Affiliate Marketing with Web 2.0, Podcasts and Video

Mike Paetzold back again for day 4 of my visit as part of The Old Bald Guy’s Blog Tour. This week the discussion is affiliate marketing and so far we have discussed…

• Affiliate Marketing – What is it?
• Affiliate Marketing -Tools you need
• Using Content For Your Affiliate Marketing

Today we conclude a 2 part series on using content and reusing content which is what really rocks. For part 1 we covered blogging and article marketing. In part 2 the topic will turn to the various Web 2.0 properties, podcasting and videos.

There are numerous Web 2.0 properties that you can use to add your content and draw visitors to either your lead capture system (best), your blog (next best) or direct to an affiliate page (worst).

Here are a few of the ones I use

• Squidoo
• Hub Pages
• Google Knol
• Wet Paint

There are many more but when ever there is an option I add the RSS feed from my blog into the appropriate page.

For all of these sites the key is always quality content and you should treat them exactly like you do article marketing. Do your keyword research, use compelling headlines and add in your call to action.

You can do some minor editing of your blog posts and your articles to create the content. Revising or reusing your content saves you time and quite often these Web 2.0 sites will rank above your original posts for the keywords (at least until you get some age and links to your blog.)

If you create podcasts and videos which are the next items for discussion you can use those as additional content for your Web 2.0 sites.

Podcasts work extremely well because you can get them into other venues. If you are doing podcasts you can add it to Itunes, Podcast Alley and numerous other places. It really is easy to make a podcast with free software like Audacity and adding a WordPress plugin like Podpress to your blog.

Just read your content into the mic on your computer and Audacity will let you edit it and then convert it into an mp3. Upload the mp3 to your blog and add it in through Podpress and you are done.

For podcasting and for videos I prefer to buy a domain and set it up to redirect to my affiliate link. Get a domain that is easy to remember because the person listening is not necessarily at a computer and even if they are they will need to type in the url manually.

For example if I want to promote Clickbank Pirate instead of giving someone a Clickbank hop link to try to type in I bought the domain http://thecbpirate.com. It is easy for them to type that in and I still get paid .

Finally for videos it is easy to convert your article into a power point presentation and then use something like Camtasia or even Cam Studio to record the presentation while you read the article out loud.

A couple of tips.

For podcasts make sure to create the id3 tags in Audacity and have the link you want them to go to as part of your description.

For your videos start your description when you submit it with the url you want people to go to and make sure that it is the full url starting with http:// or it will not be clickable when people are viewing the description.

Finally Tube Mogul is a free service that you can use to submit your videos to multiple sites at one time.

For the step by step on taking your blog post or article and turning them into a podcast and video check out Sunday Night Cash Plan.

Tomorrow will be my last day but the topic will be one of my favorites – integrating your affiliate marketing into every thing that you do.

About the author

Mike Paetzold has been online since 2000 and runs numerous blogs and you can find out what he is up to at Mike Paetzold Recommends. You can also find out and keep current with WordPress at his blog WordPress Made Easy. Follow Mike on Twitter

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