Blogging for Dollars with Adsense – How NOT TO Guide
Here are some tips for affiliates that think they want to build a blog around high paying keywords to make Adsense revenue – from an experiment gone wrong…
May 5 Star Affiliate Blogs Archives
Adsense vs. Affiliate Programs – Which Will Make You the Most Money?
This thread brings up some really important points about testing Google Adsense ads against potientially higher affiliate income. It also reminds affiliates not to forget sites they have already built…
SearchEngineWatch Launches New Affiliate Forum
SearchEngineWatch is owned by Internet.com and is part of the Clickz and Jupiter Media Network. After gathering enough topics directly related to affiliate marketing, they recently launched the affiliate forum and I am the new mod…
Best Day of Week for Email Blasts?
I must hear this question at least 3 times each month. What’s the best day of the week to send my newsletter. Well here is the answer. Iif you can figure it out, based on these graphs, please let me know…
Vote NOW – Best Marketing and SEO Blogs
Wow, the 5 Star Blog is only 3 months old and was nominated for MarketingSherpa’s 2nd Annual Reader’s Choice Blog Awards. Who did ‘dat??? They didn’t have an affiliate marketing blog category so the 5 Star Blog is in the online marketing category and I only see one other affiliate blog…
Great News for eTailers and Affiliates
Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineWatch has just published a blog with links to power packed articles that offer both retailers and affiliates some important insight about tapping into the future growth of online shopping. The Clickz article has some good observations and informative graphs and the Forrester/Shop.org press release about the study goes into detail. Here are some important stats…
House O.K.s Two Spyware Bills for Senate to Sort Out
Last year, the House approved a spyware bill but the Senate did not act on it, but recently some states and the federal government have sued alleged spyware makers. Now the Senate has 2 anti-spyware bills to choose from according to…
Keyword Metrics – Is ROI a Blunt Instrument?
The Grokdotcom newsletter is one of my favorites and filled with great info on converting more of your hard earned traffic into sales. Here’s a snippet from the current issue:
Search Engine Radio
Just discovered Search Engine Radio, the only Internet talk radio show 100% dedicated to Search. Pretty cool since all the previous shows are available in the Archives , so you can listen and learn anytime that’s convenient. You can listen to the audio archives
How can I make $100,000 per month?
Over at SitePoint service@musiccds asks: Hi, my azoogleads account manager told me that several of their affiliates make over $100,000 per month. Can anyone please advise me how to accomplish this goal?
The Revenue Monkey Tree – Which Monkey are You?
Well Friday is FunDay, so time for a Monkey Marketing Joke. Just Gotta see the Cartoon to understand! Affiliate marketing is like a tree full of monkeys… Affiliates are all on different limbs at different levels…
Consumers Downloading Less Adware
Webroot, a spyware-removal firm reported the amount of adware programs it found on consumer computers dropped in the first quarter. This AdWeek Story reports a decrease in installs of both Claria and 180solutions which is good news for affiliate marketers…
Affiliate Boredom – How to Stay Motivated
I’m sure every affiliate goes through boredom when continuously creating new sites. Being an affiliate is a lonely isolated business and it’s tough to stay self motivated sometimes. Certainly everyone wrestles with some of the same challenges Matt from the UK Affiliate Marketing Forum has. So how do YOU stay motivated???
GoLexa! HOT SEO and Traffic Tools – All in One Place
WOW, I love Golexa and am sure other managers and those who investigate sites will find it a big time saver. It features numerous great SEO and traffic tools all in one place. If fact use it to check out your own site and see what…
Keywords for Father’s Day – Yahoo! Search Marketing
Overture, now known as Yahoo! Search Marketing just sent an email with a full page of good, categorized keywords for Father’s Day that proved to be great last year. The KW list includes..
Great FREE Affiliate, Webmaster and SEO Tools
Robin Nobles shares a whole page full of very cool webmaster and SEO tools. I collect tools like this to share with people on the forums and there are several good ones, I had not discovered yet…
Industry Experts: Consumer Education Key to Saving Cookies
“At a forum held Wednesday by the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), panelists and attendees suggested a variety of potential solutions to convince computer users to keep cookies, but they reached no consensus…
Friday Marketing Fun: Google Content Blocker
*ROFLMAO” Tired of ad blockers blocking your revenue? GET REVENGE with the new Google CONTENT BLOCKER! It blocks all boring web *content* except p0rn and Google and only shows the ads…
Affiliate Sales Contests, Bonuses and New Programs
Find out about Tons of Affiliate Sales Contests, Bonuses and New Affiliate Programs. Plus discover programs cutting checks for over $20,000 a month in this issue of the 5 Star News.
Improving Internet Sales Conversion Rates
More great articles about increasing online conversion rate from my friends over at GrokDotCom. This issue is about…
