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How to Maximize Your Online Referral Link Marketing Efforts
Coming from an information technology / web site development background and having discovered the wealth that can be earned several years ago from marketing incentive / reward / get paid to / paid survey (GPT) sites such as GreedyClicks. I have discovered several simple and little-known strategies, tips, and tricks for maximizing online marketing efforts:
1. Many search engines and indices (plural for index) will allow you to submit your whole referral or affiliate link (though most wont.) Most notably Google and MSN Live Search ( I knew someone that got his referral link for another site posted on the FIRST PAGE of Google and made a killing in referrals!) One quick way to test a search provider if you have been promoting your referral links for some time would be to do a search for your username (usually present at the end of your referral link) and see what the results show. Look for your own referral links listed in the search results. If your referral link shows in its entirety then you know to add that search provider to your list for periodically submitting all of your raw referral or affiliate links directly.
2. Buy or earn yourself a snappy new domain name and have it redirect (the whole domain) to your referral or affiliate link (you don't even need hosting – just use domain forwarding.) Then promote your new domain to the search engines, indices, forums, and blogs. It helps not having the obvious referral link look. Cheap domain names start at just $1.99 or can be FREE if you know where to look (below):
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3. Choose a referral banner that doesn't give up the whole site URL (or edit/make your own.) Many people will (for some reason) choose to type in the URL manually if they have the benefit of knowing it rather that clicking upon an obvious referral link. Leave them guessing a bit (make it a bit of a mystery) as to what site the banner is speaking of. When speaking of sites in text, refer to them in a way that doesn't obviously or intuitively disclose the URL (for example, if I was writing about www.GreedyClicks.com, I would say "Greedy Clicks" rather than "GreedyClicks", or "GreedyClicks.com".
4. Start blogging about your referral sites / links at Blogger. Blogger is Google based and I’ve found is your best chance at a popular blog with a great Google rank. I’ve noticed that Google regularly favors their own blogs based on their own blog site interface (and it doesn't hurt to promote this blog to other search engines and indices as well.) Blogger will also host your blog for free seamlessly on your own domain. Another good blog site with max exposure is the eBay based blog. Make an eBay blog and promote it as well.
5. Regularly do a search, as if you knew nothing at all about the subject of the type sites you are promoting. See what pops up. Notice the first site on the list. Notice what they are doing right? ...and what you may be doing wrong? (meta tags, keywords, description, etc.) Notice keywords, etc. Improve the quality, quantity, and newness of your textual content regularly. Be honest and open, don't resort to superlatives and hype wording like "Go to this site and make $500 in an hour" and "fire your boss" (a big turn off and one of the reasons why people may leave your site early.) Morph your site into a closer rendition of the top site and re-submit (another step up the ladder?) ...just common sense.
6. If you run your own referral sites... do your homework on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques (freely available all over the web.) Learn about the proper use of META TAGS, robots.txt, and sitemap files. If you are going to do it, do it right! Oh, and don't use "frames" when building your site (they are not search engine/index friendly - don't shoot yourself in the foot.)
7. Purchase professional web site promotional services and/or software that will automate your site submission efforts. Don't get fooled by software / services that say they will promote your site(s) to 30,000 search engines, etc. Chances are 95% of those sites will be Free For All (FFA) sites which likely no human ever looks at (at one time FFA sites increased your "link popularity" - which mattered then - but all respectable search engines and indices have learned to ignore the FFA sites now - seeing their obvious abuse and non-consequence.) Anyways, what's the point? Most FFA sites want you to manually confirm your entry nowadays (want 80 or 90 emails to respond to personally - go ahead and submit to useless FFA sites.)
8. Be persistent, but DON'T SPAM the search engines/indices. A good interval for me (with good luck) has been to submit at least once a month (but NOT more.) A lot of engines/indices will quickly add you to their trashcan if you bug them more (not a good place to be.)
9. Join a link exchange network (thousands out there.) This may help significantly depending upon the quality (interest generated - staying power) of your own site (compared to others in the network.)
10. Take over an already popular web site domain that has expired (get them cheap if you know where to look) and post your referral links / banners there. Enjoy instant popularity with the twist of people not knowing what hit them once they've arrived.
11. Think of a unique niche of people that might appreciate the product, service, or site you are promoting and post to forums covering that niche. ...for example, people with some sort of social anxiety (such as agoraphobia, etc.) or other homebound people might want to learn about online money making from home sites , etc. Post to social forums covering that niche topic.
12. Double or triple the impact of your message forum posts by promoting your posts to the search engines and indices as well... Yes, after writing posts to a particular forum I always try to go back, gather the "permalink"s (or URLs) of the specific posts I wrote in notepad and spend a bit of time afterwards adding them to the search providers to crawl.
Below is a Partial List of Links to Popular Search Engine and Index URL Free Submission Pages
© 2008 Wesley Bibro of FreeCashPro.com - All Rights Reserved - Republished Here With Expressed Permission
NetworkLagoon Raises the GPT / Free Paid Survey Bar – Next Generation Sites / Next Generation Terms!
Gone are the days of waiting days, weeks, or even months for payments from GPT (get paid to…) and paid survey sites. Dietzel & Dietzel (the NetworkLagoon people of CashLagoon and GamingLagoon fame) have recently implemented exciting sweeping new improvements to all of their cash based GPTs:
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1) INSTANT PAYMENTS - All cash-based NetworkLagoon GPT sites pay instantly (within 15 minutes) to PayPal. Yes, no more waiting – instant gratification! You may also request a promptly mailed company check or choose from a wide variety of other prizes (sent out every business day.)
2) NO MINIMUM CASH OUT – Yes, all their cash-based GPTs now have no minimum payment amount that you must reach before you can request a PayPal withdrawal (yes, if you have a penny, you may request a penny.)
3) AUTOMATIC PAYMENTS – All these sites no allow you to set an option in your profile to enable “Auto Withdrawal” of your account balance. You may choose to be automatically paid to PayPal or promptly mailed company check. This is especially helpful for those who gather referral earnings (no need to log in to cash out.)
4) REFERRAL POINTS TRANSFER – Neatly tucked within your account “Referrals Area” you may now notice a new option to transfer points you earned from referrals (only) to another NetworkLagoon site (including AnotherFree, DomainLagoon, GamingLagoon, HostingLagoon, PhoneLagoon, URLSavings, VideoGameLagoon, VoiceLagoon, ScubaLagoon, BabyLagoon, NascarLagoon, LagoonMusic, FreeDVDStore, AnimeLagoon, PCLagoon, NxDaily, GasLagoon, ClothingLagoon, or FreePrizeSite.) Are you just shy of a prize you’ve been eyeing on one of the prize sites, no problem. In addition, all the prize sites also now include the option to transfer your referral earned points to the cash sites for cold hard cash!
5) HIGHEST SURVEY / OFFER PAYOUTS – Yes, why bother going to those “other” sites that only pay dimes and nickels for surveys and offers that NetworkLagoon sites pay you much more for? NetworkLagoon has cultivated high volume business relationships with all of the popular sponsors and sponsor networks. They get paid higher per completion and they pass the higher incentive on to you!
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6) BEST APPROVAL RATE POTENTIAL – While those other GPT sites may check with the sponsor to see if a particular survey or offer completion has been approved for 24, 48, or 72Hrs max (after which they will deny you credit – even if they get credit for your work later) Though most approvals for credit happen within 15 minutes NetworkLagoon sites keep checking for a minimum of seven (7) whole days (sometimes longer for certain offers.) This gives you the best possible probability in the industry for your hard work to count (approval!)
7) ALL SITES NOW INTERNATIONAL – Yes, if you live pretty much anywhere that can be considered “Earth” then you are eligible to become a member at all the NetworkLagoon sites and start earning legitimate cash and prizes! (Our sites are open to only United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, India, Virgin Islands, U.S., Germany, Bolivia, Netherlands, France, Israel, Spain, Panama, Chile, Bahamas, Argentina, Dominica, Belgium, Ireland, Belize, Brazil, South Africa, Seychelles, Tanzania, United Republic of, Egypt, Rwanda, Algeria, Swaziland, Ghana, Cameroon, Madagascar, Kenya, Angola, Namibia, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Cote D'Ivoire, Gabon, Mauritius, Togo, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Botswana, Liberia, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the, Benin, Tunisia, Japan, Australia, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Korea, Republic of, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Brunei Darussalam, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Czech Republic, Russian Federation, Cyprus, Norway, Austria, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Denmark, Portugal, Turkey, Georgia, Belarus, Iraq, Armenia, Lebanon, Moldova, Republic of, Bulgaria, Finland, Oman, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Slovakia, Jordan, Hungary, Kuwait, Albania, Lithuania, San Marino, Bhutan, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Luxembourg, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Costa Rica, Macedonia, Malta, Gambia, Malawi, Slovenia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Azerbaijan, Monaco, Haiti, Guam, Jamaica, Micronesia, Federated States of, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Cayman Islands, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Yemen, Virgin Islands, British, Saint Lucia, Syrian Arab Republic, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Netherlands Antilles, Guatemala, Venezuela, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Uruguay, El Salvador, United Arab Emirates, Trinidad and Tobago, Sri Lanka, Marshall Islands, Bahrain, Cook Islands, Gibraltar, Paraguay, Antigua and Barbuda, Lesotho, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Palau, Qatar, Cambodia, Anguilla, American Samoa, Turks and Caicos Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Uzbekistan, Macao, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Guyana, Cuba, Congo, Barbados, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Suriname, Aruba, Fiji, Montserrat, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, Chad, Faroe Islands, Somalia, Mali, Burundi, Guinea, Ethiopia, Comoros, Mauritania, Martinique, Niger, Holy See (Vatican City State), Turkmenistan, Mayotte, Burkina Faso, Andorra, Antarctica, Greenland, Wallis and Futuna, Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, French Polynesia, Maldives, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, French Guiana, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Tonga, Niue, Tokelau, Nauru, Norfolk Island, Myanmar and Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Residents. You and your computer both must be physically located in one of those countries. Your must be 18 years or older OR 13 years or older with parental permission to participate.)
8) EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SUPPORT – The Lagoon sites are all professionally staffed by a full time crew of administrators, programmers, forum moderators, and customer service representatives that are eager to assist you with any questions or issues you may have. Support concerns are handled via a robust professionally moderated (24/7) support forum at www.ForumLagoon.com and (for more personalized support) a trouble ticketing system (conveniently accessible through the “Support” menu option within your account.)
9) CORPORATE STABILITY – These sites are not “mom and pop” in any sense of the term (like so many (most) other sites are nowadays.) Dietzel & Dietzel, Inc. / NetworkLagoon operates out of a bona-fide office complex (not a bedroom.) Click here to view their office webcam. In these uncertain economic times you can rest assured that you won’t come to the site one day only to get a “web page not found” or “this site has been suspended due to non-payment” message usually indicative of the “mom and pop” site owner becoming financially insolvent (fly by night.) NetworkLagoon has paid millions of dollars to its hundreds of thousands of happy and active members over the over a decade they have been in business.
10) LUCRATIVE REFERRAL & AFFILIATE PROGRAMS - Every site offer's you a very generous opportunity to earn extra cash by referring friends and total strangers to the site using your standard referral link or a custom referral link that you set (optional.) The referral system on all sites is three tiers deep (20%/20%/20%) Earn a steady income from the work of others! For those more active referrers and webmasters there is also the Dietzel Affiliate Program.
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