Will Amazon Associates be your automatic dollar-earning hen?

Using Amazon affiliate marketing to make money has always been a very popular online earning project due to its high conversion rate. The success rate of newcomers using this channel to make money is very high.

If you feel that your development in the Chinese market is limited, then extending your business to high-income markets such as Europe and the United States will be a challenging but highly rewarding option.

Alfred has discussed earning dollars using English-language websites in the past . If you still don't know where to start, then opting to join the Amazon Associates Program would be a good direction.

Amazon Affiliate Marketing Profile

Amazon Amazon started the affiliate marketing program in 1996. It can be said to be the grandfather of Affiliate Marketing. Amazon attracts a large number of website owners and Internet marketing experts with generous commissions. Join its promotion.

With the help of these new marketing forces, it has also brought more online exposure to Amazon. Indirectly, this company's turnover has grown rapidly, and it has developed into the world's largest e-commerce platform today.

The unspeakable secrets of a novice

• Poor English, not high level – you can spend money to outsource English articles. Spend $10 per article and ask a foreigner to write it for you
• No website building – it’s easy to do with the website building software WordPress.

Why Join Amazon Affiliate Marketing

• Joining an affiliate is completely free and does not require any monthly fees
• Easy to apply - just have a website or a social media channel with a large following
• No location restrictions. Live in Asia can also operate the US marketing plan
• High return on investment – ​​the initial cost of building a website is about $300 USD (website $10/year + web hosting space $120/year + 15 English articles $150USD). As long as it can continue to operate, it will be a good long-term Source of income.
• Low payment terms – as low as $10 you can apply for payment from amazon
• For the world's largest e-commerce platform. There are everything that can be sold
• The profit sharing ratio is good. The maximum commission can reach 10%
• It is a household name in the United States and has a high degree of trust. The conversion rate of the products sold can generally reach 4~6%. It is very good in the industry.

 Disadvantages of Running an Amazon Affiliate

The tracking code (cookie) for the promotional link has a short validity period of only 24 hours:

When a netizen clicks on your Amazon promotion link, an Amazon tracking code will be automatically implanted on the netizen's browser. This tracking code is only valid for one day.

If the netizen pays for an order later, Amazon will judge whether to give you the bonus based on the validity period of the tracking code (cookie). That is to say, if the time of payment for the transaction is 24 hours later. Then this There is no commission for one transaction.

Some product categories have lower commissions:

For example, the commission for computer products is only 2.5%

 How to build an Amazon website

1. Find a suitable product category to sell

Such as fishing tools, sewing machines, coffee machines, etc. are all good objects. Of course, you can also make the category of goods larger. For example, a website dedicated to small household appliances, which covers coffee machines, juice machines, electric Different types of pots.

Generally, it is best to choose a project that you are interested in or familiar with. In this way, it will be more convenient to operate.

In addition, it is important to also take into account the profit sharing ratio of commodity items (as shown in the picture). Some categories such as personal health products have a commission of only 1%. Conversely, kitchen or car products can get 4.5% of the share. Profit bonus. The difference is huge.

2. Purchase URL

For the selection of URLs, it was very popular to use keyword URLs (Exact Match Domain, or EMD for short). For example, CoffeeMachineReviews.com, BestHairDryers.com included keywords in the domain.

The other is the currently popular brandable domain. This type of domain name is suitable for building your own brand, which is conducive to gaining popularity and becoming an authority site. Such as CoffeeFanatics.com, BeautyQueen.com.

Afu feels that there are advantages and disadvantages between the two. It may be faster to use keyword URLs in the initial stage, but the expansion of website content is often limited by the keywords in the station name. Therefore, it is difficult to develop into a large website.

As for the current popular brand-oriented domain names, the name of the website is relatively vague. Therefore, it will be more flexible in the selection of commodity types. It is not only suitable for developing into an authoritative website, but also conducive to long-term operation.


3. Rent a web hosting space and build a website with WordPress

This step is not difficult. If you don't have a website, you can refer to the WordPress personal website setup tutorial.

 4. Enrich the content of the website

Since English is not their native language, most people just choose to outsource foreigners to write like Navi4you. Currently Navi4you uses the iWriter platform to buy the articles he needs.

Of course, the more words an article has, the more likely it will be favored by the Google search engine. Generally speaking, buying an ordinary 2000-word English article usually costs $30~$40 USD. The financial burden is quite large if you buy more. Basically, the number of words in each article should be more than 500 words (about $8 USD).

Product Reviews Most Popular

As for how to write an article? Generally, the conversion rate of writing a product review article is the best. The easiest way is to ask the writer to rewrite the part of the product introduction, and then combine the user reviews on Amazon to sort out the advantages and disadvantages , for readers' reference.

The structure of the article is roughly:

• Product introduction and features
• A summary of positive user reviews
• A summary of negative reviews

When choosing Amazon products to promote, the following points are usually considered:

• The selling price of the product is higher than $50, and the commission for low-priced products is too low
• User reviews are 4 stars or more
• The number of people to evaluate is preferably more than 20 people

How to find good reference examples

To find examples of Amazon affiliate marketing sites worthy of reference, you can directly enter the relevant product name and the words "reviews" and "reviews" on Google, and it is easy to find relevant URLs. These can squeeze into the success of Google's homepage Websites are ideal research objects.

The way to search is:

• Product name + reviews (eg Wahl dog clippers reviews)
• best + product items (like best dog clippers)
• Product item + reviews (eg dog clippers reviews)

 Apply to join the Amazon Affiliate Program

The review standards for Amazon affiliates are quite loose. There are not too many restrictions on the traffic and ranking of the website. Before applying, it is best to use one or two months to write about the readers on the blog. Good content that helps.

As for the number of articles, there is no certain standard. Perhaps more than 15 applications have a higher chance of success.

The membership application website of the Amazon Alliance in the United States is https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/

The Amazon alliance is divided into many different countries. They operate independently of each other. You may wish to join the Amazon alliance in the United States first.

Then according to your own needs, consider whether to join other English-speaking countries (Canada, United Kingdom, Australia). Of course, if you are proficient in other foreign languages ​​such as French. You can also apply to join the French Amazon Alliance.


Sources of Affiliate Marketing Website Traffic

The website has enough traffic, and the income can naturally come in. There are many methods of Internet marketing, in addition to search engine optimization (SEO), the use of keywords to improve the ranking on the search engine.

You can also use some social media such as YouTube, Pinterest, FB Facebook fan page, Instagram (IG) to promote imported traffic. Among them, Pinterest brings the highest amount of traffic and is recommended by many affiliate marketers.
 

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Amazon commission payment method

Amazon Affiliate USA currently offers three main payment methods:

• Electronic Gift Card (Gift Card) – You can apply when the commission income reaches $10. Amazon will send it by email
• Checks – The income must reach $100 to apply. Checks are mailed and accepted worldwide.
• U.S. domestic bank transfer – requires a U.S. bank account to use. Generally, it is difficult for people who do not live in the United States to apply. At this time, you can consider using the free U.S. personal bank account provided by Payoneer to receive USD foreign currency.
• Forex Direct Transfer – Unfortunately, there is currently no support for TWD wire transfers.

Mistakes in Amazon Affiliate Marketing

When doing Amazon affiliate marketing, you must really abide by his Operating Agreement. There are several places where newbies need to pay special attention, otherwise they may be suspended!

• Don't put the price of the product in the promotion text. Because Amazon's product price changes frequently. Sometimes the website is too late to update, causing the price to be outdated and incorrect.
• Do not put your Amazon promotion link in the email newsletter or e-book.
• Don't buy stuff on Amazon through your own affiliate link. Maybe you think you can earn a commission. But it's against the official rules.
• It must be clearly stated on your website (disclaimer) that you are using the affiliate link of the Amazon Marketing Affiliate and get a rebate commission from it.
• Do not use third-party URL shortening services (such as bitly), or intentionally hide the destination of the link (Link Cloaking). Amazon wants visitors on the website to know exactly where to click on the link. Of course, use the official URL shortening service. Amzn.to does not have this limitation.

Are you still advertising on your blog? Affiliate Marketing can Make more Money

The "Navi4you" blog you are reading has both Google Adsense ads and affiliate marketing promotion links. After one month's statistics, the income of affiliate marketing is more than 10 times that of advertising.

Many blogs on the Internet, such as the blogs on PIXNET, still rely on MIB (Money In Blog) advertising profit sharing plan or Google Adsense advertising clicks to make money.

If these bloggers can also use their own network traffic channels to operate affiliate marketing, then their profit prospects will be multiplied.

 1. What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing simply means selling other people's things and taking a cut. Manufacturers promote their products with the assistance of their partners, so that sales performance grows rapidly, and at the same time, some of the profits earned are distributed to these marketing partners. Everyone is happy. It is a kind of Mutual benefit and win-win mode of making money.

On the other hand, from the point of view of promoters (partners), because there is no need to invest money, and do not need to do inventory and customer service. Therefore, it is a low-risk and high-profit method of making money online.

 How affiliate marketing works can be explained simply as follows:

• The manufacturer (advertiser) first proposes an affiliate program (offer), and then recruits a group of marketing partners (publisher) to assist in promotion.
• Partners use their own marketing channels (such as blogs, Facebook fans, YouTube channels, LINE groups
• or buy paid advertisements) to insert relevant affiliate links. As long as a visitor clicks this link, they come to the manufacturer The product page above. There is an opportunity to make further trading actions.
• For each traded product or task, the manufacturer will pay the corresponding profit sharing commission to the partner

2. Advantages of doing affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is very much like a real estate agency or insurance in traditional industries. It is also like an online version of running a business job. Because as long as an order is completed online, you will get a performance bonus.

This marketing model using the Internet has several special benefits:

• Free to join – Most of the affiliate marketing promotion programs are free to join. It is a very friendly way to make money online.
• It is a good source of passive income. The channel of marketing promotion can be open all year round, and website visitors can complete the transaction through the promotion link at any time. It allows you to have passive income even when you sleep.
• There is no need to go to the customer to visit, avoid the embarrassing situation of being rejected during face-to-face or telemarketing
• Only focus on product promotion, as for the cash flow of goods, logistics and follow-up customer service are all handled by the manufacturer. It can be regarded as a risk-free method of making money online
• There are no geographical restrictions. Through online marketing, you can sell things to Taiwan, Hong Kong or further afield in Europe and America
• Through different Internet media traffic, you can reach a considerable number of potential customers. Significantly increase the chance of profit.

3. Function of Affiliate Marketing Network

Some advertisers who do affiliate marketing operate their own affiliate programs, but most of them entrust affiliate marketing platforms to help manage them. Its benefits are:

The platform will provide a complete transaction tracking system, such as tracking codes, promotion links, transaction records and the issuance of audit bonuses, etc.
There is a Marketing Account Manager (AM, Affiliate Manager) to answer and solve various problems that members may encounter when promoting
The platform will be responsible for helping recruit new members, screen qualified promoters, and let the manufacturer's affiliate program have enough human resources to do a good job in marketing.
From the perspective of a publisher, the affiliate marketing platform gathers many merchants in the same place, allowing members to easily select their favorite affiliate program. Just find a product that sells well and has a high bonus. Apply Participate in its promotional programs. Start marketing and earn commissions.

Of course, members can also operate many affiliate programs at one time, first test to see which promotion project has a high conversion rate and is easier to make money, and then increase efforts to promote it. Let your income increase rapidly.

 4. Types of Affiliate Marketing Promotion Programs

There are many different types of promotion in affiliate marketing, but Alfred will only classify it into two different types here:

4.1 CPS (Cost per Sale) – The bonus is calculated according to the sales. It mainly promotes physical products, but also includes some digital products.
The famous Amazon Associates is selling This type of product. At present, there are more than one million kinds of products on the Amazon shopping site in the United States, and the items that affiliates can choose to promote are very amazing.

Generally speaking, for the CPS affiliate program that mainly sells physical products, most merchants will provide a transaction commission ranging from 2% to 10% to the promoter according to the price of the product. Related Topic

Sometimes it can reach 50% or even 70% of the unit price of the product. This The type of affiliate marketing platform that specializes in selling digital products is represented by ClickBank.

In fact, after digital product developers have made products, they can continue to sell them without limit. Because there are no inventory and delivery problems, the cost of products is mostly very low. Therefore, the commissions that can be obtained can be higher than that of physical products. a lot of.

4.2 CPA (Cost per Action) – The bonus is calculated according to the number of completed tasks.
These tasks such as completing the collection of customer lists, applying for a bank credit card, joining as a market research member, renting cloud software services or downloading a mobile game, etc. . Because the marketing items are more diverse, several subsidiary types are also extended, the more common ones are:

CPL (Cost Per Lead) – This type of promotion plan is mainly to obtain a customer list or complete a membership registration.

CPI (Cost per Install) – mainly for downloading mobile video games and apps.

Pay per Call - When someone sees the phone number on your ad, and uses this number to call and ask about the product. For every successful call, you will get a bonus. This type of promotion program is now more extended Mobile-based models such as Click2Call and Click2SMS. Make marketing plans more flexible.

COD (Cash on Delivery) – that is, cash on delivery in Chinese. Many early marketing plans for beauty and health care products will allow customers to first free trial (free trial) and then automatically debit (rebill).  At present, this type of promotion scheme is very popular. The marketing stuff also extends to many trendy products.

5. How to choose a good affiliate marketing platform

At present, more than half of the affiliate marketing programs in Taiwan that Navi4you runs are using foreign affiliate marketing platforms. The reason is very simple, because the commissions they give are higher.

In the past few years, Affiliate Networks has contacted more than 30 Affiliate Networks. It covers a wide range of countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Israel, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Malaysia.

So what should you pay attention to when choosing a good affiliate marketing platform?
Make sure there are no products you want to promote on the platform
The company's reputation is better – try to choose a company with a large scale and a long-term operation. At the same time, pay more attention to whether there are any negative reviews on the Internet. For example, the distribution of profit sharing bonuses is not punctual or the commission of promoters is maliciously deducted
Ways of requesting money – Generally, the distribution of bonuses is mainly through PayPal, bank transfer or check.
The minimum amount of bonus payment – ​​the current general standard is about $100 or more before it will be issued. Of course, the lower the specified amount, the better it will be for you.
Distribution cycle of profit sharing commission – Distribution cycle of profit sharing commission – After the platform confirms the effective promotion bonus, some are distributed in 1 month, and some are delayed until 3 months or longer before giving you the money. For the payment cycle Too long a platform will increase the risk of poor turnover or not getting money, so it is necessary to consider whether it is worth helping them promote. 

6. Apply to join the affiliate marketing platform

Membership applications for most affiliate marketing platforms or the Affiliate Program are free. The difficulty level of each company’s qualification review is also different. Generally speaking, CPA-based platforms will review more Strict. Sometimes there will be a phone interview.

In fact, sometimes the application for membership will be rejected, so try a few other companies, and there will always be places that are accepted. In addition, you may wish to cooperate with Skimlinks , an intermediary service provider for affiliate marketing .

Skimlinks brings together about 50 mainstream affiliate marketing platforms in the world (such as Amazon affiliate, CJ Affiliate, Rakuten), and provides affiliate programs of nearly 50,000 manufacturers for you to join freely.

It is easy to apply for Skimlinks. Currently, there are more than 60,000 members worldwide. More than half of the top 100 online media in the United States such as USA Today and Buzzfeed are its users. Of course, it is also useful in the "Navi4you" blog. Its service!

The advantage of using Skimlinks is once and for all, you don't have to apply everywhere in order to join individual affiliate marketing programs. Of course, the disadvantage is that it will take a cut. About 25 % of the bonus you earn will be deducted as a service fee.

The good news is that membership of several mainstream platforms in the Chinese market (such as Tongwang , Alliance.com ) is easy to apply for success. You can join several more platforms at a time, so that you have more choices of promotion plans, and then Increase your chances of making a profit.

7. How to choose an affiliate marketing promotion plan

The promotion programs in the affiliate marketing platform often exceed hundreds or even more than a thousand, and sometimes it is quite difficult to choose. Navi4you has sorted out some points to be considered here as a basis for selection:

① The products to be promoted are best related to the content of the website – for  example, if a travel blog sells cleaning robots. It may seem quite abrupt.

② Try to sell popular products – Most of the affiliate platforms will make a ranking list for popular products with high transaction volume. You can make good use of this statistical data to find ideal products for marketing.

Generally, hot-selling products have several characteristics as follows – good reputation of the brand, excellent quality of products, high conversion rate of transactions, good profit sharing bonus, etc.

③ Shop around, don’t suffer – sometimes on different platforms, you will find exactly the same products, but the commissions given by each platform are different. At this time, you have to make comparisons diligently and pick out Programs with high bonuses to promote.

④ Find the sweet spot of the best selling price of the product – if the product is cheap, you will get less bonus. If the unit price of the product is high, it may be difficult to sell, and you will not get a commission .

How to find out the popular transaction price, increase the number of orders (more performance bonus), it may take a while to observe and analyze by yourself.

⑤ The longer the validity period of the tracking code (cookie), the better – the tracking code of the Amazon Affiliate Program is only valid for one day. If the visitor goes to Amazon to shop through the promotion link, if the transaction is not completed within 24 hours, they will not get the commission.

In the current promotion plans of manufacturers, the validity period of cookies is mostly within 30 days to 90 days. It is better for you to choose a marketing plan with a longer cookie validity period.

⑥ Choose products that are not easy to be eliminated – some electronic products, the frequency of new updates is very high, if you promote this type of products, you must update the marketing copy every once in a while. It will cause a lot of work burden.

For example, you specialize in promoting popular mobile phones, and on your blog, you introduce more than 20 styles in one go. However, a new model comes out the next year, so you have to obediently change the promotion content again.

Think about it, this will be very tiring. Therefore, when looking for product sales, it is best to choose something that will not be out of fashion (such as ergonomic chairs) to promote.

⑦ Pay attention to promotion restrictions – Many affiliate programs will have promotion restrictions. If you do not comply with these norms, your transaction bonus will be confiscated. It is equivalent to doing white labor.

Similar restrictions, such as, when operating keyword advertising (PPC, Pay per Click), prohibit the purchase of brand-related words.

In addition, some network traffic pipelines may also be on the banned list. For example, you cannot use pop-up windows (pop) for promotions.

⑧ Confirm that the manufacturer's product landing page (landing page) is highly persuasive - when a visitor comes to the manufacturer's product page through your promotion link, if he finds the content of the introduction boring, the persuasion is very low. Then this order There will be no deal. You also won't get the bonus.

Therefore, when choosing an affiliate program, you must first determine whether the manufacturer's product page is very attractive. Make customers willing to place an order.

 8. Do CPS or CPA affiliate program, which one will be more profitable?

There are people in these two camps who have made very considerable income. Most of the CPS-type promotion programs are carried out through websites/blogs. Once the website has considerable traffic, it can bring in closed orders one after another, and then become a very popular Good passive income channel.

In addition, many people will sell the website at a price of about 30 times the average monthly income after making the website profitable. That is to say, if the monthly income of the website's affiliate marketing is 10,000 yuan, you have the opportunity to sell it in a similar Flippa On the website auction platform , he made 300,000 yuan for himself.

As for those who operate CPA, many people choose to use a large amount of advertising (media buy) to operate. The advantage of it is that you can immediately buy a huge amount of traffic to operate the affiliate program, and the speed of making money will be very fast.

 
Although this type of advertising operation is very profitable, it requires high capital and technical requirements.

First of all, there is a time lag between paying to buy ads and actually receiving commissions, so you will encounter cash flow problems.

At the technical level, there are more problems to be dealt with in advertising, such as:

• Choice of web traffic type: What kind of traffic do you use to advertise. Google keyword traffic, social media traffic, native ads, pop up/under traffic, push notification traffic, etc. The price and quality of each kind of traffic are different, so you need to know how to adjust.
• Selection and operation of advertising platforms: Google Ads , FB ads and many third-party ad traffic exchanges (Outbarin, PopAds…)
• Operation and use of ad trackers: Trackers are an indispensable tool for measuring the effectiveness of advertising. Such as Voluum .
• Enhancement of web host and application of Content Delivery Network (CDN, Content Delivery Network) settings. Make the landing page more responsive.
• The use of advertising copy analysis tools (ad spying tools): It is mainly used to analyze the advertising copy of competitors. To inspire more marketing inspiration. Such as WhatRunsWhere, AdPlexity.
• Ad copy and landing pages are constantly being optimized and improved to increase conversion rates

The technical projects of these advertisements can be described as dazzling, and people who are new to it may be dazzled. Therefore, using paid advertisements to operate CPA affiliate marketing is more suitable for experienced people to operate.

9. Request for Affiliate Marketing

Generally speaking, it takes about 30 to 60 days for a successful order to get a profit-sharing commission. The affiliate marketing platform will settle the bonus you can receive once a month, and remit the money to the payment method you instructed. you.

As for the channel of receiving the money, the most commonly used is bank remittance or the channel of PayPal to receive money.

In addition, you can also consider using Payoneer's cash flow service. In addition to many affiliate marketing platforms that directly support transfers, you can even use the US (or other major foreign currency) virtual personal bank accounts provided by it to receive any Earned foreign currency commissions (such as Amazon affiliate marketing revenue).

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10. [jargon] often used in affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing has a high chance of participating in some foreign promotion platforms. At this time, most of the communication will be done in English. Now list a few terms that are often seen. Occasionally, you can use them to make comparisons. "Pro" some 🙂

AM – Affiliate Manager (Marketing Account Manager). Many CPA-oriented affiliate marketing platforms often assign an AM as a window to contact you after you join as a member. AM will usually suggest which ones have good conversion rates. Marketing plan. And help you deal with all kinds of intractable diseases encountered in the promotion.

Cap – usually refers to your monthly promotion quota. Some affiliate marketing plans have advertising budget restrictions, or you need to control the quality of task transactions (such as list collection), the platform will give you a promotion amount in advance. Exceed the quota You may not be able to get the profit sharing bonus.

Geo – refers to the valid countries and regions specified by the marketing plan. If the order you successfully promoted is not in the specified list, you will not get a commission.

Lead – The number of promotion orders/tasks that are effectively reached

Offer – refers to the affiliate marketing program itself. Some people use the word campaign instead.

Now for a simple example. Your AM might write an Email to you:
HK : 50 leads
TW : 100 leads
 

11. Affiliate Marketing Platform Recommendation

If you want to do affiliate marketing in Taiwan, Navi4you suggests that you can apply for Tongwang or Affiliate Network first.

There are more affiliate programs on the channel king. But if you like to promote the CPA (Cost per Action) type of marketing plan. Instead, you will find more diverse projects on the affiliate network.

In addition, another feature of the Affiliate Network is that it provides opportunities for cooperation with manufacturers and businesses . You can find many sponsorship activities that you can participate in in the case-receiving area on the platform, just through your own media Channels (such as blog, Facebook, IG, YouTube) are exposed and published, and you will be able to get industry awards.

Other affiliate marketing platforms worth checking out are:

 Foreign market:

• Amazon Associates
• Commission Junction
• ShareASale
• eBay Partner Network
• ClickBank

 Buddhist SEO Optimization can also Make Great Contributions

Having a huge number of people on the Internet is often the guarantee of bringing money. And being able to get free Google organic traffic is a source of traffic that Internet money-making workers are eager to strive for. This task needs to rely on SEO (Search Engine Optimization)  search engine optimization is done.

Navidforyou used to do SEO optimization, not the so-called obedient brand, such as black hat, gray hat, etc., which are not liked by Google, have been used a lot. For
example,

• Use the software to generate a lot of fake accounts, and automatically leave messages everywhere for backlinks.
• Rent private blog network (PBN, Private Blog Network) space and place article links.
• Pay to join the link farm (link farm), do intensive web link exchange with other websites
• In its heyday, many websites of Afu ranked among the top in Google, which not only brought huge income, but also every few days a website broker would write an email asking for the willingness to resell the website.

Of course, the good times didn't last long. After the rectification of several animals such as Google Panda and Google Penguin (a huge change in Google's page ranking algorithm), many unruly websites were punished. This caused a sharp drop in page rankings. , Not only the network traffic was greatly reduced, but the profit of the website was also greatly reduced. As a result, A Fu also suffered heavy losses, and gradually figured out his own set of Buddhist SEO.

Characteristics of Buddhist SEO website optimization

The word "Buddha" makes people feel like going with the flow and returning to nature. The Buddhist SEO optimization to be discussed here inherits this essence, emphasizing simplicity and time saving, and only focusing on important operational items.

Buddhist search engine optimization is mainly doing the following three things:

1. Use the Keyword Planner to find high-value keywords (money keywords)
2. Use these selected keywords to write good articles with substantial content
3. On site SEO optimization

Generally speaking, as long as you do these three tasks well, you can have more than 80% chance to get a good page ranking. And bring traffic with high commercial value, which becomes the basis of website profit.

As for another often mentioned off-site SEO, its main task is to win the third-party backlinks. Since the operation process often takes a lot of time and energy, it is not It is within the scope of operation of Buddhist SEO. On the contrary, we will only focus on the more efficient and less time-consuming on-site SEO optimization.
 

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 What is SEO

It is not easy to learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization) well. It is not difficult to find some dozens of hours of instructional videos or books with thickness of two to three hundred pages devoted to this topic.

These reference resources for teaching people how to do SEO website optimization, because the content is too much, often make new bloggers do not know where to start.

So what exactly is SEO search engine optimization doing? Simply put, it is trying to get a web page to rank in the top 10 of the search engine ranking (SERP, Search Engine Results Pages) position (that is, on the first page of search) .

SEO beyond Google

Generally speaking, SEO in the narrow sense is only optimized for traditional search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Bing. Since Google's market share exceeds 80%, everyone's focus is almost on Google.

However, the search habits of Internet users are also gradually evolving, and many people begin to like to get answers by watching videos, so they will search for videos directly on YouTube.

Today’s YouTube has become the second most-used search engine in the world besides Google, and the platform itself has gradually developed a set of different SEO ranking methods. In addition to creating eye-catching videos, YouTubers also need to create I optimize my video creations for search engines, hoping that potential viewers can quickly find their videos through the search box.

In addition, in Europe and the United States, if you want to buy something, you often go directly to the Amazon website to do product search. Therefore, the search traffic on the Amazon website has become a battle channel for merchants on the platform. Searching for well-ranked stores is almost making money. guarantee.

In fact, many high-traffic e-commerce platforms (such as Shopee) or social media have their own set of internal search ranking mechanisms. If they can be researched and used effectively, they can bring in many potential customers. Internet traffic .

How to do SEO Search Engine Optimization

Although several different search engines have been mentioned above, this article will only focus on Google's SEO, after all, it is currently the leader in this field.

Operating website SEO can be roughly divided into two major areas: on site SEO and off site SEO. But before operating, you must first make enough effort on the content of the website.

Content is King

Good articles can be said to be the backbone of SEO optimization. In addition to making visitors willing to spend time reading and increasing dwell time on the page, high-quality content is also easy to be reposted or shared on the Internet. Comes with many backlinks, which indirectly also help the page's ranking on Google.

Keywords are the determinant of SEO success or failure
If you are a freelance worker who helps people optimize their SEO websites, then the ranking of keywords will become an indicator of work performance. As long as the planned keywords are squeezed into the first page of Google search, you will be able to successfully ask customers Paid.

What are the keywords (keywords), in short, the query words that everyone enters in the Google search box.

From the point of view of SEO, writing good content is only half the battle. If the keywords are not well mastered, the page may not be visited by people, which means that there is no network traffic.

Inappropriate keywords often lead to the following two situations:

• Your article topic is very unpopular, very few people are searching, and your page is uninteresting
• The topic of the article is very popular, and many people are writing it. Although the search volume of the keyword is very large, because of the fierce competition, your page ranking becomes very low, making it difficult for visitors to find it.

Kind of keyword

Just mentioned that keywords play a very important role in the process of SEO search engine optimization. Now let's take a look at the types of keywords that are often encountered:

1. Primary keywords – also known as seed keywords. These are the words that need the most attention and play in the entire web page.

2. Long tail keywords (long tail keywords) – are words that extend from the main keyword. For example, if the main keyword is "make money", then the long tail keywords can be "how to make money at home", "make money by filling out surveys" "

3. LSI keywords (LSI, Latent Semantic Indexing) - literally translated as "latent semantic indexing". Simply put, it is a word group that is highly related to the main keyword. Generally, when doing Google searches, web pages At the bottom of the page will appear some Google suggested search terms, these are so-called LSI keywords.

When we write articles, we must properly place the above three types of keywords in the content, so that search engines can smoothly include and index these word groups, and become an assistant for search rankings.

In addition, the length of the article is preferably more than 1,000 words. Articles with fewer words often have insufficient depth of content and fewer opportunities to use keywords, so it is not conducive to obtaining good Google rankings.

How to Choose Money Keywords

A keyword with a lot of traffic will not necessarily make money for your blog. We also need to determine where the search intent of the keyword is.

For example, the two keywords "buy a coffee machine" and "how to clean a coffee machine", the first one has the commercial motivation to pay for it, and the gold content is very high. The latter one just wants to know the cleaning method of the coffee machine, and does not spend much money The intent of shopping. So is a keyword that will not make money.

Keywords with high gold content can bring buyer traffic, increase conversion rate, and bring more potential revenue to the website.

As for how to find this type of keywords, in addition to relying on your own experience and judgment, the amount of keyword advertising unit price (CPC, Cost per Click) will also be a good screening method. And this type of data can easily is easily available from the Keyword Planner (more on this later).

Generally speaking, the ideal main keywords of web pages should meet the following three conditions:

• More than a thousand Google searches per month
• low competition
• Gold content is high

A good keyword planner usually has the following important features:

• Keyword Analysis – Including monthly traffic, judging the unit price of keyword advertising with gold content, SEO competition difficulty, etc.
• Analyze your own or competitor's website's popular pages and related SEO data - website authority (DA, Domain Authority), monthly traffic, keyword distribution, etc.
• Keyword ranking of a single page, estimated traffic, number of backlinks, number of social media shares.
• Check the overall SEO optimization of the website and provide suggestions for improvement

At present, most of the easy-to-use analysis tools require payment. For the free part, you can refer to Google's official keyword planner (Google Keyword Planner). However, the disadvantage is that the data on monthly keyword traffic and competition are very general. It will be less efficient.

Recommended keyword analysis tools

1:Ubersuggest

This is the keyword tool provided by the world's top Internet marketing expert Neil Patel (Top 25 of Forbes) , this SEO planning tool is still free at present, but due to the huge operating cost, it has gradually shifted to Paid membership is available. But the free version can still make multiple free inquiries per day.

2. KWFinder

The evaluation in the industry is also good, and the analysis data provided is relatively concise.

3. Ahrefs

This is the SEO planning tool currently used by Afu, which can run very detailed analysis data for websites or keywords. However, due to too many functions and high fees, newcomers may find it difficult to use.

Through the keyword planning tool mentioned above, you can find the ideal primary keyword and related keyword groups in a short period of time. As the content basis for writing articles.

On-Site SEO

The optimization projects on the website are very trivial, and there are many details to be noticed. Fortunately, many of them are only one-time settings, and the time spent is limited. Here, I will apply the spirit of Buddhism, and introduce the simplified version of the internal optimization projects of the website as follows:

• The main keyword should be on the title, and the words should be eye-catching, making people want to click to read
• In the Meta Description part of the article, in addition to containing keywords, the copy should also be able to quickly capture the interest of visitors
• The primary keyword should appear in the first chapter of the article
• In addition to the main keyword, some long-tail keywords and LSI keywords should also be appropriately added to the article.
• The frequency of the keywords should be appropriate, too much will have the opposite effect
• The main and subtitles of the article can use relevant keywords
• According to the importance of the title, apply the appropriate HTML tags: h1, h2, h3
• Contextually relevant pages, to create internal links
• According to the needs of the article content, make external links with relevant high-weight websites (such as WikiPedia)
• Do a good job of image SEO optimization – image file alt text (Alt) in HTML tags uses keywords
• In addition to short URLs, it is best to include keywords
• Use mobile-friendly responsive web pages (RWD, Responsive Web Design)
• Use a thumbnail tool (such as iLoveIMG ) to reduce the size of the image file to speed up the display speed of the web page
• Website using SSL security certificate
• Choose a good web host to make your website more responsive
• Off-Site SEO

In this field of search engine optimization, the main task is to find high-weight related websites for backlinks (external links). In the eyes of Google, this type of link means that people like and recommend your website. If the other party's The higher the authority (weight), the better the ranking of the web page.

In addition to linking through forums or social media, the commonly used (white hat, white hat) methods often use communication channels such as Email to directly contact other webmasters to seek their consent to join external links.

As for how to find a suitable backlink website, there are many techniques and means, but Afu's Buddhist SEO only recommends building a few on relevant forums, social media or blogs in the first few months of the website's opening. Backlinks are fine.

Another reason to emphasize is that if the content of the webpage itself is good, others will take the initiative to link to your website. If the content is not good, it will be very difficult to get backlinks from external sites.

SEO Hacks for WordPress Blogs

At present, more than 35% of the websites in the world use the WordPress website system, so it is often the preferred website building software for building personal blogs.

WordPress itself is an SEO-friendly software. For bloggers, in addition to the above-mentioned SEO operation items, several free plug-ins can be used to enhance the execution.

Highly rated are:

1.Yoast SEO

This plug-in can automatically adjust and suggest the SEO optimization method of web pages, so that your website can better meet Google's indexing needs.

The main functions are as follows:

• Improve the SEO exposure of web pages to facilitate search engine indexing
• Be able to find out the deficiencies in SEO optimization of web pages, and provide timely suggestions to solve them.
• Monitor the appearance density of keywords in web pages to avoid using too many or too few times and affecting search rankings.
• Automatically generate XML sitemaps to facilitate web pages to be quickly crawled and logged by search engines.
• For pages with English content, the readability analysis of the article will be provided
• Simple and easy operation interface

2.WP Super Cache

The display speed of web pages is also one of the important factors affecting Google ranking. In addition to choosing a good web host, the use of website caching technology can also effectively improve the response speed of web pages. This very popular WordPress plug-in provides The following important functions:

• Backup slow WordPress PHP dynamic web pages into static web pages (html), providing the host with fast reading
• It can compress the file of the web page to be smaller, and speed up the transmission speed
• Support Content Delivery Network (CDN, Content Delivery Network) service, which can effectively use the network host in close distance to read the backup webpage faster

Another recommended website cache plugin is W3 Total Cache

The overall function will be more powerful than WP Super Cache, but the setting is relatively complicated.

Get the number one ranking on Google

The spirit of Buddhist SEO is to use the least amount of time to achieve the best search ranking results. However, if you find a web page article that is very profitable, it is a pity that you have not been able to get the top few Google search rankings (the first place is more Good), then you might as well take the time to operate off-site SEO (off-site SEO), so that your revenue has the opportunity to go to the next level.

The focus of off-site SEO is to build backlinks (Link Building), adding backlinks to other people's online media and pointing to their own web pages.

Common practices are as follows:

Comment on online forums, social media or other people's websites
Contribute to an online magazine or seek to have a guest article on someone else's website
in conclusion :
The operation items of SEO search engine optimization are complex and numerous, and it is not simple to be able to fully penetrate them. Many Internet marketing companies make a lot of money by providing SEO website optimization services.

Afu's Buddhist SEO mainly emphasizes selecting good keyword groups first and using them to write high-quality articles. Then, focus on on-site SEO optimization projects.

Although it seems to be too streamlined, it is like the resource allocation problem of the 80/20 rule . If you focus your energy on the most important SEO optimization projects, you will have the opportunity to obtain a significantly advanced Google page ranking score.

The God helper used by the Slash Family to Improve Efficiency at Home

The heavyweight professional community platform LinkedIn has a report that working from home will be a major trend in the future workplace. So what APPs can help you complete more tasks at home?

Nowadays, more and more people use the Internet to make money with slash at home. In addition to the original SOHO people and freelancers, slash youth with multiple careers and traditional office workers also have the opportunity to work remotely from home.

If you choose to work from home, in addition to not needing to spend time commuting to and from get off work, you can also adjust your work and rest periods freely, which not only makes you feel at ease, but also the comfortable environment at home can often lead to better work efficiency.

At this time, if you can cooperate with some efficiency-enhancing APPs, the task will often be multiplied with half the effort, and the set goal will be quickly achieved.

In the article " Five Health Magic Weapons of Internet SOHO ", navid4you introduced several methods to create a healthy working environment at home. For example, using a lift table for standing work, choosing a good ergonomic chair and Large size computer screen, etc.

Now, we will focus on popular APPs that improve work efficiency, hoping to bring more results and benefits through these practical network tools.

List of 8 work-from-home apps:

1: Tomato ( Android, iOS )
2: Trello
3: Slack, Skype, Zoom
4: Google Drive
5: APP Link Service: IFTTT, Community Sharing Tool: Hootsuite
 

Time management tool

Although working from home is very flexible, due to the lack of supervision, it is easy to relax and waste valuable working time by some tedious things. Chatting, even taking a casual nap, etc.

A good time management tool can help control your work and rest time, allowing you to concentrate more on work within a fixed period of time. Among them, the popular Pomodoro Technique is a good time management method, and related applications on the Internet Not many.

To put it simply, the Pomodoro Technique is to take a 5-minute break every 25 minutes of work. Through intermittent work and rest arrangements, the concentration of work can be effectively maintained at the best state. In actual operation, we can easily use some APP timings software to execute efficiently.

Recommended free Pomodoro Technique apps:

1. Small tomato

If you have an Apple iOS mobile device, Focus Keeper is also a good option.

In addition, for users of Google Chrome browser, Marinara Timer provides a simple and easy-to-use plugin.

Work progress control

This type of APP can help to formulate a clear task list and completion date, and arrange and combine them according to their importance. The advantage is that you have a clear work direction, and it is easy to complete tasks on time according to the progress.

2.Trello

It is an easy-to-use project management application software with more than 50 million users worldwide. Whether it is an individual or a small team, this tool can be used to effectively control the execution of work.

The most special feature of Trello is that the work items are presented with cards on the board, which mainly inherits the Kanban workflow management method used by Toyota in Japan .

Advantages of using Trello:

• Visual Kanban design for easy tracking and control of work progress
• Provides a simple drag-and-drop interface
• Chinese culture
• Provide a common use environment for multiple people
• There are many pre-planned samples that can be directly applied according to the nature of the task
• "Extended Reading"

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 Instant messenger

Remote home work often has the opportunity to communicate with customers or work partners in real time. A good communication APP can not only send text messages, share information and do video interaction, but also have the function of effectively dividing groups and using permissions.

At the same time, such tools also require good network security controls, complete data backup, and powerful search functions.

When it comes to online instant communication tools, perhaps the first thing that comes to your mind is LINE or FB Messenger. This type of application software is indeed very useful in daily private life, but if it is moved to business occasions, it is often used in function. It seems to be stretched, and it is difficult to meet the needs of work.

These drawbacks are, the lack of multi-person video conferencing capabilities, and the lack of strong ability to save and search conversation records. A more extreme example is that if a LINE or FB account is accidentally suspended, the entire communication channel will be suspended. These are all It's something you don't like to see when you're running an online business.

Now let's introduce several instant messaging software suitable for use in commercial environments:

3. Slack

This is a multi-functional communication application software with more than 10 million users worldwide. Uber , a well-known car sharing service company, uses this software as a communication tool between tens of thousands of employees.

Slack is not only suitable for large companies, but also for SOHOs who are slashing at home, it is also very suitable to use it to communicate with remote work partners, cooperative manufacturers or outsourcing clients.

Key Features of Slack:

• According to the team organization, the task plan area can be divided into multiple exclusive channels (channel), and the public sharing level of the information in the channel can be set.
• In addition to text messages, it also provides online voice and video conferencing functions
• The drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to share text, image or video files on the platform
• Powerful search function to quickly find previous conversations or files
• Provide screen sharing function to facilitate the introduction and explanation of remote video
• It can be integrated with many popular application software (such as Google Calendar, Zoom), and then volatilize higher work efficiency.

4. Skype

This free instant messaging software has started to provide services as early as 2003, and the user base accumulated over the years is also very large.

The functions of Skype can meet the basic needs of both personal and business users. Therefore, it is also suitable for use in the environment of working from home.

In addition to the normal version, this communication APP used to have a commercial version of Skype Business developed for corporate groups, but this version has now been merged into Microsoft Micsoft Teams, which is suitable for large enterprises. For the work group at home, ordinary A version of Skype should be sufficient.

Features of Skype:

• Software development is very early, users are widely distributed, and it is easy to establish communication channels
• Whether it is sending text messages, online voice or video conferencing, it has a good software performance, suitable for one-on-one or small group conversations.
• Provide instant Chinese and English voice and text message translation function, which is convenient for communication with foreign customers
• Ability to make calls online
• Sharing of data files and screens

5. Zoom

When it comes to online video conferencing software, Zoom can be said to be one of the most popular. Although both Slack and Skype mentioned above also have the function of online video conferencing, in terms of overall performance, Zoom seems to be even higher. a piece.

If you want to use the Internet to market products (such as online courses developed by yourself), it is also very suitable to use Zoom to host online seminars at home. In addition to introducing your own products, it can also increase the interaction rate with potential customers. Increase your chances of closing a deal.

Key Features of Zoom:

• The free plan allows you to host an online meeting in HD with 100 participants
• Paid plan can accommodate up to 1,000 people to participate in the conference, while allowing 10,000 auditors
• Participate in video conferences or webinars without a Zoom account
• The meeting content is recorded and backed up in the cloud
• Provide interactive electronic whiteboard function, participants can share content and make notes on the whiteboard.
• The software has high stability and is suitable for work teams that often need to do video conferences or remote brainstorming.

Data management platform

When working from home, you often encounter all kinds of documents, such as doc, pdf, excel spreadsheet, ppt presentations, etc. These data, in addition to sharing with work partners, may also require multiple people online. Work together to complete. At this time, Google Drive, the free cloud data access platform provided by Google, can come in handy.

6. Google Drive

This data management platform combines Office application software, data collaboration interface and cloud storage space into one, which can effectively solve the needs of data creation, sharing and storage when working from home.


Google Drive has no operating system restrictions, and mobile devices such as laptops and mobile phones from Microsoft, Android, and Apple can operate smoothly. In addition, users can get 15G of free huge cloud storage space, so it is online An ideal collaborative creation and sharing field for small teams.

The advantages of using Gioogle Drive are:

• Offers Microsoft Office-like applications that can handle general word processing, spreadsheets and presentations with ease
• Collaborative and cooperative environment, multiple people can jointly create or modify the same data file online. And can effectively handle version control, reducing many unnecessary email round trips
• Data allows you to set a variety of usage permissions, which not only increases the security of the file, but also makes data sharing more flexible
• Compatible with a variety of mainstream operating systems and devices

Automation tool

Office automation is often an important indicator for improving work efficiency. Some work items that originally required manpower can be replaced by automated application software. These time savings, from the perspective of slash freelancers, means that Ability to complete more outsourced cases, or create more transaction orders.

The following two free online automation helpers can easily use programs to help repetitive tasks that take time to operate through simple settings.

7. IFTTT

This cross-platform automation tool that runs on the cloud has a jingle in its name: "IF This, Then That" (if that's the case, do that action).

IFTTT can automatically execute two different applications or devices through pre-arranged trigger conditions.

Software and hardware that people often use at work, such as WordPress, Facebook, IG, Trello, Slack, Google Drive, and even Google Nest smart speakers, etc., can use IFTTT to do automatic data connection applications.

for example,

• Automatically repost new articles published on WordPress blog to Facebook.
• Synchronously reprint completed work items on Trello to Google Sheets (spreadsheet)
• Gmail's additional files are automatically dumped to Google Drive
• Back up your product's Instagram photos to Google Drive.

8. Hootsuite

Social marketing is a very important part of running an online business. You can use Hootsuite, an automated promotion tool, to help you schedule posts and track statistics with fans. interactive effect.

Hootsuite can be regarded as the most widely used social marketing management tool at present, with more than 15 million users worldwide, and can manage multiple social media including Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc. at the same time.

The main features of Hootsuite are:

• Automatic post scheduling can schedule individual posting times in advance, and share the content together to multiple designated community accounts.
• Manage multiple social channels in one place, saving time and effort in content distribution and tracking
• Provide comprehensive reports, including analysis of important marketing efficiency indicators such as post CTR, fan location and number of shares
• There are more than 250 applications developed by third parties (such as Google My Business, Slack) for plug-in use. Significantly increase the reach of services
• Provide team multi-person collaborative management function (paid plan)

The current Hootsuite free plan allows you to operate three media channels at the same time, and automatically schedule 30 posts in a month.

How to Improve Your Productivity with Slash at Home

Although working from home is very comfortable and convenient, there are also many potential distractions. How to avoid these unfavorable factors and improve the work efficiency of the slash at home has become a very important topic.

You can try to create a work area at home, which may be a room or a fixed and exclusive corner. Its main purpose is to clearly separate the two areas of work and private home, so that you can have a clear This will have a positive effect on improving work efficiency.

In addition, the ideal office equipment is also a place to pay attention. A good ergonomic chair, a desk that can stand up, a large computer screen, etc., can all help to create a healthier and more efficient work from home environment.

All in all, in order to achieve the goal of working from home efficiently, in addition to the help of the 8 apps mentioned above, you should also hold as if you are running a small company. Really control the cost of manpower and time, and then become a People who work from home to make money.

 7 Ways Instagram Makes Money Online

Brad Lau, a Singaporean IG celebrity who started by introducing food, currently has about 600,000 followers. According to the statistics of the " Instagram Rich List " published by the British marketing company Hopper HQ, the average income of a post with an industry is US$1,700 (about 5.5 USD). million Taiwan dollars).

Aimee Song, a Korean-American Instagram celebrity who once ranked among the top 30 outstanding young people in the fashion design field of Forbes magazine , currently has about 5.5 million followers, and each sponsored post is worth an astonishing $18,500 . (about 550,000 Taiwan dollars) .

At present, Instagram has more than 1 billion users worldwide, and about 70% of the users are under the age of 34. This social platform based on visual images has gradually become a base for manufacturers to win young consumers. For IG people, in addition to the opportunity to receive job matching, there are also many different ways to make money.

1000 followers on Instagram

As mentioned in this article, Nano-influencer with more than 1000 fans is the beginning of striving for cooperation with manufacturers.

IG influencers with a small number of followers tend to have a better interaction rate, and the loyalty of fans is also higher than that of influencers, which will also increase the conversion rate of transactions. Therefore, it is the niche for small influencers to attract business partners and sponsorships. .

New IG limited-time dynamic external link (Link Sticker)
External links are an important basis for making money with IG, which can divert users on the platform to external websites for further marketing profits.

The early limited-time dynamic "Swipe Up" external link function requires accounts with more than 10,000 followers to apply. However, Instagram has officially lifted this restriction in October 2021. Instead, each account, regardless of the number of followers You can freely use the new external link function " Link Sticker ".

This is a great boon for IG accounts with few fans.

Enable IG Business Account

The personal account and business account on Instagram can be freely switched.

• You can use the Insights report (Instagram Insights) through this analysis tool, you can see the performance data such as the exposure rate and interaction rate of the post, as well as the user information such as the gender, age group, geographical distribution area and active period of the followers.
• Provides an automated scheduling tool to pre-schedule the posting of posts, reducing the burden of many operations. In addition, some third-party professional scheduling software such as Hootsuit and Buffer require an IG business account to function properly.
• Add a call to action (CAT, Call to Action) button in the account profile to increase the chance for visitors to click
• Ability to advertise, do merchandising or increase the visibility of a post

Ways to make money with Instagram

IG uses images and short video as a medium, in addition to visual marketing, it also extends some more distinctive ways to make money, which are now introduced as follows:

1. Receive factory commercial distribution

When manufacturers choose Instagram influencers to cooperate, in addition to the number of followers on the account, the engagement rate (ER, Engagement Rate) will be another extremely important reference indicator.

The conversion formula for the interaction rate is as follows:

Interaction rate = (likes + comments) / IG followers

Suppose your IG account has 1000 followers, and a post gets 20 Likes and 3 comments. The result is (20 + 3 ) / 1000 = 0.023

That is to say, the interaction rate of this post is 2.3%. From the perspective of community marketing, IG influencers with an average interaction rate of more than 2% will have a greater chance to receive business from manufacturers or advertising agencies With sponsorship.

As for IG's industry distribution income market , the difference between them is also very large. In addition to the number of trackers and the level of interaction, other factors such as the industry category and the promotion product itself will affect the amount of income.

For example, some manufacturers will give NT$300 per thousand followers. Others will be as much as NT$1000. Of course, you may also encounter unpaid reciprocal experience programs that only give free samples 🙁

However, a common rough calculation method is that every 100 IG followers can get $1 USD (about $30 NTD) in karma income.

After having a sufficient number of fans and a good interaction rate, how can we increase the opportunities for brand cooperation and business matching? There are several directions for reference:

Join the online celebrity matching platform to make it easy for manufacturers or advertising and marketing agencies to find your services. Service platforms with good reputation such as: KOL Radar , Internet celebrity hunter , SOOCKER

Take the initiative to find some merchants whose product attributes can match your IG customer base to make self-recommendations.

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 2. IG store for product sales

The shopping function of IG is not fully open in Taiwan, only managed clients of some marketing companies can use it. The neighboring Asian countries that have been opened include Japan, South Korea and Singapore. I believe that in the near future, Taiwan can also be fully Open this e-commerce earning channel.

Basically, the shopping function of IG is an extension of the FB store. The merchant needs to enable the e-commerce function on the Facebook fan page first, and link the established product catalog to the IG account. After completing these basic settings, You can put product tags in the posts, and link to external official websites for follow-up shopping guides and transactions.

In addition, the above shopping function will gradually evolve into a new version of the IG store (Instagram Shop), and has a shopping cart function, allowing customers to directly place an order and pay to complete the transaction without leaving the IG platform.

3. Do Affiliate Marketing

Many ways to make money online use affiliate marketing as one of the revenue channels. Affiliate marketing simply means selling other people's goods or services and earning commissions from the middle.

Generally, affiliate marketing is done on the Instagram platform, mainly through the self-introduction field (bio) or the external link in the limited-time dynamic, and replace it with a promotion link that can track the effect. As long as a visitor clicks, it will be taken outside. Product pages or landing pages to complete marketing tasks.

The actual operation process can be:

① Joining the affiliate marketing platform The advantage of joining the platform is that there are more than hundreds of marketing programs to choose from, and it is easy to find suitable products to promote. Platforms with good reputations such as iChannel and Affiliate in the Chinese market . In addition, global orientation CJ Affiliate , Skimlinks can also find many products suitable for promotion in Chinese areas .

② According to the interests of following fans, find out the appropriate marketing plan, and put promotion links in appropriate places (such as self-introduction, limited-time dynamic posts).

In addition, affiliate marketing can be operated in the following ways on the IG platform:

①Paying Shoutouts to actively contact and track enough IG accounts, and IG accounts that match the fan audience with the promoted products, to see if placement marketing can be done.

After negotiating the price, in addition to using the position of the other party's self-introduction column to enter the promotion link, your marketing post can also be pushed to his followers through the other party's IG account, which will increase the number of users you reach. The commission income will also increase as a result.

In addition, if the number of fans on both sides is similar and the content of IG is similar, you might as well try a free friendly post reciprocity (S4S, Shoutout for Shoutout), the practice is that each party sends each other's advertising posts. While increasing exposure opportunities, It also achieves the purpose of mutual benefit and win-win.

②Advertising Since Instagram and Facebook share the same advertising delivery tool, you can directly operate IG's advertisements on the management platform at the back end of FB.

Paid advertising can effectively target the audience, in addition to effectively grasping accurate traffic, it can also bring a high conversion rate. Although the advertising cost may be large, it will often bring good profits through continuous optimization.

The above-mentioned affiliate marketing methods on IG are of course also applicable to the marketing promotion of IG stores.

4. Outsourcing services online

To make the number of followers on Instagram grow steadily, not only do you need to post pictures or videos frequently to maintain freshness, but you also need to invest a lot of effort in interacting with fans. These time-consuming tasks often make many IG account owners who are overwhelmed. Start looking for someone outside to help.

There are also many related services extended by IG. If you happen to have expertise in this area, you can make money by providing services on outsourcing platforms such as 104 Outsourcing Network, Tasker, and Fiverr.

A few common IG services include:

• Art editing or professional photography Graphic design, photo shooting, video clips, etc.
• When the editor thinks about the content, writes the copy, schedules the posting, interacts with the fans by leaving a message, and tracks the performance data, etc.
• Host IG live broadcast to do product introduction or sales
• Influencer marketing matchmaking service Assist manufacturers to find suitable IG influencers for marketing industry cooperation
• Advertising on behalf of operators Use advertisements to target specific audience groups to help manufacturers run brands or do sales
• Rental of IG advertising and marketing space If your IG account has a lot of followers, you might as well use the rental method to provide external links and place customers' advertising posts or marketing videos. For example, provide 48-hour posts, plus a limited-time dynamic Instagram Advertising and marketing mix, TWD $300 per placement.

5. IG TV (IGTV)

This video and audio channel on the Instagram platform allows uploading videos of 15 minutes in length. For accounts with a large number of followers or verified accounts, the length of the video will be relaxed to 60 minutes.

Since IGTV can put external links where videos are introduced, it is convenient for product shopping guides or affiliate marketing, so it has become one of the important channels for making money with IG.

In addition, no matter how many followers you have, as long as you share the IGTV video to the limited-time dynamic, you can also get the external link of Swipe Up by the way. For small IG accounts with few fans (compared to 1 It is a small shortcut to increase income.

In addition, Instagram also recently launched the IG TV advertising profit plan, which is very similar to YouTube's Adsense advertising profit sharing model. IG will play commercial advertisements on your video and audio channels, and according to the number of plays and clicks, the advertisement will be placed Revenue sharing to channel creators.

6. IG Reels short video

Reels can be said to be the Instagram version of TikTok. His videos are mainly 15 seconds long. Like the IG TV just mentioned, it also provides a similar function of e-commerce shopping. Visitors can directly use the product tag (product tag) Make shopping transactions.

In addition, due to the short video characteristics of Instagram Reels, it is very suitable for advertising and marketing, so it will gradually be favored by manufacturers and sponsors, and become an important channel for KOL influencers to match their careers.

IG's Reels feature is still very new and is currently being gradually rolled out around the world.

7. IG Live (Instagram Live)

Through the immediacy and interactivity of live broadcast, the distance between the audience and the audience can be quickly shortened. Whether it is a new product launch conference, industrial and commercial cooperation, online shooting or affiliate marketing, it can often achieve good results.

In addition, IG live broadcast also provides an official fan sponsorship channel. Fans purchase sponsorship badges (badge) in advance, and then use them in the live broadcast. In operation, it is a bit similar to YouTube's super chat.

How to quickly increase IG followers

Using the Internet to make money is nothing more than to master sufficient Internet traffic. The more IG followers, the more opportunities to generate more income. Therefore, how to quickly increase followers and improve your Internet celebrity status, also It has become the most important topic to use IG to make money.

There are many ways to increase the number of IG followers, the more common ones are:

• The frequency of posts should be high, and good content can be used to gain more followers and likes
• Make more messages and interact with fans to cultivate a sense of trust
• Hold quizzes, give samples, free lottery and other activities to increase fan stickiness
• Use the hashtag tool to find the right mix of hashtags to increase the chances of your post being found
• Timely track or tag other IG accounts of the same type
• Increase the number of followers you follow through paid advertising
• Make good use of IG's built-in Insights report (Instagram Insights), to really grasp the situation of interaction with fans, and to make corrections and improvements in a timely manner
• Use the scheduling tool to automatically post when users are active (you can get it from the IG Insights report)
• Cooperate with other like-minded IG accounts to do friendly post reciprocity (S4S) to increase each other's exposure