Usually when you setup an opt in page for your newsletter, report or free gift, this is the sequence that your visitor would probably experience.

1. Land on opt in page.

2. Opt in and redirected to thank you page. Done!

Recently I have tested a different sequence which have increased number of opt in by 30%. Here are the changes I made:

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I often get questions like

• How many sites should I build to be able to generate $xxx?
• What tools should I buy or what tools is working well?
• Why I still not seeing any $$$ in my AdSense Account?

Let me first tell you one thing. The tool that I have used 2 years back is still generating income for me. My very first so called blackhat tool is none other than RSSTOBLOG by Michelle. It is a very straightforward auto blogging tool. It is still generating income till today! What does that tells you? If you need me to answer that, basically it means that tools is just a mean, not an end to AdSense monetization.

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Base on my experience so far in affiliate marketing, the most effective method I have tested is by using PPC advertising such as Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and MSN Adcenter. Firstly before you go into this, you also should know that there are signup URL around the net that gives you FREE credits. So, do a search online before you signup for any account in those 3 PPC network. You can also find ready coupons worth $50 to $200 that you can purchase from forum like DigitalPoint.

A few quick tips to get you started with affiliate marketing using PPC advertising

• Bid on exact product name or brand name and redirect them to your affiliate link (highly targeted, thus small amount of click but high conversion)
• Create squeeze page, create bonus (report/video), bid on product name or brand name, get them to buy through your link and offer them your bonus in return
• Don’t be lazy. Get yourself account in Yahoo! and MSN PPC network as well. Not many people bothered, thus leaving you with less competition

Enjoy these ideas It is my 3 main techniques that I have been rinsing and repeating.
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Just came across this really neat trick at Neil’s blog where he manage to increase traffic to his blog by over 11% just by adding a few lines of rules in the robots.txt. Just for those who are not sure what robots.txt is, it is basically a text file which you can use to control how search engine crawl your site. Basically what Neil did was denying the search engine bots from crawling the trackback links, comments and few other stuff that could possible cause duplicated contents issue and so on.

Here’s his robots.txt which is for movabletype blog.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /t/trackback
Disallow: /t/comments
Disallow: /t/stats
Disallow: /t/app

So for wordpress you might want to disallow bot from accessing your monthly archive pages or any other pages that might trigger the duplicated content issue.

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