Website Traffic Types: Direct Traffic
If you were to walk out your front door and travel to the mall there are probably at least a half a dozen different routes you could take. The same is true for the people who come to visit your blog. They can follow a link from an email, a link at Facebook or Twitter, they can type your …
What Really Motivates People?
I’ve talked before about how the goal of your sales pages and squeeze pages should be to eliminate the obstacles between the buyer and the Buy It Now button. But let’s go into a little more detail. If you’re going to eliminate the obstacles you first have to know what those obstacles are. To determine that, you have to understand what motivates your reader. Before you can even think about racking up the sales you need to understand why a reader would even be motivated to hit that Buy button. Long story…
Processes That Lead to Blogging Success
Making that first sale on their blog is an event that most bloggers remember like it happened only yesterday. But leading up to any event is a process, a certain combination of steps you have to take to make that event a reality. During the course of your blogging career you’ll experience many milestone events. But before you do, you’ll have to understand and master the …
Website Traffic Types: Referral Traffic
There are three basic types of traffic coming into your blog every day: Search engine traffic, direct traffic and referral traffic. Each type of traffic is important for different reasons and today we’re going to focus on referral traffic. What is it? Where does it come from? And why is referral traffic important for your blog? What is Referral Traffic? Referral traffic is traffic that arrives at your blog via a link that someone shared. You can break referral traffic down even further into two categories: Social sharing traffic and Blog/Website referrals. Where does Referral …
Why Do You Write?
Why do you write? Sounds like an odd question, doesn’t it? A couple of months ago, I’ve written an article here telling my readers why do I blog. I’ve asked them to share their reasons too and got great response and different reasons from bloggers on that. Today I thought to make it more interesting by asking…
Reduce Bounce Rates With Good E-Commerce Website Design
Good bounce rates are the target of any website, but particularly to sites hoping to sell their products to their visitors. Essentially, your bounce rate is the number of visitors who land on your site, but do not go onto visit any other pages within your site, or who leave immediately. This means that for …
$70,000 in one week arbitraging traffic with Redirect.com
Some of you have been following my fb group, facebook postings, and twitter posts regarding the screen shots of my arbitraging traffic with this platform called www.Redirect.com started by the guys over at Media Breakaway aka Cpa Empire aka Affiliate.com. Now I been working with Scott Richter and the team over at www.Redirect.com on arbing traffic with them and have
Trip Report: Leeds, Scotland, and Bangkok
It’s been a month since leaving the US, and it is crazy how fast the month has gone by. It has been fast, with lots of stories to tell and experiences to learn from. I could write all day about each one, but instead, I will give a summary of my last month.
IMGrind: Affiliate Marketing Training Forum
As I continue onto my journey of affiliate marketing, I am increasingly asked by readers via comments left here and through e-mail on how they can get started and learn all about affiliate marketing. They ask me if I have an e-book or a course anywhere. I don’t. In fact, I have never written an e-book or sold a training course of any kind. While I am not ruling out trying that down the road, my blog has always been about my personal journey of making a living online. That …
Using Sponsored Stories to Generate Blog Traffic
Facebook Ads are dead. That’s something I’ve been hearing from a few months now and while it may be getting harder and harder to get your affiliate campaigns approved, I have been seeing awesome results from Facebook Ad campaigns I have been running lately. You just need to be a little more creative and use the new features within Facebook Ads to your advantage. One example of a Facebook feature within Facebook Ads that …
Affiliate Summit East 2013 In Philadelphia – Save the Date.
The votes came in and after four years in NYC, the people chose Philadelphia for Affiliate Summit East 2013 on August 18-20, 2013. This will be the 24th Affiliate Summit and it is expected to be the largest Affiliate Summit East to date (again!). Affiliate Summit East 2013 in Philadelphia On a personal note, although NYC is my hometown and I love…
Designers Love Using iPhones in Web Design, But They’re Wrong
As a designer, one thing I’ve noticed as a web-design trend lately is to feature Apple products in the design, primarily iPhones. While I understand that they are beautiful devices I don’t think they are as beneficial to a design as many may believe. While I do believe that showing shots of your application or site being used is fantastic because being…
Week In Review: College Football & Haters
This week in review covers quick paydays, exclusive pre-game football parties with Shoemoney, affiliate marketing investment and much more! “Ultimate College Football & Internet Marketing Experience“ – If you’re a college football fan and an Internet marketer, you’ll want to check this out. Doesn’t dinner with Shoemoney, an exclusive pre-game party, a football game, a tour of ShoeMoney Media Group’s offices and more sound great? …
Craigslist Becomes a Scammy Nightmare for NJ Flood Residents in Need
There are billions of dollars of money being flooded into New Jersey right with all of the insurance companies and FEMA making the rounds. Throw in auto insurances and every other way to make money with construction, contracting and scamming, you are sure to make a killing, be killed or play by the rules. Right now there is basically NO WHERE to find…
Google AdWords Quality Score Myth Revealed
The rantings of some crazy men… Following on from a recent forum question we read on Webmaster World Google AdWords Forum the question rose regarding ‘Keyword Quality Score Upgraded?’ – where advertisers Quality Score (QS) jumps from 6/10 & 7/10 to 10/10 overnight, with no real reason as to why Quality Score has jumped without any
How PPC Can Take Your Business to the Next Level
This article will explain how PPC can take your business to the next level and beyond by harnessing the marketing power of the internet. PPC stands for pay per click and most savvy businesses use or have used this form of advertising to turbo charge their businesses. One of the first things in looking at how PPC can take …
The Inside Network Job Board: King.com, Tetris, Velocidi and more
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best social media job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Aarki, BrightRoll, King.com and more. Aarki Inc. Mobile Advertiser & Publisher Sales Ad Ops Campaign Manager & Trafficker BrightRoll Marketing Manager Campaign Manager (NYC) GREE International Director of UI…
Why *Joshua Rhodes* Is A Marketing Genius
Let’s be honest. If you’re in this industry and are ever on Facebook, you know of Joshua Rhodes. Yes, the one that *types* like THIS! Since some people don’t understand how truly genius this is, let me explain. In the midst of hundreds of affiliate/marketing Facebook groups, thousands of members of each group, and hundreds of thousands of posts floating around, how many people are actually making their name stick? Truth is, unless they’re a major blogger, affiliate network, or a …
Clarification on the “Show to Converter” Feature
Hi Everyone! Well I’m back in the office from my vacation (Cheers to nDemand for the invite to their meetup in the BAHAMAS)!I trust Cyndi has been taking very good care of you all! So the “Show to Converter” targeting has data from day 1 of your campaign and not since we released the targeting capability. So to those with old campaigns that have been using the pixel, you’re sitting on a gold mine! Next week, I’
Mobi Gold Secrets a Robert F Carrera Theft
UPDATE: Looks like the thief deleted his thread after he got called out. As most of the readers of this blog know, I have no interest in becoming a guru. I release all my training for FREE in the hopes that as affiliates become successful in mobile they will join my network or sign …