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Rebranding a Popular Blog - SparkPlugging is Born

I’ve been twitfollowing with interest as Wendy Piersall from eMomsatHome.com took her very popular blog through a complete metamorphosis. She not only rebranded the blog with a new name and redesign, but completely repositioned the site from a Mom blog into a resource for a diverse group of people who use the internet and technology to create flexible work for themselves - both parents and non parents.

Free SEO Optimized WordPress Themes

Just discovered a nice little resource for affiliates and bloggers. Free SEO optimized WordPress themes. Also a dateless theme for sites that don’t look like blogs or sites where the date isn’t important and you just want to post and archive lots of articles.

ProBlogging - A KILLER Business

The New York Times story line suggests bloggers blogged till they dropped. (Literally died). Now I don’t think blogging or Internet stress killed these guys or gave Om Malik his recent heart attack. After all Michael Arrington and Darren Rowse…

RevResponse B2B Affiliate Program - Easy Conversions on Free Subscriptions

Think this program sounds too B2B for your site? Think again! You get paid for every FREE subscription you give away. The RevResponse Marketing Widget makes it easy to add a huge variety of offers to your site or blog in minutes.

Changing Landscape of Affiliate Marketing in a Web 2.0 World

I’m happy that the event organizers recognize affiliate marketing as part of the Web 2.0 mix, so I wanted to be sure to share the info with 5 Star readers. Sam, Lisa, Stephanie… will be discussing responsible affiliate marketing strategies in a web2.0 world.

Catablogging - Blog Based Ecommerce and Affiliate Marketing

The most self-limiting thing I see about bloggers trying to make money is a self-defeating approach… many bloggers seem pensive or apologetic about making money. That doesn’t work.
People buy from people who are confident, likable and unquestionably enthusiastic about what they’re selling.

Drag & Drop Affiliate Links w Trigget - Easy for Bloggers

If you are more focused on blogging and writing content than dealing with coding and affiliate links, this solution may be of interest. Trigget provides a super fast easy way to drop affiliate links, videos and ads into blog posts. WATCH VIDEO to see how fast and easy it is.

ThinkHost Affiliate Program - High Paying Host with a Difference

ThinkHost Web Hosting Affiliate Program pays a hefty $100 commission per sale - even on the $7.95 hosting plan! 10 year cookies + IP tracking. Pro support from a cool affiliate manager that gets it!

Build an Affiliate Site with WordPress Tutorial

She writes one of my favorite affiliate blogs. She wrote an EXCELLENT tutorial about how to build an affiliate site with WordPress. This is an entry I’ve been wanting to share for awhile.

Facebook Major Ad Announcement at AdTech - SocialAds?

Facebook will be making a major ad-related announcement in New York at AdTech. A flurry of rumors say it could be a rival to Adsense and could provide contextual ad targeting on sites other than Facebook, using the demographic data offered up in personal profiles. Major buzz includes…

Tips for Optimizing Affiliate Holiday Sales - by eToys

Since so much holiday revenue comes from kids gifts, I thought it may be helpful and fun, to get Holiday sales tips for affiliates from a top toy retailer. I’ve been working with Linkshare’s PR firm to get these great tips from eToys for our 5 Star readers.

How to Hang In When youre Green and Times are Lean

Was there a time when you first started that you became despondent and thought about quitting? If so, what happened that gave you the confidence to keep going? This tip can make a difference.

$500 Affiliate Halloween Contest + 11 New Programs - Oct Newsletter

New programs mean less competition. Some of these programs are VERY cool and NICHE! Also new improved 5 Star website and WordPress upgrade so we can turn COMMENTS back on.

Blinkx AdHoc Widget - Brand New Way to Monetize Video

Hot on the heels of the GoogTubeSense Video launch is Blinkx with a slightly different approach to monetizing videos.
So one of the major differences between GoogTubeSense and Blinkx is that Blinkx does a 2 way rev share (you, them) instead of 3 way (you, them, video producer.) The other difference is that instead of being limited

eComXpo Online Tradeshow - Free Affiliate Training and Networking

eComXpo starts tomorrow and it’s FREE. Here are some of the affiliate marketing educational sessions. A couple of our 5 Star Affiliate Program Managers will be speaking and/or moderating sessions.

9 Great New NICHE Affiliate Programs Launch on ShareResults

FALL into the Holiday Season with these great new merchants that just launched on the ShareResults Affiliate Network. New programs mean less competition and there are some great high paying NICHE programs below.

Amazon Catches Widget Fever

Wow, Amazon just launched a bunch of cool marketing widgets including a product tag cloud widget (pictured left), a slideshow widget, video previewer widget and … The quick linker widget lets you easily auto-link within your content a variety of ways.

Reciprocal Content Syndication - Get a BlogRUSH of Traffic

This thing just launched yesterday, I added the widget today and am getting LOTS of additional targeted traffic and it’s coming from high quality blogs like ShoeMoney!

YaPrice Launches New Affiliate Comparison Shopping Engine

I just saw the press release about their newly launched free turn-key affiliate stores and it sounds like an option worth checking into for newbie affiliates and bloggers that want to easily add shopping price comparison to their sites.

Top 100 Make Money Online Blogs and Technorati Rant

I’m in great company on Mark’s list and discovered some new blogs I’d not seen before. There were even a couple I’d never heard of in the top 10 above me. T fragmented my blog then accidentally deleted it so 5 Star was missing in action for a couple months.

Spooktacular Halloween WordPress Themes

If you’ve been thinking about whipping up a last minute Halloween affiliate site or blog, here are a couple nice WordPress themes. These two are softer and more whimsical. They’d be great for a kids Halloween Costume blog.

buy.at Launches ContentEngine Affiliate Widget + Trip to Paris

To kick off the launch and encourage affiliates to embrace the new technology but.at is doing a contest with a weekend trip for two to Paris, as the grand prize…

PC World Mag - PopShops Review + Affiliate Marketing Overview

Today PC World came out with a long article about Affiliate Marketing focused on a review of PopShops. It’s always great to see positive press about Affiliate Marketing in the mainstream media.

Xmas in August - 9 Christmas WordPress Themes 4 Affiliates

Start a niche Christmas site or feature Holiday gift ideas, here are some gorgeous Wordpress themes. I really like them all, except the SuperMan Santa, which is kinda gay…

Google CPA Poor Results? Publishers Being Auto-Opted In

It appears Google’s ValueClick killer - CPA program, is not working, as they are forcing the program on some Adsense Publishers in an attempt to keep their dwindling CPA advertisers happy by serving more impressions.

Live Shopping Action Map - ADDICTING Market Research

Niche Hunting? Wonder what’s hot and what people are buying RIGHT NOW? Want to spy on people all over the world to see what they are buying in real-time? In just 10 minutes I’ve seen some super cool products I didn’t even know existed. I’ve spotted several people all over the world buy one particular new product In just 10 minutes I’ve seen some super cool products I didn’t even know existed. I’ve spotted several people all over the world buy one particular new product…

Forgotten Traffic Tactics that Still Work!

… just launched today and is filled with traffic generating tips you may have forgotten about or overlooked and they do NOT include PPC or SEO. Full color and FREE!

100 Resources for Making Money Online

There are other ways to make money online besides affiliate marketing? I didn’t know. ;-) There are things I wasn’t aware of like getting paid to be on user research panels for Google and Microsoft and getting paid to be on mock juries.

ShoeMoney Sells AuctionAds to Media Whiz

Media Whiz bought out the company that was jointly owned by ShoeMoney and Dillsmack. Congrats you two for a well deserved win and to Media Whiz for making another smart buy.

CCI Corinthian Colleges - High Paying Education Affiliate Program

Cash in on the Lucrative Distance Learning & Online Education Market. Earn up to $25 per lead.

Affiliates - Start your own Niche White Label Dating Site

Why join dating affiliate programs when you can have your own private label, co-brand or white label dating service - for FREE? This is HOT!

Schlogg it or Flog it - Digg-like Shopping Cash from Chitika

Schlogg it or Flogg it! Good deals go social with Shlogging. Chitika just launched their Digg-like social shopping site to the public and they offers widgets and commissions for affiliates and bloggers.

Can’t Believe Aaron is Killing ThreadWatch Friday

Its ALWAYS the girlfriends fault! Too much traffic to let that baby just die. I was a guest blogger for awhile and started the Affiliate/Internet Marketing blog there. I’d buy it if I had any spare time.

Brian Tracy Affiliate Program - 1,000 Cash Bonus and More

Brian Tracy, a world renowned speaker and author on personal development, sales and success training is offering affiliates a higher commission rate on sales, PLUS the chance to earn a $1,000 cash bonus

400 Cash Blogging Contest - Best Internet Marketing BUZZ

Bloggers rev up those blogging engines and get ready to win some cash! 2 prizes! $300 CASH - BIGGEST Buzz! :: $100 CASH – BEST Buzz!