Archive for June, 2008

PostHeaderIcon Affiliate Alerts from Over the Weekend

I go again to my Google alerts for the weekend:

Leading sportsbook Centrebet is offering Income Access affiliates
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Powered by the Income Access software, the Centrebet affiliate program also offers affiliates an unparalleled depth of reporting.

Capital Gold Group, Inc. Launches “Gold Affiliate Program” for
PR Urgent - USA
The Gold Affiliate Program enables financial advisors, planners, and consultants to offer their clients physical gold assets for either direct delivery or

PostHeaderIcon Building Links on Authority Sites

My first exposure to backlink’s to was through the first ebook I purchased through Clickbank. I have purchased somewhere between ten and twenty ebooks since I started this whole business. Some taught me a lot. Some didn’t. This one did. Some had only a valuable paragraph or two, but each paragraph increased the income I already had. These books I purchased out of curiosity and still benefited. Once you get the concept, new techniques can be used more effectively and books that seem worthless to a newbie hold nuggets of gold for someone who has been around the affiliate marketing block a few times.

PostHeaderIcon Free PDF’s For Affiliate Marketers and Bloggers

Most of the time, there is really no reason to pay for an ebook because there is so much free information available out there. Today I spotted a PDF search engine on popurls. So I did some searching.

It should be pretty easy to figure out a few more.

PostHeaderIcon A Free Keyword Tool and A Free Niche Site Script

Just a short post about some free tools I found on the web today.

The first is a free keyword pairing script that will help you build list of keywords for your PPC campaigns. It takes up to four lists of words and mixes them into new combinations. It includes a list of US and Canada cities. There is also a link to a zip code file you can use with the script for getting really local with your keyword list.

The second is a free niche site script for creating a Ebay, Amazon, and YouTube mashups with a full tutorial on how to build a niche store in minutes.

PostHeaderIcon ClickBank Offers PayPal for Recurring Billing

BROOMFIELD, Colo. - June 25, 2008 - ClickBank, a privately held online retailer for buyers and sellers of digitally delivered products and services, today announced it is offering PayPal for recurring billing - yet another strategic option for product publishers seeking to increase business and meet customer needs.  

ClickBank is using PayPal's recurring billing solution to give product publishers an easy way to sell subscription-based content and services, such as online newsletters or annual software licenses. It has proven to be very popular with customers, growing rapidly each month since its introduction. 

"Currently, nearly 20 percent of ClickBank's total business transactions are conducted using PayPal," said Bob King, ClickBank CEO. "Allowing customers to use PayPal for recurring billing will further fuel demand for our popular subscription-based products and services and, by providing a new payment option, enhance the ClickBank experience for publishers, affiliates and customers."

"We are excited to have ClickBank on board using PayPal," said Jim Hunt, director of merchant relations at PayPal. "Using our recurring billing functionality gives customers security and convenience when shopping online."

ClickBank is a world leader in online commerce systems with more than 100,000 active affiliates, 35,000 unique digitally downloadable products, such as e-books and software, and over 12,000 product publishers from around the globe that register more than 25,000 daily transactions.