Carolina Robin and Pajama Affiliates!

Greeting my fellow affiliate and internet marketers. Many know me as Carolina Robin. I haven't posted here in a long long time.  Mostly because I have other ventures that I have created in the world of Internet Marketing.  I have created my own product, Pajama Affiliates and also have a full blown website and very active forum in my niche of choice.  Carolina Robin has been very busy! 

I have now been at this for 4 years.  In late 2011 my business was beginning to boom.  I had my first ever 10.000 dollar month and it just kept going.  Life was good.  I was doing that on mostly Squidoo alone, though I had just gotten my site for women up and running.  Then those zoo animals were let out of the gate, The Panda and The Penguin, and Squidoo took a hit and made some major changes.

My money dropped.  I didn't let this get me discouraged as I have had some major setbacks before.  My first site for women was hacked and it was rocking and rolling at the time.  That turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as my new site, lovegirltalk, is by far superior. 

I still use Squidoo and still consider it an excellent training ground and great for driving traffic, but mostly, my new content now goes to my sites and not Squidoo.  

It's been a long road, but the money is coming in again and this time I expect to top that10,000 month!  My product, Pajama Affiliates is still out there where I teach newbies how to get up and running in affiliate marketing.  I am also working on updating it, as I have learned so much more since I created it.

Anyway, just dropping in here adding some fresh content and to let you know what I have been up to.  To those reading this, don't give up.  Look at obstacles and setbacks as an opportunity and just keep pushing forward.  You can find my new blog at Pajama Affiliates or if you are a woman seeking dating or relationship advice, you can find me at lovegirltalk!

Adios for now,

Carolina Robin

Adding Clickbank Links In Squidoo

Affiliate Programs are Everywhere

When it comes to finding products to promote online, the sky is the limit. These affiliate opportunities are everywhere. I see many here at Squidoo that use Amazon, but Amazon is just one in probably a million options. Now that I am a full time affiliate marketer, I find myself checking almost all sites I visit for an affiliate program. It's usually all the way at the bottom of a site where you will find a link that says affiliates. I have registered with so many that I have forgotten about a lot of them.

I have recently quit smoking and was googling electronic cigarettes the other day. Practically all electronic cigarette companies have an affiliate program. Best Buy has an affiliate program, how cool is that. Dell you know the computer people, well they have an affiliate program complete with banners and tools.

When I search for affiliate programs, I simply google the product that I want to promote with the word "affiliate" behind it and ta da, usually I find what I am looking for.

Not all affiliate programs however are created equal. I usually check them out before I join one. I search for reviews and take into consideration how professional the site is or is not.

One of the first products I ever purchased and promoted was Pot Pie Girl's One Week Marketing which is why I am such a Squidoo Fan! It works. Another great guide that I am checking out is Squidoo Shortcuts, I have heard great reviews on this.

 

The Truth About Clickbank and Squidoo

Amazon is not the only way to earn money at Squidoo. There are so many digital marketplaces such as Commission Junction, Clickbank, Payloads, E-Junkie to name just a few. Clickbank is my personal favorite. There are endless possibilities. At Squidoo though, I have heard many refer to these digital marketplaces such as Clickbank as taboo. I think it's because many spammers got a hold of it and just used it all wrong trying to make a sale. That's a shame because there is a lot of money to be made at these other market places, including Clickbank.

I was talking with a fellow Squid the other day and his view was that clickbank had low quality products and he wouldn't promote crap. This really isn't true. There are some really good products on in the marketplace. If I am going to promote a product from from this market place, I purchase it and review it first. This way you can have confidence in the products that you promote.

I make good money with multiple affiliate centers. My last paycheck just from Clickbank was just short of 3 grand. I am not writing this to be bragging, I am writing this to hopefully help others make more money by offering quality content when it comes to promoting and reviewing these digital products. If I can make 3 grand now in a two week period, imagine what I will be making a year from now if I just keep doing what I am doing.

Many give up when they don't see fast results. That I believe is the reason most fail with these digital products. I have had one digital product that I was promoting that did nothing for a year. One day I woke up and it seems Google had just found it overnight. There are many factors that play into this and the Google ranking games.

Domain age name, fresh quality content and keyword research and search engine optimization all make a difference in how successful you will or will not be. If you can learn to master these things, you will make sales, that and a little patience.

How To Add Clickbank Links in Squidoo

There are numerous ways to add your affiliate links into a Squidoo Lens. The first and easiest way is by adding the Big Arrow Module in the edit mode. Then you simply copy and paste your link there, give the module a title paste your link and you are done.

Another way is the link module. It works much the same way as the Big Arrow. There is also a reorder option so that you can add more than one link to more than one product. Creating a lens with no valuable content and just links though won't work with Squidoo. They really do want some valuable content. I usually write at least three original text modules with topics that relate to the product and place the link last after my text modules.

There is always the option of linking certain words in your text modules to your hoplinks or other affiliate products with a simple html code. Squidoo does not have a WYSIWYG editor in it's text modules but you can use html instead, creating anchor text links. Simply Google "creating anchor text links and you will find instructions. I can't post the code here as Squidoo reads it and converts it to a link instead of the actual code to use.


Remember this though. Huge caution here. Don't over stuff your links in your lens. This is when it turns to spam. I never link the same product more than 2 or 3 times in a lens. It only takes once to make a sale. Linking to more than one product on a lens though is certainly an option. Always read the terms of service before you create your lens to avoid issues later on. 

Below is a short Video with step by step instructions how to add clickbank automatically using Squiduitls.