Is It Easy To Learn Affiliate Marketing?

The following is a guest post by Lena Morrish and Dima Nikolayenko. Affiliate marketing sounds like something that should be relatively easy to do. Sign up for an affiliate program, paste some links and banners around on the Internet, and start earning money. But is it really that easy to learn and to do, and create the multi digit incomes that everyone says you can earn in just a few days? How to be... read more

Hot Affiliate WordPress Theme

Wow, I’m not often this impressed, but when I see something that makes my jaw drop, I figure you should see it too. I downloaded and activated a plugin today, and in the options panel, I noticed a link to a premium themes site that I’d never heard of. Since I look at lots of themes, I was surprised to see a new one, so of course I checked it out. While all the premium themes look good, one in... read more

Ebay Affiliate Sales (or How To Earn Money from Other People’s eBay Auctions)

Most of the people that I know in real life (family, neighbors, etc.) aren’t savvy about how people make money online. If I were to ask any of them how people make money from eBay, I’d bet that 100% of them would say that people make money by selling their junk on eBay. Of course, they wouldn’t be wrong, but they wouldn’t be 100% right either. What they don’t realize is that... read more

Simple Way To Create Review Sites Using WordPress

In the Affiliate Review Sites: An Introduction post, you saw my recommendations for creating a well-rounded, useful affiliate review site. I also mentioned that automating the format layout of a review is a good idea (but automating the content itself is not). You can certainly create your own little design template that you copy/paste into each review if you want. I’ve done that a few million times... read more

Affiliate Review Sites: An Introduction

It’s easy to define a review site. It is simply a site that reviews products, usually specific to a niche. An affiliate review site, then, is one that reviews products, and links to the products via affiliate links. Affiliate review sites exploded in popularity in the last few years, and over time, it became an autogenerated spamfest. That kind of affiliate review site, in my opinion, is simply spam... read more

My New Product: Q&A Affiliate Formula

UPDATE: This product has been retired. As you are aware, I make my living online. A large portion of that income comes from sites I own which promote affiliate products that I believe are of value. Over the years, I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t when promoting affiliate products. In addition, I’ve paid attention when successful affiliate marketers (and non-affiliate marketers)... read more

Beyond Awesome: Intelligent Use of Affiliate Datafeeds within WordPress

Affiliate Datafeeds: An Introduction presented a basic overview of affiliate datafeeds, and how they can be useful in generating additional income for your ebusiness. That post listed one of the most well-known tools for processing datafeeds for static sites, but this post focuses on using a tool that lets you leverage many people’s favorite site tool, WordPress. “Everyone” uses... read more

Affiliate Datafeeds: An Introduction

Some site owners make a few bucks on the side by promoting an affiliate product or two. Many will simply throw an affiliate banner ad into their sidebar and hope it makes a few sales. That’s usually what that approach will accomplish. A few sales – a few commissions – maybe enough for a dinner or two out at a family restaurant that month. Other site owners put more time and effort into... read more

Affiliate Links: Manage Them, Track Them, Earn More From Them

You know you want to make more affiliate sales on your site. You know what products you’ll be promoting. You’re ready to place the links. But wait! Before you place an affiliate link on your site, consider a few things first. Problems with Typical Affiliate Links The typical affiliate link comes with its share of problems in most cases, so let’s take a look at what some of those problems... read more

Monetizing A Site via Affiliate Sales – An Introduction

There are many ways to monetize a web site, and I’ve previously outlined the most common in my post titled, “10 Methods of Earning Online Income with Definitions Included“. If you haven’t yet read that post, and would like a refresher course in site monetization methods, I recommend reading it at some point. The first method listed in that post is CPA (Cost Per Action), which for... read more