I had a note asking me what I mean when I talk about ‘content sites’ vs. sites built around affiliate products. It’s a good question and I’ll tell you what the method to my madness is and why I feel there’s a big difference in results for both.
There are various types of websites you can [...]
Ok everybody–hold your breath! Cross your fingers! And whisper quietly for the next three days [[pretty please]].
Last month (March) I had my highest earnings for aff commissions. Sweet! And to show me it wasn’t a fluke–this month is *teetering* on the same dollar line.
Two things are driving me *crazy* while I’m stats stalking:
Number [...]
Number 1 on my To Do List when I finally start launching my own commercial products: Offer lotsa lotsa bloggers in that niche freebies. I’ve said it before: You just can’t buy that kinda buzz on ppc.
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If you have a blog want to submit your blog for free, please [...]
Working with your own numbers, not the merchant’s or network’s displayed EPC, but your own stats, you see:
Merchant A
5000 Clicks
200 Sales
$2000 Total Commissions
Your EPC= $0.40
Merchant B
5000 Clicks
40 Sales
$2250 Total Commissions
Your EPC = $0.45
Merchant A flips the sales as easily as flipping your hair back. Darn these guys are good and they know what they’re doing, [...]
I finally got accepted into a merchant’s program that I’ve applied to off and on over the past two years. Something about ‘not enough traffic’ being an Issue. Darnit. But I never gave up.
Never harrassed, just kept poking in those apps every now and again. Finally success! And at the beginning of the month [...]
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I’ve tried plenty of things to keep my notes and resources organized, searchable and right at my finger tips:
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EverNote
Email Storage
Those are just off the top of my head, I’m sure I’ve tried a few more. They all lacked in some way. Too complicated. Search function not the best. Too messy. [...]
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Now this is something I didn’t know:
Many people choose to save files on their desktop because they are easily accessible. However, what they may not know is that there are certain risks associated with this practice - the biggest one being that you increase the chances of losing your files.
Source: Lockergnome
Yikes! I keep *a lot* [...]
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I have 5 blog posts coming, one for each day of the week filled with links from my latest collection of bookmarks. Yes, the messy bookmarks job has been tackled. I’m embarrassed of how many I accumulated before cleaning them out.
I decided to split them up into 5 days worth of posts because there are [...]
Someone sent me a note after reading yesterday’s blog post. She’s discouraged and upset and is starting to pull all the affiliate products on her websites and replacing them with adsense.
I realize that when it’s come to your attention that some may consider you as dead weight in a program if you’re not the top [...]
A post over at Revenue’s shows a great flip in perspective from a post I made the other day.
Revenue’s post: Mundane Affiliates to Avoid
Beyond the small group of poisonous partners out there, the majority of those who are unwanted are non-performers. The industry talks openly talk about the 80/20 rule, whereby 80% of revenue is [...]
I use all kinds of free online webmaster tools. And I like the freebie seo tools too. But I’ve never felt *all-that-comfortable* about doing so.
With a free seo tool being released every time you turn around lately, and some of them darn interesting and useful too, I have to wonder what that gig is all [...]
Check out Simply Google.
How beautiful is that page? Clean as a whistle, useful, functional, complete and neat-o.
Makes me want to do something nicer for the bookmark pages here.
I’m still mapping out my own personal and private portal/web control center and that page just gave me some great ideas. Love it!
And it’s riding high in del.icio.us.
Does [...]
I received a note asking me why I wanted to stay away from adwords/PPC, adsense and the rest for growing my income online.
I won’t get into my distaste for adsense and my conviction that it’s going to burn a lot of webmasters in the end (opinion only of course) because I think it gets tiring [...]
Sometimes I wonder how an online merchant survives when nearly all of their sales result in refunds (two sales stuck for the past year, that’s it).
How do they pay their hosting fees? How do they cover the costs associated with doing business online? And how can they possibly still be accepted and operate in [...]
At the end of February I made a post (I Suck At SEO, Now What?) that drew a couple comments from Empress and Digger.
Basically the post was about not needing big traffic numbers nor top 10 Google rankings to earn a bit of money online. Several minisites with small income can and does add up [...]
Wil and I are having a discussion over at his blog FreeCashSpace about elitism rearing its ugly self in the blogosphere.
And I had a brilliant idea. Really Really Brilliant.
I’d like to see a Z List Meme Tracker, something along the lines of TailRank that tracks what’s happening in the Z List Blogging World.
Here’s why [...]
So much discussion lately about websites that perform better if they’re ugly. I won’t post a big long spiel for once (hooray!), but just jot down a few of my own notes:
If you are an adsense focused website, making your site so unattractive and filled as much above the fold as possible with adsense works. [...]
Last week I was at work checking out a few different products to buy and decided I would make an ebook purchase when I got home. I set aside two links, one the affiliate page that recommended the ebook, the other was the product home page (no affiliate link).
When I got home I clicked the [...]
I’m a big fan of Martha Stewart’s. Yup I am!
I think she’s a kick-butt business person and have followed her for years (I have a personalized autographed photo from her too! :lol:).
Not to mention every single Martha Stewart magazine (ok just up to year 2005–I’m running out of shelf space!).
But horror of all horrors, [...]
It’s funny. When I get a jump in online income, I normally know why. It’s because I did ‘this’ or I did ‘that’. I know what I need to do to gain targeted traffic for each of my sites. I know what’s working for Site A and what isn’t working for Site B.
So why [...]
