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So, I’ve loaded up my first campaign and have some early results.  Actually, I loaded it up a few weeks ago and got a little gun shy before pulling the Adwords trigger.  Basically, I was distracted and came back to it.  Interestingly, I’m actually seeing some organic traffic right in my keyword wheelhouse and it’s converting at about [...]

Amit over at SuperAffiliateMindset is authoring a three part series titled “Why 2% of Affiliates Rake in 95% of the Profit…“.  I just finished reading the first installment.  The series is free (as in beer) and the first installment offers some great insight into creating the right mindset to ignite your business growth.

I’ve been running BlogRush on my site for the past two weeks. BlogRush has positives and negatives. The biggest positive is getting your content syndicated across a large number of sites with related content. The biggest negative is that the system is open to being gamed.
If you haven’t tried BlogRush, it’s a [...]

I’m a relative newcomer to affiliate marketing from scratch. My day job has allowed me to monetize a well established site in a very specific niche — a niche we dominate. I’ve never really had to build from the ground up on my own. I have all of the requisite skills both from the publishing [...]

It occurs to me that targeting seasonal niches might be an interesting long haul strategy.  I’m curious how much optimization effort would be needed when you ramp up again the following year.  I can see where simply dusting off a campaign could be a really fun way to keep it interesting while at the same [...]

I’ve been a card member for twelve years or so and I’ve always appreciated Amex’s customer service and card offerings. A couple years ago, I switched to One from American Express for my personal expenses. The rewards are straight-forward. One percent of your purchases will be deposited to a high yield savings [...]

Everybody and I mean everybody is talking (or tweeting) about Twitter.  I swear, I just didn’t get it.  But, the talkers kept on talking, the bloggers blogging and I finally gave in.  I just Twittered my first tweet a few minutes ago.
At its most basic, Twitter just asks you to answer the simple question, “What [...]

I wrote about the importance of a favicon for your blog or Website and how to get one, but left a crucial piece of the puzzle out. Want to use your own favicon on Blogger or another blog hosting service?  If you have access to a server or image sharing account, it’s pretty easy.
Just edit [...]

Follow Google Trends and you’ll notice something interesting. The stuff people are Googling today is ripped from the headlines and enterprising bloggers are taking advantage of this by posting on the same subjects/keywords as they happen. The result? Instant, albeit short-lived, traffic.

As I continue to work on driving traffic to my various projects, sometimes I [...]

If you are a subject matter expert, it’s time to fire up your favorite editing application and write an eBook.  eBooks are a great incentive to get visitors to your site to subscribe to your blog, newsletter, etc. in exchange for a free informative eBook.
Trouble is, if you don’t have Adobe Acrobat (the full version not the [...]