Category Archives: Affiliate Marketing

The hottest topics on the planet – live.

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If you’re completely out of things to write about, yet you feel that you need to keep your visitors happy with something – Have a go at the Alexa hoturls. These are the web’s hottest links for today, updated every 5 minutes.

My top ten favorite hoturls, in no particular order:

10: Squirrel accidentally poses for camera – achieves Internets fame.
9. 4,000-tonne cargo ship mysteriously vanishes.
8. The Best Buy $10 LCD TV fiasco – I lolled @greedypeople that are talking of a class-action law suit because Best Buy didn’t honor the (obviously) faulty price.
7. 51 naked brides – Not as sexy as you might be thinking right now!
6. Newfound planet being a loner.
5. Twitter – Surprise surprise.
4. 10 Most Outrageous Factory Options Ever – For all you car lubbers.
3. The Lacuna Seca racetrack – In Google Maps, with streetview.
2. Affiliate Jump Ustream – A room full of marketers, talking marketing. Looks like a pitch.
1. The 30 day challenge – more affiliate stuff. Seems like the Internets is full of marketers!

Now, by the time you read this post, most of these will probably be gone. Like I said, Alexa is updating these stats every 5 minutes. Oh, and here’s a tip – When you find a blog in there, see if you can leave a comment. It should bring you some nice traffic.

Is your blog leaking money?

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So, you’re one of those people that makes money online with a blog, right? You’re informing the world on how to build a better blog, get more readers, and earn more money. So what is all that adsense crap doing on your blog!

Here’s one of those things that I don’t understand (anymore). Obviously bloggers that blog about blogging for money are in it for the money (That sentence should get the SEO keyword tactics out of the way for the rest of this post). All they write about day in – day out, is about optimizing a blog to generate income. They like to diversify income streams, by adding several advertising networks on their site.

So this is the part where I get confused. I totally get it, you’re in it for the money, and you will go to extremes to earn some. But by having so many cheap exit-points (an average Adsense click doesn’t do more than 5 cents these days I believe) on your site, you are significantly decreasing the odds of your visitors clicking on the big prize for you. If I were you guys, and I wanted to make money with my blog, I would make sure that I was promoting just one major affiliate product, and perhaps do secondary product promotions in single posts every now and again.

Research (and common sense) shows that there are three ways a visitor will leave your site.

1. They close their browser.
2. They use the backbutton.
3. They click on a link on your site.

Now wouldn’t you rather have one third of all your visitors click on an affiliate link, where the average payout will be over five-hundered times higher then that Adsense or Adbrite click?

It all started with a leak

It all started with a leak

I suggest that you have a long, hard look at your blog, and get rid of all the ads that are essentially leaking money from your site.

Sneaky affiliate promotion tricks

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Getting started with Adwords can be quite daunting. The whole control panel seems to have had a make-over recently, and I just got used to the old one! I was never really big into Adwords to begin with, so by all means, don’t take my word for anything you read here. These are just trial and errors I’m posting.

So anyway, I saw someone doing this ‘sneaky’ affiliate tactic, tried to replicate it, and failed.

The affiliate product I was trying to sell is the wonderful Thesis WordPress Theme, which boasts the strongest SEO of any WordPress theme on the market today (according to Brian) I use (and bought) it myself on this blog, and I’m very pleased with it. It really is a step up from most other themes out there. Trust me – I’ve tried tons of other themes before I found Thesis.

Thesis WordPress Theme

Since Thesis has an affiliate program, someone before me figured out that instead of creating and setting up a complete landing page, they could just iframe the entire original site. All you have to do is register a domain with the right keywords, and add the following code as as the index.html or index.php to the root folder of your new domain!

iframe-code

All this does is present the original Thesis sales site, but it has visitors going through your affiliate link. Sheer brilliance I thought.

Unfortunately I’ve spent nearly $150 in Google Adwords, and had 0 sales. I might give it another $50 before I pull the plug on this experiment. Either the original Thesis sales page isn’t compelling enough, or I am simply targeting the completely wrong group of people on Adwords.