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Guaranteed Way to Get 100% Adsense CTR! I’m Rich BIAAATCH!

Bit of a fun post from ‘the kid’ @ big cock marketing! (lol @blogname) . He shows some evil tactics on how to get 100% adsense CTR. I am not promoting for anyone to do this however! do it at your own risk!

How To Make A Profitable Minisite

Great post over at 45n5 which is probably one of my favorite blogs because I can be lazy and not have to read anything because nearly every post is on video. This video is pretty cool with some tips on how to make more money on your affiliate sites.

Referer Spamming - A Link Building Tactic…

Referer spamming has often annoyed me too and carl o’cab has a simple solution to stop it!

Picking the Right Niche Market

Great post by zac johnson explaining how to pick the right niche for your new site!

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Setting up a new wordpress eBay affiliate site today and spent some time setting it up, but the key thing I forgot to do was to what?? Guess……….

Change the Permalink structure! So I’m there getting the different ebay category codes and making the posts then checking each post making sure its the right product I want to get up and I do about 10 pages! Then I realise I have forgot to change the permalinks……. *sigh*! So I tried to change to the %postname% permalink stucture and guess what? 404 error on all the old posts and also on the new posts that I created after the permalink change!

oh goodie! Tried looking round the net on how to fix this but in the end I couldnt be arsed, so I just deleted and started again!

So Marc Eilbeck’s tip when creating a new wordpress based site is to update your permalinks as the first thing you do!

UPDATE: I found the problem with the permalinks was I needed to change the structure to index.php/%postname%/ for some reason it wouldnt take just being /%postname%/

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When I first bought the phpBay plugin I thought it would be interesting to test different markets and see what converts the best. I went for large vs smallish price range and UK vs US. As I initially expected but wanted to see anyway the thing that converted best was the smaller price range, as I like to call them impulse buys.

Now for the second test it was UK vs US and I know I didn’t do it correctly due to the fact that the US site was hosted on a UK host but that is something for me to test at a later stage. Both sites were for the same product and were on the same site design, but for some reason the UK site seemed to convert a lot more.

The US site got more click but less commissions were coming in. Now to me this is strange and I cant really explain why this is.. maybe there are a lot more eBay niche stores around in the US and people are getting wise to them? I don’t know thats just a guess!

Has anyone else tried this ? What are you results? Does anyone have an explanation for it ?

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According to Wikipedia:

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.

I think twitter is great and is going to big like facebook. The best thing I have found about twitter is you can follow your favorite bloggers and ask them questions and they will reply to you pretty quickly almost like IM.

The reason I am writing this post is because I want others to know about this great site and also I want to make more contacts and interact with my readers! You can add me on Twitter here

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I got an email today from one.com about their new introductory offer for people living in UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and India, whereby we offer 12 months free hosting and a free domain to residents in those countries.

Now when I went to sign up for the new account, I was told there is a small setup fee. In my case it was £9 but I think 12months free hosting and a new .com domain is easily worth £9.

The main reason why I signed up for the offer is because its good to have more than one host, because it adds better SEO benefit when you link your sites together as the links will be on different IP addresses. Also the google adwords coupon is pretty cool, I think that will come in hand when I start the PPC-Coach program !

This is a good offer for anyone new to trying to make money online, because if your going to try and make some money online you are going to need a webhost and domain at some point.

Heres what you get:

Anyways sign up here

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Just been reading a post over at DP, someone asked is there such a thing as a bad niche to get into. A lot of people answered the guy and many people said things such as: entertainment, music, gaming, sports, insurance, warez.

Now I haven’t really been in any of those niches expect sports which I started a Euro 2008 blog, but with the fact that England didn’t even qualify for it, my passion has really gone for the subject, so I couldn’t really say if it was a good niche or not.

However some people insist that picking a niche that you like and have a passion for is the best way forward. I think on the other hand that this is not always the best option as you could be really passionate about making your own curtains for your house (lol bad example I know!, but you get the point), your not going to make much money from a site based around the topic.

On the other hand if the topic you love has a good following with a lot of other people who enjoy the same thing and you can see affiliate marketing being able to be used then this could be a good niche to go into, because as you already have the passion for it you are likely to keep interested in the site for a lot longer and therefore more likely to be successful.

So is there such a thing as a bad niche ?

Well in my opinion there is, saturated markets with too many big player websites *could* be a bad niche and also niches with not enough following or niches were no buying or money is exchanged.

Thats my opinion. Whats yours?

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These advertising stripes I keep seeing on blogs are kind of annoying. You click the lil x and then u go to another page and it shows again! I don’t give one about what your advertising to get you money I just want to read your article dammit!

This is what I am talking about in case you don’t have a clue about what I am on about. I seriously doubt that the conversion rate achieving from these things is worth the annoyance of your existing readers. This is the reason I wouldn’t even consider putting one of these things on my blog.

I would like to ask any one who is reading this now and is using this on their blog, do you or have you actually made any money out of these things ? If so was it worth it to annoy your readership and if no, why the hell are you still using it because its bloody annoying!

Lets hear some opinions of others on this? Do they annoy you as much as they annoy me?

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In my quest to learn more about PPC in affiliate marketing I have started to read up on affiliate marketers blogs. I came across Kirsty’s blog and have been reading it for about a week. I decided to go through her old posts and see if I could find something useful for myself when I came across this post: Adwords PPC For Beginners

Which was a great read for someone like me looking to get into affiliate marketing via PPC. The post is quite lengthy but is packed full of good information. I suggest you give it a read if your looking to get into affiliate marketing or you are into affiliate marketing, maybe your missing out a crucial step that might just help make you some more money!

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The famous wordpress theme Revolution is now available to be downloaded for FREE! normally the theme goes for $80 ish so FREE is a big saving! I havent actually used this theme myself but I do think it looks very professional looking and I have heard a lot of other people praising the theme.

It is available here

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So we know affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online if not the BEST way to make money online. But some of us may not know were to start or may not want to gamble with their money on AdWords without having the help of a professional to guide them. This is were PPC-Coach comes in.

PPC-Coach are and I quote from their site:

“We are a group of full time affiliate marketers. We have made a living online for just about 2 years now and are very good at what we do. Our specialty is pay per click marketing using Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly Overture) and MSN Adcenter. Our real identities are known only by trusted friends and business associates. If we want you to know who we are, we will tell you, otherwise just know that we are very good at what do and are willing to show you the ropes, exposing more information then you’ve ever seen.”

What sort of help will PPC-Coach give? (from their site again):

• access to the PPC Coach to answer any and all ppc related or affiliate marketing questions you have
• access to the PPC Coach Members Forum, where other members can post questions and post answers for you to see
• access to specific merchants to promote, (yes we will tell you what to promote if you don’t want to use your own stuff).
• access to a growing number of tutorials and guides
• access to how to videos online
• access to like minded individuals who want to succeed just as much as you do.
• ability to win great prizes monthly, (the prize list will vary depending on the contest, (these are great motivators)

Now the best thing about about all of this is that PPC-Coach is only $49.99CAD which works out to be about £25 for the UKers out there! I think this really is good value for money and I will be joining upto this program my self at the end of the month! Rest assured if you are not sure about this program but are interested I will be writting follow up posts about the experience with PPC-Coach and maybe posting earnings too.

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