page Theme

The Importance of Using a Squeeze Page

First, some de-jargonizing. The Internet loves jargon, and marketers, in their ever-expanding search to beat each other to the customers, seem to come up with fancy jargon at rates that boggle the mind.

A squeeze page is a transaction between you and a visitor to your site. it’s an opt-in. In order to get the content you’re offering, the visitor needs to give you an email address. You present something they want, they give you an email address that you can market to.

The basic presumption is that by using pay-per-click advertising, you can direct people to your squeeze page, and build up your referral list of customers who want to buy something. Because of the scaling factors of the Internet, it is possible to treat internet marketing as a least-common-denominator numbers game, and there are lots of internet “make money fast” schemes that do precisely that.

And every single one of them has ignored the biggest problem of Squeeze Pages:

People are incredibly skeptical about them. While it’s all in the conversion rate (and most conversion rates are under 1%), there’s more to getting a business out of the internet than just running up your bandwidth bills with AdWords. You also need to provide content.

Now, because of the way Google has changed their pricing models, they actually charge more for naked squeeze pages (which really sounds like a bad movie starring people wearing not enough clothing, than they do for squeeze pages that are integrated into a Landing Page with good, solid content.

Yes, it’s true. You need to make your marketing work for people as well as search engine spiders. In spite of what the get-rich-quick marketing gurus like to say, search engine spiders never bought anything. People do. And people, in spite of how search engine optimized your page may be, won’t buy something unless there’s a compelling reason to do so. For you to get your affiliate program sales, your landing page needs to give a good reason for people to A) give you their email address, and B) go on to your source and buy the product.

Why is it so important to get their address through a squeeze page? Because once they’ve signed up for your site through the squeeze page (particularly if your affiliate links are all linked to a common theme), YOU have an important piece of information: You know that a real person with an email address that’s known to work is interested in a certain set of subjects which means that when you post up a new link to a new vendor, you can send a solicit out to those people and say “Look at what I found. You’ll like it. Really.” And generate residual sales.

Our next essay will be on how to get good, useful content to decently clothe your squeeze page in material that’s interesting to real, honest to God human beings who came to your site by clicking on a link for a paid advertisement.

About the Author

Derek Vanderpool is a successful business entrepreneur with 13 years business management experience. Derek can be reached at:

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How to Use a Squeeze Page with your Wordpress Blog

Including a squeeze page into your Wordpress blog or Blogspot website is critical to ensuring that you gather as many subscribers as possible. In order to decide how to do this you must first understand what a squeeze page is. There are two common schools of thought about what a squeeze page is. The first is the most common, which is simple a page that solely an email Capture Page and nothing else. Others think that it can be a page that also includes other information and links as well.

There are several different ways that you can utilize a squeeze page with your blog. Let’s take a quick look at them and what advantages they will give your blog and your business.

1. Semi-Squeeze Page

This is a small section of your website that exists on every page, usually in the upper right hand corner. It can be a large section enticing people to sign up for your list for a free trial or additional free product like an ebook, video, or audio. My personal favorite twist to this strategy are the peel-away ads. Those small ads in the upper right hand corner, that make it look like your website peels away to reveal a free offer. This type of strategy has the advantage of existing on any number of pages. It can just be on your homepage or every single post. It is up to you.

2. Static Homepage

This type of strategy is when you have a static homepage for your blog that is actually a squeeze page. This means that everyone will see this squeeze page when the first look at your blog. The obvious advantage is that every person will see your squeeze page, possibly multiple times. The drawback, however, is that people can get sick of these pages quickly and possible quit looking at your website. This means that your static homepage needs to be a quality squeeze page, yet still have useful links and advice that allows people easily navigate to your actual posts.

3. Back Door Squeeze Page

This type of setup is continually a high conversion and minimally intrusive to your visitors. You create a separate squeeze page for your blog or website that redirects automatically to your blog after visitors sign up for your list, or simply click on a link that leads directly to your blog. Next, you focus all of your marketing efforts to push people to your squeeze page and let your blog essentially advertise itself through simple methods like bookmarking. By using all of your other efforts to push your squeeze page, it will not only attract more customers, but your page ranking will climb. This means that all organic or search engine traffic that appears get sent directly to your back door squeeze page.

All 3 of these strategies have been proven effective. However, some may work better for Wordpress than for Blogspot. Take some time and decide where you want your squeeze page to be and how you want it to interact with your website. This is ensure that you choose an option that not only suits your needs,but also the expectations of your visitors.

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Free Website Traffic, Some Simple Techniques

This article is going to talk about how you can use some simple techniques to start driving targeted traffic to your website for free. It doesn’t matter if you have the best website in the world, unless you drive traffic to it, you will never make a dime online.

Most people when starting out don’t have the extra cash needed to pay someone to get them traffic. So, you must be willing to learn and put in some effort in understanding what you need to do to get traffic for free. Be prepared because it will take work and you will need to commit to it at the beginning. Once you have mastered the techniques, you can start to ease off some as many of the techniques will start to work on auto-pilot for you.

Being able to get website traffic for free will take a little time to build up. Without question, paying for traffic will get you instant results, but it is very important you learn how to get traffic for free. Believe me, it is a great feeling when you get tons of traffic to your site, and you know you haven’t paid a penny for it!

The first place you should look at to get traffic for free is in forums. Depending on what you are selling, or what your website is offering I guarantee you there is a forum on the subject somewhere. Search out and find those forums using the search engines. Have a look around and find out what people are talking about. Join forums and answer people’s questions or simply reply to comments they make in the forum. You will soon brand yourself as an expert in your field and gain a good reputation. Once you are recognized as an expert, you can then start adding your signature to all your comments.

The amount of traffic you get from this will astonish you trust me. The major benefit is that the traffic visiting your site will be highly targeted and much more likely to either optin to your newsletter, or indeed purchase your product.

Set up your own squeeze page or capture page and offer a newsletter full of content on your niche or subject. It is advisable to send all your traffic to your squeeze page and build your own mailing list. When people optin, give them high quality content. Make it enjoyable to read and many of your subscribers will then begin to tell their friends about you. This itself will bring you more free traffic.

Contact other website owners that have similar products to what you are selling. Ask them if they are interested in swapping or trading links. Most webmasters realize the importance of this and most will agree providing you are not selling the same product of course. Exchanging links will help to increase your search engine rankings which will in time bring you more free traffic.

Writing articles of course will bring you a lot of traffic over time. The most important thing is your articles need to be original and full of quality content giving the reader exactly the information they are looking for. It will take time but with high quality articles and good content the traffic will come.

You will need to write up as many articles as possible over a short period of time. The more the better basically. It is free to also submit these articles. There are thousands of article directories online where you can sign up for free and submit your article. One small tip here is to make sure you do not submit the same article to all of the directories as this will be classified as duplicate content and have a negative effect on your search engine raking. Simply change the article around and make it more than 30% different and then submit it to another directory.

Set up your own Blog and provide good quality content on it. You can get a free Blog from www.wordpress.com and there are other places too. Providing good content works in two ways. It helps to get your site ranked high on search engines, and because most of your free traffic will come from there, it is important to get your sites ranked high. Secondly, providing good content helps to build and brand you as an expert. People then recommend your site to others bringing you more traffic of course.

Using the above techniques and spending a little time putting everything in place will help you to start getting targeted traffic to your websites for free. There are other techniques of course but for now, use these in this article to at least get started.

About the Author

Indemand Marketing specializes in helping people to understand traffic generation techniques. They run a program named The Vida Secret which for a small monthly cost will train you in all areas of building a long term income online. Visit their site for more details.
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7 Elements of a Perfect Landing Page

Landing Page Definition: A webpage intended to identify the beginning of the user experience from a defined marketing effort. 

Landing Pages are an integral part of your direct mail marketing these days, for the main reason that they finish the communication once started by your direct mail postcard.  No longer is it in vogue to direct a prospective customer directly to your website to get lost in all the different services you offer trying to navigate to find the answer to what you are specifically promoting to them.  To help you understand the key elements you need on your landing page, I have culled together the 6 most important tips and the rationale behind their usage.

Every Landing Page should have:

1. A design & color scheme that matches the ad that brought them there.

The reason for this is you don’t want people to think they ended up in the wrong place.  You are communicating a particular communication (service or product) and you want to make sure that your landing page has the same look and feel as the ad that directed them there for further information.

1. Additional information about the topic in the ad that brought them there.

Since you are continuing the communication with a landing page, you want to ensure that you do just that.  If there is nothing new in the landing page, your prospect is going to wonder why they visited your landing page because they’ve already gotten all the data – and then they are going to leave your landing page.  That is not what you want them to do.  You want to give them some more information that is new data, such as more information on the offer, links to get more information, or even a giveaway.  But don’t give it all away there either.  You are warming them up and want them to keep reaching.

3.      Make sure there is a good reason for them to go to your landing page (e.g. coupons, reports, additional access to information, free consultation, free samples)

4.      A fill in form to capture data.

Don’t just give the stuff away that I mentioned above without getting something in return.  Make them fill out the form so you can collect their contact information.  That is the exchange.  It won’t cost them money, but they have to give you their contact info (so later you can sell them stuff).

The reasoning is this.  You are moving people through the sales process – you don’t only want the people who are ready for more information (which are your hottest leads).  You want everyone, so you need to find ways to get their information and then you can continue to work them through to the point where they are interested in getting more information about your service or product.  You do this by continually communicating to them, but you are going to have to give away something first in exchange for their very valuable contact information.

5.      Add ‘Trust Logos’… online security, BBB, affiliations, etc.  Anything you have to build credibility.

The more things people see that they are familiar with; the more they are going to trust something.  Let’s take an all-too-simple example.  You have a certain kind of dog.  Your dog is sweet and is the best dog in the world.  Most likely when you see another dog like yours, you are going to have a natural affinity toward that dog.  

Same goes with logos that people trust and are familiar with.  Position your site with identities people already trust and are familiar with to increase your own credibility.  You are basically saying, “These people trust me, why don’t you?”

6.      All your company’s contact information so that your prospect can take the next step in whatever way they feel is necessary (email, phone, address, etc.).

There are a lot of people that are further along in the sales process than the barely-warm or    luke-warm lead.  Those that are hot will want to contact you, so you need to have the information visible for them to do so easily.  Make sure you have all your contact information on your landing page.

7.       A dedicated phone number.

In order to track reaches that find your landing page you could have a dedicated phone number just for that page.  That way you can see who is calling because of the data on the page.  Using a service that also records the incoming calls to that number can help you on the sales end too.

About the Author

Using a powerful, simple, extremely cost effective way of communicating with customers has earned Joy Gendusa Inc. Magazine’s recognition as the nation’s fastest growing direct mail postcard-marketing firm with year 2008 revenues close to $19,000,000. Gendusa began in 1998 with zero investment capital. Today, her Clearwater, FL firm called PostcardMania (www.PostcardMania.com), employs over 160 people and prints 4 million and mails 2 million postcards representing 35,000-plus customers in over 350 industries each week. Download the first three chapters of Joy’s book “The Ultimate Postcard Marketing Success Manual” here: (www.PostcardMarketingSuccessManual.com)

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Landing Pages – What Is A Landing Page Or A Squeeze Page?

For anyone interested in article marketing, you need to know what a landing page or squeeze page is.  This article will talk about what a landing page is and when and why to use one.

If you are an article marketer, you basically have two choices in how you get prospective buyers to a sales page.  In your article, you can link directly to the sales page or you can link to a landing page or squeeze page that “pre-sells” them on the product you are promoting.

Landing Page Definition:

In simple terms, a landing page is the page your website visitors arrive at when they click on a link from an article or other advertisement.  This can be a page or sub-page on your own website or it could also be a blog, Squidoo or Weebly page, just to name a few.

The Purpose of a Landing Page:

The purpose of a landing page is to reach your customer on a personal level.  For example, if you were going to sell a dog training product, your landing page would not talk about the product itself, you would discuss the benefits it would bring to the buyer.  I wouldn’t tell someone that the product has been around for 10 years and is a number one best seller.  That would be the job of the sales page.  My job would be to touch the readers’ feelings by asking questions or making statements that fit their needs at that time.  The buyer doesn’t care about the stats at that point, he wants someone to something like, “Are you tired of your out-of-control dog jumping on everyone that comes in the door?” or “Finally, a proven way to get your dog to stop peeing in the house and making it smell like a kennel.”  Both of these statements touch the frustration of the buyer and make them want to read more.

How to Set Up a Landing Page:

One of the first rules about landing pages is to make sure the only way out is to click on the link to buy, register for a newsletter, or use the back button.

Secondly, make sure the landing page is very easy to read.  Most people spend less than 2 minutes at a company website.  Make the points clear and, if you need to, in bullet form.  People scan they do not read.  People decide within seconds if you have something to offer, so make sure that you get their attention quickly.

Third, but probably most important, is to have a great headline.  This goes along with people wanting to scan, not read.  Sometimes the only thing someone will read is the headline.  The keywords that you are focusing on should be in the headline, plus reaching the customers self-interest.  What this means is knowing what they really want and telling them they can have it.  If you are trying to sell someone on a make money product, you don’t want to say, “Make More Money Today!”  Boring.  Tell them how they can add another $1000 a month to their income and how proud their family will be.

Don’t Clutter the Landing Page:

As mentioned before, you want to go for simplicity on your page.  You want it clean and easy to read, so do not clutter it with lots of ads or irrelevant information.  Also keep the color scheme simple.  Two or three colors throughout the page are good.

Graphics can be fun on landing pages, but use them sparingly or do not use them at all.  They cause some computers to load slowly and you may lose customers before they even get to your page.

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SEO Optimization–What’s better between these 3 options?

I need to know from the experienced webmasters out there the answer to this question (thanks):

You forgot option d. “hyphens”

At Metapilot, we get this question quite often from our clients. Option d. is best. Hyphens are the best way to separate words in your URL according to Matt Cutts (Google’s Spam Engineer). Next best is an underscore and finally, running them all together. Your Option C doesn’t actually exist because web servers will insert a character into the spaces (typically a % sign) and the bot will see the % and not the space between the words.

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Google Goes For Quality

Google continues its march toward being the ultimate search engine in terms of relevancy and quality, and if you aren’t paying attention and keeping up with their changes, you’re going to be left in the dust, with ineffective campaigns and hefty minimum bid prices.

This is just another move in the latest flurry of changes Google is making to weed out the “scrapers” and arbitragers. You’ll find the following in the Google Quality Score Section:

* Link to the page on your site that provides the most useful and accurate information about the product or service in your ad.

* Ensure that your Landing Page is relevant to your keywords and your ad text.

* Distinguish sponsored links from the rest of your site content.

* Try to provide information without requiring users to register. Or, provide a preview of what users will get by registering.

* In general, build pages that provide substantial and useful information to the end-user. If your ad does link to a page consisting of mostly ads or general search results (such as a directory or catalog page), provide additional information beyond what the user may have seen in your ad or on the page prior to clicking on your ad.

* You should have unique content (should not be similar or nearly identical in appearance to another site). For more information, see our affiliate guidelines.

You have to love how clear Google is with this. If your sites aren’t meeting these requirements, expect your Quality and Relevancy scores to plummet. You have to be providing good content to your users and you need to make sure their experience with your site is logical and helpful. Sure, this may mean you need to do some tweaking or make some outright improvements to your sites, but the end result is that Google remains the search engine people trust and expect to deliver them quality results. And your end result is that people will click through to where you want them to be and hit that “buy now” button more often.

About the Author

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Understand Google Adwords – Killer Tips

Article Contents:

To get the most out of Google Adwords, first you must understand how Google works. By not taking these simple first steps, you could quite easily find yourself struggling to make a profit using Google Adwords. This is simply because Google wants to reward user that do everything by the book. So, the more that you understand Google, the better position you will be in.

Google Loves Relevancy:

So many advertisers forget what Google is all about, they forget that Google is a technology company, not an advertising company. In fact, the only department in the entire Google company that deals with paying customers is the AdWords department.

So, what does this tell us?

Google Loves Relevancy, they always have and always will! They will always be working for the end user. The users that search using Googles interface. This is where their main focus is, as it’s these users that make Google what it is. Take them away and you have nothing. In fact, it’s only because Google is all about user experience, that makes Google the number one search engine. When a user search’s for ‘Cheap Homes To Rent In Essex’ Google does it’s best to provide that user with the most relevant results.

What Does This Mean For Your AdWords Ads?

Make them relevant! Again, Google is all about relevancy, which means that they are happy to reward you for being relevant. Within the Google Adwords structure, Google will reward you by increasing your Click Through Rate (CTR) and your Quality Score (QS). It is these two factors that will determine how much you pay and your ad position.

Important Areas to Cover:

Here are a few things that you need to know about Google.

- Google WILL check your campaign manually! this is important to know because Google have a set guidelines as to what your landing page should be like. If one of the Google admin members comes to your website, and finds that your landing page is not in compliance with their criteria, then this will effect your quality score.

- Make Everything for the end users. Once again, this comes back to relevancy. If your landing page matches the content of your ad, and your ad matches the keyphrase that gets typed into Google. Then you will be seen as highly relevant.

Ok, now you understand what you should do, here’s what not to do.

- Don’t promote anything illegal.

- Weapons or Violence

- Sexual Content or Prostitution

- Drugs / Steroids / perscription

- Gambling

- Knock off or counterfeit goods

- Answers for educational tests

- scams

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- Donation Site – Unless Government.

ReCap:

- Make your ads relevant to the search & make your landing page relevant to your AdWords ad.

- Avoid having AdSense & banner advertising on your landing page.

- Make everything about thee end user!

Good Luck

Jeff Spires

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How To Set Up And Use a Squeeze Page That You Can Change In Seconds

These days having a good optimized squeeze page is so important to your online business. Gone are the shoddy pages that have little or no use and offer nothing to the subscriber.

There are so many Free Squeeze Pages available it is hard to choose which one you want, but before you do choose you have to make a few decisions first.

You have to decide if the squeeze page fits in with the theme of your website as a whole or what you are promoting/selling. If it doesn’t you will only confuse or drive custom away, after all if you are promoting internet marketing for instance and your squeeze page shows pictures or a header of wild flowers it is just a little confusing for the customer. So you do need to choose carefully.

Another factor is how tecky are you? If you are like me then you can barely work out what an FTP program is let alone how to use it. Most of these free templates come so that you have to use an HTML editor such as NVU or the like and then save it and upload it to a server using an FTP program such as FILEZILLA or others, there are plenty of them out there. The point is if you aren’t very technologically minded all of the last paragraph may as well be in a foreign language right!!..

So you do have to do your homework to get it right before you start.

Wouldn’t it just be great if there was something out there that would just be on your website so all you do is make changes on your browser, Internet explorer or Firefox, No HTML editors and then it was automatically transferred to your website for you and just appeared as you want it too.

Well I wish…

What If you could have a website like this that was set up for you and YOU could make the changes to a variety of templates and add bullet points, videos from any source and place them anywhere on the page and change headlines, sub headers etc. this would almost certainly sound out of this world wouldn’t it and it would be on most peoples “must have” list.

There are some hosting companies like BRAVENET and ONE as examples that do offer free templates and build your own website programs but these are pretty common and not personal to you, there are literally thousands of individuals using the same website template as you. Yo want to stand out from the crowd and be unique don’t you?

I’m not rubbishing these companies or others like them as they do provide a great service for people who are not tecky minded but personally I want something different, easier to use and more spectacular when you see it.

Now what if you had a great squeeze page and wanted to check the stats for it, a lot of work using the normal route of tracking but if there was a way to simply insert a code into the page and it stays there no matter what changes you make to the page, that has to be worth something.

All in all there are a lot of squeeze pages out there at the moment but these DO rely on you knowing something about HTML or FTP to get them onto your website. I want something that is so simple that even I can use it with NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE of html or ftp, I’m not interested in learning this, why should I after all I’m a business man not a computer wiz kid and I don’t expect the programmers to come and run my business for me so why should I learn theirs.

Let them produce the programs and I’ll quite happily buy if it makes my life so much easier.

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Increasing Traffic Conversion through Squeeze Page Content

Provided that a Squeeze Page gets the targeted traffic, the next thing to check is the rate of conversion. This means the number of web visitors converted to customers after seeing the page they landed on. It is significant that the squeeze page has the ability to entice viewers and push them to be customers or potential customers at start.

It is true that one can learn from the other Squeeze Pages being used in other businesses. However, simply copying the components in other successful squeeze pages without having one’s own theme will not work. Every page must have a unique touch that depends on the business.

To tap the emotions of the viewers, the Squeeze Page must have a powerful content. In order to have one, the strengths and weaknesses of the product, service or business must all be noted. A good copywriter can be hired to do this; but no matter who writes the content, there are some ingredients that must be taken into account. The details on making a sale must include powerful words that would psychologically trigger viewers and compel them to take action.

To add, the most effective way is for the content to provide a solution to a certain thing. The message must be focused on who are the people that would most probably need the solution and to what problem the solution would be an answer to. This makes the squeeze page confident and would easily gain the trust of the viewers; therefore enticing them to take part of what is being offered.

Furthermore, it would be best to have a specific one-time offer rather than a lot of offers that a customer could buy. The latter will just scare the potential customer, thinking that the page is just all about purchasing. The sales pitch in a page must have the powerful words, time-bound specific offer that consists of the details about the product. In addition, the time stated in the offer must be real as credibility relies on it.

Moreover, the use of fly-ins and pop-ups could also create the necessity to purchase or to insist on the offer bounded within a certain timeframe. A countdown could help like within 5 minutes the offer will be given at the lowest price.

On the other hand, the squeeze page may also contain only a killer headline and the list of benefits, encouraging viewers to be a part of the business by giving their contact details. In this, psychological triggers must also be present; and the security that the email addresses of the visitors will not be given to spammers.

The elements of the content mentioned will surely help in making an effective Squeeze Page. This would be great when signing up for a Traffic Exchange program. These programs make it certain that the target traffic will be led to the page. Once the page is viewed, potential customers will be led to take action. In the end, higher conversion rate will surely be noticeable a few months or weeks after the squeeze page gets exposed to the targeted traffic.

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Do Squeeze Pages actually work?

I found a website that offers free Squeeze Page Templates.
http://www.getacustomwebsite.com but I want to know if anyone else is having any success with these or not. Thanks.

A perfect example of a squeeze page is the link that you have given. This site is designed to collect a small amount of information from you in exchange for a giveaway or discounted product. The idea is that later they will send you promotional emails and hope that you will purchase products from them.

If you have a good niche product and take care of the people on your list, there is no reason why this can’t convert many sales that would otherwise be lost on a regular website. This is very effective for targeted marketing.

The website that you provided is offering these templates for free. You will probably get a couple of emails from the guy after signing up, but this seems risk free at this point.

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5 Steps to Creating a Cash Sucking Squeeze Page

Ensuring that you have a high quality and effective squeeze page is one of the most important elements for anyone involved in list building, affiliate marketing, or lead creation. The more people that act upon your squeeze page by joining your list means that more people are guaranteed to view your offers and increases your overall profits. In order to create your top notch squeeze page, these 5 fundamental, yet overlooked, tricks need to be implemented.

1. Headlines That Get Noticed

Every squeeze page has a headline regardless of its quality, however you need to make sure that your headline peaks your visitors interest. The headline is the first thing that every visitor will see upon entering your website. On average, you have 6 to 9 seconds entice someone to stay on your web page, let alone join your list. To ensure that your headline is effective you need to do two things: 1. test different headlines and 2. keep a cheat sheet of headlines that have grabbed your attention and mirror them. These can be from your newspaper, online, or even from junk mail.

2. Simplicity Creates Success

By making your Squeeze Page Simple you not only look more professional, but also make it easier for visitors to concentrate on the task at hand. If your visitors can easily navigate your page, you will get much higher conversions because your visitors will be able to get and do what they want quickly and efficiently. The age of slow-loading graphics and complicated navigation systems are a thing of the past. In order to be viewed as a professional as well as become trusted is create a sleek and simple website design.

3. Tell Them Why to Act

Make sure that the benefits that your visitors will receive is listed explicitly. This ensures that your visitors have a visible reason to act. Plus, they will already know what you are providing, which means that you are only go to have people sign up that are interested in your product or service. This makes your list more targeted. The simplest way to do this is basic bullet points.

4. Tell Them What to Do

People love to be told what to do, regardless of what they say. If you want them to sign up, then tell them to sign up. There is no need to be subtle, just make sure that you get your message across, even if it is as blatant as “sign up now to get these great benefits!”.

5. Bribe Them

This is simple and to the point. If you want something, you need to give something back. Tell them that you have a free book, report, graphic set, templates, whatever you want. Just make sure it has some unique value to the people you are interested in. There is no point in give a report on “how to fix your golf swing” if you are trying to get a bunch of gardeners to sign up for your list. Relevancy is very important.

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