Affiliate Progress

Some people say there is no such thing as a free lunch but in the case of free affiliate tools I’m afraid I have to disagree. When we start out as affiliate marketing newbies (I hate the word “newbie” but never mind) we often don’t have the cash, or maybe even the confidence in our future success, to want to splash out on the most expensive tools and resources. (more…)

Late last year I started a mini project on Successful Squidoo Marketing in order to investigate what was required to improve the performance of my Squidoo lenses. To this end I set up a lens in a popular mainstream category – Food and Cooking – the lens is called Easy Bean Stew Recipe – and below is my first report on its progress so far and what I hope to find out from this mini study. (more…)

My current article marketing campaign for my health web site is still marching slowly on, but I’m having a few misgivings about how successful Squidoo marketing can actually be. One of my visitors Moon Hussain, commented on an earlier post of mine that he had given up on Squidoo after having poor results.

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I heard an interesting piece on the radio this morning about various news organisations and their plans to drastically reduce the amount of free content they currently provide on the web. This got me thinking about a number of aspects that have relevance to the internet marketing world. (more…)

In keeping with my aim of patiently developing and learning on my first few projects, and not rushing headlong into every idea I come up with; I’ve been re-addressing the search engine optimization on my first web-site project. I’ve been learning a great deal from Chris Rempel’s “Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate”, and whilst it’s not always easy or even interesting to reverse engineer and correct some of what I had already done, I’m trying to implement as much of his advice as I can. (more…)