As many of you probably know by now, there are many MarketLeverage contests going around.

In this post, I will show you all of them and rank the difficulty level of entering so that you can have the most amount of chance to win some great stuff from Market Leverage with the least amount of work.

First we have the easiest contests:
Most of these have similar prizes to mine, some have more, some have less.

• JohnChow.com - Enter by simply making a comment in this post for 1 entry. You can also write a post for about it for more entries. This contest one lucky winner will win a whole bag full of goodies. It's worth entering for sure.
• ZacJohnson.com - You can enter by simply leaving a comment on his blog to be entered to win the USB 2 gig flash drive pen. If you want to get the better prizes, you have to either blog about the contest or you need to join under his market leverage referral link. Both are fairly easy.
• CDFNetworks - All the great prizes and very easy to enter. Simply comment on the post, Stumble the page and then comment, Add to your Technorati favorites, Make a blog post, etc. All simple and quick.
• AffiliateConfession.com - This contest is pretty sweet because they're giving more than just the cool prizes from Market Leverage. They also are giving away a USB missile Launcher from the site Vat19.com! That's a pretty cool prize! He also is giving away the Nintendo DS and a few games that he won from the Webmaster-Talk contest!

Now for the harder contests:

• DatMoney.com - This contest is pretty cool but takes a bit more effort to enter. You have to write a blog post about one of three topics such as, "If there was no internet, what would you be spending your time doing?" It brings up a great question. I'm not quite sure what I would do without the internet. I think I would probably... be programming C++ applications since that was what I did before I got into the internet side of things. You also have to include a whole heck of a lot of links: The contest post, MarketLeverage.com and iBlogtoBlog.com (which I'm not even sure what the last site is). You can also leave a comment about one of a few questions and stumble the page for a few points.
• TylerCruz.com - This contest actually takes a bit of work. You have to actually earn some money via MarketLeverage. The prizes are the same as mine: $200, iPod, Camera, and USB Pen.
• MoneyBites.com - This contest has some of the best prizes (cash money), but takes a lot of work. Just like Tyler's contest, this is a contest to see who can earn the most. The nice thing is that this contest is not JUST for his referrals. Anyone can participate! Cool.

Those are all the contests I could find. If you know of one that I missed (obviously I didn't include my own), please let me know via comments and I'll add it.

Now there should be no excuse not to try and win something!

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Hey guys,

Just a quick update regarding the CONTEST going on right now. Dina from Market Leverage talked to me and said that instead of the Nano, they would be willing to give me an iPod Touch!

SWEEEEET. So now the 2nd place prize is an iPod Touch.

~Get back to earning those points!

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As you may or may not have notices, this site is now offering peel away advertisements.

To advertise, visit the advertising page.

At the moment, there are 2 out of three spots open and I expect them to go quick considering all my adspace is currently sold and even have ads in queue.

If you have any questions, you know where to contact me.

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Many people don't know that you can generate keywords in many ways for your pay per click affiliate campaigns.

In fact, there are a ton of ways that you can find huge keyword lists but not all are effective or worth it. So I will be going over a list of the commonly accepted ways to get large keyword lists, why you need large keyword lists, and where to go.

First, the way MOST people generate their keywords (80%+ I'd estimate) is via the normal google and yahoo tools. You create a campaign and boom a keyword generator pops up for you to use. Easy and works well, best of all free.

The way that most people don't know about is generating keywords via other tools and programs. Some of these tools are free, some cost, some suck, some are amazing. I have tested pretty much every program on the market today.

First, the bad keyword generating tools. Stay away from these:

• Keyword Elite. - Like sorting through 50,000 keywords to find a few good keywords? Not me. No thanks.
• Keyword Companion. - Expensive tool that is similar to keyword elite but sorts through keywords a bit easier. Overall, TERRIBLE customer support (I had to spam the owners blog to get a response to my support ticket, no joke.)

Now, the following tools are ones I have used and found to be great and actually useful.

• My personal favorite: Wordze. This is the tool I like the best for generating larger keyword lists. You can read my Wordze Review. here.
• WordTracker. This program is one of the top in the industry and the best part... a full 7 day free trial. No reason why you shouldn't try it.
• PPC Coach. While reviewing the PPC Coach program, I noticed a reallllllllly amazing keyword tool. I actually utilized the tool multiple times already and well, I'm not really going to get into the tool because it's a secret I don't really like to share. It's worth the $50 bucks just for that tool and you'll notice in the comments of the PPC Coach review that people seem to find it worth it too.

Why do you need large keyword lists?

In search engines, the more areas of coverage you have, the more traffic you get. Plain and simple.

Many times in google, you can just use a broad keyword such as "credit cards" and it will cover all the credit cards keywords. Here is the problem: With broad match like that, you're going to get a percent of untargeted traffic unless you're using a large negative keyword list.

What do you do? Use these generators and use exact and phrase. Then you know exactly what you're getting as far as traffic goes.

Test broad search at a latter time.

With yahoo search marketing, I find the more keywords the better as long as you group your keywords well.

So now you know how to get good quality keywords and where to put them and how to implement them.

EDIT: Wordtracker link was broken. It's now fixed.

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If you've ever been to the Retireat21.com website, you'll know that the owner, Michael and the team puts everything he has into his websites. In fact his site is one I enjoy reading very often.

He recently has launched which has some amazing website design tutorials which help you to learn how develop websites.

This site has some really well written website tutorials including:

• Creating a professional business layout
• Creating a travel blog design
• Creating a website using dreamweaver
• Learn how to create a flash website
• And more...

So why and what does this have to do with affiliate marketing?

First, the obvious point is that if you cannot afford to have a landing page made for you, you'll need to make one. This site does have some great tutorials which may help you. Mainly, I know Michael and the work he puts into his websites so I am confident that in following this site you will learn to design and create websites well.

Secondly, with any affiliate page, you're going to need to make some changes over time. Knowing the basics of web design is important so that you don't need to wait for someone to make small changes.

Last, this site also has a forum on it that was just recently launched. So when designing, you can post questions there.

The other thing I like about this forum is that it allows you to, 1. Sell your services on the forum. So if you're already a great designer, perhaps you might offer yourself on this to make some extra cash. 2. Hire web designers.

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Please note that the below post is a very SIMPLIFIED version of how to track keyword level conversions.

GOOGLE Adwords Required Changes:
In your adwords ad URL destination you add to the end:

?OVKEY={Keyword}

Yahoo Search Marketing Changes:
In your Yahoo Search Marketing Administration Tab, you can turn "tracking URL's" on. That's all you need to do.

Step 2.
On your landing page at the VERY start of the file (About < html >) add the following:

< ? (remove the space between the < and the ?) $keyword=$_GET['OVKEY']; ?>

Step 3.
Now on your affiliate link add a sub id like so:
http://jumplink.com/jump.php?sub=< ?=$keyword;?> (Again remove the space between the < and the ?)

Obviously you replace the jumplink.com with the jumplink of your affiliate network.

Now you can see in the reports of your affiliate network which keyword converted for you.

The benefit of tracking keywords is you're able to find more profitable keywords and ditch the ones you're losing money on.

Just a word of caution. If you're running a campaign doing more than $100 bucks per day, I HIGHLY Recommend you work on some method of encryption for your keyword data.

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Hi all,

Just a short introduction. Benjamin from Singapore here, and actually Jonathan gave me permission to do a 'guest blog' post, so here I am. Have been doing the same thing as Jonathan for a few months now, and have recently started to see an explosion in my affiliate commissions as well... Though not on the same level as Jonathan yet. But rest assured I'll try to catch up to you soon

Thought I'd write about something that one might ask if he/she were totally new to all these: How to get started in the CPA game.

This is going to be a rather lengthy post, so do bear with me, as I can ramble on at times.

If you are not willing to spend money to invest in a good home-study course, what you could do, is to read up as much as you can about PPC (pay per click), and how it works. Here's a good place to learn the basics of Adwords. Do take note that Google Adwords is NOT the only place one can advertise, as there is still MSN and Yahoo. Also, you should try to find as much info as you can about how the lead generation industry works, and also about CPA (cost per action) offers. Though its quite hard to find really good free info out there.

Some places you might visit is the Digital Point forums
, and read under the Affiliate Program/Pay Per Click section. Try to take what they say with a pinch of salt though...

An alternative, is to invest in a good home study course. However, there are TONS of such rubbish out there, and it is absolutely critical that you do not pay for overrated crap. The only course I have bought till date, and I think I will ever buy, is Pay Per Click Formula, by Gauher Chaudhry. You can read my review about this product here.

I got his course sometime in mid April, and have never looked back since. Have sinced recouped the cost of the course many many times over.

Is This For Everyone?
I'll be honest: Not everyone is cut off for this. If you do not own a pair of hands, and face a problem with typing, this is not for you, I'm sorry.

If you do not understand English, I'm sorry, this is also not for you.

If you do not fall under the above categories, CONGRATS! You are fully capable of doing this. Only thing you need, is persistance, determination and patience. If you do not have those, go buy them off eBay or something...

What Are The Costs Of This Business?
The startup costs is rather small, compared to brick and mortar businesses.

If you do get the course, it will set you back a couple of hundreds. You will also most likely need your own website(s), and a good hosting plan. Websites generally costs less than $10, and hosting can be as low as $10/mth.

You also do need some credit for your advertising costs, as networks generally payout at the end of the month, but you will need to pay up the costs of your advertising to Yahoo/MSN/Google before your paycheck arrives. So cashflow management is critical!

Once things start picking up, you might also consider registering an LLC., which can be done for low hundreds I believe. You can then write off most stuff as business expenses:

Dinner with friends at a restaurant is a 'brainstorming session' for your upcoming campaign..
Trip to Bahamas is 'research' for consumer traveling behavior for your newest tourist website...

You get the idea

Hope I've given a good enough overview of this entire CPA thing, and what its all about.

*Shameless Pitch*

I too have a blog where I blog about stuff related to CPA marketing. Do visit me there and drop me some comments if you do find the reads interesting.

*/Shameless Pitch*

All the best to everyone,
Benjamin

(P.S. Jon, thanks for letting me post here. Hope you didn't mind my shameless promotion. Lol!)

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