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3 Key Steps for Success on the eBay Partner Network
Ever since the eBay Partner Network (ePN) fired a bunch of affiliates, there’s been a lot of discussion on whether or not affiliates can trust the ePN going forward. What you need to realize is that it doesn’t matter if you can trust the ePN. What matters is that you position yourself for success. “It is not so important who starts... [Read more...]
Crazy End Of Summer Directory Submissions Sale
If you’ve been reading my blog the past several months, or know me from the BANS forum, then you know I’ve offered my own directory submission service. Well, I’ve decided to stop offering this, and am retiring from the directory submission service. The good news for you is that my friend Lora is going to take over the business from... [Read more...]
What’s Worse Than Being Fired By eBay?
I realize that if you were just fired by the ePN, you’re probably in a foul mood… angry at eBay… and wondering what to do next. But imagine how you’d feel if you just lost your house to a flood, because that’s exactly the situation Rochelle is facing this weekend! If you don’t know Rochelle, she is one of the nicest... [Read more...]
Fellow BANS Member’s Take on the ePN Firings
Yesterday I blogged about how eBay has recently fired many affiliates. Well if you use the Build a Niche Store software and participate in their member forum, you’ve no doubt seen the many posts from members who are angry and trying to figure out what to do next. Soggy from the BANS forum has recently written a very informative post on his blog... [Read more...]
Masking Affiliate Links with WP-Affiliate
If you use WordPress in any of your marketing efforts (and you should be), you probably need a way to mask your affiliate links. If that’s you, there’s a free plug-in you need to know about called WP-Affiliate. WP-Affiliate let’s you setup blog-wide masked (cloaked) affiliate links. Basically you enter in the anchor text and the actual... [Read more...]
eBay Partner Network Sends Affiliates Pink Slips
The eBay Partner Network (ePN) affiliate program has recently “fired” many of it’s affiliates. They were given their seven day notice and told to remove all of their affiliate links. (You can read the reactions of frustrated users and eBay’s response over on the ePN discussion board.) Note: for the sake of full disclosure, I... [Read more...]
3 Tools for Your Affiliate War Chest
I’ve recently obtained three tools for my own personal affiliate war chest. I plan to post an in-depth review of each tool after I’ve had more time to work with them, however I wanted to give you a heads-up in case you wanted to check them out now. JohnCow’s “Build a Business Not a Blog” eBook This eBook is full of amazing... [Read more...]
Gears Slowed Down My WordPress
I’m using WordPress 2.6 to power this blog, as well as several other blogs I run. Being the techie that I am, when WP 2.6 was released, I had to try out all the cool new features. That included the new Turbo feature utilizing Google Gears. Yay… new stuff to play with… and severely slow down my blog’s admin interface. The Turbo... [Read more...]
Useful Free Online SEO ToolsI was browsing some SEO forums when I came across a thread listing many useful free online SEO tools. Here are the ones I bookmarked and plan to use myself: Dig PageRank Checker This web site will scan many Google datacenters and check your site’s pagerank at each of them. It’s really easy to use and the results come back fast. Backlinks... [Read more...]
Is Google Keyword Tool’s Data Insufficient?I was trying to do some keyword research last night, and noticed some strange behavior from the Google Keyword Tool. The tool would work for awhile, then suddenly all keywords would return INSUFFICIENT DATA for all of the fields. I’m talking all keywords, even ones that we know have data like “hdtv” and “ipod.” It did this... [Read more...]
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Find Your Competition’s Real Strength with Micro Niche Finder
At first glance Micro Niche Finder is your classic internet marketing keyword software. However unlike some of the more expensive tools on the market, Micro Niche Finder has it’s own… well… niche. Let me explain. I want to disclose first and foremost that I own Keyword Elite and also subscribe to Nichebot.com. They’re both great... [Read more...]
BookmarkingDemon Doesn’t Support Vista
I recently purchased BookmarkingDemon because I wanted a tool to help me social bookmark my sites. This is a process I could certainly do by hand, but anytime a software tool can speed things up, it’s sometimes worth the investment. Especially when you consider I’m only working part-time on my affiliate marketing business. However it didn’t... [Read more...]
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