Originally posted at
The BookMarkMoney.com Blog First off, I’d like to extend congratulations to Ruck, at
Cash Tactics. This week he announced that his
first daughter was born. It sounds like everything is going well, so I’d like to welcome him to a new world of concern. As the old saying goes: If you have a son you only need to worry about one prick. If you have a daughter, you need to worry about every prick in town. My daughter is only 17 months old, and already the boys her age are giving her the eye. I fear that it will only get worse from here.
Now, on to the goodies.
Affiliate Marketing For those just getting started in affiliate marketing,
Sean at the
Warrior Blog has a tutorial that takes you through all of the steps - researching, locating, and then finally cashing the checks. I wish I had known about this when I had first started out.
Your First Clickbank Sale.
Build a Niche Store (
BANS) is something I’ve been looking into for a while. When my wife goes back to work, I may just break down and purchase it, since I’ve heard noting but good things about it.
Affiliate Confession has a 7 part series on setting up and using
BANS. A very good place to start if you want an easier entry into affiliate marketing.
Build A Niche Store Tutorials Overview - Parts 1-7Part 1 - What BANS Does And Does Not DoPart 2 - Niche Brainstorming And Getting A Domain NamePart 3 - Installing And Setting Up Your BANS Affiliate Store Part 4 - Tweaking Your eBay Affiliate StorePart 5 - Adding Some Content To Your eBay Store Part 6 - Article Marketing And Getting LinksPart 7 - Using USFreeAds.com For Traffic And Getting More LinksArticle MarketingThe Warrior Blog has a tutorial on
Article Marketing for promotional purposes. I know that a lot of people recommend doing article marketing, but it seems like a lot of work, that I’d be better off channeling elsewhere.
Mashups Although it’s over a year old, Paul O’Brien’s list of
Mashups created with
Yahoo! Pipes is still a pretty good read to help inspire ideas for your own mashup.
I’m not sure of the date on this one, but
SEO Book had a nice
roundup of specific Pipes.
If you’ve been dying to create a mashup, but can’t program and can’t afford a program,
Open Kapow may be for you. Using their simple tools, literally anyone can create a mashup in minutes just by pointing and clicking. Extremely useful if you want to use data from sites that don’t provide an Application Programming Interface (API) or Ready Site Syndication (RSS) feed.
Black Hat If you have a Wordpress Blog, then
Jimmy at
Seeds for Wealth has a
technique for raping Digg’s traffic. At best this trick is grey hat, at worst it’s black hat, but getting links from Digg is never a bad thing.
Continuing along the path to the Dark Side,
Jimmy has tips on
getting big trafic from
BlogCatalog, and another one for
using your avatar as visitor bait.
If you’ve been wondering how certain sellers always rank so high on eBay’s Pulse page, someone placed them under the magnifying glass, and found out that there’s a lot of cheating going on behind the scenes.
estreet at
Watched Item watched some top sellers on
eBay Pulse, and gathered some compelling evidence that there is
rampant cheating going on.
Datafeeds5 Star Affiliate Programs has a pretty extensive list of
affiliate datafeeds ready for integration into your website. Affiliate Datafeeds are great, because they help generate a lot of content for search engines to spider, as well as helping to monetize your website.
Extensive Squidoo Lens on DatafeedsTools Marc Ghosh at
Weblog Tools Collection posted this week
introducing us to Zemanta.
Zemanta is a contextual content suggestion engine that works with Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com, and self-hosted WordPress installations.Zemanta is a simple FireFox extension that creates a little AJAX box on the side of your write panel in WordPress, and makes real-time suggestions for related news stories, Wikipedia articles, and Flickr photos. I’m very excited to start using this. You can also keep up to date with the latest happenings at
Zemanta’s Blog.
WordPress Plugins Jeffro2pt0 at
Weblog Tools Collection rounded up
10 WP plugins that fight comment spam. I personally use
WP Spam Free from
Hybrid 6, and have no complaints with it. I do disable it every so often to see how much it actually stops, and It’s amazing how much of a difference it makes.
Freebies Since I like free stuff, here’s my link to
Robbing Craigslist. If you want a free copy, just link to it from your blog too.
Emarket Scout tipped me off the the following:
Freebies for Writers, Authors, and Screenwriters.,
Self Growth Freebies, and
Free stuff for Windows Power Users.
SEO Black Hat tipped me off to the article “Messing With Digg” from David Naylor. If you’re using the Digg angle in your marketing efforts, these tricks might come in handy.