DPR Affiliate Marketing Blog

Posts Tagged ‘affiliate marketing’

You may be a blogger. That may be where you start. You may be a PPC affiliate marketer. That could be a starting place. You may not want to get your hand dirty with all the technical details. That’s great also, if you have a staff or a budget for hiring other people. But I would say that most of the readers of this blog do not.

Data. What is data? Anything on the internet for the most part. As soon as you post an article to your blog, it becomes data. I know. I know. You wrote it. It’s the result of your work. But once it hits the internet, it becomes data. What else is data? The Clickbank marketplace XML. Affiliate datafeeds. Your bookmarks. The list goes on.

I am going to let you in on something. There are a few ways you can pick a topic for a niche blog.

One is to go through your interests and what you want to learn and pick something. Then find some affiliate products that compliment that interest. Then start writing. If you are interested, than it should be easy to come up with content. This is probably the best way. Readers will notice your passion and your stake in what you have to say. You can’t go wrong with this route.

Affiliate marketing can be a pain in the ass to learn sometimes. It’s not hard but it is work. But I am not talking about that part.

The problem is with the options. There are just too many. If you look at the post I wrote just the other day, you will see why. I listed over a hundred ways to promote your blog. Do they all work? Yes. To some extent. But when you are faced with a list like that, at least when I am, I freeze. Too many options gives you no clear place to start. And I promise, that list is only a start. I have used some of the methods and know what has worked for me. And some of the methods are based on your blog as a whole while others focus on posts. And some methods are good to use when you start a blog and others will only work after your blog has at least a little bit of a presence online.

There is much more information on affiliate marketing out there than I can really write about at this site. Here are some of my findings.

Google Adwords Adds More Features

Google’s Trendalyzer, renamed Motion Chart, visually depicts user behavior on a site. Someone using this tool can search on five dimensions of data to see how site visitors behave over time, and how the quality of their visits rates through an animated graph with colored bubbles.

Blackhat SEO to Affiliate Network CEO

Jason Akatiff was a regular blackhat SEO making cloaked pages and having fun making money online until he purchased a failing affiliate network last June.

I picked up a lot of news on affiliate marketing and Clickbank from these daily automatic postings, including the subject for yesterday’s post about weekly checks from Clickbank. You can catch a lot of news first at Twitter.

But these do have a way of jamming a feed reader full of crap and making this look like a splog.

So, if any of you like them, I will start the posts up again. If not, I will leave them off.