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Understanding The Adwords Formula
2008-01-17 10:08:00 Lately, I've been obsessed with the Google Adwords Quality Score or Adwords QS system. Especially when considering very short tail keywords as discussed in my last post, it's important to educate yourself on what Google actually considers as quality when it comes to not just your landing page but also your very ad text and ... More About: Yahoo , Affiliate Marketing , Formula , Words
Affiliate Strategies: Few vs. Many
2008-01-16 20:55:00 Generally, stuffing as many keywords as possible into each ad group and campaign is thought to be the best practice. This is the exact reason we have such pervasive terms as 'keyword trimming' and the like. Essentially, you start with, say, 50,000 keywords and you run them for about a week. After a week, you ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate , Words , Strategies
How Are We Doing So Far?
2008-01-14 07:35:00 Just wanted to take a second and let everyone comment about what you like/dislike about the site and what we could be doing better. Personally, I plan to work on success stories and definitely add more tools to the mix. Aside from that, it's an open ground. Share This More About: Question
Great Book: Moonlighting On The Internet
2008-01-12 20:30:00 If you're just getting started with making money online, you're probably feeling a bit overwhelmed with all of the nonsense floating around the internet. Sure, there are hundreds of different ways that people claim you can make money, from reading emails, surfing the web for cash, or even taking surveys. The truth is, these ways might ... More About: Internet , Affiliate Marketing , Books , Review , Great
First $1600.00 Day Screenshot
2008-01-12 02:48:00 Click on the image to the left to get a close-up of my first $1600 day as an affiliate back at the end of November 2007. Not bad for a day's work and I ended up profiting more than 50% that day. This is an example of what can be done when you start ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Screenshot , Azoogle , Landmarks
Shoemoney SERPS Tool
2008-01-11 22:29:00 Have you ever found yourself wondering "on which results page will my domain pop up for this keyword?" Well, wonder no longer. I just found out today that Shoemoney has a nice little SERPS tool for free use on his site. Instead of giving you the page, it does you one better and gives you the ... More About: Tools , Affiliate Marketing , Tool
Spinning Offers For Valentine?s Day
2008-01-11 02:43:00 On Valentine 's Day, the Flowers niche will kill you in terms of saturation. So how do we get around the saturation for Valentine's day, when saturation is at its highest for the year? Well, we could use long tail keywords or bid low and hope for stragglers. Or we could use a different angle altogether. Lately (and ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Valentines Day , Offers , Spinning
Affiliates, Get Ready For Valentines Day
2008-01-10 09:37:00 Valentine's Day is right around the corner and if you're not preparing yourself to ride the wave of searches revolving around the holiday, you're simply going to miss out on money and we know that's never a good thing. All the major players in the game know you have to get started early and you have ... More About: Holidays , Affiliate Marketing , Valentines Day , Affiliates , Ready
Need To Get Ahold Of An Affiliate Manager?
2008-01-10 07:52:00 Just a quick note, for those of you who want to get in touch with an affiliate manager at any popular affiliate marketing company, check out the Affiliate AIM List (www.affaimlist.com). My Azoogle affiliate manager is listed on there along with some of the other best in the industry. Incidentally, you can also view the Skype ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Click , Manager , Bank
The Bill Manager - Monetizing An Already Good Idea
2008-01-10 00:34:00 My buddy Javier runs a site called The Bill Manager (http://www.thebillmanager.com) and the site does exactly what its name implies. You sign up, plug in your monthly bills and expenses and the site will email you with reminders. On top of that, it provides you with a clean looking calendar to look at on a ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Idea , Good , Monetizing
Affiliates, How To Use Aweber
2008-01-09 09:08:00 If you've noticed, I've been trying to drill into your head since day one that you should be using a mailing list on your websites to collect emails and so forth. Additionally, I've been trying to get you to sign up with Aweber. Well, now you have no excuse NOT to. Aweber is offering everyone a ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , How To , How-To , Affiliates , Weber
Azoogle Toolbar Not Working?
2008-01-08 16:27:00 I don't know why, but my Azoogle Toolbar hasn't worked in the past couple of weeks at work or at home. How am I supposed to track my every lead without my precious toolbar? Now before you go saying I'm technologically impaired, remember I am a web developer and a Cisco Certified Network Associate so ... More About: Tools , Affiliate Marketing , Working
110 Subscribers Can?t Be Wrong
2008-01-08 13:13:00 It just keeps getting better. Today, we have 110 subscribers and the number is growing. I haven't felt this good about something since Sitdiary began to take off back in 2001. Thanks again guys for the loyalty and feedback. As long as I keep finding it, I'll keep giving you the best affiliate info there is. Also, ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Wrong , Landmarks
Ask.Com Sucks For Affiliate Marketing
2008-01-08 10:19:00 In both my own experience and the experience of others, I have not found one successful example of Ask.com working for affiliate marketers. In fact, having spent over $500.00 with these guys, I am sad to report that I have made a big fat zero back on my investment. Just doing a small search yields some ... More About: Marketing , Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate , Sucks
Affiliate Marketing Goldmine - YouTube
2008-01-08 07:55:00 "Holy crap! Why didn't I think of this before?" is exactly what one might say if they hadn't thought of extracting the wealth of knowledge there is just laying in wait on YouTube . But you're not that guy because you already knew that, right? Of course! Well, even if you aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer, ... More About: Marketing , Youtube , Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate
My Favorite Affiliate Tools
2008-01-08 07:31:00 I've been thinking of writing a 'favorite tools' post for a few days now and after reading Shoemoney's "What is your edge?" post, I'm convinced the edge of this blog is to give out the top notch hints and tips for free. Essentially, I give you the information you'd normally pay $97 for from some guy ... More About: Tools , Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate , Favorite
What Affiliate Marketers Can Learn From Dave Chappelle
2008-01-08 04:51:00 For a while now, one of my favorite comedians has been Dave Chappelle . Perhaps it's the way he presents his comedy sketches. I'm not sure, but it just hits the right spot and it made me think of how his success translates well into our business. Don't Fear Starting Young Dave Chappelle started his comedy career in ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate , Mark Cuban
$100 RSS Contest
2008-01-06 12:21:00 In the last post, I talked about goals for the coming year. So I thought, why not knock a few out right off the bat? Let's make things interesting. I posted the contest on DigitalPoint here. Essentially, the only rule is that you must subscribe to the Feedburner Email Feed (On the right, under the Orange icon). ... More About: Contest , Contests
Affiliate Toolbox Resolutions - 2008
2008-01-06 11:29:00 I felt I should make a more official post about where we've been and more importantly -- where we're going. The Affiliate Toolbox got a late start in 2007 (November), but made some excellent progress. Not only did we surpass 50 RSS subscribers, but it wasn't just a fluke. The number is growing and I like ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Goals , Resolutions
Affiliate Toolbox New Theme
2008-01-04 19:24:00 Although I love the theme I was using, I was setting a bad example for all you new affiliates out there. So to rectify the situation, I've designed a whole new theme based on the old theme but this time, it takes much more advantage of its space for things like ads and linking to ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate , Theme , Toolbox
70 Subscribers and Counting
2008-01-03 12:20:00 Success! Today, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the FeedBurner chicklet update. We've reached 70 subscribers and that is truly a great feeling. I'm glad to know that the information I post here is helpful enough to people that they want to come back to find out what else there is to know, because ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Counting
December Recap
2008-01-03 02:52:00 Happy new year! It's officially 2008 and it's time for a recap of our first official month as a blog. As you probably know by now, the basic idea behind this blog is to help affiliates to make their first dollar and then to hold their hand until they can walk on their own. So why ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Recap , December
Keyword Tracking The Right Way
2007-12-30 10:04:00 To build on three previous posts Why Use Tracking Code, How To Put Tracking Code On Your Landing Page and How To Cloak Your Affiliate Links, the intention of this post is to inform you on how to track the keyword someone used to get to your site from a PPC (Pay Per Click) Ad, ... More About: Tools , Affiliate Marketing , How-To , Keyword
Affiliates, Be Inspired
2007-12-28 11:23:00 Here's one of my Azoogle screen shots from when I broke the $1,000 mark for a day back in October. I've since then kicked the ass of this screen shot, but the purpose behind this post is to show what is possible. I mean, I basically write this blog for the affiliates who either don't know ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Affiliates , Inspired
Affiliates, Be The Best Or Die
2007-12-27 10:45:00 Let's be honest for a second. Most people starting out in this business just won't stick with it for the long run. You'll have your people who quit when they don't make a sale right away, people who quit once they figure out they can make sales but it's not easy and then you'll have ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Affiliates
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
2007-12-25 22:27:00 Just wanted to wish everyone a merry Christmas today. I hope you all have a great day with family and friends, whether you exchange gifts or not. Share This More About: Holidays , Happy Holidays , Happy , Merry Christmas
Great Book: Small Is The New Big
2007-12-24 09:33:00 While we're on the topic of books, I just wanted to point out yet another great read you should get your hands on. My brother-in-law gave it to me as a gift and I'm still in the middle of reading it, but what I've learned so far goes extremely well with affiliate marketing. Regardless of the ... More About: Great , Book , Small
The Art of Affiliate Marketing War
2007-12-24 01:21:00 Last night, I was reading the Art of War as I was inspired by watching Wall Street to do so. In one particular scene, Gordon Gekko says: "I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought.." Now I don't ... More About: Marketing , Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate
Affiliate Toolbox Landmark
2007-12-23 09:59:00 I hope you're all having a great holiday. Mine has been pretty sweet so far. So the Affiliate Toolbox has officially surpassed the 50 mark when it comes to RSS Subscribers. I wasn't even paying attention to the count and when I saw it, I took a double-take. As it is my goal to provide serious ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Landmark
Affiliate Marketers: Mind Your Taxes
More articles from this author:2007-12-20 10:36:00 As you're probably aware, tax season is right around the corner and now is the time to get organized for your tax man if you aren't already. A while back, I posted a thread on Digital Point Forums asking those more experienced than I how to approach taxes as an affiliate marketer. You can read ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Taxes , Affiliate , How-To , Mind 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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