On The Affiliate Brink
There was a happy ending to this poor guy’s dilemma in what is one of the most incredible videos I’ve ever witnessed. Suicide aside, with the recent cuts in their affiliate force by the eBay Partner Network, BANS users must feel like at any minute they could be swept over the affiliate-brink. Especially if a good chunk of their income is dependent on EPN. I realize PepperJam is a fall back position for BANS users, but it still looks precarious at best and not an affiliate-ledge I’d like to be perched for any length of time waiting to be rescued.
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Using YouTube Videos to Learn
One of the nice things about the rise in popularity of video sites like YouTube are the amount of instructional videos on all sorts of topics. Many days while processing eBay orders I’ll type in a topic such as “search engine optimization” (SEO) on YouTube, select a video and listen while I work.
I try and stick with people whose SEO reputations are established such as Aaron Wall from SEOBook but there are a ton of people to choose from and try out. It’s a piece of cake to do and a great way to take advantage of my time. There are some great Build a Niche Store videos produced by Mark over at The Niche Store Builder. And of coarse I have all sorts of audio and videos to choose from on Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind site now that I am a member.
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The Power of Blog Commenting
Up until the last couple of weeks I have not left more than a handful of comments on blogs in all my years browsing the web. Call me anti-social but I wasn’t interested in striking up conversations with people I didn’t know. Recently though I have changed that attitude and am finding that posting comments is a good thing for all parties concerned.
First off, its feels good letting fellow-bloggers know I appreciate their work. Many of these denizens of the dark, stay up until the wee hours of the morning hammering away on their keyboards. It’s not like most bloggers become millionaires writing blog posts. Bloggers write to express their ideas to whomever will read them and to further their dream of creating a purposeful life. I’m sure some bloggers do very well financially, but most are community-focused people who enjoy helping others by posting articles designed to educated readers in a particular niche.
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Wordpress and BANS get Married
One of the things that has me excited about converting WordPress templates to work with Build a Niche Store is it provides BANS owners with a convenient way to publish content on a consistent basis.
Wordpress makes content publication a snap and support for the platform is rock solid and established. It seems every time I look there is another handy Wordpress plugin making the job of producing content a little bit easier.
With BANS hooked into Wordpress writing relevant content linked to store pages should not only become less tedious but also more fun. When used correctly Wordpress produces a flow of content production conducive to writing followup articles that weave a tight fabric of search engine friendly stand-alone pages. Categories, sub-categories and Wordpress tags all can be used to support posts and pages so that each post becomes a mini-site attracting visitors and potential shoppers for years to come.
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Jumping To Conclusions
Seems I was doing a bit of affiliate exercising yesterday when I assumed five of my Build a Niche Stores went “ka-bluey”. Yep I was “jumping-to-conclusions”. I’m glad I didn’t take any hasty actions. In fact I did nothing at all with those five BANS stores and today they are working fine.
Who knows why. I flushed my browsers cache, re-booted my computer, changed the main eBay category inside my BANS administration panel to find out if they would respond but that’s as far as I took it.
I guess waiting can be pro-active sometimes.
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Turning Lemons Into Lemonade
Ouch that hurt! My click rate on my Build A Niche Stores has decreased over at EPN (eBay Partner Network) the last couple of weeks. Silly me looks at the diminishing clicks and decides not to check into it further. Nope…everything must be hunky-dory, no need to worry my little head about a thing. It’s probably nothing.
Wrong.
Five of my BANS web sites went “ka-bluey” and I don’t have the slightest clue why. Here is an example of what they look like. Everything looks fine inside the BANS administration panel. I called my web hosting company and everything looks super-terrific over there too. This could end up being like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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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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