Plan for week 3
My plans for week 3 (March 30-April 5th) are:
learn inside the Wealthy Affiliate
promote my 51 Grand blog
read blog archives of my idols
find and join Top Affiliate Networks
Summary of Week 2
My plans for second week were:
explore the Wealthy Affiliate Club,
read blog archives of my idols
learn the basics of affiliate marketing, gather and post the best resources,
learn more about copywriting and how to write for my blog,
research how to promote my blog,
prepare a media kit and advertising page,
set up a contact form.
Here is what I was [...]
How to write for blogs
…in 15 seconds
If you only have 15 seconds here it is:
Provide extra-useful information for your readers.
Write attractive headlines with your keywords in it.
Create scannable and highly readable posts.
Reveal your points at the beginning, explain them, then sum up.
in 5 minutes
Writing Great Blog Content is a science that takes a lot of time and mistakes, but [...]
How to promote a blog
I found excellent posts on Blog promotion on problogger.net, successful-blog.com and some other places (check bottom of this page).
To sum things up, these are things I am going to do to promote 51 grand:
Make my site visible to search engine, directories, networks
Google, Google Blog Search, Yahoo, MSN
Technorati
Blog Carnival
Networking
Comment on other related blogs – this [...]
Affiliate tips
Shawn Collins is an affiliate marketer who has been in business since 1997! He is a co-founder of the Affiliate Summit and co-editor-in-chief of FeedFront Magazine. I was reading his blog Affiliate Tip and found som really good advices for affiliate newbies.
Here is what Shawn would do if he was starting up an affiliate right [...]
Blog design for Pros
When looking for a perfect Wordpress theme, I did some research and I discovered worlds most sucessful blog designs have lots of things in common.
Blogs analyzed
www.shoemoney.com
www.johnchow.com
www.problogger.com
www.lifehack.org
www.smashingmagazine.com
www.doshdosh.com
www.entrepreneurs-journey.com
These are all established blogs and high earners also.
Header
Nice and memorable logo with slogan.
Horizontal navigation with key elements.
Banner ad placement (468×60 or 728×90 – Shoemoney).
Search box (internal or Google custom [...]
Affiliate Marketing
What is affiliate marketing?
Hopefully this post will clear many things about affiliate marketing for beginners.
Wikipedia:
Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts.
Commission Junction:
Affiliate marketing is an online advertising channel in which advertisers pay publishers only [...]
Plan for week 2
My plans for week 2 (March 23-29) are:
explore the Wealthy Affiliate Club into details,
read blog archives of my idols – Top Earning Online Marketers, there is huuge amount of information in their archives, so this will probably be an ongoing task for several weeks. I will start with Shoemoney,
learn the basics of affiliate marketing, gather [...]
Summary of week 1
My plans for first week were:
configure this wordpress blog
discover what are best ways to make money on internet,
find people who are already making good money online and see how they are doing it,
join best online forums to get feedback from community,
learn basic terms and get familiar with online tools.
Here is what I was doing from [...]
Internet Marketing Forums
It is very important to introduce yourself to the audience before you start talking. And why should it be different online?
Maki from Dosh Dosh made a comprehensive list of 26 affiliate marketing forums which are also webmater forums.
Here is a list of top internet marketing forums I recommend:
Digital Point, 270.000 members, 60.000+ active members, Shoemoney [...]