The Internet Business Manifesto
Every now and again, something comes up that’s really good. It’s especially good if it’s free! This is a 33-page report called The Internet Business Manifesto. I found out about it from the Web Profit School forums, and many people there are singing its praises. If you’re on any of my mailing lists, I’ve already [...]
New affiliate management courses
Two affiliate management courses have recently been released. Please note that I have not purchased either of the two packages, so I cannot advise on the quality of either package: Anik Singal: The Affiliate Manager ($1,036.97 inc p&p) Russell Brunson and Stu McLaren: Affiliate Inferno ($1,522 inc p&p) Both courses include payment terms. Affiliate Inferno [...]
Socialize-It service removes ads
Jean-Philippe Schoeffel has removed advertising from his Socialize-It social bookmark directory service. The service provides links to popular social bookmarking sites, including Schoeffel’s new social bookmarking site soc.ialize.us. These links are automatically set to bookmark your site when clicked upon. If you’re interested in building your own social bookmarking site, Schoeffel has released a new [...]
Keyword Ranking in Free Search Engine Listings
Quality traffic generation is the “secret” to making money on the Internet, whether you monetise your website with contextual advertising, affiliate programmes, your own products, or a combination of the three. If you use pay-per-click advertising, quality traffic generation and ranking highly in search results is a breeze! Of course, it will cost you money. [...]
Commission Junction gets new links!
The day has come. Commission Junction now has new Javascript affiliate links in its interface. I took a quick look at the new interface. It was already possible to specify your source website, indicate that you wanted the link encrypted, set the link to open a new browser window and hide tracking code within the [...]
Google moving towards affiliate marketing
In this article on Seeking Alpha, it is revealed that Google is beginning to trial CPA ads (cost-per-action, otherwise known as affiliate marketing ads) on their network. At present, they have a beta programme underway. To use it, you have to be invited to participate. You will get greater flexibility to recommend the products than [...]
Promoting your site with your RSS feed
If you have an RSS feed on your site, there’s a really nice, easy way to promote it! I’ve just started doing it for The Affiliate Marketer ezine. Some email autoresponder services such as Aweber have the capability to take your articles from your RSS feed and automatically construct emails from them that are suitable [...]
AdSense Ad Blending
If you are one of the regular visitors to this site, you will undoubtedly have noticed the recent style changes made to it. These have been done to get my AdSense ads to blend into the site better, for the following reason: If you monetise your site with AdSense, Yahoo! Publisher Network or a similar [...]
Tag and Ping
One-way links are a powerful way of optimising your site, but unfortunately many of the techniques are open to abuse by spammers. Tag and Ping is the latest technique that is doing the rounds of Internet marketers at the moment. The details of the technique are apparently that you sign up with several accounts at [...]