Month: May 2009

New contest! Win a free professional guest post for your site

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Anyone who knows me will know I love contests, so here is my latest and greatest contest. I will award 3 winners a guest post to use on your site, the winners will be drawn at random and will be notified in a follow up post on this site. The post can be about any topic related to marketing, SEO, affiliate marketing, Internet marketing, site design, hosting, optimization etc (basically anything somewhat related to the topics you read here) Guest posts are a great way to get content on your site, provide your audience with another source of information and you show your participation within a community. By partnering and participating with people who have sites similar to yours, you can open up[…]

If you mask affiliate links, block them with robots.txt

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Anyone that uses affiliate programs to make money online should know the benefits of masking your affiliate links. If you are promoting or selling multiple products having links that look like blah.blah.te.dah.com/purchase.php?productid=1&affiliate=bob not only looks terrible but it also exposes your affiliate id to your site readers, opening you up to click theft and it makes the links much more difficult to insert into your content and so on and so forth. Additionally, if you are interested in tracking statistics for your affilaite programs using masking allows you that option as well[…]

How to choose the best niche market

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Before you attempt to choose the best niche market for your affiliate or internet marketing business it is best if you understand what a niche actually is. A niche market is a small, specific segment of a larger market that is usually created by the needs or wants of individuals or businesses in which there is a lower level of competition when compared to the larger markets scope. Ideally developing a strong niche will allow your offerings to be more directly tailored to a specific demographic than the offerings of your competitors.

So, how does one go about picking the best niche market to work within? There are several ways to accomplish this, one of these options could be to find something that you are personally[…]

Blind pimping, bubble headed arrogance and ego’s abound

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I am generally very calm, collected and level headed, but when I see enough of the same ol same ol I eventually get to the WTF threshold as I have recently. Everyone knows, or if you are very new to affiliate marketing you will soon know, one of the best ways to make money with affiliate programs is to promote those products, write reviews and encourage your readership to order as many wuzzles and widgets as possible, netting you the fabulous commission for that sale.

Recently I have been scanning my usual run of sites that I choose to read regularly and I’ve about had enough. Seeing someone promote something with an almost unaltered copy of the promotional materials as supplied by the original author, seeing the same images, the same words and often times the same witty, semi-informative “review”[…]

Made a new plugin, giving it away for free

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Hey everyone, if you happened to read my previous post about people selling stuff and not keeping their copyright date updated you will know where the idea for this plugin came from. So anyhow, I made a plugin that handles all this for you, simply upload it, activate it and follow the included instructions and it will automatically keep your footer (or anywhere else you want it) copyright date updated based upon the dates of your posts, so if you made your first post in 1982 (when you were partying like it was 1999) and your most recent post is of course this year, this plugin will[…]

Selling something? Don’t be an idiot and make this mistake

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In order to be continually successful in Internet marketing, as with any other profession, you need to keep on top of your stuff. Something that I see entirely too often are individuals that develop something, promote it, start selling it and then they put it on auto pilot and expect to sit back on their rear, do nothing and watch the millions roll in, well, this is NOT the right way to do it[…]