A great way of testing your affiliate ads is to first try them out in ezines that offer free advertising. Then if they convert into affiliate commissions  roll them out into paid ezines.

Here’s a list of 6 ezines that accept free and paid advertising that will help you get your ezine ad campaigns started…

Publication: Action Marketing News
Circulation: 55,000
Website: http://www.ActionMarketingNews.com
Subscription url: http://actionmarketingnews.com/subscribe/sub1.htm
Frequency: Bi weekly
Ad Deadline: none
Free ads: New subscribers only, 3-5 lines
Solo Ad: $35 - rules on order form

Publication: The Oyesucan Ezine
Circulation: 72,000
Website: http://oyesucan.com
Subscription url: http://oyesucan.com/subscribe/
Frequency: Every Tuesday
Ad Deadline: One week prior to date of publication
Free ads: New subscribers only
Solo Ad: $80 - 500 word maximum, text only

Publication: BMI’s Internet Marketing Reporter
Circulation: 21,000
Website: http://www.mynewsuccess.com/resources/advertise.htm
Blog: http://imreporter.blogspot.com
Subscription url: http://www.mynewsuccess.com/resources/imreporter/
Frequency: Each weekend
Ad Deadline: 3 days prior to publication
Free ads: New subscribers only, 5 lines, 65 characters per line
Solo Ad: $22.99 - unlimited length

Publication: Home Money Ezine
Circulation: 17,861
Website: http://www.homemoneyezine.com
Subscription url: http://homemoneyezine.com
Frequency: Daily
Ad Deadline: none
Free ads: 5 lines
Solo Ad: $59 - 100 lines

Publication: Interactive Marketing Ezine
Circulation: 4,600
Website: http://www.vectorcentral.com/ezine.html
Subscription url: http://www.vectorcentral.com/subscribe.html
Frequency: Every Tuesday
Ad Deadline: none
Free ads: 40 words maximum
Solo Ad: $27 - any length

Publication: The 24 Karat Marketer
Circulation: 30,453
Website: http://www.24karatmarketer.com
Blog: http://24karatmarketer.com
Subscription url: http://www.24karatmarketer.com/splash.html
Frequency: Every Thursday
Ad Deadline: Wednesday
Free ads: 5 lines, 60 characters per line
Solo Ad: $20 - 75 lines, 60 characters per line

Once you’ve got your ad converting into affiliate commissions it’s time to test the paid solo ads. The solo ads appear by themselves as separate emails from the main ezine issue, in most cases they’ll have a significantly higher success rate as a result.

Here’s the best strategy…

1. Subscribe to each of the ezines above using a free email account you have that’s seperate from your main one. This way you can see the quality of the publication and it will qualify you for your free classified ad.

2. Place your free ad with one of the ezines above and be sure to track the affiliate link you use so you can measure your success. Testing and tracking of your ads is critical to your success.

3. Run the same classified ad in each of the ezines above until you find one that converts the most clicks into affiliate commissions.

4. Once you have an ezine that responds well to your classified ad run a paid solo ad, again track your response rate.

5. Keep on testing different variations of your solo ad within that ezine until you have a clear winner. Then continue running your winning ad until your response rate drops off. When this happens move on to the next ezine and test there with your winning solo ad until your numbers drop.

If you follow this system you could rotate your ads through the 6 ezines listed above and “potentially” make some huge commissions as a result of your consistent testing and tracking.

If you need more ezines to advertise in here’s a short list of directories you could also try:

Jogena’s Ezine Directory
http://www.jogena.com/ezine/ezinedata.htm

Best Ezines
http://www.bestezines.com/

Go-Ezines
http://www.go-ezines.com/

For a selection of all our proven high converting Big Selling Product classified and solo ads just go here…

Product: Big Selling Conversions
Product: Big Selling Niches

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Popularity: 100% [?]

WordPress is a real must have tool for any Big Selling Affiliate marketer but it comes a small price to pay. For your blog to be successful you need to keep it regularly up-to-date, which means you need to keep coming up with fresh content.

It’s this fresh content that gets you the attention of the various search engines who deliver you the targeted traffic you need to succeed.

That was until now…

Just the other day I came across this excellent free PDF ebook called: “How to develop money-making niche sites with WordPress”. I read through it and realized that this is a perfect training guide for the affiliates I’m training within my Big Selling Affiliate partners program.

This ebook takes you through step-by-step how to install and configure an SEO optimized blog you don’t need to keep updating every few days.

In previous posts I’d shown you how to write affiliate reviews, so adding them to a WordPress blog is the next logical step to take for all the reasons you’ll discover when you read through this excellent ebook I’m about to give you.

Here’s what you can expect to learn:

• Chapter 1: Getting and Installing WordPress
• Chapter 2: Basic WordPress Administration. 10
• Chapter 3: Installing a New Theme. 13
• Chapter 4: Setting up Adsense On Your Site. 16
• Chapter 5: WordPress Plugins. 20
• Chapter 6: Creating Your Site Content
• Chapter 7: Final Thoughts
• Appendix 1: Uploading Using FTP.. 33
• Appendix 2: External Resources

If you don’t already have a WordPress blog set up and running following the instructions within this book will help you take your affiliate marketing to the next level.

Here are the important actions steps for you to take:

Step 1: Download your copy of “How to develop money-making niche sites with WordPress“

Step 2: Print out and read through the ebook and follow the instructions on how to install your “set and forget” WordPress blog search engines will love.

Step 3: Read my blog post article here about how to write an affiliate product review for one or both of these products:

BigSellingNiches.com
BigSellingConversions.com

Step 3: Add those reviews you’ve written to your new search engine optimized WordPress blog.

Step 4: Look for other related products you can also review as an affiliate and add them to your WordPress blog.

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Popularity: 80% [?]

Once you’ve registered your domain name it’s time to set up your website which will feature the affiliate reviews you’re going to write.

Previously I mentioned to you about the importance of branding. I know I’ve mentioned it to you time and time again, I do this because it’s such an important aspect of affiliate marketing that few people really understand and leverage.

Did you read this article post about how to write an affiliate review? Great! because here’s how to build a website where you can feature them all.

It’s this website where you drive a majority of your traffic, it’s also through this website that you build yourself a list of subscribers you can contact time and time again.

So are you ready to get started?

The first thing you should have done by now is to have registered a domain name for yourself with GoDaddy.com or another reliable domain registrar.

Here’s what I want you to do next…

Step 1: Go to www.Weebly.com

Step 2: Create a free account

Step 2: Give your website a Title (Make sure your title includes your main keyword phrase). Recently I created a short video that shows you a powerful method of keyword generation using the Google AdWords tool. You can watch it here.

Step 3: Add the elements your home page is going to need, I would select from there “Paragraph with title” and start from there. Remember what you’re creating here is a page for a review you’re going to write for a Big Selling product (as an affiliate).

Don’t worry too much about how it looks right now, you can easily edit things later on, including the design of the website.

Step 4: Once you’ve added the elements you think you’re going to need to get started you can begin editing them…

Step 5: Remember it does not have to be perfect! just get started.

One other thing you can do is add your own custom HTML which is perfect for adding your autoresponder form code. As I’ve suggested before you should include your optin form on every page of your website.

Be sure you have something of value to offer people inreturn for their details. For example you could offer them a copy of this report which you can add your affiliate links to.

Step 6: Once you have the basic structure of your page in place you can change the design of your website.

Step 7: Now you have your first page more or less set up you can start thinking about what other pages you’re going to have on your website. Take out a piece of paper and plan out the content of your site.

Here’s what I suggest you do…

1. Write an affiliate review of BigSellingNiches.com and BigSellingCoversions.com and feature them on your website. I showed you how to write an affiliate review here.

2. Set up one page for each of these reviews that you write

3. Create an “About Your Name” page which contains information about you, what your background is and how you’d like to help people (include your optin form on this page too).

Step 8: Now that you have your site structure in place it’s time to add the domain name you’ve purchased to your website.

All you do is go to the “Settings” tab at the top of the page, select “change site address” then select option C. All you do then is enter your domain name and press the continue button.

When you do this you’ll then be given instructions on how to point your domain name to your new website.

So there you have it, how to set up and create your own website, this is the simplest way I know of on how create a website with just basic internet skills.

Owning your own website with it’s own unique domain name name are essential first steps to take in becoming a successful Big Selling Affiliate.

You can do so much more with Weebly as I’m sure you’ll soon discover, including adding video and RSS feeds. I suggest for now that you keep things really as simple as possible then grow from there.

As I mentioned earlier perfection isn’t nearly as important as just getting it done and launched. The best approach to take is to just improve things as you go along.

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Popularity: 47% [?]

If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time I’m sure that by now you know what Google AdWords is and how it can help you grow your affiliate business.

Essentially Google AdWords is a pay per click system integrated into the heart of Google.com search results.

If you’ve used Google before you’ve probably already seen the ads they feature on their results pages, these are called Google AdWords ads.

What you might not know though is those ads you see on those results pages are shown to people in your geographic location and might not be shown to other people in other locations in your country or other countries around the globe. It’s all part of their ad targeting system.

As a Big Selling Affiliate using Google AdWords to drive traffic to our Big Selling products this is important to know when researching the global market place for advertising oportunites within Google.

I’ve got a tip here for you that could potentially cut down your Google AdWords competition 10 fold, but you can only do this if you have access to a specific “hidden” Google AdWords tool few people know about.

You see Google have created a special web page where you can preview the Google AdWords ads shown to other people in other countries. This is important because these are the ads you won’t see when you search Google in your own country.

Before I give you the link to this powerful and very useful free AdWords tool I’d like to give you a quick demonstration so you can see what I mean.

First of all I enter my search term…

Then I choose the which country I’d like to preview the ads for. So if I was in this country these are the AdWords ads Google would show to me for the search term entered above…

In this case I’ve chosen Switzerland, when you’re doing this it’s also important to consider if this country has a population with access to credit cards (if you’re selling something) and that they can speak English.

Then just press the  “preview ads” button and Google will show you the search results page that’s delivered to people in the country you’ve chosen along with the Google AdWords ads on the right side of the page.

Here’s what people see in Switzerland when they search for “web design tips”…

As you can see only 1 Google AdWords ad appears! There’s plenty of room for you to target this country and get some good targeted traffic when you do.

Let’s compare this to the results delivered to people in the United States…

Whilst you can’t see them all here I counted 24 Google AdWords ads over 4 results pages. Competition is pretty fierce in the US for this search term. This makes your cost per click a lot higher than if you targeted the smaller markets places which have fewer competitors.

I’m sure that by now you’re itching to have a look at this excellent Google AdWords tool so here it is…

Google AdWords: Ad Preview Tool

Be sure to bookmark it because you’ll want to visit it each time you set up a new AdWords campaign to see which global markets have the most potential for your Big Selling Affiliate offer. 

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Popularity: 30% [?]

This is a real “set and forget” system anyone can use.

If you use email on a daily basis and have friends and colleagues interested in Internet Marketing or making money online then this video shows how to set up a deceptively simple affiliate marketing system using email.

I’m not even talking about sending out broadcast email messages to your list of subscribers or even those people in your address book. Nothing of the sort. This is all about doing exactly the same things you’re doing right now except with a slight “twist” to them.

In the video below I’m going to show you how to set up email signatures to help you become a big selling affiliate.

So pull up your chair, turn up your speakers and tune in to how easy this is to set up, forget and profit from.

To help you get started I’ve included a few email signatures you can use right away, just copy and paste them and add your big selling affiliate link…

Signature 1:

P.S. Discover the real truth about niche marketing
and how you can profit from it quickly!
==> (Your affiliate link goes here)

Signature 2:

P.S. *Controversial* FREE 34 page report reveals
the SECRETS to cranking cash from any niche
by lunch tomorrow! Click here:
==> (Your affiliate link goes here)

Signature 3:

P.S. Exposed - FREE 4-Step Formula reveals how to
penetrate and amass huge fortunes from any niche you want quickly…
Download now while you still can!
==> (Your affiliate link goes here)

Not a Big Selling Affiliate Partner yet?

No problem, just go here and sign up.

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Popularity: 24% [?]

Here’s how to access all your pre-coded Big Selling Affiliate Partner tools…

To login and access your members only area just go here:

http://reactorpublishing.com/go

Your username and password would have been sent to you when you purchased a product from us or signed up as an affiliate. Use this username and password to access your members area at the link above.

If you’re not a Big Selling Affiliate Partner just go here follow the instructions and sign up. Once you’ve signed up come back to this page.

Once you’re logged in here’s how to get your affiliate links…

1. Go to “promote” in the navigation menu you’ll see at the top of the page.

2. Select “links” from the drop down menu.

3. Select the product package you’d like to promote by clicking on the “view” link to the right of the product package and underneath where it says “Promotion”.

4. When you click this link a new window will open up that contains all the promotional tools you can use that have your affiliate link included.

5. Chose your promotional tool then copy and paste the text or code we give you to your website or professional autoresponder system.

If you’re not already a Big Selling Affiliate Partner just go here and sign up, it costs nothing to get involved with and gives you all you need to start earning some easy commissions.

Here’s the link you’ll need…
http://BigSellingAffiliates.com

As always if you have any questions just let me know.

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Popularity: 23% [?]