My Top 3 Lottery Winning Articles That Draw Traffic

Normally I wouldn't give out this information about my own articles, but as affiliates I think you'll benefit from this.

So, very quickly, I'm going to reveal the top 3 articles at Ezine Articles from the 74 I've written so far, and explain more about them so you can tailor your own articles to the success pattern.

Here they are, rated by viewing numbers:

16,560 views - How to Predict Winning Lottery Games in 30 Seconds

8,023 views - How to Win the Lottery - Should You Use Lotto Quick Picks, Or Select Your Own Numbers to Win?

6,796 views - How to Win the Canadian Lotto 649 - A 30-Second Way to Predict the Next Lotto 649 Winning Numbers?

Some points to note about these articles:

1. Traffic is through organic SEO. None of my articles have had any help through backlinks etc, though the top article did receive a couple of thousand views after I promoted it briefly in a blog post. Traffic has been affected by the last Google slap but is slowly working its way back to average readership.

2. There's no predictability of viewer count with any keywords. In fact, the top-viewed article has less numbers of keywords than the third-viewed, yet the most viewed article has nearly three times the readership. My advice is to use keywords that describe winning the lottery, and localise them... select one game and concentrate all your articles around them as I did with the Canadian 649 above.

3. The 4th article (not shown of course) has less than half the views of the 3rd article. The 4th-viewed article also has a 5-star rating from viewers, against a 4-star rating for the top article. So Ezine Articles stars don't have much effect on readership.

4. Most of my articles - around 66 of the 74 - have less than 1,000 views each, even though the titles contain many of the keywords in the top 3 above, in particular "how to win." It seems while this keyword phrase is popular, it is not effective for getting or increasing traffic.

5. The length of the title appears to make little difference to views. Some of the <1,000 view counts also have long titles.

So, because there doesn't seem to be any logic to traffic counts and keywords -  do you continue to write articles with keyword emphasis in the body?

The answer is a definite YES. And it's even more important now to ignore the short term trends and gimmicks, and write quality articles that last.

Here's some tips:

#1. Ezine Articles (www.ezinearticles.com) are only accepting articles of a minimum of 400 words. I recommend going above that figure - even up to 1,000 words. There is a theory that Google is rewarding longer articles with high SEO prominence on the basis they are more useful than short ones. A high word count can imply a better quality article. The longterm advantage is that long articles can later be broken down to several smaller ones for inclusion in other article directories.

#2. Keep your titles keyword rich. I try and write longer titles for the additional keywords that may be picked up... there is a lot of serendipity going on from other areas of interest. For example, a general article could be sprinkled with "Powerball" keywords to get traffic for that game.

#3. Important - make your articles unique. This is probably the best advice you can have. While I often suggest partially rewriting my own articles for your own distribution, a better bet is to do a full rewrite where no phrase or sentence is the same. Google in particular has a sophisticated method of determining originality, and as far as we know, downgrading it in the SERPs.

Make Every Play Day a PAY Day!

Ken Silver

Can I Pay You $243 Per Sale While You're Wondering How To Win The Lottery?

So you've bought a Silver Lotto System, and maybe a Custom Profile or even the PRO version to ramp up your winnings.

And you're off and running, playing your lottery game like a happy camper.

But you're smart... always looking for The Next Big Thing to boost some personal bucks.

Well, here's another fast way to make some cash with the Silver Lotto System.

So you can buy more lotto tickets, or even to spend on your family, a hobby or a vacation.

Just do these 3 simple steps - it will only take you a few minutes and costs you nothing:

#1. Sign up to the merchant giant ClickBank.com here: http://tinyurl.com/CB-lotto-signup. You'll get a special ClickBank ID.
(Time to do: 2 minutes)

#2. Replace the "CLICKBANK_ID" words in this link exactly with your own one: http://CLICKBANK_ID.kensilver.hop.clickbank.net  
(Time to do: 10 seconds)

#3. Put that link in a short email to just 5 people you know... family, friends, relatives, business acquaintances. Or if you're a big wheel on the net, you might have a mailing list. Send it to them all too. 

(Time to do: 3 minutes)

For every one who buys, you'll get $27 in your hot little hand!

That's $135 straight off for all 5 - in just a few minute's easy tinkering.

Here's an example of an email you could send them:

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Hey (name),

Check out this cool lottery system. They say you can win 9 out of every 10 games.

It's $97 but I got it for only $39.95. 

If you're quick I think you'll get it at that price too: http://CLICKBANK_ID.kensilver.hop.clickbank.net

Catch you later.

(Your name)

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This bare bones strategy works like crazy.

And as I said in the subject line, you could even ramp up your effort to pull in over $243 per sale.

Jump on the bandwagon here: http://www.silverlotto.com/affiliate-sign.htm

But first send out the email to 5 people you know.

It's legit - and it's money in the bank for you.

PS. One guy earned $10,000 in 4 days doing something similar to this with the Silver Lotto System. 

Make Every Play Day a PAY Day!

Ken Silver

What Russell Simmons Says About Hustling, And The Rebranding Report For Lottery Affiliates.

I've just been reading about best-selling author and founder of Def Jam Recordings, Russell Simmons. His new book "Super Rich: A Guide To Having It All" offers some advice on success, but one element stood out for me. "Stay on your hustle," said Simmons.

He means don't quit, always keep moving, never give up.

He also recommends giving away your business products for free (that's the Rebrandable Report below).

Hustling is a perfect example of how an affiliate business should be run. I've often said before that most affiliates are not aggressive enough... they think prospects will be scared off if they email them once a week.

Well, I get emails from the big guys in the marketing business DAILY. Guys like Frank Kern, Ryan Deiss and Jeff Johnson clog my inbox up with their pithy and sometimes informative newsletters. And I send almost daily too to my list - been doing that for a decade or more. It's partly the reason I get between 300 and 600 new opt-in subscribers DAILY.

More is always better than less, because you never know whether one mailing will be blocked - yet another will get through to your prospects with a different set of trigger keywords.

Start by going to my Lotto Affiliate Center and sending out a newsletter from one of the prewritten texts there. Get more to write about by adapting my newsletter articles and send that to your list too. You have my permission - provided you credit me with the original text, and it is for my products only. Say something like "Silver Lotto System founder Ken Silver says that..."

But whatever you do, start your hustle... do it now!

I've also just added 3 ways to send the Rebrandable Report, "Lottery Secrets" to your prospects.

This is one of the most powerful methods to promote the Silver Lotto System because it gives your visitor valuable free info on getting more from the lottery.

It's only 5 paragraphs.

See it here: http://www.lottoaffiliatecenter.com/aff.php#rebrand

Happy Selling!
Ken Silver

3 Ways To Boost Your Lottery Affiliate Sales

Affiliates continue to make constant and growing incomes from selling the Silver Lotto System (35 commissionable products).

Here's a few success stories to get you going:

- The Silver Lotto System is currently 30,336 in ranking popularity at alexa.com - improved from 34,000 last month. This is despite only having 33 inbound links. And I query this link figure because a week ago I searched for the term "What's stopping you from winning the lottery right now?" (in quotes) which is a heading in one of my prewritten sales letters. Google shows 3,530 results - all inbound links. Add to that the thousands of blog comments and posts, and this figure of 33 is pathetically low by anyone's standard.

- Affiliate sales are rising. A small group made $ 21,000 in commissions (this is the amount they received in their bank account) earlier this year. 

- Of that $ 21,000 commission, a single affiliate made over $ 10,000 in a 4 day period. I'm not going to reveal how they did it, but you can be assured there were no secret methods. It was a standard mail-out to a responsive audience. One of the beauties of the Silver Lotto System website is that it is current - I have July's winning tickets on display there now - and appealing with plenty of graphics and follow-up facts. 

- While I can't give away my detailed figures, the conversion rate for the Silver Lotto System is higher than most products of its type. It has been as high as 23% in one day, based on the several hundred opt-ins we get each day for my newsletter.

Here's some ideas on how to improve your own commissions:

#1. If you have a mailing list, use the prewritten sales letters at the Lotto Affiliate Center. They are proven to work and you don't have write a word yourself.

#2. Mail your list frequently using some of the testimonials at my main site: http://www.silverlotto.com. Testimonies are a powerful drawcard and you can easily use several for any time of the year. Also use these in a sidebar in your ezine so you can place them every issue. Remember - it takes many exposures to catch your audience because they may not always be receptive to you. They may get interrupted while reading, they may not believe the testimonials, they may have 'word-blindness' to certain ads. But with constant exposure you WILL catch them at a time when they are responsive. I resisted a flashing ad for several years until curiosity made me click on it yesterday. Can you imagine many of your readers resisting for that amount of time? They do. But persistence pays! 

#3. If you don't have a mailing list, write articles. There are several posts in my Silver Seller blog on how to do this, and one that shows most of the process is here: http://silverseller.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-successfully-use-articles-to.html

Remember, to get top results as an affiliate you need to do massive...

- Volume

- Frequency.

Write and post a lot, and do it often. There is no secret formula other than spreading the word (with your affiliate link) as far afield as you can, as frequently as you can.

I have written daily newsletters for many years before the big boys in internet marketing started doing the same. Frank Kern, Ryan Deiss and others now put out daily emails, but a year or two back they did very little. If the masters of the art of selling follow my example, you should copy them too. It is the same as writing articles - you get an accumulated growth pattern with each one as the readership climbs over time.

Happy Selling!
Ken Silver

Which Is Better - A Big Chomp, Or Small Bites To Make Your Affiliate Fortune?

I want to give you a couple of things to think about over the weekend...

First, we are breaking a few traffic records.

Our rank on Alexa.com - out of the whole interweb - is 33,908. That's our place in the world.

Pretty good huh? It's getting closer to the magical 10,000 rank I'm looking for this year.

What it means is that people are looking for my products, and if you're an affiliate with a number of articles in the market, life should be looking good for you.

Affiliates can make an astonishing amount of dolllars from promoting my systems.

One guy made over $10k in less than 4 days earlier this year. (And yes, the 'k' means it's ten thousand)

Another small group of affiliates made over $21k in just over a week around the same time.

It's all detailed here on my Silver Seller blog and affiliate website.

Perhaps you haven't thought of yourself as someone who could 'sell' anything.

Well, you don't have to.

Because I provide everything you need to make the process virtually fully automatic. 

I have a fully featured website packed with workable info so you can easily start as an affiliate.

What I wanted to tell you in this article is why you need to consider my system instead of the huge number of other affiliate products out there... some of them selling for big dollars and giving huge commissions.

You see, a lot of would-be affiliates are interested only in expensive products.

They may have heard a common saying which said, "it's just as easy to sell an expensive item than it is a lower-priced one."

Well, that's outright wrong.

In the real world it doesn't work that way.

Because the higher the price, the more discerning and picky the buyer.

And the more barriers to the sale. Because high-end buyers:

- Take longer to buy.

- Are more choosy about item branding, performance and quality.

- Want more more guarantees.

- Will be quick to return it if the product doesn't meet their expectations.

We're talking about high-priced items like tv's, phones, expensive courses in stock picking and forex, and so on.

The thought of getting a $1,000 commission for one item is appealing.

But it is harder to make a sale in the expensive fields than anywhere else.

Because people spending the big bucks aren't silly.

For a start they will probably want to deal with the principals - directly with the sellers - instead of any middle dealer.

Certainly no novice will be able to come along and expect to be taken seriously.

That's why the majority of folk don't make a dime when they pitch the high-end stuff. They don't have the authority, and can't follow up.

So what's the answer?

Forget the big chomp - the high-price items.

Go for many little bites... dozens of smaller sales that make up the same amount.

You'll still eat the apple, but it will be easier going and your income will be far more reliable.

For example, even though I have many affiliates, I walk the talk... I practice what I preach.

I do myself what I show you.

And as a result I get a huge income.

My accountants recently looked at my figures over the last 5 years and said, with some astonishment: "Ken, you've got a JOB!"
What they really meant was that my sales and income were so regular, it was LIKE working in a job.
Of course, my independent business is no job.
For example, I can do whatever I want.
I've just spent 10 minutes looking out of my office window at a commercial chopper. It has been flying earthmoving equipment from the top of the hill near our home, to a point further down the valley.
And it's been flying just a couple hundred feet away from my home office. So close I can see the pilot talking as he leans out the door looking down at his cable.
As an ex-helicopter pilot myself with training in heavy lifting, I was interested in his technique.
But I couldn't spend that time gazing out the window in any job. 
I'd be ordered back to work pronto.
After the flying show I made myself a coffee and settled back to finishing this article.
I love this life!

Join me, it just doesn't get any better than this.

Look, you need just 2 conditions to get growing sales commissions in the real world:

Low Price + Quantity.

A low purchasing cost means that the item will sell quickly. 

And the more you sell, the more reliable your income will be.

So how do you make a decent living selling many low priced items?

Mass merchandising is the secret. This means getting your message about the product out to as many eager ears and eyes as you can.

It can be as simple as going to any blog or forum that allows you to leave a URL, and making a detailed comment.

If you provide enough info, curiosity and authority, your comment or reply will attract interest.

And when you push through dozens or hundreds of these comments and posts a day, you will quickly gain critical mass.

Sales will start and never stop, because your comments are constantly up there in front of many eyes.

Or you can give away a bonus. Millionaire marketer Jeff Johnson is an expert on making bonuses to attract sales.

And this gets him to the top of the pyramid where he's often breaking sales records for the product in the process.

You could be one of my top Silver Sellers.

It just requires a little work in the right direction.

And it could be one way of earning enough each week to pay for your game.

Or you could be earning more like some of my top affiliates so that you can give up your dead end job and enjoy real freedom.

First thing to do is to buy my system. 

That way you'll know what you're talking about when you start to promote it.

Then take the first bite...  sign up at http://www.silverlotto.com/affiliate-sign.htm.

It's free, and there's a bunch of useful info there.

Then you could be spending your day looking at pretty helicopters while the money rolls in!

Happy Winning!

Ken Silver

The Truth Behind Overnight Success

I've just been reading about author Amanda Hocking, who is making $250,000 a month from a collection of novels she sells through Amazon Kindle.

Most of her books sell for under two dollars each. Last month she sold 450,000 copies which brought her in half a million dollars for the month.

Nice work if you can get it! So I spent a couple of minutes looking into her background. It's no surprise to find that she's been writing for over 20 years and has another dozen books in the pipeline.

What this tells us is that she works hard, and she spent a lot of time apprenticing before she hit the big time.

In other words, it was no overnight success.

This is how you should approach your own affiliate project. At the start of your lotto affiliateship you'll spend a lot of time pounding out articles. You'll need to do 5 to 10 a day.

It seems a lot, but as you add them to your ever-growing list of finished work, they'll start to attract readers. And if you've written useful articles that help people, your readership will grow.

Another point - it's far easier to write a number of 5 minute articles than to spend three months full-time finishing a novel. An article is something you can fit in a few spare minutes of your day, and you can write it on anything... your laptop, iPad, or at a pinch, your iPhone.

And along with increasing readership from your articles, comes increased sales.

I believe articles are the ultimate marketing tool. Start today by looking back at the posts on my Silver Seller blog at 

http://silverseller.blogspot.com/ and get building your own article empire.

It won't happen overnight, but it WILL happen!

Happy Winning!

Ken Silver

How To Make More Money From Silver Lotto System Promotions

January was the best month we've had for 2 years. Congratulations if you were part of this record-breaking start to 2011. 

As I analyse the figures to see where the sales came from, I can see the traditional forms of promotion are still making up the majority of sales: Mailing lists, Articles and Banners.

Of these, lists have been good for one-off promotions - so if you have a responsive list, you'll do well promoting my systems to your prospects -

while articles have provided the bulk of consistent sales.

Here's a couple of tips:

TIP 1: List owner? Reduce the interval between promotions to your list. 

Many list owners make the interval between promotions too long. If you haven't written to your list in over 2 weeks, do it again. I write daily promotions in the form of newsletters, and I promote my products in EVERY one of them. Each time I get a 100%-2500% sales increase over and above my auto-responder series.

So reduce the time between promotions. Doing this is effective because many people won't read your emails each time for different reasons: either they were busy and missed it, or a couple of words sent it to their spam folder, or the title was a put-off for them. There are hundreds of reasons why your prospect fails to see it.

You need to try many times to eventually blanket-cover your whole list. Remember, you're helping them... every email that presents a different viewpoint of my system will give the prospect more confidence in the products. You are doing them a service by adding to their knowledge base, and being clued-up always helps them to act quickly and with less buyer's remorse.

Increase your promotional frequency and get more sales.

TIP 2: 

If you're writing daily articles for directories, then keep going, you're on the right track. It's the most effective long term form of promotion you can do, and it costs virtually nothing but your time. 

After all, that's what I do each day with my newsletter to my list of over 100,000 opt-in subscribers (106,496 today), and I get a huge buying response each time without necessarily 'selling' anything. 

Look back at the articles on my Silver Seller blog (http://silverseller.blogspot.com), and read the section at  my Lotto Affiliate Center (http://www.lottoaffiliatecenter.com/aff.php#rewrite).

And don't forget the affiliate secret: Relentless Focused Action!

Happy Winning!
Ken Silver

This Current Lottery System Sales Period Is Strong - Don't Slacken Off!

I've been reviewing our sales for the last 3 years at this time (Jan/Feb period), and we broke records each time. 

That post-Xmas period for those past 3 years has been among the highest accelerating all-time figures we've seen.

So, don't slack off right now because you think everyone is 'spent out.' As I mentioned in the last post, sometimes the most unexpected spending patterns are normal! This month and next are gold for you.

When I talk promotion, I'm referring to those who have a list to market to, or banners to promote. If you're still thinking about getting into article promotion, there is a lag before your sales start to move. But when they do - they're strong and consistent, I can assure you!

So get started now, your timing will never be better.

Happy Selling!
Ken Silver

Did You Make $21,000 Last Week As A Lottery Affiliate?

Think times are tough and people have run out of money right now?

Well, consider this: in the first week and a bit of this new year, 2011, a small, select group of affiliates made over $21,000 direct to their bank account from selling my products. In fact, just a few active affiliates made 95% of that amount, while 5% made up the rest. 

That's nearly $30,000 in sales in 7 days, and it doesn't even start to touch the coming commissionable upsells and aftersales products.

It goes to show what a concentrated effort can do - even when Xmas is over and we think people's pockets are empty.

It's important not to make assumptions about the time of year or the impact of your efforts at any time of the year:

- People will buy any time they think a product will help them. They might either be desperate, or they might be disbelievers willing to give your product a try. Get them at the right time - that's any time - and a percentage will buy. That is why you have to keep promoting every day of the week.

- People will buy from any country in the world, at any time. Want to mail out on a national holiday in your country? Do it... I've proved orders will continue to flow in round the clock because many of our customers will be in different time zones. Don't take any notice of the experts that tell you exactly when you should email, like the popular 9am on a Monday - because you never know WHERE your next customer is coming from. That Yahoo or Gmail address may be Europe - a completely different day and time. And a Monday in one country will be a Sunday in another, and both days might work for sales. Don't be time-tempted.

- People buy for reasons you will never figure out. They might buy because they are flush with cash and can afford it - or conversely because they don't have any money and want to earn more. You should never try to second-guess your market. Just power through regardless. With enough output (promotion) there will be enough input (sales)!

This year is my 20th year selling the Silver Lotto System. I started in 1991 on a part-time basis by direct mail, and it was several years before I put any effort into selling it properly. The common factor over the years is first - the growth we've had, now in the multi-milllions in sales, and second - how little we've touched in our market.

So this year I will strongly be promoting the fact we are 20 years old - because longevity in business is a definite bonus for sales. 

As an active affiliate you should see an increase in confidence and sales... and both are good for your pocket!

Happy Selling!
Ken Silver