Exact, Phrase and Broad Match the 3 Stooges of Keyword Research

December 18, 2009

This will be a really quick post, but I wanted to go over something I believe a lot of beginner affiliates, whether doing PPC or SEO, get wrong. That is the difference of keyword matches when using the Google Keyword tool. FIRST: If you’re not using the Google Keyword tool for all your keyword research [...]

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5 Tips for Curing Affiliate Analysis Paralysis and Self Doubt

December 16, 2009

One thing that causes a lot of affiliate marketers to stall and often become paralyzed in their marketing efforts is not knowing if what they’re doing is going to work or make them more money. We’ve all been there. I call it analysis paralysis and it happens to all of us. I always think back [...]

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Does Size Matter? Massive Traffic Doesn’t Mean Massive Income with Affiliate Marketing

December 15, 2009

I was reading another blog the yesterday and the author was asking for question about how he could help his readers with affiliate marketing. It just happened that I also had a conversation with a blog owner who is getting well over 5000 uniques a week and is making less then $1000 a year in [...]

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How Many Affiliate Programs Are Your Promoting?

December 14, 2009

One of the most frequent things I get asked by other affiliates is how they aren’t making any money. They are getting 500, 1000, 10,000 uniques a month their site but aren’t making more then what they feel is chump change. Each of these webmasters is suffering from one of 2 problems: Not really selling [...]

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When it Comes to Commissions – Size Does Matter, but Conversion is Everything

November 13, 2009

It can be easy for us as affiliate marketers to be attracted to shiny new things. For us those shiny new things might be a new method to generate traffic or master PPC, or a great new program that promises HUGE commissions. I’ve fallen into this trap more then once only to wake up and [...]

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Do You Know What You’re Doing Today? To-Do’s & Daily Goal Setting for Affiliate Marketing

October 22, 2009

It’s easy to feel we need to be doing 100 things in a day to feel we’re being productive when affiliate marketing. I know this because I fall into the trap of feeling if I don’t have a to-do list as long as a novel I’m not doing enough. I want to introduce you all [...]

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The Secret Link Building Sauce that Most Affiliate Marketers & SEO’s alike Don’t Know About

October 21, 2009

Long title for a really short post I promise! Do you do your own link building? Do your outsource link building? Do you have ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH LINK BUILDING? If so listen up… I’m going to share with you a very quick point of interest that I consider to be the “secret [...]

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Focus on the Things You Can Control

October 20, 2009

I’m as guilty as the next person of what I’m going to talk about in this post. Worrying, Focusing and wasting time on the things I/we cannot control in our affiliate marketing businesses. Affiliate marketing is just that “marketing”. It’s almost a science. You can test, tweak, measure and modify based on results. It’s a [...]

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What No One Wants to Tell you About Link Building

October 8, 2009

I wanted to write this post as a sort of silent response to the large number of membership sites out there now that claim to build you unlimited links. I’m not talking about those spammy systems that just swap hundreds of links with off topic sites… What I mean are those sites that allow you [...]

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Day 1: $10,000 Dollar Affiliate Goal

October 1, 2009

I just finished the first my real first day of work towards my $10,000 goal. If you’ve read my first post here then you have an idea about what I was starting off doing. Today was a day of setting up some tests in Google Website Optimizer as well as modifying some headlines, sub headings [...]

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