I just want to ask here what are the advanced techniques about bum marketing that where not told on travis' ebook?
Right here is a GREAT thread to begin reading all about techniques you can use with bum marketing-- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=457865. This thread document's Ponynugget's journey with bum marketing, but has a lot of GREAT AND AWESOME POSTS made by Samo. It's taken me awhile to read and digest it but now I think I'm ready to start on my own bum marketing journey.
There's advanced techniques? I feel so cheated... j/k I like Travis a lot and respect the amount of free advice his BM course gives out. Only speaking from my own experience, there's 3 key points to BM that you have to apply for good results: 1. Well formatted articles around something people need solutions for. Find a product that scratches an itch that lots of people have, then write your articles so that they: a) pin-point the problem b) highlight how having the problem wrecks your life c) points out the benefits of getting rid of the problem d) (the payoff) gives a solution to the problem <-- your call to action link 2. Deal in volume. To make BM really work you've got to churn out lots, and lots, and lots of articles. It's a "lather, rinse. repeat" system. 3. Get familiar with social bookmarking. Not social news or traffic portals like Digg and StumbleUpon, but bookmarking sites like delicious and reddit and 100 others just like them. Bookmark all of your published articles using your keywords as tags. You have to build them up in the SERPs for real traffic. It doesn't hurt to understand keyword research too, but I've seen more people waste tons of time hunting for perfect keywords while they should have been writing and publishing articles that it blows my mind. Odds are you won't rank well or very long for the keywords you target in an article anyway. The gold is in the longtails you include in the article without realizing it that get occasional search traffic. Those numbers are super low, but those visitors are highly targeted (motivated). Hope that helps.
Thanks these will really help me... But one more question, how do I aquire long tail keywords? What's the technique to find long tail keywords?
@firewolf08, yes and yes. I've done it, I've made money with it, I used that money to buy and build several of my own article directories (to get the best of both worlds), and I still use BM today when I roll out a new web site or product offering. I don't use it for affiliate marketing much anymore because I don't have the time, but mass articles can be used for many different purposes. Like I said, I use it now for initial branding and SERPs leverage on projects mostly. @arthro, I followed the gold statement by saying it's the longtails that you don't even realize you're including. If you write articles that pin-point a problem, highlight why it's bad, mention the benefits of being free of the problem and then provide a path to the solution you will undoubtedly include trigger phrases in your article that some people with the problem use as search terms. It's hard and time consuming to try and plan for these sort of longtails, and the traffic for them is really low, but the few people who find your articles off of these types of phrases are going to be the most motivated visitors your articles ever see. There's almost no way to know that a search engine is going to rank your article for an arbitrary term like "help me pimple back hair", or that someone may actually search for a term like that, but it happens and those are the gold visitors. My advise is don't chase longtails, just write lots of articles and you'll be including them without even realizing it.