I’m starting to get tired of paying Google for every sale I make. It seems like I work my butt off to make a few sales, and for every two I make, Google gets the income from one in the form of their Advertising Expense.
I just had a great thought the other day as I was reading through a training manual on PPC marketing. It seems like every guru suggests that you start with ClickBank when looking for affiliate products to sell. ClickBank is great because they offer mostly downloadable products, and when you sell them you get paid almost immediately (well, actually once a week). But there’s more to ClickBank than JUST finding Affiliate Marketing products to sell. . .
There’s a new web site analysis tool available at:
http://www.woorank.com/ and best of all, it’s FREE! It scans your site and gives you a report on what you’re doing right and wrong. It also gives you a score. I’ve been trying my hardest to properly code things up on this affiliate marketing site, but found out that I very seldom use:
I’m reading affiliate marketing news all the time. But there are some things I can’t believe I miss – until some Guru comes out selling a big secret to making ads appear in Gmail that he’s just discovered and will share it with everyone else for a small fee ($97.00). So this one’s on me – don’t stop reading, and keep your $97.00.
I’ve been looking for some good Niche Marketing predictions for 2010 -and will keep looking for what specific niches will be popular in the coming year. However, I did find this post by Perry Marshall and it has some good insight on what could be going on in the  Affiliate Marketing industry in 2010. Here’s my favorite:Â
I’ve been reading a lot of Affiliate Marketing products lately and the emphasis of most of them has been on getting backlinks. Currently I write and submit articles to Ezine articles, and a few other article directories, so I figured that was enough to get a backlinks from high PR sites. But I guess not.
Sometimes at the end of the year I go into information mode. I’m not really sure what it is. Perhaps it’s just to get closer to my goals, or maybe I need a few more business write offs, or maybe I’m just plain sick of Google Adwords taking three fourths of my money and/or leaving me high and dry!  Whatever the reason, probably the latter, this month I purchased two programs that had nothing to do with PPC with the hope that I could make/keep a little more money next year.
 At some point while you’re building your website, you’re going to have to buy a domain name. This is the address that users type into their browsers to reach your site. That takes about five seconds, and depending on the name you want and whether anyone else owns it, it won’t cost you more than a few bucks.
Sigh, it happened again, but this time it wasn’t so dramatic then when I was a newbie. I logged into my Commission Junction (CJJ) account and noticed that I was missing $10.00. So I started to investigate. I only had about $18 in my account to start with, so it was very easy to notice that money was missing, and after reading their FAQ’s, I found out where it went.
This year I’ve become more advanced in my affiliate marketing thinking. Instead of chasing every keyword that I think might make some sales, I chase the ones that are already appearing in the top results of search engines.
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