THE Newbie Guide to Affiliate Marketing – Traffic and Trust Review

Traffic and Trust Review

A few weeks ago, Nick Reese sent me a copy of his "soon to be published" e-book called Traffic and Trust. He had mentioned having read my stuff over the years and how much he liked it and said that he'd love to get my opinion on the book: "After ...
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Creating a Small Niche Affiliate Site – The End …or Knowing When to Walk Away

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So a few months ago I kind of accidentally started a very popular series... Creating a small niche affiliate site - part 1, part 2 and part 3. Even though I started the series without a "plan" so to speak, I fully intended to finish it (especially ...
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Eclipse Link Cloaker Review

Eclipse Link Cloaker Review

Before we get back to the Creating a Niche Affiliate Site Series (I know, I know, part 4 will be published Friday), I wanted to give some information on the Eclipse Link Cloaker since I will be mentioning it in that post. ;-) I'm a big one for ...
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Creating a Small Niche Affiliate Site – Part 3

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If you missed part one or part two of this [insert unknown number here] part series, you'll likely want to go back and read through them first. For those of you that are already up to speed, it's time to get back to work. The writer I hired in ...
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Creating a Small Niche Affiliate Site – Part 2

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Last week I mentioned the steps I'd taken so far in building a small niche affiliate site. I decided to do a bit more work on it this week, so I guess we're now on to step two in the series. I'm building this site using tools/strategies that are ...
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Creating a Small Niche Affiliate Site – Part 1

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Not every site I personally build is in a big niche with goals to be the uber site of its industry. While all of the sites I make through MFE aim for that, every once in a while I get bored and spend some time creating a new small affiliate site in a ...
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Is Your Affiliate Datafeed Site Sinking in Mayday?

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The Google Mayday update caused quite a stir in the affiliate community. Why? Because it was said by webmasters to be, and was then later confirmed by Google to be, most heavily impacting long tail traffic. Many affiliate marketers running sites ...
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Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda Had Success with Affiliate Marketing

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Over two and a half years ago I wrote what I consider to be one of my best posts ever about affiliate marketing called how to survive the affiliate evolution. And while it basically outlined my entire business plan at the time - and still remains a ...
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Penalties, issues and filtering; it’s all just semantics

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I was reading the recap Shawn Collins did of his trip to SMX on day one and a comment he made within it got my attention: Some interesting revelations in the duplicate content session, such as Google’s Joachim Kupke saying there is no duplicate ...
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Affiliate Datafeeds and Duplicate Content

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The other day I posed a question on Twitter; "If you could learn more about one aspect of affiliate marketing, what would it be?" and a large portion of the responses I got back as a result were about using affiliate datafeeds. Even more ...
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