Affiliate Programs

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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You may have noticed the little “You Comment, I Follow” graphic above the email sign up box at the upper right and wondered what that means. Well it means you can add AffiliateWatcher.Com to the growing list of blogs that are removing the “no-follow” tag from their Comments and joining the You Comment, I’ll Follow movement.

I’ve started using Do-Follow WP Plugin to remove the no-follow tag. Take notice, this doesn’t mean I’ll put up with Comment spam, Comments are still moderated.

I think it’s important to reward good Commenters with a little link love. And since this blog is all about helping others and not PageRank, I’ll share my PR with my Commenters.

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I’ve always fought with getting “Related Post” plugins to work correctly on my Wordpress blogs. I don’t know why, I’ve just had a problem with them.

That is, until I found Aizatto’s Related Post Plugin.

Why hasn’t someone told me about this plugin? There’s no code to cut and paste into your Wordpress themes or databases to deal with. This has to be the simplest “Related Post” plugin I’ve ever used, and it works!

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Let’s face it, Adsense is the simplest affiliate marketing program there is. (although technically Adsense is not an affiliate marketing program, but don’t tell anyone)

The easiest way to incorporate Adsense into your site is an Adsense Ready Wordpress Theme. I use a variety of Wordpress Themes for Adsense. The one I choose depends on the type of blog I running. I’ve compiled this Ultimate List of Adsense Ready Wordpress Themes for your enjoyment.  I have to be honest and say the idea for this list came about when I saw Dosh Dosh’s list of 17 Adsense Ready Wordpress Themes and realized I had those plus a few more in my folders and bookmarks. I just didn’t realize how long it would take to put this list together!

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