Affiliate Progress

Defining the perfect niche for your website or blog is a skill that all affiliate marketers need to work on and develop, particularly if you want to carve out your success using SERPs traffic. Many types of business only need to identify a single niche that they want to attack, but as an affiliate marketer in the online world, it is a trick you will probably have to successfully repeat many times over. But look on the bright side, practice makes perfect!

In this post, I will go through the current thought process I use whilst selecting a niche, and how I might apply this to different types of project. For me this is most definitely still a work in progress, and I learn new things with every site and blog I set up. (more…)

In the last of my six part series – Free Affiliate Tools – we will cover free affiliate reports and guides. Whilst there is a huge amount of free information available to the budding affiliate marketer on web sites, blogs and forums you can also often get free reports and “how to” guides from some of the world’s most successful marketing gurus just by signing up to their news letter.

Use a webmail account like Google Mail if you don’t want to give out your primary e-mail address, but you can certainly learn an awful lot about marketing from the news letters and offers that you will inevitably receive from these guys. Take a close look at both the products and marketing techniques they use, nobody is forcing you to buy anything, and you can always unsubscribe when you want to, so you are in a win-win situation. (more…)

Even if you use an online site builder or a content management system such as WordPress, at some stage in your affiliate marketing career (probably sooner rather than later!) a little knowledge of HTML is going to be needed. After you’ve mastered some HTML, or started building your own pages, a knowledge of using FTP applications will also be most useful.

So in part five of my – Free Affiliate Tools – series we are going to take a look at what free resources are available as a reference for Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), what free HTML editors are available, and I will also point you towards some free File Transfer Protocol (FTP) applications.  (more…)

In part four of my series – Free Affiliate Tools - we will be looking at what free tools are available to measure and provide statistics on the traffic that your sites and blogs are receiving.

In the distant past of the Internet this largely consisted of placing a visitor counter on your website and watching the numbers slowly creep up! Luckily these days things are a lot more sophisticated and there are many ways of keeping tabs on how your site or blog is performing. (more…)

Ask almost any affiliate marketer about publishing monetized web content and the advice they will give you is almost certain to be – “get your own web space!” – and lets face it, with hosting deals like my own favourite service – Just Host – starting from $3.45 per month, it really is such good value it comes close to being free! Certainly features like the unlimited bandwidth and ability to host multiple sites from within the same account, mean that it should not be too long before you at least make it pay for itself. (more…)