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I recently attended the ShareASale ThinkTank. It was an event organized by ShareASale, which they hold every year. This year it was held at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, CA. SAS invited a mix of around 200 merchants and affiliates for 3 days and 2 nights for a mix of golf, sessions, eating and [...]

It goes without saying that Eli from Bluehatseo.com is a genius. Anyone in this business should read every word on his blog, he recently posted this and I suggest you read it: http://www.bluehatseo.com/seo-checklist-for-e-commerce-sites/

So here I am again to drop some valuable information on you. Here’s what I did. I created an advertising campaign, with a moderate number of keywords (50 or so) and 8 ad variations. I put this campaign up on Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN Adcenter. I’ve let them run without me touching [...]

So a while ago, I was contacted by someone from MSN Adcenter asking if I’d be interested in the assistance of a ‘Search Specialist’ to import my existing advertising campaigns into MSN Adcenter. At the time my main focus was Adwords, as there was tons of volume and I was still busy optimizing my campaigns [...]

Recently, I had a few people ask me what I thought about the future of affiliate marketing. To succeed in anything long term, you need to look to the future to anticipate changes before they happen. This will ensure your survival in an industry that changes very fast. You have to be able to adapt [...]

I’m really looking forward to this year, it’s been nearly 3 years since I decided to become a roaming nomad, pretty amazing to think back at all the ground I covered… In May of 2007, I left Melbourne and went to: England, France, Monaco, Italy, Vatican City, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Lichtenstein, Holland, [...]

So I’m slowly building an E-commerce empire. SEO rankings are hugely important because it’s longterm free money. At the same time, I also want to rank well in multiple countries at the same time. My original line of thinking was to build one domain and make it huge. This also conflicts with what my mentor [...]

If Google hasn’t banned you for advertising for life, congratulations! I’m back using Adwords after 6 months, this time advertising as a merchant, which has given me some valuable insights. Google Search Network If you’re working with the Search network as an affiliate, the way to make money here is to dig deep and find [...]

When I started affiliate marketing over a year ago, I was attracted to the theoretical freedom of lifestyle + large income that was possible. Now having been in the trenches for over a year, I’ll say it’s not quite the case. Full time affiliate marketing(especially by paid traffic) is a bit like a juggling act, [...]

Is there a difference? I think so. This is a bit of a rant and I’ll share an experience of mine. So I have been doing affiliate marketing for the last year. One thing that has started to really bother me, is that an affiliate marketing via paid traffic is a business totally reliant on [...]