Safelisting Part Two
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In this second article about safelisting I would like to focus on choosing which ones to join. Please note that I am not discussing traffic exchanges in this article. One thing at a time!! There arehundreds and hundreds of safelist sites, all different kinds with a variety of extra services. How do YOU choose which few to join?
Firstly, the size of the membership is an important factor. How many people are going to see your ad when you post it out to them ? Consequently I always look at that figure first, and if it is low I will check back now and again to see if membership has been growing. There is no point saving up thousands of credits ( or even buying credits) if only 150 people will be seeing them.
The look and feel of the site is also important to me. Does it look interesting and have lots of options for upgrading and different kinds of posting? Is it easy to navigate? Can you save your login details?
Can you preview your ad before it goes? Can you post in HTML and text?
Does the FREE membership give you just 1 posting per day or more?
Can you purchase credits if you want to?
Can you earn banner credits?
Does FREE membership allow you to save messages ( ads) that you have created, so that you can quickly recycle them each day. This saves you a ton of time!
I recommend you choose two sites to get started with, and here are my favorites. Now you have to join, log in, confirm etc. Two sites will bring in a steady flow of emails but won’t be overwhelming.
Follow the procedure set out in my first article, creating a filter etc in your gmail accounts.
Remember that your CONTACT box will receive the important admin messages, but also it will receive the SOLO ads that other networkers have purchased. If you click on a solo ad you will earn a lot more credits, one or two thousand usually – so its well worth going through the contact inbox each morning and clicking through the solos. People have paid a lot of money to put those solo ads up there and you will be using solos sometime soon, once the budget allows.
When I started doing this, over a year ago, I bought an exercise book and made an index down the side, cutting away strips of paper and leaving a tab for each page. On that tab I wrote the name of the company and on the page I have recorded details of the company, my login and password, date of joining and level of membership. Then as time has gone by I have recorded how successful that site has been in getting me sign-ups and sales. Of course, the more successful, the more I have used it and focused on investing in upgrades.
Whatever method you use I recommend using the same login and password for each membership, using a password that is easy to access on the keyboard. You can even use a robo fill software.
Once you have all that set up, you have to decide what it is you will be advertising. A notepad page on your desk top with the affiliate urls and letters pre written by that company is very helpful, as you just need to cut and paste.
If the urls are really long, try using a company like TinyURL, which converts long ones into short, more manageable, urls. The tab for this can be placed on your toolbar for easy access.
In the next article I will go into choosing companies to become an affiliate of and advertising in more detail; plus another two safelisting companies for you to look at.
In this second article about safelisting I would like to focus on choosing which ones to join. Please note that I am not discussing traffic exchanges in this article. One thing at a time!! There arehundreds and hundreds of safelist sites, all different kinds with a variety of extra services. How do YOU choose which few to join?
Firstly, the size of the membership is an important factor. How many people are going to see your ad when you post it out to them ? Consequently I always look at that figure first, and if it is low I will check back now and again to see if membership has been growing. There is no point saving up thousands of credits ( or even buying credits) if only 150 people will be seeing them.
The look and feel of the site is also important to me. Does it look interesting and have lots of options for upgrading and different kinds of posting? Is it easy to navigate? Can you save your login details?
Can you preview your ad before it goes? Can you post in HTML and text?
Does the FREE membership give you just 1 posting per day or more?
Can you purchase credits if you want to?
Can you earn banner credits?
Does FREE membership allow you to save messages ( ads) that you have created, so that you can quickly recycle them each day. This saves you a ton of time!
I recommend you choose two sites to get started with, and here are my favorites. Now you have to join, log in, confirm etc. Two sites will bring in a steady flow of emails but won’t be overwhelming.
Follow the procedure set out in my first article, creating a filter etc in your gmail accounts.
Remember that your CONTACT box will receive the important admin messages, but also it will receive the SOLO ads that other networkers have purchased. If you click on a solo ad you will earn a lot more credits, one or two thousand usually – so its well worth going through the contact inbox each morning and clicking through the solos. People have paid a lot of money to put those solo ads up there and you will be using solos sometime soon, once the budget allows.
When I started doing this, over a year ago, I bought an exercise book and made an index down the side, cutting away strips of paper and leaving a tab for each page. On that tab I wrote the name of the company and on the page I have recorded details of the company, my login and password, date of joining and level of membership. Then as time has gone by I have recorded how successful that site has been in getting me sign-ups and sales. Of course, the more successful, the more I have used it and focused on investing in upgrades.
Whatever method you use I recommend using the same login and password for each membership, using a password that is easy to access on the keyboard. You can even use a robo fill software.
Once you have all that set up, you have to decide what it is you will be advertising. A notepad page on your desk top with the affiliate urls and letters pre written by that company is very helpful, as you just need to cut and paste.
If the urls are really long, try using a company like TinyURL, which converts long ones into short, more manageable, urls. The tab for this can be placed on your toolbar for easy access.
In the next article I will go into choosing companies to become an affiliate of and advertising in more detail; plus another two safelisting companies for you to look at.
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