Here are the details and hope you will boost your revenue with this change.

Windows Live OneCare $3.00

Most of you know about the fabulous OneCare $3.00 payout per trial download—but have you checked out the newest marketing materials? There are some great banner and text ads of various sizes to update your promotions! We have even added some longer copy to support those affiliates that have blogs or review sites. Check it all out by logging into the Affiliate Account Center.

Windows Live Toolbar $1.00

Please be sure that your links are up-to-date (as of March 08). I still see many of you with the old landing page URL, which will not track your activity correctly! Plus, we are revising this new landing page to optimize your conversion rates, so stay tuned! Simply log into the Affiliate Account Center to ensure you have all of the correct links placed.

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General Updates

• Commission: We will run May commissions on June 1, so be sure to turn in your W8 or W9 before the end of the month to receive payment. We must have this on file prior to the 1st for you to be eligible for payout this month.
• Communication: We are striving to increase the communication effectiveness within the MSAN. This newsletter is the first version of the weekly newsletters that will come your way—but we are working to create a slicker email template and enhance the MSAN website, microsoftaffiliates.net, to become more news oriented. So get ready for changes to begin this summer!
• MSAN Affiliate Survey Part II: Thanks to all of you who participated in the first MSAN Affiliate Survey in March. Not only did we have a great response rate, many of your suggestions are helping us to enhance the program. Did you miss your chance to comment? Now you have another shot—check out our latest survey where we are looking for more information about YOU! This data will help us optimize our offers for you and your customers.

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Publishing a Knol is quite similar to publishing a blog post except the tone is more formal. You can insert related picture or image to your Knol and once your Knol created, readers are allowed to comment and rate your article in the Knol.

What Benefits You’ll Gain from Publishing Google Knols?

AdSense Ads is Allowed in Knols
Google said that the authors can choose to include AdSense ads in all their Knols. So, each of your Knols that attract traffic may earn you some AdSense ad revenue. But, if you are actively creating Knols that share useful content, it is possible to earn a nice AdSense income every month as you will have more Knols gaining traffic.

Get Free Google Traffic
The Google knol homepage http://knol.google.com gained thousands of quality backlinks in less than a week. It is expected that it will gain decent of backlinks just like the other two content sharing networks, Hubpages and Squidoo. Because of the huge amount of backlinks Hubpages and Squidoo have gained, they are now getting million of visitors from search engines like Google and Yahoo every month (I believe most are from Google).

This will happen to Google Knol as well. Google Knol will soon gain huge amount of backlinks and many of the Knols created by different authors will start ranking high on Google search engine and enjoy free Google traffic. Those who manage to get their knols ranked on a competitive keyword will receive steady traffic. They can include links in their Knols to direct these Google traffic to their website or blog or choose to monetize their Knols with AdSense ads so that these Google traffic can be converted into AdSense revenue.

Google Knol has their own content policy and term of service. You should read and understand them before creating a Knol to publishing your content. Google doesn’t allow spamming, any Knol that against their policy will be deleted

What this mean is that I will not allow to sell this blog. With the traffic and income I get now, I should be able to sell this blog for more than USD30,000 if I no longer want to blog anymore.

If you are serious to start a blog for making money online, you should register a custom domain name and host your blog on the custom domain. There are several benefits you can enjoy from hosting your own blog on your own domain name:

You Get Total Control
You will have full control over everything about your blog. You can transfer the domain name to any other hosting company if you find that your existing web host service isn’t what you want. Once your blog have built in consistent traffic and bring in good profit, people may start contacting you asking you whether you want to sell your blog. If the deal is good, you can immediate sell the blog.

Easier to Memorize
By hosting your blog on your own domain name, the visitors can remember your blog easier. A free blog domain name generally is long and hard to remember.

Better Security
You will get added security. As the domain name and the blog are owned by you fully, this means that you don’t have to face the risk of getting your suspended or even deleted. When using a free domain name on your blog, the company that provides you the free domain name can delete your blog anytime when they find that your blog content is against their policies.

You Make More Money Blogging
You give a professional image by having your own custom domain name and own logo. More people will contact you to find out whether you sell banner ads or text links which will mean more advertising revenue to your blog. I do get a lot of advertising inquiries from visitors of this free blog even though I didn’t tell any of my visitors that I sell advertising space, probably because this blog ranks high in Google. But, if this blog is hosted on my own domain, I would have get even more businesses

To make your product listings effective so that you can sell your products smoothly on eBay, here are the things you must do:

1. Include the relevant keywords and search terms in your product description.

2. The titles of your product listings have to be attention-grabbing. You got to make the eBay viewers click your title link or your products will never sell. Thus, put in time and effort to learn about writing effective product listings titles. Take a look at your competitors successful auctions, see how their titles are written and take some of their good ideas.

3. The description of your product should be as detailed and accurate as possible. Let the potential buyers know precisely the condition of your product. Whether it is new or used, tell them honestly. Write about the benefits of your products; how they can help the potential buyers. Also list the features and functions of your products.

4. Never start a listing without adding photos or images of your products. If your potential buyers can’t see the items you are selling, they may leave your auction and go check out your competitors auctions which sell the similar items.

5. Make sure that you list your items in the most accurate category.

6. Give sufficient details about the shipping. Let the buyer know the cost of shipping and the estimated time needed to deliver the product. You should also provide a fast shipping option to meet the need of people who demand fast product delivery.

7. Some customers don’t want to pay with Paypal, so you should provide more payment options so that the customers can choose the payment option that best suits them

8. You definitely want as many people as possible to bid on your auctions. To do that, you’ll need to list your product at a low starting price.

Applying these tips to your eBay product listings, I’m sure they will help increase the amount of bids on your products and generate more eBay sales for you.

You actually have numerous choices when it comes to marketing a website for generating traffic. This article will provide you some of the low cost ways you can use to generate traffic for your website.

Give Away Free Content
Create a free report or e-book. Write a compelling title for your report or e-book and also you should provide some quality info and content in your report or e-book. Then distribute it on the Internet. You can post the link to download your report on the related forums, publish a free press release on several free news sites to let people know about your free report, post it on social bookmarketing sites, use article marketing and etc. All these Internet marketing efforts will drive visitors to your website and download your report. Those who have read your report and found that it is interesting and useful will share with their friends and their visitors if they own a website or blog.

Create a Blog
New and fresh content can easily attract traffic, so you may consider Blogging. Set up a blog with the purpose of building traffic for your website. You can begin by posting content that will entertain your blog readers. Any info that will entertain and draw the interest of your targeted readers should be posted on your blog. Do these often will help you build a reader based for your blog. To send your readers to visit your website, you may include your website link on the sidebar of your blog. Occasionally, blog about your website, tell them your website have good info or good offers they don’t want to miss and more of your readers will start visiting your website.

Article Marketing
Publishing articles on article directories is really a good choice for driving long term free traffic to your website. Write at least one article every day and submit it for publication on articledashboard.com, goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com and isnare.com could possibly build a consistent stream of free targeted traffic for your website. The key to effective article marketing is to write articles that are interesting but don’t tell the whole story. Make the readers feel or know that, if they want more info, they will need to check out your website by clicking your website link in your author bio.

Become a Guess Blogger
There are a lot of blogs looking for guess blogger. Just take some time to visit blogs that are related to your website, and you may find that a number of guess blogging opportunities. The bloggers usually request unique and useful posts; and give one to two live links back to the writer’s website. If you publish your posts on these blogs, your posts will be displayed on the top and read by many of their readers.

Set up Your Own Forum
Start a forum on your website. Encourage your visitors to join your forum and participate in discussions. This proved to be a way to increase returned visitors. Or if you offering a product or service, a forum can set up to help your potential and existing customers. With a forum, you will be able to help your customers effectively and also build up a good image. People will keep on come back not just searching for help; they will also browse on other topics in your forum and start their discussion.

Whether you are running an online business, a website or a blog, I’m sure you are interested to improve your search engine rankings in order to get the most traffic from search engines. Search engine traffic is probably the best type of traffic because they are highly convertible into revenue such as AdSense commission, affiliate commission and sales revenue.

David’s tele-seminar will be giving you a lot of information about search engine optimization (SEO) that will surely help you improve your search engine rankings. If you’re interested to attend this tele-seminar, simply go to this page and register for a seat.

This article will provide you 9 important basic tips for succeeding in affiliate marketing.

1. Select a specific niche. Make sure that there are affiliates already making money in the niche as this indicate that the niche is profitable. Then join affiliate programs that are offering products or services appeal to the niche market. It is suggested not to join too many affiliate programs at the beginning to avoid losing focus.

2. Do research and investigation on the affiliate programs before joining them. You should only join rewarding and reliable affiliate programs. The products must be targeted to your niche market and in good quality so that you are able to promote and sell them with less refund rate.

3. You can promote affiliate products without a website. But, it is highly recommended that you build a niche website with interesting content focuses on promoting your affiliate products.

4. Create a budget for your marketing campaigns. Know clearly how much you want to spend on promoting your website and affiliate programs.

5. Traffic and conversion are the keys to generate affiliate commission. You will need to spend most of your time to learn and work on these two aspects. So, be prepared to work hard.

6. Your potential buyers often need supporting information before buying an item. You may write reviews about your affiliate products and ‘how to’ articles with your affiliate links included in the content. This is one of the effective ways to direct your visitors to your merchant’s site and make a purchase.

7. For long-term profit in affiliate marketing, you have to build a list. Some of the methods you can apply to grow a list are offer free gift, free newsletters, free e-courses and participating in a give away event. When you have a opt-in email list, you can regularly contact your target prospects and recommend your affiliate products to them.

8. Your credibility is important. You should often send helpful and interesting information to your opt-in list subscribers. Provide your real name and an email address on your website so that the potential prospects know there is a real person behind the website and contact you anytime when they have question.

9. Most affiliate programs allow you to recruit affiliates under you (sub-affiliates). You will earn more commission if you grow your own network of sub-affiliates. If you have found a few hard working sub-affiliates, you can expect to share a steady commission from the affiliate sales generated by them

The website will promote three Clickbank affiliate products with a review written for each product to encourage the visitors to click on your affiliate link to visit the seller’s site. Any visitor purchase a product through your affiliate link will earn you a share of commission.

The website setting up process is pretty simple. All you have to do is sign up with your name and email address, login to the member area with the password sent to you, type in your Clickbank ID and your affiliate marketing website is ready to go

1. Title Tags

The single most important “on page?factor affecting search engine rankings is the title tag. This is a snippet of code in the header section of a web document. The title of a web page is given great weight by the search engines, and for lesser competitive keyphrases a good title tag alone may be enough to catapult a page to the top of the engines.

One common mistake made is that a website is created from a template in which all of the title tag information is the same from page to page. This can not only get your pages thrown into the supplemental results, it is an example of extremely poor individual page optimization.

Individual page optimization basically means that each page of your site should be individually optimized for the contents and target keyphrase of that page. Chances are that you desire to attract visitors using a variety of keyphrases. If you use the same title tag throughout your site, you are missing out on a wonderful opportunity to do this.

The title tag of each page should be individually optimized for the keyphrases that you are targeting for that page. Repetition should be avoided. For ecommerce websites, each product page should contain a unique title tag reflecting the specific product featured on that page.

For example, let’s say you sell a large inventory of widgets of various types and sizes. The title tag of your home page should probably contain the word “widgets? Then, each individual product page should contain more information in the title tag pertaining to the specific product, such as “Large Red Widget ?Model ABC123? or something similar. This allows users searching for specific model numbers, or manufacturer names, or even more general terms like “large red widget?to land on a page specifically relevant to their search engine query.

If you are not including key phrase rich content on each page of your website, you again face a risk of having your pages thrown into the supplementals, or having your pages outright rank poorly for your target key phrases. Be sure to include at least one instance of the key phrase you are targeting for that page in the body text of the page.

A rule of thumb I use is to first go through and select the key phrases you are targeting for each page. Then, optimize the title tags accordingly to reflect this. After that, write rich, unique content for each page, and be sure to include at least one instance of the title tag content in the body text.

A common mistake in this area is to write generic page content, and simply replace the target key phrase on each page. This type of methodology adds no real value to individual pages of your site and is almost certainly going to result in your pages get thrown into the supplementals on grounds of duplicative content. It is not enough, therefore, to have generic content which is the same on each page, with a mere substitution of the target key phrase.

For example, a real estate agency wants to be at the top of the engines for searches in all 50 states. They create generic content such as:

“We are your [state name] real estate experts. Browse our [state name] real estate listings to find your perfect [state name] home…”

The firm then creates 50 individual state pages, with the exact same content and only the state name changed. This will not work. Each page needs to have unique, rich content, and so in the example above, we would need to create 50 original pages of content rather than using a simple “find and replace?methodology.

An ecommerce site should write rich descriptions for each of their products. A common mistake I see in such sites is that individual product pages contain little or no written content aside from the product name and a picture. Be sure to write at least a paragraph on the features and benefits of each product in the product description field.

3. Blog

Your competition is blogging, so it’s time you jump on the bandwagon. There are a number of reasons to blog that directly relate to search engine considerations. Google and other engines generally prefer sites with fresh content over stale sites. This means that ranking well involves the regular creation of rich content, and typically this is done via a company weblog.

Blog articles should be useful and informative and should not be considered necessarily self promotional. Using the real estate example above, the agency should write general interest articles on buying and selling homes, how to select a realtor, and the like. It should avoid writing articles touting the benefits of the firm itself ?blog articles should not be press releases (although it is okay to repost the occasional press release in the company blog). The reason for this is that general interest articles (such as the one you are reading right now) are much more attractive link bait (see next section) than are articles on how wonderful your company is.

Additionally, once you have started blogging, you are opening yourself up to link bait and social media opportunities as described below.

4. Link Bait

Generally speaking, the more links you have to rich content on your site, the better off you are going to be in the engines. The creation of a blog is a wonderful way to attract links. Other ideas for link bait include video, images, sound clips, press releases and the like. Contests, quizzes, product reviews, top 10 lists (or in the case of this article, a top 5 list), and how to articles fare very well. Also, the provision of useful tools can be a great way to attract links.

In the example of the real estate agency, a tool likely to attract links would be a free mortgage calculator. Offering such a tool on your website can attract the attention of other sites in the form of links, increasing your reputation and pagerank, which has a direct impact on higher search engine rankings.

Be sure to create link bait on a regular basis through the regular creation of content, of whatever form you choose.

Now that you have created all this wonderful link bait in the form of blogs, videos, tools, and the like, you need to make sure to get the word out about it so that people know it is there. Social media has already become one of the most powerful ways to spread the word. Social media is loosely defined as any sort of user driven content. Famous examples include MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo Answers, Wikipedia, and the like.

Social bookmarking sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon are wonderful ways to get the word out about your content. If you have a number of images (such as product images in an ecommerce site), image sharing sites such as Flickr are useful. Contests and quizzes are great fodder for social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and Yahoo360. Video content can be promoted through YouTube, MetaCafe, AOLVideo, and similar sites.

The point is, the more you promote your wonderful link bait, the more people will find out about it and link to it. Put your content to work for you!

About the Author

Matt Foster is the CEO of ArteWorks SEO, an internationally recognized search engine optimization firm. For more information, please visit www.arteworks.biz.

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