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1 Month Old Site Lost It’s High Rankings
I’m sure many of you reading this have started a new site in the last few months. Now maybe your situation is different to mine but I’ve heard tales of this particular affliction hitting all fairly new sites after a short period. My new affiliate site over at www.barstoolsuk.co.uk had in the last month been [...]
Continue reading...Why Am I Still Waiting For My First Affiliate Sale?
17. February 2010
My new affiliate website has been online now for approximately two weeks. For those of you that are following my ‘How To Make a Money-Making Affiliate Website From Scratch‘ series, you’ll already be familiar with the site and the domain name I’m using. I want to open up today’s post with a couple [...]
Continue reading...How I Researched Keywords For My Affiliate Product
13. February 2010
Once I had chosen my product and had a gut instinct ‘feel’ for whether or not it had traction on the internet, the next obvious thing to do was to actually find out how many searches per month were being carried out for my product and what variations of it existed. The culmination of this [...]
Continue reading...3 Easy Steps to Improve AdWords Quality Score from 3/10
14. November 2009
If you refer to one of my earlier blog posts about opening up a new AdWords account and throwing the net large and wide from the off, you’ll see that I made some serious mistakes with that campain. The result was that all of my keywords, despite being in extremely tight AdGroups, were getting a [...]
Continue reading...Stop Poor AdWords Quality Scores Forever
8. November 2009
I set up a PPC campaign for a relatively competitive group of keywords this week (avge £2 per click, about 5m results, PPC ompetition of 8/10) and I was reminded of a very important rule to observe when setting up PPC campaigns with AdWords and, more specifically, what NOT to do when setting them up.
Continue reading...SEO for WordPress Sites
16. September 2009
I have chosen to make my affiliate sites using WordPress – it’s free and infinitely scalable – which is just awesome. I generally create them with custom themes that I have developed to suit each niche I’m working in. Whilst doing this, I have come across three distinct wordpress-related problems regarding SEO but thankfully, they’re [...]
Continue reading...£550 Commission Last Month but Now I’m Stuck!
16. September 2009
Last month I earned £550 commission from one of my sites through Commission Junction. I spent £200 on Google AdWords to make this money. Obviously that means that particular campaign made £350 gross profit. Now when I setup affiliate marketing campaigns, I like to try and keep them all distinct and transparent but this month [...]
Continue reading...Can this offer be for real? On-topic, quality links just $3 in any niche!
4. September 2009
I stumbled across a site today that I’d never come across before and was amazed at how easy they make building healthy backlinks for very little cost. Backlinks can be discreetly bought in any number of ways such as footer links, blog posts, article posts or any other well-respected means of building backlinks on any [...]
Continue reading...How do you Improve Quality Score when Promoting Affiliate Products
22. July 2009
When you use AdWords to promote affiliate products you have two choices on how you want to do it. The first is to link your text ad directly to the affiliate offer by putting your affiliate link in the destination url of the ad. The second is to direct traffic from the text ad to [...]
Continue reading...How To Track Which AdWords Keywords Convert to Sales via CJ
9. July 2009
I had a problem. I was pretty good at using AdWords and fairly new to promoting products via CJ. I knew that to understand my traffic and find out which PPC keyword terms turned into sales, I had to have some way of measuring them and here’s how I finally solved the problem…
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7. March 2010
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