Affiliate marketing can be quite challenging to figure out if you are just getting started in this business.  Newbies may find it difficult to figure out to set up their websites, find affiliate programs to work with, and optimize their websites for the search engines. When in doubt, your best option is to spy on [...]

So you work hard to earn as much money as possible from your affiliate accounts? When you have only 24 hours in each day with so much to do, it is easy to forget about those small things you need to do to take your business to the next level. Many affiliates assume that if [...]

I have seen many affiliates who are content with putting a bunch of banners on their websites and hoping for the best. Some more advanced affiliates use PHP scripts to A/B test banners but they stop there. All these approaches have major short-comings. Having a way to test multiple ads at once and track their [...]

Affiliate marketing is just like any other business. In order to build your small business into something special, you are going to need to work on it on a consistent basis. Newbie affiliates do make the mistake of relaxing as soon as they achieve some level of success. That could come back to haunt them [...]

SEO Smartlinks is quite popular among bloggers and SEO professional. It is a free and powerful WordPress plugin that can improve your website’s internal linking structure and help you increase your organic traffic and the amount of time people spend on your website. SEO Smartlinks Premium takes it a whole lot further by offering much [...]

Affiliate marketing is not as simple as some make it to be. It is more than just slapping products on your pages and cashing your checks at the end of each month. Just like any other business, affiliate marketers will have to keep track of their progress, manage their relationships with their partners, and approach [...]

I have met many affiliates who brag about running a profitable business from a free or close to free web hosting. Many cheap hosts offer their services for as low as a couple of bucks a month. You may be saving yourself a $1000 by going with a cheap web host, but it will come [...]

The tax time is getting nearer for all of us. Affiliates, bloggers, and online marketers need to pay taxes just like everyone else. The amount they pay depends on their costs, the amount of money made in a year, and their business structure. Not reporting your income to the IRS is a no no. But [...]

Clickbank is one of the best affiliate networks around. The majority of products in this network are informational products. The commission for such products are much higher. Most newbie affiliates promote these products through pay per click and reviews on their websites. Those tactics can pay off but it never hurts to pit Clickbank ads [...]

The best way to get started as an affiliate marketer is by studying what others have done and try to learn from them. Many newbies make the mistake of exactly cloning everything others are doing. That may work in the short term, but that is not how to build a business in the long term. [...]