eBook Price Increasing Very Soon

It’s been about 7 months since I first launched Chris Jacobson’s Money Making System. Since then, over 450 copies have been sold and many buyers have been wondering if I’ll be creating an affiliate program to go along with the eBook.

I’ve listened to those recommendations and have been working with an affiliate network to share revenue with my loyal customers. To benefit each affiliate, I’m going to have to obviously raise the price of the product in the very near future. Currently the eBook is still at its introductory price of $9.99, which is basically a steal!

I’ve just made a revision to the content and added a 7th chapter on Social Networking for profits. Once I get things set up with the affiliate network, I’m looking at more than doubling the price and offering either a 50% or 60% affiliate payout.

If you’re been waiting to decide on whether to get my Money Making System, now is the time. Out of the 450+ sales I’ve made so far, only two have asked for a refund. You can assume those two people will fail at anything they try to do online if they whine and complain about $9.99 and not being able to make it work for them.

Anyway, the purpose of this post was just to give you all an update on what’s been going on behind the scenes here. Expect full details on the affiliate program to follow very shortly.

Get Free Traffic to Your Site with These Simple Steps

A lot of people e-mail me all the time and ask how they can get free traffic to their sites/blogs or if I can link their URL on my blog for free (ha!). It’s not that hard to get traffic without spending a dime; you just need to know what you’re doing.

SEO (search engine optimization) is a huge part of it, but that’s only one thing you need to worry about. If your site is already set up to be search engine friendly… proper title tags, meta tags, H1 tags, sitemap, robots.txt file etc., you only need to focus on supplementing those efforts by means of additional traffic sources. Google will eventually come crawling to index your site (usually daily based on how it’s optimized), but don’t rely simply on search engine traffic alone.

How else can I get free traffic?

Twitter - This is the big one. I’ve been getting a lot of followers lately on Twitter and using TwitterFeed.com for automatic RSS inclusion when I make a new post. This is a great way to stay connected to your readers and get instant hits when you publish something new.

Facebook - As I’ve just outlined in a few chapter of my eBook (May 2008 edition), Facebook can give you thousands of hits in a matter of hours if you utilize it properly. Become an active member of the community and connect with other people and you’ll be surprised how soon you build a following

Squidoo - Creating a Squidoo lens is something everyone should have done by now. The search engines love Squidoo and sometimes the lens will even outrank your own site.

Social Bookmarking - As you can see at the bottom of this post, I offer links to Digg, Stumble, e-mail this post etc. This is all done by using FeedBurner and inserting a snippet of code at the bottom of my WordPress post template. This is very automated and can deliver traffic to your site if users find your content worthy.

Message Boards - There’s a reason forums let you have a signature - to promote yourself. Make good use of it and become an active member in the community. Building up a reputation on a forum around your niche and including your link will bring you traffic from people who already know who you are. Most forums also pass on link juice and use the “dofollow” tag, which will help you with your search engine ranking.

Google Webmaster Tools - As I mentioned earlier in this post, sitemaps are essential to have. Firstly, you must have a Google account and add your site to the Webmaster Tools dashboard. To verify that you’re the owner of the site, Google will give you the option to either insert a meta tag into your header or upload a html file to your root directory. Once verified, you can upload a sitemap and have Google spider your pages. This will help build link structure and give you higher authority in the search listings than other sites who don’t have sitemaps.

All in One SEO Plugin - If you use WordPress for a blogging platform, I couldn’t recommend a better plugin that you must have. All in One SEO is a plugin that creates specific title and meta tags along with a description for your blog and copies the information to each post and page you create. There’s no longer a need to manually do this yourself. Simply fill in the information one time on the settings page and you’re in business.

Paid Advertising - If you have a budget to spend on advertising and promotion, I’d highly recommend Facebook Ads for PPC advertising, as opposed to Google AdWords. Facebook delivers very targeted and high converting traffic (from my experience), and offers much lower click rates. It’s also a lot easier to understand the billing and setup process than with AdWords.

Entrecard Allows Multiple Blogs and Unveils eBook

For those bloggers who use Entrecard, you’ll appreciate this. The site has just added a new feature which allows users to add multiple blogs to their account. Starting today you can add an additional blog to your existing account in seconds.

Entrecard also introduced an official eBook which explains their company and service in full detail.

You can also instantly win 2,000 Entrecard credits and enter to win an additional 15,000 credits by viewing this blog post.

Sunday Chatter - 5/18

Ten Ways to Write a Digg-worthy “Top 10” Post

We all dream about getting to the front page of Digg for that big swarm of traffic. Some bloggers though, have managed to get on Digg’s front page multiple times. How do they keep doing it? Jennifer Slegg has some good tips on what to write and how to write about to attract the attention of Digg users.

Royally Free High Quality Images for Your Blog

Most bloggers sometimes worry if they are violating image copyrights when they post a photo to accompany their content. Chances are whoever owns the image you happen to embed won’t come running after or even know you used their image without proper credit in the first place. But it’s always best to play by the rules and not have to worry what will happen. Luckily, there’s a site called PicApp, which allows use of its thousands of high quality images to any blogger for free. Signing up as a member is optional, but you don’t have to be a member to search their database and use their images.

As an example, I searched for “flowers” and found this lovely image. It’s free to use anywhere on my blog and I don’t have to worry about breaching any kind of copyrights.

Image details: Yellow Tulips served by picapp.com

Add Video to Your WordPress or Movable Type Blog

Video is the hottest thing for bloggers right now. Visitors love it and it allows publishers to convey their message in an exciting way. There’s constantly easier and quicker ways to upload and embed video in to your blog, but one of the best I’ve found is from Magnify.net. You can create a free channel on their site or download software to use in conjunction with WordPress or Movable Type blogging platforms. Just create a new post and the Magnify button will be right there waiting for you to embed a new video in just a few simple clicks. The incentive to join is that you can place your own AdSense ads along with the video and take part in Magnify’s 50/50 revenue sharing program.

ClickBank’s Loophole to Sell Physical Products

ClickBank is known for being an affiliate marketplace which sells digital products. I’ve been a member myself for about 4 years, but not until recently was I made aware of a little loophole in their terms of service that enables affiliates to also sell physical products.

If you read the fine print, you should come across this.

You may also offer shipped delivery of printed media (books, CD’s, and DVD’s) as a courtesy to qualified customers (e.g., US and Canada only), provided the shipped media is clearly complementary and not essential to the operation of the originally downloaded digital product.

Of course, their main concern is that you sell digital products only, but you can also supplement that digital sale with a physical product. I had no idea this was possible (and I’m sure many other affiliates were in the dark about this as well).

ClickBank itself is still my preferred affiliate network, among the 15 or so I also belong to. I find their items give me the most conversions and the fact that they’re very strict about what products they let into their marketplace, you know you’re getting something of quality when your buyers make a purchase.