Archive - May, 2009

MyInLife Electronic Cigarette Affiliate Program

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Ok, so I joined the myinlife electronic cigarette affiliate program. Yea they’re overpriced and maybe not as good as a DSE901 or Dura-C. Maybe they are, I haven’t tried them. All I know is I want to get the word out about Electronic Cigarettes, and if you want to call me greedy go ahead. My purpose is not really greed, I just want to get the word out like I said. Doing that takes time and effort, and maybe I would rather be paid for my efforts.

It’s not to get users started on the wrong foot either, I think these can be compared closely to a DSE901. No matter what, it spreads the word about E-Cigs and I’m all for that. I think more and more people should know about them. Who’s to say InLife E-Cigs aren’t a good product anyway? Surely not me because I haven’t bought one. Maybe I will if I earn enough through them and then give a review. I’ll tell you what, if there was an affiliate program for the Janty Dura-C and every other E-Cig I would be the first to promote them. Guess what? There’s not. So I’m stuck. Either I promote through MLM and get paid, or I promote for free. Promoting for free doesn’t pay the bills :( Also, PPC costs money to run and if I’m  not getting paid to drive traffic and spread the word then I’m LOSING money.

Anyway, this program is MLM, or multi-level marketing. If I make a sale then I get $30, I would also make money from referrals when they make money. Pretty much like a pyramid scheme, no? The thing to keep in mind is you will get your $30 per sale whether you refer people or not. It only costs $30 to sign up, and if you make one sale you’ll get $30.

Another thing to consider is that if you do get referrals/buys  you’ll be smoking e-cigs for free in a way.

I spoke to someone about this and some do claim InLife E-Cigs are high quality, but I don’t know. I’m just upset there aren’t more affiliate programs for e-cigs I’m familiar with. That’s life, you can’t always “Have it your way” like Burger King :)

Web Site Traffic Optimization

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

This is my second attempt to target a keyword. The first time I really didn’t analyze the competition correctly at all. Anyway, in order to get web site traffic optimization you just have to target keywords. What this means is keyword research using adwords tools, wordtracker or market samurai. Yes, for any website keywords are literally key to unleashing traffic on your website. You can do everything else correctly, such as described in my other SEO posts, but if you don’t target the correct keywords you’re not going to get traffic. Simple as that really. Link building + Keywords + onsite seo = success. That’s about all there is to it.

I’m really just trying to test where I rank on this site to get a feel for what I can target in my newer posts, so yea this is the second experiment. Hopefully it will be more successful. Web site traffic optimization isn’t really that difficult though. Of course backlinks to a post with the keyword will also cause something to rank higher, just playing around :)