5 Star Affiliate Blogs

The eBay team has been analyzing recent buying trends, gathering predictions from eBay industry experts to help you identify hot products to promote for the 2007 Christmas season. Here are the top 25 hot holiday sellers then drill down by category for more.

The cute pic to the left is when she was pregnant. Isnt her preggo pumpkin belly cute? I bet Grayson is going to hate it when I call him “my little Punkin” in front of his friends when he gets bigger! Check video of my little Allie the Pooh. Awww…

This parable illustrates a couple points about the importance of making time for the big things in life and how being an affiliate offers you the freedom to make those lifestyle choices. What are the ‘big rocks’ in your life? Family, health/fitness, God, a charity or worthy cause, following your dreams, helping others and making a difference in the world?

I’m always happy to see and report on success stories, especially when they hit mainstream media. However I have a couple problems with this article. Google puts the ads on your web pages and you rake in the dough? I like the positive spin, don’t get me wrong but…

…the Conversion Formula they developed over the past five years with partners like the New York Times, Reuters, and Insurance.com. They are giving away their A/B split testing software and the 1st class for FREE.

The A4U Expo just ended yesterday. The very first A4U Affiliate Marketing Awards – the winners are… Good pics too. The Brits know how to party!

At 19 he started a little web business in the living room of his Grandma’s one bedroom apartment. Today he makes over 3 Million. How did he do it? He found a niche. A very nichey niche in fact, then leveraged his knowledge and passion for the topic.

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…

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.

It’s getting pretty crowded here, but I’m so happy I can provide a safe haven. We’re helping to open one of our local churches to turn into evacuation center. Then I’m going to Costco to buy a bunch of food and supplies to donate to all the displaced victims, then we are all going over to volunteer.

Thousands have been evacuated – huge neighborhoods filled with multi-million dollar homes have been wiped out. I’m surrounded by fires, some family had be evacuated and some have lost their homes already. The sky is an errie dark reddish black…

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.

If consumers use the immunize feature it’s killing CJ links. Here is part of the email David got back from CJ when he discovered his CJ links were not working after he had used the Spybot Search & Destroy Immunize feature.

The 2 videos below each show a single person almost completely dominating the entire 1st page of Google. WATCH Who Stole Halloween From Google? A Terrifying SEO Thriller

Diversification or Single site/niche Domination? The following 3 super affiliates outline the pros and cons of each strategy. Then I’ll tell you what I would do if I ever decide to SELL 5 Star and become an affiliate.

Affiliates in the 5 Star forum often ask if there is a good free guide to PPC. Most of the ebooks out there are either one trick ponies or… This one’s not an ebook but an in-depth guide from a bonafide super affiliate and it’s free.

The blog redesign and upgrade to WordPress 2.3 are complete, aside from a couple little CSS tweaks here and there. COMMENTS are open again. I’d like to thank Teli Adlam author of OptiNiche for all her help with the re-design and her patience in putting up with me and all the Vbulletin forum gremlins during the process.

Hang onto your seats, it will be a pretty dramatic change. So if you see any dust, sparks or anything broken – it’s not gremlins. It’s the designer and I trying to make the new theme, all the plugins and the latest version of WordPress jive.

Linkshare’s publicist sent me this PR earlier in the week, but this is the 1st chance I’ve had to blog it. Joining the LinkShare Network are several companies in the Internet Retailer 500 and leading brands such as Sony Creative Software, Waterfront Media, The New York Times

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.