Craigslist can be a great way to buy or sell goods but there are those people out there that are waiting to catch you in a scam.  Below I have listed some things to watch for and help you avoid being caught up in a scam. First Make sure you are really on Craigslist!

The real web address for Craigslist is www.craigslist.org although the www in the URL can usually be replaced with the name of the city whose listings you wish to explore (chicago.craigslist.org, newyork.craigslist.org, or losangeles.craigslist.org). Just make sure that you haven’t ended up at www.craigslist.com or www.craiglist.org or some other common misspelling of the Craigslist domain. There some sites out there that have similar domain names and the owner’s hope that you will make mistake while typing in the URL and end up on their site instead of the one you intended. These imposters are phishing scams with layouts that duplicate the real Craigslist to fool you.

If there’s any doubt, go back and re-type the URL or do a search for “Craigslist” to be sure.

Recognizing scams

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A few ways you can find profitable topics to create products for you can: Search Amazon.com’s Best Sellers List – if you see that there are a lot of best selling books or magazines on a particular topic, you know that that topic would be profitable to create a product around. Google “Trends” to see what topics people are searching. For hobby based topics, Google hobbies to see what is popular… one site I found is Read the rest of this entry »

Importing a sales page to Ebay is an easy task. If you’re familiar with Ebay and creating a listing, you’ll understand the following instructions. If you’re not, get familiar with Ebay before reading this.

To import a sales page into Ebay, you just copy and paste the sales page’s html to the description area of the Read the rest of this entry »

People like to have their say and are always willing to help and answer any questions that you may have in forums.  If you add a forum to your site, it can be a good way to keep people coming back to your site to join in with the discussions.

Make sure that the topic of your forum is related to your site and what you are selling and you should see a nice increase in traffic.  You should not advertise or publish any other promotional material in the forum as this is considered as SPAM.

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Joining a forum that is on the same topic of your site is a great way to get free traffic. Once you have joined you can add your website address to your profile and your signature box. This way every time you post to the forum a link to your site will show.

Forums are everywhere on the Internet. Just go to a search engine and type in the words, Read the rest of this entry »

Reciprocal linking can be a great way to get traffic and better search engine rankings.  Reciprocal linking is where you find another site that has been built around a similar topic as yours and you contact the site owner or webmaster and ask them if they would like to put a link to your site in exchange for a link to theirs.

Reciprocal links help you by increasing your web traffic from people who click on the links and therefore; boost your rankings in search engines.

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With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in affiliate marketing online.

1. Use unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing.  Have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

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Every niche market on the Internet is highly competitive. There are many affiliate marketers who are trying to sell the very same product you are, so you had better have a plan to get at least your fair share of the market or more.

Just having a list will not be enough to assure you of success when selling an affiliate product. You have to design a plan that will assure that your customers buy from you and not from your competitors.

You have to make your offer for a product or service for which you are an affiliate more attractive to buy from you rather than buy from you competitors.

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