If you are familiar with running an affiliate business, you know how important promotion is. You must promote your business partner's product in order to be successful. The factor that determines whether or not your business generates profit is whether you can get the visitors to your website interested in the product. One of the best ways to do this is with high quality content. You must make sure that your content is professional, clean and attention-grabbing. If you can manage this, your website will garner attention, gain credibility and most importantly, be interesting to your visitors. Here are some suggestions for how to be great at your affiliate business with content. Read the rest of this entry »
Outsourcing content for your websites is a fantastic way of building your business in a much quicker and more efficient way, content outsourcing is something I've being doing for a while now and it makes my life so much easier. In fact when you are building BIG content rich websites in a niche you have very little knowledge about, it often becomes an alomost impossible challenge to complete all of the content yourself to a high standard.
The main place I use for my content is TextBroker.com, some of you may or may not have used them in the past yourselves. The thing I love about TextBroker is that I can submit an order to the community for one article or 30 articles and have the content back within a couple of days. But the one thing which I hated was having to login to TextBroker to manage my orders and copy the content across from TextBroker to WordPress, especially when my site contained 40 reviews or more. It was for this very reason I decided to develop a WordPress plugin which would make this process both quicker and easily, and so WP TextBroker was born.
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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 »
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.
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 »
Niche Site Platform Is Now Live - 30th April!
I've finally managed to get everything swapped over to my new server, it's taken most of the day with propogation etc which is why I am so late releasing this preview. Anyway, you can now head over to Niche Site Platform and have a look for yourself to see what I've put together and some of the features which are going to be on offer in my Niche Site Platform.
In addition to the sales page I have also opened the Affiliate access, so if you would like to earn yourselves 30% of the Niche Site Platform sale price then feel free to signup for an Affiliate account and start promoting. All of your Affiliate links will have a 90 day cookie so your good for referrals even if you refer before I release the platform to the public. Read the rest of this entry »
After almost 6 months of hard work I am finally able to announce that I will be releasing my newest creation this week, Niche Site Platform, the Affiliate Site Building Platform. I wanted to wait to announce it until I had got passed the eBay Compatible Application check hurdle and my API call limit had been increased.
What Is Niche Site Platform?
The platform is an easy to use but powerful website building platform which will enable you to build an Affiliate Website with multiple Affiliate Networks pre-integrated into it. It not only supports some of the largest and best Affiliate Networks, providing you with tens of thousands of merchants to promote products from, it also provides you with MANY other premium features including Read the rest of this entry »
After recently releasing CompariPress and hopefully releasing Niche Site Platform next week, I want to try and make a few more blog posts, when I get chance, which will give you hints and tips on how to use my products or certain features in the best way possible. Sometimes the biggest user manual in the world doesn't make it 100% clear and I know how frustrating it can be to buy a product and get so fed up with it because you are not sure how to use it correctly.
From that premise, in this post I would like to talk a little bit about searching for products in your CompariPress PCU admin area. Read the rest of this entry »
As I am sure you will already know, Google has begun using your website load speed and performance as one of the many ranking factors currently considered when placing your website in the SERPS.
How Will This Affect You?
According to a blog post by Matt Cutts we are told we shouldn't panic and that only a small amount of searches and search results will actually be affected by the change, in fact only around 1% of the search queries will change as a result. In the grand scheme of things though, 1% is a big portion when you consider the amount of searches which take place through Google on a month by month basis.
Is This As Bigger Deal As It Sounds?
Probably not, but then that's just my opinion, I certainly don't think it's something you need to loose any sleep over but I do think it's something you should take into account when you are building your sites in the future, but even then it doesn't have to be a major Read the rest of this entry »
For a while now we've being getting a few emails asking about whether SEO/cloaked URLs for the affiliate links contained within the CompariPress PCU could be added to CompariPress PCU ... well the good new is we've just released an update for the plugin which enables you to cloak all of the outbound affiliate links within the PCUs you display in your WordPress pages or posts. That's cloaked affiliate links for all Amazon products, Linkshare products and CJ products.
We have also added several other smaller features which have enhanced the usability of our price comparison plugin for WordPress.
We have also been getting a few other common questions/requests so I thought I'd take the time to answer them here. Read the rest of this entry »
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