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In my previous blog entry about turnkey websites, I mentioned the use of turnkey sites and how they can help web marketers. If you are starting an ecommerce (or affiliate) website you may want to consider the top three open source free content management scripts. Just like turnkey sites these are simple to use and deploy.

1. OSCommerce - is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

2. Zen Cart - truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

3. Joomla - is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Of the three mentioned CMS, I personally like Joomla, because there are a lot of free plug-in and templates available in the forum site.

Another good reason to use these open source systems is that there are a hundred or so templates that you can choose, you can browse template monsters for compatible templates.

That’s it for now. Cheers and good luck to our success!

Turnkey Sites is one of the sale able items on the Internet today.  This article will explain to newbies what are turnkey sites and how are they going to help web entrepreneurs in their online business.

Turnkey websites are pre-made websites that are designed on a special niche.  In a turnkey sites every aspect or functionalities are already working, it means an entrepreneur will only install the site to the web server (sometimes an install script is already included), and wallah everything is already pre-made.  By the way you also need to include some of your personal info like (site title, contact info, paypal id, affiliate id etc.)

Turnkey websites are designed is such a way that starting web entrepreneurs need not to hire a web developer.

What does it cost for a turnkey site?  This will depend on what kind of niche will you be promoting.  For youtube.com clone websites, a respectable turnkey site ranges from $300 - $800, and sometimes it can go down up to $10.00 a piece (surf Ebay, the prizes are crazy but the after sales service is crazy too <sigh>).

Are there any disadvantages? Yes. Since the maker of the turnkey site is offering it to a large consumption of internet marketer, you might see a similar website same as yours.  Same in design and same in functionalities.  Solution?  After you have purchased the turnkey site you want to tweak it a bit before making it live.  Tweaking it like changing the theme colors and adding original functionalities.  If you are not completely a newbie in developing a site you may want to hire a web designer and developer for a fee.

Another thing if you will be purchasing a turnkey site solely without the hosting bundle, double check if the hosting requirements matches your hosting server.

CTR percentage down, page impressions suddenly takes a plunge, your affiliate conversion rate went from 20% to virtually nothing and no matter what you do, it doesn’t change. These are just some of the things that an affiliate marketer will experience in course of the affiliate journey. Whenever I encounter such things I just wanted to bang my head through the monitor and ask myself why the hell my stat went bersek.

What do you do? During this time of stress the best time is to remove yourself from the situation and relax. Why? Studies have shown that the mind can think more effectively when relaxed than it is under-pressure. Forget a while your CTR percentages, etc. and consider some of the basic relaxing technique:

Watch a movie, you may want to try Mr. Bean.
Listen to music.
Do meditation.
Get a sleep.
Go date the girl/guy that has been bugging you around, let her/him treat you for dinner…lol

Relaxing activity will depend on your preference, you can go from yoga meditation or just hearing a rock music. I know one prominent affiliate marketer’s relaxation activity includes listening to a rock music while drinking beer.

After you have relax for a couple of hours or a day, you can go back to your computer and try solving the problem again. By the way, just don’t spend too much time relaxing that you have completely forgotten that you have a problem.

To ease you a bit watch this funny video.

After you have exerted effort in optimizing your website and still need additional traffic you may want to use alternative sources. Below are some of the list that you can generate traffic.

1. Forums - community forums can be a great resource for your traffic. Members of these sites interact with each other that lead to referring of websites. Put your website’s url within your signature block so that other members can view your site. Just make it sure that the forums that you will be joining is related to your website’s topic.

2. Groups - both yahoo and google groups is another great source of traffic. Members interact with each other through email subscription. You can send a notice to the group members regarding your website or answer members query.

3. Article Submission - submit articles to different article directories like ezinearticles.com. If your article is approved by the admin, other members can use you content provided that your signature or copyright notice is attached at the end of the article. This is another great resource of link building. Be sure that the article that you are submitting is your original work otherwise you might be accused of copyright infringement.

4. RSS Feeds - this is one of the easy ways to get additional traffic specially if you are using wordpress. You just submit your rss feeds to different blog directories and wallahh, you just advertised your website.

5. Offer free ebooks and other stuff - one example is offering free web templates at opensourcedesign.com Just include your keyword/url at the footer of the template. In this way you can have more inbound link coming form the site that uses your template.

There are still a lot of ways to increase traffic (aside from the generic search (engine)). One just need to think creatively.

Other ways that you may want to explore further to increase web traffic:
1. Youtube.com
2. Build squidoo lens.
3. Submitting Press Releases to prdirecories.

good luck to our success!

A lot of newbies think that you can only earn in Google Adsense whenever a visitor click your adsense ad. If you are one of those newbies read on. Google can make you money more than there .01 clicks.

Below is the list on how much will you earn for each referral that you make to Google.

• AdSense:

  • When a publisher who signed up for Google AdSense through your referral first earns US$5 within 180 days of sign-up, you will be credited with US$5.

  • When that same publisher earns US$100 within 180 days of sign-up and is eligible for payout, you will be credited with an additional US$250.

  • If in any 180-day period you refer 25 publishers who each earn more than US$100 within 180 days of their respective sign-ups and are all eligible for payout, you will be awarded a US$2,000 bonus (bonus payouts are limited to 1 per year).

• Firefox plus Google Toolbar: When a user you’ve referred to Firefox plus Google Toolbar runs Firefox for the first time, you’ll receive up to US$1 in your account, depending on the user’s location. Your referral must be a Windows user, who has not previously installed Firefox, in order for you to receive credit.

• AdWords:

  • When an advertiser you refer first spends US$5 within 90 days of sign-up (in addition to the US$5 sign-up fee) you will be credited with US$5.

  • When that same advertiser spends US$100 within 90 days of sign-up, you will be credited with an additional US$40.

  • If in any 180 day period you refer 20 advertisers who each spend more than US$100 within 90 days of their respective sign-ups, you will be awarded a US$600 bonus (bonus payouts are limited to 1 per year).

• Pack: When a Windows user you’ve referred to Pack downloads and installs the product, you’ll receive up to US$2 in your account.

• Checkout: When a user signs up as a buyer and completes a transaction through Google Checkout of at least US$10 (before tax and shipping) within 90 days of sign-up, you will be credited with US$1.

• Google Apps: When a user signs up for Google Apps and there are one or more Google Apps email accounts in use for four consecutive weeks, you will be credited with US$5.

So next time you make a blog or a new website you may want to consider putting some of Google’s Referral products.