Affiliate Programs

I was browsing Matt Coddington’s site the other day and came across his post “Internet Marketing In The Public Eye“. Matt makes good observations about how the “get rich quick” or the “too lazy to do it right” crowd has gave those of us in Internet Marketing a bad rep. It’s safe to say that in the past 10+ years of Internet Marketing, I probably unintentionally tried a spam technique or two. Nowdays I know the score and only shoot straight. Life is too short to look over your shoulders.

After thinking about his post, I can understand where he’s coming from.

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The other day I was reading John Wesley’s “Pick The Brain” blog post on 27 Lessons Learned on the Way to 3000 Visits a Day and 2200 RSS Subscribers. #20 took me by surprise. So much so that I’ve been thinking about it and doing my own research. And I’ve came to the conclusion he may be right.

#20 on this list is “Posting comments on other blogs is overrated“. We’ve always been led to believe that commenting on other blogs will bring us lots of traffic, make us cool and good looking all in one.

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Every since I put up The Ultimate List of Adsense Ready Wordpress Themes, I’ve received some emails asking how to change the Adsense codes in the Themes.

It goes without saying, I hope so anyways, that you’ll need an Adsense account. If not, go get one first before trying this.

I’m going to try and explain it here, step by step.  For this example, I’ll be using the Ads Minded Theme.

1. Choose an Adsense Ready Wordpress Theme. You can get one by cliking the link above.

2. Download the theme, choose it in your Wordpress control panel under “Presentations”.

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Spring and Summertime are the traditional times when people start thinking about Hiking, Camping, Boating, Fishing, Bicycling and RV Trips. It should also be the time you start thinking about targeting these hardie souls with your affiliate programs as they invade the Great Outdoors.

Here are a few Merchants that service the Outoor Adventurer that I’m familiar with.

Bass Pro

Bass Pro Shops has is the Big Boy on the block when it comes to Outdoor gear. You’ll find gear for all types of activities. Bass Pro’s Affiliate Program pays 5% on orders. The advantage of Bass Pro is they have a household brand name amoung outdoor adventure seekers.

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Yes, I’m afraid this is another Google Analytics review.

But wait, this isn’t the same ole dry, boring and in-depth type review that brings us to tears. This is Google Analytics the way I see it

I’m assuming most of you know about Google Analytics. If you don’t, go over to Google and sign up.

Let me see a show of hands of those who thought the original Google Analytics sucked?

Good, that’s what I thought. So did I.

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For some of us, once we start making a little money in affiliate marketing, we get a little fat and lazy. We start thinking we know it all and we’re on E-Z Street.

That complacency can get us left behind in the affiliate marketing business and cost us a huge amount of money, not to mention momentum.

Here are 7 Steps To Staying Profitable in Affiliate Marketing.

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