Let me first start off by saying that I believe Twitter as a marketing medium is over-rated.  In fact, I believe that this whole social media thing as a marketing machine is also over-rated.

Sure there are individuals who have made good fortunes using social media, but I believe that there are only just a few who have.

I prefer to stick with paid traffic.  It is a proven model with predictable results.

You can still get decent results with Twitter, but not worth spending more than a few minutes a day on increasing your Twitter following.

With that said, here is my gigantic list of 50 ways to get more Twitter followers:

1. Place your Twitter name on all your web sites

Make sure you place your Twitter name on all your web sites above the fold. Placing it above the fold makes sure that your Twitter name is seen. A simple “follow me on Twitter” button should do the job.

2. Place your Twitter name in your forum signature

If you participate in forums that are related to the topic of your Twitter account, you can gain a lot of new followers. The key is to offer good value in your forum posts and people will recognize you as an authority on the subject.

3. Twitter name in all your ebooks

If you create ebooks or special reports, place your twitter name just below your name on the cover or inside of the ebook or report.

4. Twitter name in all your video presentations

Before your video presentations start, make sure to include a quick screenshot of your Twitter name. Ask people to follow you.

5. Twitter name in your YouTube account

You have control over the background in your YouTube account, so use it wisely by including your Twitter name on the left side panel.

6. Twitter name in your email signatures

Every email you send out including any in an autoresponder sequence should have your Twitter name. Try to encourage people to follow you by including something like “Follow me on Twitter…”

7. Retweet good content

If you retweet good content, people will see that and want to follow you.

8. Promise to donate

Do a fundraiser and people like to contribute to a good cause. You could simple say that for ever new follower you get that week, you will donate $1 per new follower to a worthy cause.

9. Ask followers to retweet

Ask your followers to retweet any of your really good tweets.  This will get you *viral* exposure and more people will hear about you.

10. Twitter name on your business card

Twitter promotion doesn’t have to be limited to the online world.  Include your Twitter name right on your business card.

11. Rent a billboard

If you are really ambitious, rent a billboard with your Twitter name and give people a reason to follow you. (i.e. Want Hot Stock Tips? Follow Me At @stocktips)

12. Promise A Prize

Promise people who follow you a chance to win a prize. I did
this once and quickly gained hundreds if new followers. Make
sure you deliver on your promise of a prize.

13. Fill out your bio so people know who you are

This can be crucial to gaining more followers because people like to see your bio and who you are. You should include your web site so people can visit and see what you offer them

14. Place a hash tag in your Twitter posts

Hash tags (#) with a topic name after the hash tag can help people find your tweets through trending topics, groups and Twitter’s search function.

15. Tweet cool pictures

People like to see cool and interesting pictures. Tweet some interesting pictures and it will get retweeted.

16. Tweet at peak times

Tweet when most people are online checking their Twitter account. This will help ensure that your tweets are seen and not lost in the hundreds of tweets that some of your followers might get in just a few hours.

17. Follow people in your industry

Follow people in your industry because users sometimes go through the list of followers of that particular person and will come across your profile

18. Ask people to follow you

This is obvious. Just ask people to follow you. You will be surprised how many people you can get to follow you by just blatantly asking. If you have an existing email list, let people know that you have a Twitter account now.

19. Break news faster than anyone else

If you can break news faster than most people, you will get a lot of followers because they want to get the news first.

20. Participate in trending topics

Trending topics get a lot of exposure so participating in a trending topic can get you a lot of exposure.

21. Buy an existing twitter account

Do what Google does when it wants a bigger share of the market. Buy up competitors. Find a related Twitter account and see the person is willing to sell it.

22. Run a poll

People love to fill out surveys and polls. Start a poll on a relevant topic and engage your followers.

23. Buy PPV traffic

You could buy PPV traffic and bid on your competitor’s Twitter accounts. I know, kinda sneaky eh?

24. Engage Other Twitters With Huge Followings

If you can engage other Twitter users who have a huge following and start a conversation, this can get you a large amount of exposure if they respond to you in their Twitter account.

25. Tattoo your Twitter name on your forehead

You could use a temporary tattoo and attend a major convention related to your topic. I have seen weirder things.

26. Do Media Buys

Buy banner space with your Twitter name in the banner and a compelling reason to have people follow you (i.e. Want to learn how to talk to hot women? Follow me @flirtygirl)

27. Use a tweet button on your blog posts

There are dozens of WordPress plugins that will allow you to place a tweet button on all your articles. Make it easy for your readers to tweet your blog posts.

28. Create an attractive Twitter background

People are attracted to Twitter followers who have attractive backgrounds. Create one, it really is not that hard.

29. Pick a Twitter name this is easy to remember

Pick a name that people can easily remember. Especially if you are doing any offline marketing. Make a memorable name makes it easier for people to find and follow you on Twitter.

30. Ask questions

Ask questions in your tweets. This will help engage your followers and get other people to follow up who also want to reply.

31. Bribe people

Give away an incentive to have people follow you. There are Twitter autoresponder services that can deliver an email to your new follower with the incentive that you promised.

32. Tweet Often

Your Twitter account is like a radio station.  You need to be on the “air” on a regular basis. The more you tweet, the better chance you have of your tweets being seen my non-followers.

33. Word of mouth

Tell your friends and relatives to follow you on Twitter.

34. Use Twitter in your blog comments

When replying to posts on other people’s blogs, leave your Twitter name in your reply.

35. Talk to your followers

Answer back to people who tweet at you. People will see that you are receptive to questions and dialogue and will be more likely to follow you.

36. Don’t tweet about stupid thing

Nobody cares that you ate a peanut butter sandwich three minutes ago unless you are Beyonce. Keep your tweets useful and it will attract more followers.

37. Don’t tweet overdose

Don’t tweet 300 times a day because it will clog up the screens of your Twitter followers and is sure to be turn off.

38. Show some personality

Show your followers that you have a personality. People are attracted to people that they feel comfortable with. Share some thing about you personal life. Come across as a real person.

39. Add yourself to Twitter directories

There are directories like JustTweetIt where you can add your Twitter profile and get more followers.

40. Write articles and place your Twitter name

Write articles on your topic of interest and place your Twitter name in the resource box. Submit these articles to places like EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com

41. Use Twitter for your customer support

If you create a Twitter account solely for customer support, your customers will be forced to follow you.

42. Place your Twitter name on on all your social networks

Facebook, MySpace, Orbit and the dozens of other social networking sites where you may have an account.

43. Leverage major events

Create an account related to a  major event such as an election and attract a lot of new followers (i.e. presidential election)

44. Ask blog readers to Digg your blog post

If you can get to the top of Digg, that will get you a lot of attention and more followers.

45. Incorporate Twitter into your product launches

Product launches garner a lot of attention so constantly reminding prospects about your Twitter account during the launch sequence will help you get new followers.

46. Do a Twitter exchange

Do promotional tweets about other Twitter accounts. Kind of like a ezine ad swap.

47. Be funny

Laughter is the best medicine. Inject humour into your tweets once in a while and gain new followers.

48. Cross Tweet

If you have multiple Twitter accounts, cross-tweet about each one and get more followers on each account.

49. Ask Lady Gaga to tell all her followers to follow you

Well she does have the biggest Twitter following now. This one in my opinion is a long shot.

50. Create a list like this and ask people to retweet about it.

Feel free to add more ways to get Twitter follower in the comments below. Also please retweet this post. Ah come on, you did know that I was going to ask, right?

Take care!

Gauher Chaudhry

Thanks to everyone who was on last nights webinar with Mark Ling and myself to talk about making money with affiliate marketing. I have posted the replay below for the people who missed the webinar.  Although the bonuses sold out during last nights webinar, I received a lot of emails from readers who were upset because they could not attend due to time zone differences. I have therefore opened up 15 more spots for the bonuses with digital delivery of the physical bonuses that sold out (PPCF, PPVF, PPTF dvds and cds). I will still include the extra bonuses of Pay Per View Formula live seminar DVDs and Pay Per Text Formula home study course that I added during the webinar to the next 15 buyers.

Order AffiloJetpack by clearing your cookies and ordering through this link -> AffiloJetpack

Send your Clickbank receipt to jetpack@payperclickformula.com with “jetpack” in the subject.

Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry

On Tuesday, July 27th, 2010, Mark Ling will be releasing his latest product called AffiloJetpack.

Click Here For AffiloJetpack

Before I give you my full review, this is the bonus that I will be offering to anyone who purchases through my affiliate link:

Bonus #1: AffiloJetpack Getting Started Webinar Series

I will be hosting a series of two webinars to basically walk you through getting started with AffiloJetpack and getting the most out of your package. I think by having someone such as myself walk you through the AffiloJetpack package, it will make it more easier for you to get started.

Bonus #2: Apple iPod shuffle 4 GB Black (shipped after refund period)

After the refund period has expired, you will be shipped a 4 gig black ipod shuffle so that you can download and listen to the getting started webinar series on your ipod. International customers will be sent the cash equivilant.

Bonus #3: Complete Pay Per Click Formula 2.0 seminar DVD set including transcripts shipped to your front door (North America residents only and shipped immediately)

I will ship to you immediately the complete 12-DVD set of my live PPC Formula 2.0 seminar. There are close to twelve hours of advanced PPC tactics taught and you will also get the complete transcripts for the seminar.

Bonus #4: $300 Discount Coupon Off Of Pay Per Click Formula 2.0 Regular Price ($997)

Instead of having to pay the full price of $997 to get into Pay Per Click Formula 2.0, you will get a coupon that entitles you to $300 off the regular price meaning that you will only have to pay $697. You will also be upgraded to Pay Per Click Formula 3.0 for free when it is released, which I plan on blowing the PPC world away with new strategies.

Bonus #5: Marketing Secrets Mastermind + Resale Rights

Learn from 10 different internet millionaires as they teach you their cutting edge strategies for ppc, adsense, copywriting and more. This is a comprehensive course in of itself. There are over 30 hours of nterviews and video lessons here.

Bonus #6: Email Marketing Bootcamp + Resale Rights

Inside this exciting webinar you’ll learn how I have managed to build up over a million double-opt in subscribers to my various niche mailing lists AND more importantly, how I monetizes my various lists to maximum effect.

You’ll learn how to your structure emails, how to build your list fast and how to keep people wanting to stay subscribed to your list, sneaky but ethical monetization strategies and more.

Bonus #7: PPC Millionaire Confessions Volume I & Volume II

You get a complete set of interviews and training with PPC experts to help take your PPC efforts to the next level.

Bonus #8: Outsourcing 101

Discover how to outsource most aspects of your web business at very reasonable prices. This is super essential if you want to take things big online as there is only one of you and only so many hours in a day that you can work, but once you leverage the power of other people, you can take things to the next level at speed

Bonus #9: How to Rank Highly in the Search Engines Video Series + Resale Rights

Discover step-by-step, how to get high rankings in the search engines, how to rank high for competitive phrases, AND what’s more, you’ll learn how to make great money charging yourself out as an SEO expert.

What’s more, you’ll receive the video recording of this webinar plus resale rights so that you can sell this webinar as your own product, include it as a bonus when promoting other people’s products, or even use it as a lead generation tool.

How To Claim Your Bonuses

Simply clear your cookies and order through my affiliate link.  Then send your receipt to jetpack@payperclickformula.com with “Jetpack” in the subject to claim your bonuses. I will match your name to my Clickbank sales records to verify your eligibility.

If you have not read Mark’s bonus report “5 Steps To $10K a Month”, I highly recommend you download it for free now:

Click Here To Download The Free Report

This report will give you a strong foundation towards understanding the process of how everything works. The reports gives you all the steps and instructions while the Affilojetpack package gives you the tools.

The Review

If you look at the AffiloJetpack product, it is really geared towards two type of marketers:

1. Complete affiliate newbies
2. Advanced affiliate marketers looking to save major time

The beauty of AffiloJetpack is that it is actually a push button system that can allow you to get into a niche right away without having to worry about creating a website, content and email newsletters.

All the content has been written by Mark’s team and you get 20 articles of content for a specific niche that you can reword or simply add to your web site. The fact that Mark also throw in free web hosting is an added bonus.

This is a major time saver for people who do not want to have write articles and content for their email backend sequence.

The main show is what comes next: A 80-part autoresponder series that you can plug into a service like Aweber and use to start collecting email addresses and building a relationship with people who sign up.

Every major marketer knows that most of the money is made on the backend. By having an 80-part autoresponder sequence, you already have a money making backend ready for you to plug.

In this 80 part email sequence, Mark provides you with 65 informational emails to help you build a trusting relationship with the prospect. The other 15 emails are “hard sell” emails written by Mark himself. These are the emails that are going to make you money on complete auto-pilot. These emails get a much higher response from your prospects because you have already warmed them up with the other 65 informational emails.

You job is to drive the traffic to these ready made web sites and let Mark’s system of collecting their email addresses and following up do the rest. Mark understands the importance of traffic and that is why there is a variety of traffic generation strategies that will be taught in the course.

I think this is great for newbies because it will give them a complete foundation in affiliate marketing. For more advanced marketers, I think this is a great time saver as Mark’s team has already created everything for you. All you are responsible for is to bring the traffic.

This package gets my two thumbs up!

Simply clear your cookies and order through my affiliate link.  Then send your receipt to jetpack@payperclickformula.com with “Jetpack” in the subject to claim your bonuses. I will match your name to my Clickbank sales records to verify your eligibility.

Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry

This is a personal video to thank everyone who helped me reach the $10,000 fund raising goal for my son’s cancer hospital. I could not have done it without your support. The video may take a few seconds to load.

You can still get access to the CPA Quantum course by clicking on the link below:

Click Here

There has been a number of high profile launches this year for “traffic generating” courses. I am sure that many of them are really good, except there is one major problem. Most of these course have been priced too high that the people who need them the most cannot afford them. Many of these courses sell for as high as $2,000 making it only possible for people who have a lot of disposable income, to afford them.

Well that is about to change.

In an effort to raise $10,000 for the cancer hospital that treated my son, I will be releasing my own CPA Quantum traffic course on July 7 @ 12:00 pm EST. I had no intention of ever opening this traffic course, but I want to give back to the community by raising $10,000 with your help.

Not only will you get access to my traffic generating strategies, you will also be helping a noble cause.

When you see what I have priced the course at, you will realize that this is a no-brainer.  So please reserve your spot in CPA Quantum tomorrow and lets help fight cancer together.

Click Here For CPA Quantum

Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry

Below is a replay of the webinar that I did with Adam Short regarding niche marketing.

Just click on the video to start watching.

Adam opened up Niche Profit Classroom 3.0 early during the webinar and you can get started for just $1 by clicking on the link below.

Click Here To Join Niche Profit Classroom 3.0

Feel free to leave your comments on the webinar.

Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry
http://www.Twitter.com/Gauher

Watch the video below.

I will show exactly how you can start generating money with free traffic and specific niches.

Here are the steps that I outlined in the video above:

1. Find a specific niche to market in. Do research on Clickbank or Google Insights to see what niches are currently hot. Try to get into specific niches rather than broad markets because there is less competition and better chance to get better rankings.

2. Build a simple web site using a silo structure related around your niche. A silo structured site is simply a web site that has content in various directories. The major search engines like to see pages with good content “deep-linked” into your site. Make sure that you name the folders with keywords that you would like to target. You can get free articles to build your web site from Ezine Articles or GoArticles.  Don’t worry about the duplicate content rule. It is a myth. All it means is that don’t have the SAME content on the same domain. You can download an example of a silo site that I created for the Rachael Ray market right here.

3. Create (3) Squidoo lenses with your keywords that you want to create back links on for your web site. Create lenses that offer value and quality. This will help as you will be contributing within the Squidoo community and will increase interest in your lenses. Try using your anchor keywords in the links back to your web site. The major search engines will see this and that will help you score points for those keywords.

4. Place contextual ads on your web site. There are tons of services that you can monetize your web sites with. You should test to see which contextual service brings back you the most money. Try using an ad serving tools such as the free OpenX to serve and test your contextual ads. Here is a list of just a few below:

Google Adsense http://adsense.google.com
Valueclick http://www.valueclick.com
Kontera http://www.kontera.com
Pulse360 http://www.pulse360.com
Adbrite http://www.adbrite.com
Chikita http://chitika.com

Clicksor http://www.clicksor.com
Contextweb http://www.contextweb.com
Bidclix http://www.bidclix.com
Bidvertiser http://www.bidvertiser.com
RevenuePilot http://www.revenuepilot.com

5. Collect your commissions. Enjoy the rewards of your efforts. Taking action is the key. Offer value and the money will follow. Trust me.

6. Rinse and repeat process. It doesn’t stop here. If you can get one niche making you $1,000 a month on autopilot, you can get 10 different ones to do the same. Don’t expect to start making a million dollars overnight with various niche sites. Learn how to generate that first $1 and then continue to repeat the process. Most of all – be patient. Your efforts will pay off.

Download the PDF flowchart of this process below for reference:

Click Here

If you want to learn more about niche marketing and being able to monetize traffic, watch this video below where Adam Short (who has made millions with niche sites) demonstrates how he makes $6,000 a month with one niche web site:

Click Here To Watch Adam’s Video On Niche Marketing

Feel free to leave your comments.

Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry
http://www.Twitter.com/Gauher

As you may be aware, my son (Shaan) was diagnosed with Leukemia a few months ago and I wrote about it here. I want to thank everyone who commented, sent get well cards and even sent gifts to my office for Shaan. It really meant a lot and Shaan is on his way to a full recovery. I decided to write this blog post as a way of giving back to my readers.

Below I have compiled a list of over 350 web sites, tools and resources that I believe can help you make more money online in one way or another.

Some of these web sites are advertising platforms and others are simply resources to help you make more money. I thought it would be nice for you to have a Rolodex like this at your fingertips.

Feel free to leave any marketing web sites, tools or resources you feel will help everyone in the comments section.

*** Contextual Networks ***

Google Adsense http://adsense.google.com
Valueclick http://www.valueclick.com
Kontera http://www.kontera.com
Pulse360 http://www.pulse360.com
Adbrite http://www.adbrite.com
Chikita http://chitika.com

Clicksor http://www.clicksor.com
Contextweb http://www.contextweb.com
Bidclix http://www.bidclix.com
Bidvertiser http://www.bidvertiser.com
RevenuePilot http://www.revenuepilot.com

*** PPC Ad Platforms ***

Google Adwords http://adwords.google.com

Yahoo Search Marketing http://advertising.yahoo.com/smallbusiness/ysm
MSN Adcenter http://advertising.yahoo.com/smallbusiness/ysm
Looksmart http://www.looksmart.com
Ask.com http://www.ask.com
7Search http://www.7search.com
Clicksor http://www.clicksor.com

Findit-Quick http://www.findit-quick.com
Pulse360 http://www.pulse360.com
Advertise.com http://www.advertise.com
Ad Sonar http://www.adsonar.com
AdKnowledge http://www.adknowledge.com
Miva http://www.miva.com

Validclick http://www.validclick.com
Marchex http://www.marchex.com
AdMarketplace http://www.admarketplace.com

*** PPC Blogs ***

Google Adwords Blog http://adwords.blogspot.com
Yahoo Search Marketing Blog http://www.ysmblog.com
MSN Adcenter Blog http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/blogs/advertiser

7Search Blog http://blog.7search.com/blogs/7search

*** Social Media Ad Platforms ***

MySpace Ads https://www.myads.com
FacebookAds http://www.facebook.com/advertising
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/directads/start
Twitter.com http://www.twitter.com
Sponsored Tweets http://sponsoredtweets.com

*** CPM Ad Platforms ***

BuySellAds.com http://www.buysellads.com

PlentyOfFish http://ads.pof.com
ValueClick.com http://www.valueclick.com
Casale Media http://www.casalemedia.com
CPX Interactive http://www.cpxinteractive.com/advertisers
Burst Media http://www.burstmedia.com
Advertising.com http://www.advertising.com

Traffiq http://www.traffiq.com
Adtegrity http://www.adtegrity.com
TribalFusion http://www.tribalfusion.com
Double Click http://www.doubleclick.com
Adoori http://www.adoori.com
Yield Build https://yieldbuild.com
CPMStar http://cpmstar.com

Adsdaq http://adsdaq.com
Adroll http://www.adroll.com
Yahoo Adready http://www.adready.com
MegaClick http://www.megaclick.com

*** PPV Ad Networks ***

Media Traffic http://www.mediatraffic.com
Trafficvance http://www.trafficvance.com

DirectCPV http://www.directcpv.com
Lead Impact http://www.leadimpact.com
Adon Network http://www.adonnetwork.com
Linksador http://www.linksador.com
Clicksor http://www.clicksor.com

*** CPA Networks ***

NeverblueAds http://www.neverblue.com

Affiliate.com http://www.affiliate.com
Inuvo http://www.inuvo.com
Revenueloop http://www.revenueloop.com
CX Digital http://www.cxdigital.com
MonetizeIt http://www.monetizeit.com
GetAds http://www.getads.com

Hydramedia http://www.hydramedia.com
MaxBounty http://www.maxbounty.com
Azoogle http://www.azoogle.com
Flux Ads http://www.fluxads.com
Rextopia.com http://www.rextopia.com
Offerfusion http://www.offerfusion.com

Adfish http://www.adfish.com
Mundo Media http://www.mundomedia.com
Web Jam Ads http://www.webjamads.com
Ad Valient http://www.advalient.com
Convert2Media http://www.convert2media.com
7Reach.com http://www.7reach.com

Clickbooth http://www.clickbooth.com
Market Leverage http://www.marketleverage.com
yMultimedia http://www.ymultimedia.com
Copeac http://www.copeac.com
Offerweb http://offerweb.com
FYCDirect http://www.fycdirect.com

ROIRocket http://www.roirocket.com
DirectLeads http://directleads.com

*** CPA Tools ***

Offervault http://www.offervault.com
Affiliate Paying http://www.affiliatepaying.com
Keyword Extend http://www.keywordextend.com

*** Internet Marketing Blogs ***

Gauher Chaudhry http://www.gauherchaudhry.com
Amish Shah http://www.amish-shah.com
John Chow http://www.johnchow.com
Shoemoney http://www.shoemoney.com
Jonathan Volk http://www.jonathanvolk.com
Cash Tactics http://cashtactics.net

Pro Blogger http://www.problogger.net
Ad Hustler http://www.adhustler.com
Eric¡¯s Tips http://www.ericstips.com

*** CPS Networks ***

Commission Junction http://www.cj.com
Linkshare http://www.linkshare.com
PayDotCom http://www.paydotcom.com

Clickbank http://www.clickbank.com
ShareASale http://www.shareasale.com
ClixGalore http://www.clixgalore.com

*** Keyword Spy Tools ***

Keywordspy http://www.keywordsp.com
Spyfu http://www.spyfu.com
PPC Bully http://www.ppcbully.com

KeyCompete https://yieldbuild.com
Compete http://compete.com

*** Merchant Processing

2Checkout http://www.2checkout.com
PayPal http://www.paypal.com
Authorize.net http://www.authorize.com
Charge.com http://www.charge.com
RBS Worldpay http://www.rbsworldpay.com

CCNow http://www.ccnow.com
Propay https://epay.propay.com
iPayDNA http://www.ipaydna.biz
AlertPay https://www.alertpay.com
TrialPay http://www.trialpay.com
Internet Secure http://www.internetsecure.com
MerchantSeek http://www.merchantseek.com
PayByWeb http://www.paybyweb.com

*** List Servers & Autoresponders ***

Aweber http://www.aweber.com
Getresponse http://www.getresponse.com
iContact http://www.icontact.com
Stream Send https://www.streamsend.com
1AutomationWiz http://www.1automationwiz.com
Send Free http://www.sendfree.com

Free Follow Up http://www.freefollowup.com
Supersponders http://www.supersponders.com
Topica http://www.topica.com

*** Shopping Carts ***

1ShoppingCart http://www.1shoppingcart.com
3D Cart http://www.3dcart.com/
Delavo http://www.delavo.com

InfusionSoft http://www.infusionsoft.com
Secure Net Shop http://www.securenetshop.com
X-Cart http://www.x-cart.com
Designcart http://designcart.com
Clickbank http://www.clickbank.com
Romancart http://www.romancart.com

*** Search Engines ***

Google http://www.google.com
Bing http://www.bing.com
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com
Ask http://www.ask.com
Excite http://www.excite.com
Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com

Altavista.com http://www.altavista.com
Webcrawler http://www.webcrawler.com
Cuil http://www.cuil.com
MetaCrawler http://www.metacrawler.com

*** Free Traffic Exchanges ***

TrafficSwarm http://www.trafficswarm.com
Trafficg http://www.trafficg.com

Easy Hits 4 U http://www.easyhits4u.com
Blog Traffic Exchange http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com
ProClickExchange http://www.proclickexchange.com

*** Classified Ads Sites ***

Kijiji.com http://www.kijiji.com
Craigslist.com http://www.craigslist.org
USFreeAds http://www.usfreeads.com

Classifieds For Free http://www.classifiedsforfree.com
Classified Ads http://www.classifiedads.com
Its My Market http://www.itsmymarket.com
Skepter http://www.skepter.com
eBay Classifieds http://www.ebayclassifieds.com
Penny Saver http://www.pennysaverusa.com

Backpage http://www.backpage.com

*** Marketing Forums ***

Warrior Forum http://www.warriorforum.com
Wicked Fire http://www.wickedfire.com
Digital Point http://forums.digitalpoint.com
5 Star Affiliate http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com
The IM Forum http://www.theimforum.com

IM4Newbies http://www.im4newbies.com/forum
Webmaster World http://www.webmasterworld.com

*** Website Analytics ***

Statscounter http://www.statscounter.com
Google Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics
OneStat http://www.google.com/analytics
Yahoo Web Analytics http://web.analytics.yahoo.com

eWebAnalytics http://www.ewebanalytics.com

*** Clip Art & Images ***

ClipArt.com http://www.clipart.com
Classroom Clipart http://classroomclipart.com
1 Clipart http://www.1clipart.com
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A few months ago, I flew down to the Traffic Domination workshop, put on by Keith Baxter and Jon Shugart, held in Atlanta. I had the pleasure of meeting an individual by the name of Matt Wadsworth.

Matt is originally from the UK and he started marketing online just a few short years ago.  He has already built a million dollar empire in these few short years in markets outside of Internet marketing.

Although there are many online marketers who have made millions of dollars online, none of them have had to overcome the challenges that Matt did.

What was Matt’s challenge to online success?

Matt was born blind.

That is what makes what he has done very extraordinary.

Matt has never seen a sunset, watched a movie or looked deep into the eyes of a loved one.

All the things WE take for granted.

Yet he is still one of the most giving, humble, down to earth guys I have ever met. We were both on the same flight back to Toronto from Atlanta and had a lengthy conversation about Internet marketing, family and life in general.

He also remarked to me as we were descending into Toronto that his life is good.

Listen to the audio file below for our discussion on how he did it.

Click Here To Listen (Or Right-Click to Save)

I constantly receive emails from people who whine about being broke, having bad luck, or no time to build an online business.

My point is that if Matt can create an online empire without the ability to see, it really makes other people`s excuses for failure seem relatively insignificant.

I encourage you to sign up to Matt’s email list as he offers great and inspirational advice on a regular basis.

http://www.mattwadsworth.com

I look forward to your comments.

Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry

With the recent changes in the PPC industry, many CPA marketers are throwing in the towel assuming that sending pay per click (PPC) traffic to cost per action (CPA) offers is dead and unprofitable.

Google Adwords is the search engine leader with over 60% of the search market making it an obvious choice as a top PPC traffic source.

But Google Adwords has been cracking down on affiliate marketers and banning accounts that they feel do not offer a good user experience to their searchers.

And any of us doing CPA marketing realize that a vast majority of CPA offers being promoted are not really value adding.

These mass bannings started after the FTC introduced their new rules in early December 2009, to target marketers who were practicing deceptive marketing (i.e. flogs and farticles).

Many marketers lost their entire CPA businesses when Google Adwords decided to ban their accounts, but Google Adwords is not the only pay per click search engine in town.

Even though Google Adwords controls a lion’s share of the available pay per click traffic online, there are still many other sources of pay per click traffic that can be bought and in many cases, at a much lower cost.

The two other major players in the PPC game are Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN Adcenter.  Although these two pay per click sources don’t nearly have as much traffic as Google Adwords, in my experience they do have better conversions.  Since the competition is not as much I also pay a lower cost per conversion versus advertising on Google Adwords.

If you take Yahoo and MSN’s search volume, they represent about 30% of the searches done on the Internet.  This is still a sizable amount of traffic to profit from.  Yahoo and MSN are planning to merge their pay per click marketing platforms, which I hope with give Google Adwords a formidable challenge.

There are dozens of second tier pay per click search engines such as 7Search.com, Looksmart.com, Ask.com, etc. that can provide marketers with thousands of targeted prospects each and every day.

But the problem with the second tier search engines is that they derive their traffic from a number of traffic partner sites.  This can results in a large number of fraudulent clicks from partner sources that are just out to steal click revenues.

These second tier search engines don’t have the sophisticated fraud technology that Google Adwords has, so it is hard to determine what clicks are real and which are fraudulent when they charge your account.

The key is to learn how to pass traffic partner IDs from second tier search engines so that you can have these fraudulent traffic sources shut off.  If you are disciplined enough to do this and can afford to lose some money up front to clean up the traffic, you will be left with decent converting traffic at the end of this exercise.

PPC traffic in my opinion is still the best converting traffic because it allows you to screen your prospects with your ads before they click and you are charged a click cost.

Although PPV traffic is also very lucrative, it is now getting very competitive and profit margins are shrinking fast with PPV traffic sources.

If you want to build a thriving PPC to CPA business, never allow one PPC traffic source to be more than 25% of your traffic spend. Diversify your PPC sources so that when one source disappears, you still have at least 75% of your PPC traffic.

So in conclusion, PPC to CPA is very much alive with great potential, even if you don’t rely on Google Adwords for PPC traffic.

Cheers. Gauher