March 2009

Affiliate marketing is a game of numbers. Every guru would tell you that. No matter how good your landing pages are or how much traffic you are driving to your website, if you are not constantly monitoring your numbers and improving every aspect of your website, you can’t expect to make any real money online. [...]

One of the biggest challenges that new affiliate marketers face is building their landing pages. I have heard from a lot of experts that you can make a lot of money from Google cash (direct linking). That may be true, but if you go in that route, you will be competing with top guns who [...]

To disclose or not to disclose, that’s the ultimate affiliate marketing question. A lot of affiliate marketers try to pull a fast one out on their readers and hide our affiliate links, thinking that their audience is not smart enough to figure out they are getting paid through our links. A lot of us fear [...]

Many of you know about the budget crisis that is going on in California. But no one is going to be affected more than affiliates once the latest tax bill gets approved. We all know what happened with Amazon and the state of New York. Commission Junction understands that there is a good chance this [...]

Tiered affiliate programs. Everyone loves them, but we don’t seem to have enough of them around. It’s one thing to make 10% for every sale that you deliver. It’s another thing to make 10% per each sale that your sub-affiliates generate. If you play your cards right and get enough affiliates to sign up under [...]

Super-affiliates keep telling you how you need to work hard and keep banging your heard against the wall to succeed. In truth, a lot of super-affiliates are not what they seem to be. In fact, they make most of their money from membership sites and courses that they sell folks who are desperate to succeed [...]

Every business has its pitfalls. Affiliate marketing is no different. If you are a newbie affiliate marketer, you are probably searching for offers that provide you with the biggest bang for the buck. It is a very good practice to test offers before committing too much effort promoting them. But many new affiliate marketers are [...]

Affiliate marketing is one of those fields that will always be recession proof regardless of what industry’s hit badly by an economic Tsunami. In fact, as times get tougher, one should expect companies to lay off their staff and take on more affiliates. Affiliate marketers act as a marketing extension for merchants. And while they [...]

If you have been to Fox News, MSNBC, or one of these top content sites, you have probably seen that ad which has Obama holding a check in front of his face. Obviously, the ad has been created that way to show Obama is giving money away to all of us. If you click on [...]

If you have been involved in the Internet industry, you have probably seen these courses on how you can make a million with PPC affiliate marketing fast. In essence, you see a “guru” who teaches you how to make money from PPC easily by doing proper keyword research and bidding on two million keywords. There [...]