It is easy to say that you have been successful in your business, but, what is your basis for saying this? There are many ways in assessing your success and one way of this is to comput for your total cost in starting your business plus your total effort in making this profitable. It is just one way as I have said, therefore, you can still try other methods of evaluating how far have you gone in your business.

Have you able to reach your goal? If yes then good, but if not, dont lose hope. Business is a never ending activity. that is its nature, so you need not to worry if it took you long time before you have able o say that you have an ongoing successful business affiliate.

Traffic building can take a tremendous amount of effort but you should know that whatever traffic building efforts you’ve done serves as a foundation for future marketing or monetization plans.

When building traffic, you can learn from your personal experiences and discern what’s works or what doesn’t. Every single visitor to your website at this stage is likely to become a part of your regular audience. But to make your traffic dncreases, here are the 9 ways which we discussed in class that will definitely help you to reach your goal.

• Google AdWords
• Pay Per Click Search Engines
• Pay Per Click Search Engines
• Google’s Premium Sponsorships
• Ezine Advertising
• Build an Opt-In Subscriber List
• Publish an Ezine, eCourse or Both
• How to Use Auctions to Sell Affiliate Products
• Site Submission Services & Software

Ideally, you want a method that you not only get you some traffic but links as well. Traffic can be converted in regular visitors and links are absolutely necessary to tell Google or other search engines that your new website exists or is important.

Those given examples are actually not free. you have to pay for it in ordeg to gain traffic or in order for them to help you generate large number of traffic. But, we also have here what we call a free way to get traffic fast. The video showed below will explain about it thoroughly.

Audience. It is our first consideration why we made plans on how can we make our website look good. It is because of them. It is very important to give a little insight into designing for your audience because they are your main target.

Image. It is one element that we consider very important in any aspect because it is what your audience’s main concern in going to your web. Make sure that you address the type of images and elements that support your message.

Layout. It provides information on how to use elements within your page layouts for easier readability. This will also address to the needs of your customers to be able to read easily of what your message is all about.

Typography. It is one of my favorite elements of design; this page addresses definitions and how to use type effectively.

Those are just some of the thing you need to consider in creating a web site. There are actually many elements that you need to consider but I believe that if you have understand those three, you could easily do all others like the type of font to be used, the appropriate color, the proper length, color scheme, the links, background and other things that you need to develop in your website.

To understand better, her is a video about Instruction Design-Rules-of Thumb learnin from the Pros.

http://www.youtube.com/user/cyn2bnvd

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                “First impression” is what usually last in longer period of time. That’s how important it is to have a good web page.

                  It’s not all about the background of your site. What I’m saying here is that your web site will not only look good, it must be presentable. Make sure also that the information about your business is readable and the colors of your theme will not destruct your users.

                   Talking about information, in creating a web site it is a big thing to have something that will distinguish your site to others. There must be something unique in your site so that people can easily remember your site. Examples of those essential things in creating a website are the Logo for your website, your tagline or slogan, your statement of privacy, contact information and other information that you think will be needed to make you website numbe.

For a good example, just take a look at the picture below taken from a website which I think is good enough to become a model.

Actually, I believe that too much is not good but having an empty one is worst. What I mean by this is that even though you have limit your site in just a few number of product categories, it doesn’t mean that you will only focus in just one or a very few categories. When you do this, you will be wasting so much time, money and effort. So, think ahead. Don’t think too much because it will only drain your mind. But think up to what you think is still good for you. The things that you know you can handle well.

Maybe you can open a two different domain for you to generate more traffic but always remember that these two domains must still have something in common so that it will not be hard for you to adjust.

 It is not also advisable to have lots of domain for only one topic. I think it is more preferable if you have one domain and different topics. But again, make sure that no matter how dispersed your topics could be, make sure that in one domain you always have a connection between your several topics.

Before I end this article, I just want to share my personal point of view in one sentence about this topic; always remember that “it is not always about the topic, but most of all, it is about what your content is”.

Actually, in my first reading I don’t understand what the meaning of this phrase is. I thought it’s really about “the mall”, but again, I was wrong.

After our discussion in class, that was the time when I really understood what does it really mean. Well, it’s still refers to your web which says that you must plan clearly of what would your web site be looks like.

Have you gone to mall? What does it look like? Was it looks like an empty room or a room full of many large and small things that makes your room too crowded? Well, I actually know what it looks like and I can’t imagine a web site that will look like a mall. Not really a mall, but maybe because of so many things that is included in your site, it will also be the same as what the mall offers. A mall can offer a one-stop-shopping treat, and it is very helpful for us consumers, but, a mall is not a web site and a web site will never be become a mall because of its nature. So please, don’t ever dream to build a mall on your web site because it will only destroy your dreamed affiliate business.

It is not good for a business to be involved in many and different product line because it will only lose its focus of product quality, hat is also true in affiliate marketing. It would be better if you concentrate in small categories and be master of it. You can maximize your quality of service and even your product if you follow this suggestion.

Have you ever experienced being run out of money?

Well, if you are a student studying far away from your home and just renting a room in a boarding house, I guess it’s a usual thing to you.

It’s true that being an independent is a ‘freedom’ (to be called by many) but I tell you its not always funny. It is really hard being alone. When you get sick your parents wont be there in the actual time you’ll be needing them. you only have friends who can help you but only up to their limitations.

I never experienced being run out of money!!! That was before  I got to college. Haai..Its hard to budget your money especially when you already have it in your hand. In a moment you have a handful of  money and in just one glimpse, it’s already gone. Sometimes it’s hard to control yourself for wanting to eat everything you want. It’s normal to eat, but again, you should know your limitations.

See how google.com promote its very friendly search engine to their wide users. No wonder it became number in the rank. For me, google search engine is a very good example of a friendly search engine because it is not complicated to look at and to use. Creating this kind of search engine would become a big success especially to those who are new in this type of industry. I will admit that its not easy but as what most of the people said, “there’s no harm in trying”.

Having this kind of search engine is not easy set up and so here are the 9 ways to make your Pages search Engine Friendly which we have discussed in our class.

• Keyword-Rich Pages
• Keyword-Rich Page Names
• Site Map
• Relevant Content
• Eliminate Clutter
• Meta Tags
• Dynamic Pages
• Avoid Tricks and Deception

As you can observe on my listings, those are just some keywords that we used in our class. I just gave you the list of that 9 tips because I believe that it can be easily understood.

Be good in creating your pages Search Engine and show your best to it.

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Banner exchange is a big help to those who would like to show and advertise their business in other site. Banner exchange allows you to display your advertising banners on member Web sites in exchange for allowing them to display their banner on your Web site. The Benefit-cycle below will show you how banner exchange help you advertise your site and some of its advantages.

The next picture that I will going to show you will give you an idea how Banner exchange works.

However, despite of this benefits, it also have drawbacks like the following:

• Banner exchanges don’t generate significant traffic.

• You have no control over the appearance of the other members’ banners.

• You end up with unrelated material appearing on your site.

• Banners suck up good bandwidth and slow your pages down.

• Banners rarely get clicked on and their conversion rates are terrible.

Banner exchange sometimes give problems to the users that is why Ken Evoy come up with a scam-free way to make link to other site which I find very useful because it is easier to use. This is the “Value Exchange”.

It is consider as the new hope foe exchanging site. If you will going to study about this very well, you will find out how nice it is.

I have also discussed the two ways of making email-signature using the Microsoft Outlook and the Eudora. It is so easy and is very helpful to us so I suggest that you check out how it works.

I hope I can still have more time to talk about this next time. So, see you in my next blogs… Thank you for visiting!!!