Affiliate Progress

A few months back I wrote a post posing the question – Are Blog Comments Important? – it was mainly about the SEO benefits of leaving comments, but thankfully, most commenters also agreed that blog comments are indeed the life-blood of any good blog.

It is also true that during the difficult initial stages of a blog, when you are struggling to build up your traffic, blog commenting provides a useful stream of traffic whilst you build up your content and work to get more search engine based traffic.

But what are the tips and tricks that can help you maximise your investment in time, and get the largest amount of return traffic to your own blog from the comments you leave? Read on to find out! (more…)

It is widely accepted that Amazon know what they are doing when it comes to turning traffic that you refer to them into sales. It is also the advice given by many highly respected and experienced Amazon affiliates, that you should concentrate your efforts on high ticket items with a selling price of $100 or more.

Whilst this is generally very sound advice, and should certainly form the foundation of your Amazon affiliate strategy, are there any reasons for targeting low ticket items? I definitely think there are. Read on to find out why. (more…)

I have to admit that I have been very slow on the uptake with all forms of social networking, and particularly with Twitter, I’ve really been at a loss as to the point of it and how it can benefit me.

However, since giving Twitter an initial try out, the penny is now starting to drop and I can see its potential for at least some of my online projects.

So in keeping with my main purpose for this blog, I want to do a series of posts to outline my goals and progress with Twitter right from day one. (more…)

I’ve been meaning to get around to writing up a review of the recently published second edition of Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett’s book ProBlogger- Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income – so if you didn’t buy a copy of the first edition, read on to see if this book might be just the thing to spring-board your blogging career to the next level. (more…)

As one of the goals of my latest project was to try and increase my AdSense earnings, I wanted to find a way of managing the adverts with minimal additional work as I add content.

Some WordPress themes have built in features for this, but as the theme I chose for my new blog was without them, I needed to find some other way of handling my AdSense ads within my content and sidebars. (more…)