Best Practices

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”[…]

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[…]

How to start a profitable niche internet marketing business

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Niche marketing is about finding small areas or opportunities on the web where there likely could be interest, but web searches haven’t gone through the roof yet. For this purpose, we are going to focus on developing multiple mini-sites tailored to provide a specific demographic specifically what they are looking for and nothing else. Most big corporations and many experienced webmasters will steer clear of this because they aren’t important or profitable enough for them. However, if you are looking for a small business to start with, that can grow and evolve with you over time you may have[…]

Save heartbreak, check your domain before you buy

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You have developed your business model, set aside or acquired funding and set into motion the grandest of ventures ever known to mankind. You devote countless hours to your mission, tirelessly you plug away producing content and marketing your new site and often times working until 4am when you have to stop because your eyes a burning and your spouse is threatening to physically harm you if you don’t go to bed. Things are just starting to roll as you had hoped and dreamed, then something terrible happens.. Your fancy newSEO’d , keyword optimized, clean, beautifully designed content rich site is nowhere to be found on search engines, you know you have done your research and you should be owning your niche but nothing is there, no traffic, no results on the search engines so you start to cry and end up locking yourself in your bedroom drowning your woes with Diet Coke and Doritos, ending up broke, alone and 450lbs… Oh, why you say.. Why did this happen?[…]