How Not to Get Banned by Google As with all search engine marketing and optimization promotion, there are countless techniques and manners in which to drive sales, traffic, and business to your affiliate’s site(s). One of the most useful and most cost effective pieces to the successful SEO of your affiliate’s site is the creation of an affiliate blog. Easy to set up and easy to maintain, your affiliate blog is a great way to gain incoming links and drive traffic; but like all means of inter...

SEO: The Five Most Important Tips to Remember SEO or Search Engine Optimization can seem like an intimidating venture if you are either new to marketing your own website or have in the past used SEM firms to handle your website. In either predicament, the internet is and will be your best venue for selling your products and/or services in the short and long term future success of your business. This is why it is absolutely crucial to start doing your research and updating your SEO knowledge now...

SEO vs. SEM: What’s the Difference? If you’ve had any access to the internet in the past 15 years, you’ve at least heard of-if not used and researched-SEO or SEM. Few people, however, understand the difference between the two. Many understand that it is the single most important tool on the internet to successfully marketing your business, but what are the key differences and how does this relate to your specific business’ needs? First off, understanding what marketing for the internet...

I just saw this story on yahoo and just had to share it with my readers, in case you missed it.  You can check it out here.   And yes, that number is correct.  This guy named Steve Demeter was just your average Joe who had a nack for developing simple video games.  Well we all know how popular all of those Ipod games are and he targeted the fire out of that niche. Steve and his small low-budget studio at Demiforce began making a game for the Ipod called Trism.  It is a color-matching, block...

Often we as marketers just want to find a niche or sub-niche or sub-sub-niche that absolutely NO one has discovered before.  We get that twisted smile on our faces and that twitch in our eye just thinking about exploiting a niche that is untapped.  But what about the competition?  Do you purposely avoid niches or markets that have what seems like too much competition?  Why here is why I think every internet marketer and affiliate marketer should just love competition instead of running away ...

Believe it or not, eBay is still a goldmine for bloggers, even after being around for a while and even if many bloggers don’t even realize it.  The easiest and best way to make money with ebay on your blog is to use an RSS feed. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and what it does is make a live feed of current ebay auctions that are going on and it will automatically update itself.  And it really is pretty simple to put an ebay RSS feed on your blog too.  You will need some space ...

We will see how this works.  This is a wordpress plugin that is supposed to update my twitter page every time I make a post, and it’s supposed to do it automatically.  Well, I have heard of some people having some hard times with it.  Some said that it was updating twice and leaving 2 tweets, which may be fine for a canary but all that clutter on a twitter page could be bothersome. So inorder to see if this plugin really works or not I am going to have to make this test post, so sorry i...

This video will show you how easy it is to put a feed of live ebay auctions on your blog.  In the video I show you how to do it using a blogger blog, but you can put am Ebay RSS feed on any blogging software.  Enjoy, and let me know if you have any questions about how to do this. ...

Finding the perfect affiliate program really can make or break your online business.  No matter what kind of blog or website you have there is probably an affiliate program you can tag along with it, and it would be crazy to have a website and not promote at least one company that will pay you for any sales generated through your links. Not only are you helping out yourself and getting a nice little bonus check every once in a while but you are also informing your readers of some valuable infor...

We all made mistakes when starting off in affiliate marketing, but here are some common ones made by newbies who are trying to tackle affiliate marketing for the first time.  Many of these mistakes I made myself so I know first hand what it’s like.  Learn from these mistakes to make sure you DON’T fall into the same traps.  It’s a lot more fun to learn from other people’s mistakes than to make them yourself.  Wouldn’t you agree? 10 Mistakes Newbie Affiliate Mark...