Archive for July, 2008
Shifting Affiliate Strategies
It would make sense that since I sell coffee products on eBay I should have a blog about coffee, which I do. But once again Build A Niche Store was the main reason I started my blog called The Coffee Place, it wasn’t selling on eBay. I also wanted to see if I could put to good use some of the hundreds of PLR (Private Label Rights) articles I had loitering around in my hard drive. Yes I paid for them as part of a “buy out option” when I exited from the monthly PLR program I was part of.
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Content that Kills Action
I can’t write about teeth whitening! There is just no way Jose. I threw a blog on my BANS site “Whiter Smile Now” back in April with the hope of forcing myself to write a handful of sentences every few days on a subject I have zero interest in. Big mistake! Since that time I’ve managed to write one short blog post. Seems I always can find something better to do than write on the scintillating topic of teeth whitening.
Why did I choose a subject that means less than nothing to me when I already have wonderfully beautiful teeth?
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Elixir of Content Creation
The consistent creation of content worthy of the “publish” button on my Wordpress dashboard can be a daunting task. I admit to both disliking many aspects of content publication and finding it difficult to regiment myself into pre-defined times for creating content.
One thing I have found that helps tremendously in the stimulation of fresh creative content is drugs. The legal kind of course. Nothing jerks this old brain of mine into gear more than a stimulating strong cup, no make that two strong cups, of hot coffee.
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Small Affiliate Marketing Successes
When you are starting from Affiliate Ground Zero it’s a good practice to pat yourself on the back every chance you get, even for the teency-weenciest, of successes.
If you’re anything like me and enjoying the type of affiliate marketing success I am, this is where you might ask that mystical affiliate question,
“What is affiliate marketing success anyway?”
When I enter the “Hunter-gatherer” mode and start searching for a crumb of affiliate marketing success within my vast empire of web domains, the financial reports section on the eBay Partner Network is the last place I look. Those financial graphs in my EPN account look more like a scene out of one of my favorite sci-fi movies “Flatliners”.
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The 10 Content Commandments
If content IS King of Affiliate Ground Zero, why do I treat my King, who holds the power to raise my web sites from the ash heap of domain obscurity, like some two-bit peasant unworthy of my consistent attention and undivided loyalty?
I’ll tell ya why. Because in order for his digital monarchy of web domains, BANS related or otherwise, to reign supreme in his kingdom, King Content demands total obedience to ten, simple to understand but difficult to submit to, royal content edicts.
The importance of these royal edicts has lead King Content to personally scribe onto parchment a ruthless list of ten content commandments to be read in his castle’s courtyard as a royal proclamation for all his subjects to hear.
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CONTENT IS KING
I have been “mulling” what JTPratt so clearly and eloquently stated in his recent BANS blog entry entitled “Why BANS Niche Sites get Banned from Google”.
I’m not putting words in JT’s mouth, but what JT’s blog post alerts ME to is that the vast majority of my affiliate marketing time and effort should first be focused on the consistent production of web content across the current web domains I have interest in that both entertains and educates my readers. In that order.
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The Definition of Affiliate Ground Zero
I mentioned in my post yesterday that setting affiliate marketing goals, out in the open, to be accountable to was the only way for me to get out from under Affiliate Ground Zero.
Well that’s not true. First I have to define where exactly IS Affiliate Ground Zero, how I ended up there and why I qualify to be tagged with the infamous moniker of “AGZ”.
For me, Affiliate Ground Zero is that large perfectly created indent on the plaster wall in my office made from the countless times I’ve smashed my head there trying to figure out the basics of Affiliate Marketing.
Stupidity reigns supreme and holds me slavishly in it’s grip when it comes to Affiliate Marketing.
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Enough Dabbling in Affiliate Marketing
I’ve been dabbling, and I mean dabbling, in affiliate marketing for about 2 years. I have made a whopping $425 in those 2 years, $325 of which came from 2 sales of the Auction Genius Course off my “My eBay Adventure Blog”.
You would think after two years of dabbling in affiliate marketing I would be able to make consistent money at this stuff but alas, “tis” not true. This Affiliate Ground Zero blog is my fresh attempt to focus my spare energy into a few specific affiliate marketing areas, set some realistic affiliate marketing goals and become accountable to them through sharing those goals outside myself. Always a scary proposition.
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Deadly Internet Malady
I’ve just got to post my affiliate ineptitude when it rears its ugly head, which by the way it does with ever increasing frequency. There have got to be some other affiliate lost souls out there who can relate to these types of affiliate frustrations I’m going to share with you now.
So I’m reading a blog post on my favorite BANS blog “The Niche Store Builder”, BANS being an acronym for Build A Niche Store, giving kudos to PepperJam, one the newest affiliate networks on the Internet.
At this point if you’re at, or close to the center, of “affiliate ground zero” like me, you might want to read Wikipedia’s definition of what the heck an affiliate network is anyway.
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Where have all the keyword research users gone
I was just watching a keyword video today showing how to use Wordtracker. Wordtracker seems like a terrific keyword research tool and I do want to get it. Right now I am using Nichebot and although I do like it most of the people who are creating the videos I’m viewing use Wordtracker.
On a whim I thought I would check Nichebot’s Alexa ranking and take a closer look at the traffic history for the past year. As you can see from the Alexa image below, Nichebot traffic history indicated by the blue line in the image below, is down significantly over the past year. That caught my attention and made me ask myself, “Am I on a sinking ship?”.
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