Affiliate Marketing blogs seem to be hot lately. Scott Jangro is looking for your affiliate marketing blog to add to his Google Reader: Have You Got an Affiliate Marketing Blog? and Affoogle.com is building a search engine with them! See the list of current blogs here: Affoogle Listed Sites. And I have to mention my [...]
Because I’m not a coder, I have to dig around looking for tools and tweaks that are publicly available and then bend & twist them to my will.
Here’s an eBay workaround I’ve found that helps make affiliate life a little easier:
Install and activate the firstRSS WordPress Plugin. This will allow you to display RSS feeds [...]
Ad Management Plugins
AdRotator: Displays an advertisement (which is randomly selected from a group of advertisements specified in a text file) at your chosen location. Also see: How To Display AdSense & Yahoo Publisher Ads Using AdRotator Plugin for WordPress
aLinks: Takes a set of phrases you commonly use and turns them into links whenever you include [...]
While at work last week a co-worker and I were talking about testicular torsion and wondering what it was exactly and how it could happen. Two gals with inquiring minds. Don’t Ask.
She loaded a search engine page and start searching for answers. After watching her go through the first few results and getting some info, [...]
The web is a wacky, wonderful place to hang around and carve out your own space. But part of the deal is this: Crazy People.
You know that part of your newsletters where you list your physical address (for Can-Spam compliance) and even the information listed on your whois? Check this out:
Dont Publish Your Physical Address!
It [...]
First I’ll say I have a smidgen of affiliate sites still doing ok in both Yahoo! and MSN (for the time being). Never have I done well in Google. With the latest Yahoo! update knocking out some of the power keyphrases I used to rank well in, I’ve been doing some investigating.
Going through some old [...]
So yeah. One site of mine got booted, and booted HARD by Yahoo’s latest update last week. The site enjoyed some nice top 10 keyword phrase rankings so the traffic loss is going to hurt my wallet by several hundred dollars per month. Remember I’m a small fry. So the loss is Not. Nice.
Part of [...]
I was hanging around WebmasterWorld for a bit the other day and stumbled across a thread 3 steps to making more money via Affiliate Marketing. Great thread!
I used that information to pull together this short list for myself:
Online Focus For Income Growth & Success
Increase Traffic & Traffic Channels (ppc, newsletters, advertising, etc.)
Increase Commission Rate [...]
Affiliate Site Focus Project
Traffic: 4654 Unique Visitors
Affiliate Earnings: $745.48
Increase From May to June: $267.52
Earnings per Unique Visitor: $0.16
Up .04 from May
*Remember this is not ppc or paid traffic. Just organic search and link development
I had a nice enough monthly income increase for this site, but overall my monthly earnings were only up by $140. Some [...]
Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is poverty, Africa, homeless people, abandoned children, street kids. Plenty of overwhelming things. Maybe it’s all the media focus lately on Angelina Jolie (gotta admit–love her or hate her–she does raise awareness to issues).
Just wondering if anyone is doing or has thought about creating a site or [...]
