Completing any keyword research often seems more difficult than it really has to be, I absolutely LOVE Micro Niche Finder simply because it makes life easier, you have so many options to choose from when it comes to filtering out results and examining the viability of keywords in more detail. But you really do need to learn to step out of the comfort zone of tools like MNF which effectively do all the work for you, whats more, you will find that by looking in places other than the results presented by keyword tools you will get more niche ideas, better keyword ideas and also a better understanding on the viability and structure of the niche you are looking to work in.
On a day to day basis you will see keywords floating in front of your face in many places across the web, but many of these "keyword goldmines" are often neglected as a place to find some excellent keyword and niche ideas.
To name a few, the following are just a handful of places you can look both before Read the rest of this entry »
My apologies for the lack of posting recently, I haven't disappeared I've just been pretty busy with other aspects of my business which have been taking me away from the blog, I'm going to try my best to get back to posting here more regularly.
I just wanted to do a quick post today about a tool which I've found useful myself in the past when I didn't have access to image editing programs like Macromedia Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop, both of which can be quite costly if you only need them for creating website logos.
The tool is an online editor which enables you to create pretty cool looking logos/graphics for your affiliate websites, it's completely free to use and doesn't require you to download Read the rest of this entry »
After I released the FREE Avantlink.com plugin last week I had over 120 downloads and I was quite shocked that so many people had already being looking for something to allow them to do what AvantPress does. So due to it's high popularity I decided to add support for Avantlink.com to our hugely successful Price Comparison Plugin for WordPress, CompariPress.
I sent out the updated version to our ever growing list of users just a few days a go and have so far received excellent feedback. The Avantlink.com network contains mostly sporting and outdoor type products such as golfing, cycling and football, so can be a great earner if your in any sporting niches.
What this now means is that CompariPress will allow you to display Affiliate products from SIX MAJOR Affiliate Networks/Programs, meaning you can literally access products from pretty much any niche you are looking to promote, the best thing is you are no longer restricted to just eBay. Read the rest of this entry »
A couple of days a go I mentioned a new training program which had been released by Brian G Johnson called Halloween Super Affiliate, a 12 week coaching program which takes you by the hand and leads you through the same step by step process which has enabled Brian to earn thousands of dollars for the last 6 years over the Halloween period. Just last year he earned over $20,000 in Halloween commissions and is set to double that amount this year. Brian announced yesterday that he has almost reached capacity and will be closing the doors to his 2010 coaching program very very soon.
I know there were a few of you still on the fence about his program so I've put together a list of Frequently Asked Questions.
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Over the last few months I've been placing more and more videos into the content of my Affiliate Websites, no matter which platform they have been built with, but one of the biggest challenges I always found was which video WordPress plugin to use. In the past I've always used Smart Youtube and whilst this is a fantastic little plugin for what it is, it never had everything I quite wanted from a video plugin. After some more digging I finally came across this little beauty:
Video Sidebar Widgets
This is probably one of the best FREE Video WordPress plugins I've come across and it's now officially my most favourite! As the name suggests it allows you to post flash videos and videos from video sharing sites directly into your WordPress sidebar using widget functionality AND it enables you to place videos within your pages/posts, just like Read the rest of this entry »
I recently wanted to promote some sporting products from Avantlink.com within one of my WordPress websites and I couldn't find a plugin to do it so I decided to create my own. AvantPress is a simple Avantlink Plugin for WordPress which allows you to display live product listings from Avantlink.com directly within your WordPress posts or pages, you can see an example below:
Products are displayed by placing a simple piece of shortcode where you want your listings to display. The following options are available to refine your results:
- Keywords (positive & negative)
- Number of products
- Minimum price
- Maximum price
- Merchant ID(s)
- Items on sale
You can also choose to display:
- Short product description
- Long product description
- Abbreviated product description
The plugin is free so it's not hugely fancy but it served the purpose I wanted it for and I hope you get some benefit from it. Simply enter your name and email into the fields below and you will receive the plugin via an email attachment.
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You may or may not have noticed a new banner which has appeared on the right hand side of this page around a week or so ago for Brian G Johnson's latest course. In just two days time Brian will be opening the doors to his fantastic Halloween coaching program called Halloween Super Affiliates, a coaching program in which Brian will literally take you by the hand through his step by step coaching to help you take advantage of the multi billion dollar industry that is Halloween.
Since 2003 Brian G Johnson has been making tens of thousands of dollars in commissions each year just from the Halloween season alone using his tried and tested methods of building tightly focused niche WordPress websites based around single Halloween products. He has now decided to take on a LIMITED number of students for a 12 week coaching program which teaches the very methods he uses to "clean up" each and every Halloween. Read the rest of this entry »
I've just received an email from Mark over at the Niche Store Builder to let me know he is starting to offer some fantastic new services in Niche Site Building. If you are looking to get a fully researched AND/OR developed Niche Affiliate Website then who better to get to do it for you!
Mark is offering two main services at the moment, the first is a complete Niche Research Report (RankSpanker Consult and Build Report) which includes your chosen niche fully researched from the top down, every detail is covered. You can read more about the specifics of this service right here. This 'Rank Spanker' report is the very same report I have had done personally for 5 of my own sites, all of which continue to do very well indeed.
The second service is a complete Niche Site Build (Niche Builder WP Basic Site Build), this includes complete niche research, installation, content pages created (up to 40 pages of UNIQUE content) and much more! Essentially you are buying a custom built site which is ready to go! You can read more about the specifics of this service right here.
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If you decide you would like to take advantage of Mark's premium "Niche Builder WP Basic Site Build" package then simply PURCHASE IT HERE and I will give you a copy of CompariPress - my premium price comparison plugin, absolutely FREE.
Simply purchase using the link above and send a ticket to my support desk.
When I'm building a new website I usually tend to go for the larger websites rather than the smaller ones but just recently I've built a few smaller single product websites which have done very well indeed. Personally I just think it's a reminder to us all that you don't always have to spend a good chunk in time or money building big websites to get a good return.
As an example I would like to share a short story with you. Just a few weeks back I was visiting a friend of mine who is also into affiliate marketing, only as a hobby though, he had a few domains lying around for Niches that I hadn't even thought of. The niches were very very tightly focused, so tightly focused in fact that they were for single products. I did some basic keyword research using the Google Keyword Tool to try and determine whether or not there was actually any search demand for this particular Read the rest of this entry »
Is it just me or is anyone else getting to the point where they couldn't care less what eBay do or say, I have pretty much lost ALL respect for them, their company and their network. All we have seen since ePN took over the eBay affiliate program is changes, of course no one likes change and everyone expected some degree of change through the transition from CJ/PJN to ePN. But that was over 18 months ago and still we are seeing changes which require affiliates to jump through hoops left, right and center just to prevent your account from being expired, a threat which we seem to see a lot lately around ePN.
Why do eBay do this? They're a big company with power and they can!!
The next time you are sitting worrying about your account being expired remember this, affiliation is about a partnership between the affiliate and the network/merchant, it's a two way relationship in which both parties equally have the right to scrutinise one another. It's becoming increasingly clear to me that eBay don't want, need or care about their affiliates so why on earth are we continuing to pander to their every request AND send them traffic?
Lets Look Closer:
Okay so the eBay affiliate program, by my own admission, converts well on affiliate sites but that aside, what do ePN really give us?
- Regular changes to suit themselves causing us A LOT of extra and uneccessary work
- Unclear and questionable reporting statistics
- Regular threats of expirey
- A lack of decent communication and clarity
Do we really want to continue partnering with eBay? Isn't it about time we EXPIRED THEM?! Don't forget to retweet and share with your friends!
Thoughts below please!
Most of you have probably already read the blog post published by ePN but I just wanted to make you aware anyway in case you hadn't, as it's a VERY important change. In short the post basically says that if you are using 302 redirects instead of 301's within your affiliate links then you have just 4 weeks to fix it. Failure to fix it will demonstrate a direct breach of their terms and conditions and result in your account being terminated ... that part was very very clear indeed.
From June 8th 2010, we will treat this issue as an intentional breach of our terms and conditions and any affiliate exhibiting this behavior will be expired.
Wade Wells has already sent out an update for phpBay which involves some changes to just one particular file and more information can be found about that in the members forum.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Niche Site Platform is fully compliant with ePN's terms and conditions and will require NO changes or updates at the moment.
Over the last few months, since I started working full time online, I've begun to notice how disorganised I've been. In the past there was a good excuse for this, I had a 40 hour a week job to do as well as trying to turn my hobby into a full time business! Whilst this is an excuse of sorts and is as good any other it's still not good enough! So my question to you is ... how organised are you?
The good thing about being a part time Niche Site Builder is that you can get away with being disorganised, the time it starts to become a real problem is when you are relying on it for a full time income doing it as your job. In fact, when I looked at some of the areas I was very disorganised in a few months back it made me realise that I wouldn't have been able to work that way at my old job and that's why I don't work like it now.
There are many factors involved in building yourself a online portfolio/business in Niche Site Building, but one of THE MOST IMPORTANT factors you simply CANNOT do without is organisation and focus! Without both of these things, scaling up to any sort of level Read the rest of this entry »
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