Archive for March, 2006

AdSense Firesale

This is important, because this is a limited-time offer, available until 5th April only. The price goes up each day, so the earlier you buy, the less you will have to pay to buy this product.

I’ve bought a copy of this product. You really get a silly amount of stuff with this purchase. You get 40 ready-to-roll websites that are search-engine optimised and you can use your own AdSense, ClickBank and Amazon UK and USA affiliate codes with! They contain ready-written articles. Not only that, but you get a copy of Article Twister to customise the articles, and Article Submitter and Blog & Ping to help get your sites into the search engines. There are a whole host of other bonuses supplied with the package, and it really has to be seen to be believed!

John Reese is a famous name in the web profit business, because he’s managed to make a mint out of just AdSense. Take a look at this video if you don’t believe me. I’m not saying you’re gonna make half a million dollars like John has with these sites, but it’s a start! It’s a way of getting your foot in the door. With time and effort, you should certainly be able to make enough money to live on!

New information: The package will include 100 additional PLR articles to be written in April. Also, it now includes a new video and E-Book on driving AdSense Traffic. These are not listed on the sales page. The LinksBro link management system is also included in the deal! This is also not listed on the sales page. Also, the product will now be available until 9th April 2006.

I have put up all of the sites now! You can see them at the DJT Engineer site.

I don’t want to hold you up any longer. The sales page really does speak for itself, no matter what price you end up paying for it. Even at the current price, as long as you’re prepared to take action, the product is very likely make you far more money than it costs. The developer uses them himself, and he says that he now gets about 2000 unique visitors a day from the search engines. Check out the AdSense FireSale now!

David Thomas, The Affiliate Marketer

Finding out ClickBank hoplinks

Let’s say you’ve stumbled upon a ClickBank product that you’d like to promote. You’ve been referred to the page, and you went there by following a redirected, cloaked URL. Without using special techniques to download the web pages that perform the redirect, how can you find out the vendor ID for the product so that you can promote it?

Let’s take the famous SEOElite as an example. The vendor ID is bryxen1, but pretend you don’t know that for the time being. How can you find out what the vendor ID might be, just from the vendor’s website?

Well, first, you need to note that there is a hyperlink at the bottom of the page, with the text “Get SEO Elite Now!” From the status bar, you can see that this will take you to another site in the SEO Elite website. Click on it.

You come to a page that has an order button. The text on the button reads “Click Here To Download SEO Elite Instantly!” This is obviously the button that you click on when ready to order the product.

Step 1 is to locate the order button on the vendor’s website.

You now need to view the source code of the web page, and search for the code that applies to the button. For this site, it’s simply a matter of searching for the text that appears on the order button. For other sites, the order button may be an image, and in that case you could locate text around the image. You can see the following hyperlink that appears in the order link:

http://www.clickbank.net/sell.cgi?bryxen1/1/SEOElite

The first parameter is the vendor ID that you need to promote the product! The other parameters are, I believe, the product ID (as a single vendor may sell up to 50 products) and the product name.

Step 2 is to look for the vendor ID in the URL that points to the order page.

It could be that searching for www.clickbank.net/sell.cgi is all you need to do. As ClickBank has changed over the years, I don’t know whether all sales page links look like this. However, you should be able to see the URL fairly easily using this approach.

Note that it’s possible that the vendor may cloak this URL, but it’s not very likely that they will do so. Only somebody with expert knowledge of ClickBank will use this technique to discover a ClickBank vendor ID.

David Thomas, The Affiliate Marketer

"Blogging To The Bank" Review

“Blogging To The Bank” by Rob Benwell is currently taking the world by storm after its recommendation in the Warrior forum.

The sub-heading is “How to earn $516.53 per day as a Blogging Super-Affiliate.” If you could do that, that would certainly give you a very decent amount of money; you’d be looking at annual earnings of US$188k.

Rob’s writing style is refreshingly down-to-earth. He begins by explaining what AdSense, affiliate programmes and blogs are. He then reports on how he stumbled upon the technique by getting his main blog with about 20 back-links ranked higher than his main site with about 1000 back-links for a specific keyword that his main site was targeting in MSN.

Then follows a seven-stage process to earning money with free Blogger blogs. In the first stage, he takes you through researching and selecting a market. He tells you about some free keyword-analysis software that will help you with this goal. He explains exactly how to find well-searched niches with little in the way of competition.

The second stage is all about how to create blogs using Blogger. He selected Blogger because he found that these blogs work best for getting listed quickly. He advises you on how to avoid getting your blog suspended, as many Blogger blogs are removed if they look like their main purpose is to get listed in search engines. Most importantly, he tells you about the appropriate settings to use in your Blogger blog.

The third stage details putting ads onto your blog. He shows you how to create banner ads if you need to, and how to insert them into your blog.

Stage four reveals how to write articles for your blog so that they will be picked up by the MSN and Yahoo search engines (he concentrates on these as it is easier to get listed in them than in Google), and tells you how to subcontract this stage of the process if you’re not very good at writing.

Stage five is an introduction to the internal search engine optimisation you need to do to get ranked highly in the search engines, and is probably sufficient for the purpose. He teaches you how to write the articles with the search engines in mind, but also with the proviso that people will be reading the articles so they must read well.

Stage six talks mainly about the external optimisation that you need to do; how to get links back to your blog, and similar. Some of these techniques are legitimate, above-board optimisation strategies; others are termed “black-hat” and will get you into the search engines quicker and possibly with a higher rank, but may also get you removed from the listings when your site is discovered. He does tell you that this is the case.

Stage seven basically tells you to “rinse and repeat,” so the process is really a six-stage process. He does tell you how to check on your rankings in the listings, but that’s fairly obvious.

You also get a list of 1,000 highest-paying AdSense keywords, and an update that details a very sneaky way of getting lots of relevant back-links to your site!

In my own opinion, I have found it easier to rank for keywords in MSN than Google, but for some reason I don’t get anywhere with Yahoo. This may be the reason that Rob uses Blogger blogs; perhaps it’s generally a problem to get ranked in Yahoo if you’re using WordPress as your platform. I can certainly see potential in the technique, but I also see that you are at the whim of the search engines. You need to be careful to research the topics that you can list for, in my opinion. Having said that, with the volumes of searches he discusses, I believe that US$500 per day is certainly possible using the techniques, but you will have to work hard at it! If you’re interested in Blogging To The Bank, here is the sales page.

David Thomas, The Affiliate Marketer

Free AdWords Keyword tools

If you’re just getting started in affiliate marketing, chances are good that you’ll want to keep costs to a minimum.

Keywords Enhancer is a free keyword analysis tool, somewhat along the lines of Ad Word Analyzer and KeyWords Analyzer, but less powerful. However, it’s very good for starting out, and if it had been around at the time I purchased both products, I probably would have found it powerful enough for my needs!

There’s also a free product called AdWords Wrapper that takes your keywords and adds surrounding square brackets and/or quotes, ready for use in the Google AdWords interface. You need to sign up to receive a newsletter to get it.

David Thomas, The Affiliate Marketer

WordPress Automatic Posting SQL Errors

I’ve been having problems with automatic posting on WordPress 1.5.2!

My new Clickbank News service requires automatic posting to work with this WordPress site. I was getting SQL errors that prevented posts from being applied.

I did a bit of research, and I found out that the problem was caused by apostrophes not being escaped. They should be preceded by a backslash before being submitted to the MySQL database.

The problem was easy to fix. To replicate my fix, look for the line that begins:

$post_data = compact('post_content' ...

Add the following two lines before it:

$post_content = addslashes($post_content);
$post_title = addslashes($post_title);

If you prefer, you can download my modified version here, but you need to add the hyphen back into the filename when you’ve finished downloading it:

Replacement wp-mail.php

David Thomas, The Affiliate Marketer

Big drop caps

Just a quick tip I heard about on WPS. You can put a big drop cap in as the first letter of your posts on your WordPress blog by using the following plugin:

Increase Blog Readership 13% By Changing One Letter

Whether it actually increases the blog readership by 13%, I doubt, but it certainly looks good, and I’ve used it on one of my other sites. Maybe I will use it here someday!

David Thomas, The Affiliate Marketer