Any successful affiliate marketer will tell you that moderation and time are the key to optimizing your social media. When you set the best times and days to post, what kind of content to provide, and which audience to target, you’ll realize the potential for social exposure. Facebook alone has over 1.5 billion active users, not counting Google+, Twitter, and YouTube, to name a few. And when you learn to tap into these audiences, you’ll soon see your blogs explode with targeted and interested visitors. But it takes time.

Google Traffic is leveraged by means of WordPress plugins, because this is how all the major search engines recognize your blog and / or website. But the question is … which add-ons are correct, what kind of add-ons should you install and what is their purpose? As much as I would love to, I couldn’t cover all of this in a single blog post unless you want to keep writing for a couple of weeks or so. WordPress and SEO tactics are among the absolute favorites used by All Super Affiliate Marketers, and trust me, they all use plugins to get hundreds of thousands of visitors per day. But as I mentioned before, it takes more than plugins. It’s all part of a much larger toolbox that you need to build if you’re going to make the kind of life-changing money online.

Regardless of the tools you choose to use, any tool only works as well as the person using it. Successful online marketing comes down to content, useful and original content is what makes the real money online.

How to create useful and interesting content

But how do you write useful and interesting content? The best word to describe that will be knowledge, which can only be obtained through personal trial and error. You need to develop your own tactics, and that can only be done by constantly testing other concepts and compiling your own collection. As an affiliate marketer, product knowledge plays an important role, which is why you should buy and use the product that you intend to promote. It’s the only way to inspire curiosity in your audience, and that’s a great starting point for visitor sales conversion. As you progress, your knowledge will expand because you also need to interact with other professionals within your niche. Share ideas and tactics, but try to avoid sales pitches because that’s not what professional commitment is all about. You need to learn as much as you can first, and then your content will improve accordingly.

Let’s take a brief look at the difference between a widget and a plugin.

What is a widget? – A widget is what you see primarily in a sidebar and includes options like social follow buttons and web forms. Favorite widgets also include the option to search your site, recent comments, and recent posts. Meta tags and files are also widgets used by the most successful affiliate marketers. The widgets act as a kind of guide for your visitor to see the different options provided on your website and / or blog.

What is a plugin? – A plugin is primarily a tool that runs in the background and helps with things like SEO and faster page ranking on Google. It is also responsible for tracking your visitors and analytical results, so that you can track and optimize your visitors. A plugin is also the professional way to cloak your affiliate links by linking to your main domain. So instead of seeing an affiliate link, Google Spider sees a subdomain to your main domain that is more likely to be favored. A great link cloaking plugin is Pretty Link Late, and it doesn’t just hide your link. It also provides you with analytical results so that you can see all the clicks and unique visitors, this way you can determine the affiliate offer most loved by your audience.

But all of this can sound pretty confusing when you’re just starting out. You can do all of this yourself or you can let a professional webmaster do it for you. This is also a great option, because you can have someone build your Empire for you, while learning how to do everything yourself.

Now we all know that Google and Facebook had become the two traffic giants followed by YouTube. And rightly so, because we are talking about billions of unique monthly visitors from the two giants combined. However, wouldn’t you agree that we may have been neglecting Twitter and LinkedIn just a bit?

They may not be as huge as Facebook and Google … Believe me, they are working on it though! The “trick” is to link your social profiles so that when you tweet or re-tweet on Twitter, it is automatically shared on sites like Facebook. The same goes for LinkedIn, when you post to this social site, it will also be shared automatically.

That is why This Twitter plugin is so valuable, and you can see it in action with the tweetable content at the top of this post. It’s just one of the many methods and tactics that all successful bloggers and affiliate marketers use.

You should never be a faceless profile, not even a photo of your beloved cat. I also love my cat very much, but that does not change the fact that she (Bast) is not the one who publishes on my profiles, I am. The professional way is to have a full frontal image of yourself, like a passport photo, because the public enjoys connecting if they see a person.

Fill in your bio and add your projects and interests. Get your social profile possibly as complete as possible professionally because that is how you are recognized as a professional. This also applies to your Blog, give your audience the assurance that you are real and offer them the solutions they are looking for.

Let me put an exclamation on the fact that these are tools and training, none of these are magic buttons that will turn your PC into an ATM. There is none of that, and I know this because I used to be one of the top contenders in the race to find that illusory “Magic Button”.

Making money online is an art, and it is a combination of methods, tactics, programs and tools that are part of a much larger machine.