One of the barriers facing newcomers to affiliate marketing is how to drive targeted visitors to their chosen merchant’s sales page. With no website and no subscriber list, just how do you get started.
One way, as our guest writer, Yefi Geruni, explains is “PPC direct linking”. You use pay-per-click advertising to send people direct to […]

There has been some concern recently that Microsoft’s v.8 of Internet Explorer (currently in beta phase) will cause problems for affiliate marketing (and many other aspects of the web) because of certain default privacy settings.
I haven’t yet had time to look into the issues in detail - but plenty of other people have.
Here’s a couple […]

The concept of “forum marketing” is simple:

Join appropriate forums
Put your sales message / website address in your signature which appears at the end of each of your posts to the forum
Start posting

Sounds simple, doesn’t it? But, as Fabian Tan, our guest writer today points out:

“There are 4 different and very common mistakes that you […]

It’s a question I get asked - and I ask myself - many times. Selecting the “right” keyword is important if you are:

Using PPC advertising
Selecting topics around which to build a content-rich site
Writing articles with the aim of getting people to your websites

.. and so on
One simple method is to look at the number of […]

If you’re plugged into the internet marketing network at all, it’s almost impossible that you haven’t been bombarded with emails recently off’ering you the Crown Jewels and the Kohinor Diamond if you get “Traffic Fusion” (”TF”) through one affiliate link or another.
When you realise that TF has (in round figures) a 1500 bucks price tag […]

Today’s guest writer, Fabian Tan, deals with an increasingly popular topic. We all know what a big deal YouTube is. But for many folk in internet marketing, knowing how to prof’it from YouTube can be a stumbling block. In his article, Fabian writes:
“Similar to the written content, your You tube should also be optimized to […]

If there isn’t, there should be! Recently I published an article by Arun Pal Singh, which gave some tips on optimising Wordpress blogs. One of the tips was about “slugs”, and I said that I’d have to look into that topic.
I’ve done just that! It’s all to do with how the URL for individual blog […]

It’s actually another very ingenious “social co-operation” website. “IM Answers” (”IMA”) describes itself as “An Internet Marketing Q&A Community”. The main focus on the site is simple.. you can ask a question, and another member might be able to answer it.
You get varying numbers of points for asking and answering questions and these then go […]

I’ve been an intensive user of Google’s free “Analytics” service for some time now.
It’s basically a way of seeing exactly what’s going on inside your website - looking at pages viewed, keywords used to access your pages and so on.
OK, that doesn’t sound like rocket science. After all, web log analysis software has been around […]

Here’s how our guest writer, Arun Pal Singh, introduces his article:

“Wordpress is a great platform for blogging. It does not require much technical know-how to install and use it. This and its versatility are the main reasons why Wordpress has become so popular. Today we discuss few tricks and tweaks that beginners can use for […]