I could also have named this article "Ronaldinho, go home!"

So I was looking at the top videos of the day on YouTube when I see a video named "Hottie with skills", which I obvioulsy click to watch.

And this is what I see...



Now, I don't know what you think but I found it pretty impressive and enjoyable. But what I found even more impressive is the last image of the video, an ad for the site uMoviez.com

It's not the first time I see videos with this site at the end which makes me thing these people are working hard to hit YouTube's most viewed videos of the day and they are obviously succeeding!

This video was posted yesterday, July 16. So it's online since less than 24 hours and YouTube counted already 180,000+ views of the video. That's a looot of people!

Now, is this actually bringing them any traffic will you ask. Well, looking at their Alexa stats, it seems it does.



If only 1% of the users who have seen the video actually go to their site, that's still 1,800 free visitors they will receive in just a few hours. And the video will probably remain there for quite longer.

This plus the fact they are probably adding hundreds of videos to YouTube everyday, they must drive a nice amount of traffic to their site.

I don't know if that traffic is worth the effort, but at least it's worth a try!
The beauty of it is that this video will spread on the Internet forever with their URL at the end!

*** EDIT: The video has now been removed by YouTube, so it looks like they don't like that too much.

In this tutorial, I will try to give you some information on how to configure your campaigns with ExoClick and optimize them for the best conversions.

Account Funding

Note that ExoClick is only working with pre-payments. You decide what you want to pay and when you want to pay it. The minimum amount is $10
Today, we accept payments through Paypal, credit card, ePassporte and wire transfer. (Minimum amount for wire transfer is $500)

New Campaign

Once your account is funded, you can start creating campaigns. There is no limitation on the number of campaigns you can create.



There is 3 main sections for the creation of a campaign.

1. The campaign information.

Name of the campaign: This is just a name for you to remember what you are targeting in this campaign. Example: "MyProduct.com - Blogging Category - All countries"

CPC: Fixed "Cost Per Click" price you want to pay. If you want to bid $0.15 for this campaign, then you should enter 15. (Minimum bid is only $0.01)

Maximum number of Clicks: Number of clicks you want to receive for this campaign. You can just set a very high number if you don't want to have any limitation.

Ad type: Type of advertising you want to set. For now, you can choose between text or banner.

2. The targeting

This section is very important as this is where you configure WHERE your ad will appear.

2.1 Categories: Selecting a category is an easy way of getting wide exposure as your ad will be shown for that full category!
If you select some sub-categories, your ad will be shown on the selected sub-categories only.

I strongly recommend to select a category, and no sub-categories.

2.2 Countries: By default, there is no countries selected, which means your ad will be shown EVERYWHERE. If you want to restrict the geo-localization of your ad, just select the countries where you want your ad to be shown. (For selecting multiple countries, just keep the key "CTRL" pressed and select the countries you want)

2.3 Keywords: Add here your list of keywords so your ad will be shown on these searches. Note that if you selected a category, you can leave the keywords field empty.

2.4 Sites: By default, there is no sites selected, which means your ad will be shown on the full network. If you want to display your ad only on specific sites, then enter here the list of hostnames.

Example:
blog.exoclick.com
loudsearch.com
loveseeking.net

Tip 1, CATCH-ALL traffic: You can buy traffic from the FULL Network by using the sign "%" in the keywords list. By doing so, you ad will appear for all keywords, all categories, all sites, as far as your bid is sufficient. This is the maximum exposure you can get.

Tip 2, dynamic ad: You can use the tag "{keyword}" in the title and description of your ads to replace dynamically the tag by the search term. E.g. if you set the title of your ad as "{keyword} ringtones" and someone search for "Dido", the title of your ad will be "Dido ringtones".

3. Advertisement data

This is what the surfers will see.

Title: Enter the title of your ad. Try to make it as short and catchy as possible!

Text: Description of your ad.

URL: Where the surfer will be sent. Make sure your URL start by "http://"

URL to display: As your real URL can look complicate, with long parameters, etc... you can enter here a more friendly URL that the surfers will see. The real URL will not be shown.

I hope this tutorial was helpful and shed some light on the campaigns creation. If you still have some problems, then you know where to reach us.

Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web businesses in which an affiliate (the actual publisher, meaning you ) is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, or sale provided through his efforts.

For instance, independent booksellers have limited shelf space for books. But they can offer their customers an almost unlimited inventory of titles by affiliating with companies like Amazon or Powell's. The more orders, the bigger the affiliate percentage.

Visitors to your site are interested in lots of things that may or may not be related to your product. Getting to know what your customers want and are looking forward to see from your website is one step ahead.

The basics

What you will need in your journey towards a successful affiliate marketer career are only a strong will and the courage to go on. In this business you are only limited by your imagination.

When starting your internet business through affiliate marketing there are five steps to follow to ensure success:

1. You must first find a niche market that interests you if possible, and is of sufficient size to sustain growth.
2. Thoroughly research the niche for problems and find what fits you best.
3. Research the available affiliate products for something that will rectify the deficiency.
4. You must promote the product or service, try promoting it with the help of an advertising campaign and remember to always track your progress, see what performs best and what doesn't.
5. Initially there is no need for a website, but there are advantages of having one.

Creating a trust between you and your customers, as well as your partners, is of prime importance to your business at start. This trust will serve you well as your customers will consider you to be a specialist in the chosen niche and continue to buy from you in the future. Do not think for one minute that without it you will be able to succeed. Affiliate Marketing, as well as any other business model, relies entirely upon the trust that you build over a period of time.

The pillars of your business should be imagination and hard work. Building that trust I mentioned in the above paragraphs is going to take some time and of course patience. You are going to achieve your goals only through hard work.

Why affiliate marketing is the way to go

Affiliate marketing has gained more and more exposure ever since it was discovered, back in the days of email marketing. Along the time, marketers have noticed the potential of affiliate marketing, the incomes it could bring and how much time it requires to do so. Further more, affiliate marketing has been and will always be a solid way of earning an income. Being based on real life sales, affiliate marketing is going to live a lot more and will continue to expand.

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