Archive for January, 2008
List of Bookmarking Sites that Give Link Love
My Web BETA - Interesting Today - Yahoo!
Alexa: 1 Google Pagerank: 7
Digg
Alexa: 149 Google Pagerank: 8
Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users
My Ask
Alexa: 210 Google Pagerank: 6
Squidoo : Explore Lenses
Alexa: 732 Google Pagerank: 7
Squidoo. Fast, free and easy way to build a page on a topic you’re passionate about. Earn money for charity or yourself, get traffic. More than 325,000 pages built so far.
The Adwords/Clickbank Case Study
I have been tutoring a reader on using Adwords to promote Clickbank and am finally getting back on track here.
- First I asked him to choose a Clickbank product to promote.
- Then I briefly went through the logic of choosing keywords for the Adwords campaign.
- I went over the importance of negative keywords in your Adwords campaigns.
- And finally I went over some things that might scare a newbie away from Adwords.
Current Adwords Mistakes
I wrote a post a few days ago about newbie adwords mistakes and got a little big for my britches. I currently make mistakes. The biggest one being taking anything for granted. Like dropping some of the practices that created all of my profit for me.
Always split test. Use at least two ads in each ad group and once you have enough impressions to notice people favoring one over the other, replace the ad with the lowest CTR. I admit I slack on this one, tending to go after quantity rather than quality with my limited time.
Get Free Visitors
And it is free if you don’t go for the upsell. This link will give you an access to a directory of directories that you can submit your website to. Plus, you get a control panel so you know which sites you have submitted a where. And with over 400 directories listed, you can really build a few links back to your site or blog.
Plan Your Affiliate Marketing Budget
Plan Your Affiliate Marketing Budget - 4 Levels of Spending
This is a very good post on the varying budgets you need to begin and continue with affiliate marketing. From shoestring to big spender, it shows you how you can incrementally build more and more income on the internet. Saves me the time from writing it myself and I couldn’t have done a better job.