Posted today on the FTC website:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/endortest.shtm
It is important for affiliate marketers and bloggers alike to read the new guidelines handed down by the FTC today. You should read it thoroughly and interpret how it could possibly impact your business. If you were not including disclaimers on your landing pages before (which you should have been), [...]
All of the guys that contributed to this affiliate guide have been chiming in and wanting to expand it. So we will be quickly developing of some specific guides and tutorials. If you have a suggestion for one please let us know. Now on with it!
Social Media
Social networks have become a part of all of [...]
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
In the Beginning
Okay, we’re back to traffic, the goal is for visitors to see our sales copy or click our links. One way to do this if you have property online is through search engine optimization (SEO.) You may or may not have heard of this before, so here’s a quick rundown. [...]
Just going to jump back in it. Picking up where we left off…
The Ad Networks and CPA Offers
Choosing an Ad Network
Okay, so now you have a website. The next step is to find an ad network and find offers to promote. If you haven’t heard of any before, you’ll want to do a little homework, [...]
A few months back we started developing a relatively comprehensive guide for guys new to affiliate marketing. We will package this up once we are done and then make it available to you in a PDF for free as well. Come back over the next few days as I will drop this in 6-8 parts. [...]
Daily I am asked by people getting into the industry what affiliate offer they should be promoting and out of what affiliate network. I start by telling them that is a question only they themselves can answer. You know I am not going to just give you an offer that I am killing and create [...]
We all know that a few weeks ago Google finally made an update to their homepage. News spread like wild fire. I couldn’t go anywhere industry related online that wasn’t talking about it. Now we both know that all they did was make their search box larger (they called it “super sized”). Along with that [...]
If you didn’t notice the “aim” in ready, aim, fire is CAPITALIZED! Aim = Target = Niche Marketing. The internet itself leveled the playing field for the small guys to be able to compete with the bigger guys. And most major advertising platforms aid indiscriminately to whether you can drop $500 or $50,000 on a [...]
Let’s clear this up first. There is a HUGE difference between a Newb and a Noob. Let me open up Urban Dictionary for ya.:
per Urban Dictionary:
Contrary to the belief of many, a noob/n00b and a NEWBIE/NEWB are not the same thing. NEWBS are those who are new to some task* and are very beginner [...]