Archive for July, 2011

Authority Directories

A lot of people don’t understand the importance of quality directories and how they can help your rankings in Google, however in this post I’ll be discussing the topic and also referring to a particular directory called “Best of the Web” that I think is pretty decent.

Directory submissions often get a bad name for being an old school way of building links, and something that doesn’t work anymore, and to a certain degree I understand this argument, however not entirely, which I will explain now.

Not all directoties are the same, some make you

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WordPress Backup

Hey everyone,

Some practical housekeeping advice today, but very important so please make sure you follow this if you use WordPress for your affiliate marketing sites.

WordPress in my opinion is brilliant, I build all my sites on WordPress these days, as it makes life easy and create great sites with easier functionaility. However on occasion WordPress can go wrong, and the database which is essentially where all your files are stored on your server can get corrupted.

Although this doesn’t happen often, I have experienced before myself, and it’s not pretty. You can lose everything and have

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Is There Money in Adsense?

In this post I’ll be discussing Google Adsense and if there’s decent money to be made using it.

A lot of people that focus on affiliate marketing, falsely believe that you can’t make good money with Google Adsense, and for a while back there I also fell into that trap. However having a few friends that are heavily into it, one I met recently actually who’s making $25,000 a month from pure Adsense, makes you think again.

There are a lot of companies advertising on the Google Content network, in fact in 2011 so

Article source: http://mattsmarketingblog.com/affiliate-marketing/is-there-money-in-adsense/

Cashing Out: Week of July 24th – 30th 2011 in Online Marketing News

Amazon makes another streaming deal, this time with NBCUniversal

There was a time not long ago when most people who thought of Amazon thought only of books. But in recent years, the company’s name has become increasingly synonymous with film and television.

Just last week, the retailer signed a licensing deal with CBS to stream 2,000 episodes of CBS shows to subscribers to Amazon Prime.

And, with a new deal with NBCUniversal, announced July 28, Amazon appears to be on a roll.

As with the CBS deal, Amazon Prime subscribers will

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Congress Looking At Balancing The Online Scales With Main Street Fairness

It may pale in comparison to the titanic Congressional struggle over the debt ceiling, but the ongoing nexus tax battle between states and Internet retailers like Amazon is receiving national attention. With separate federal tax bills slated for introduction in both the House and the Senate, the tit-for-tat war between online retailers and state tax collectors over the so-called Amazon tax may soon come to an end.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced the Main Street Fairness Act in the Senate on July 29. Co-sponsored by Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD), the bill has been considered by Congress on previous occasions, but

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Traffic Masters Webinar

Hi everyone,

A while back I recorded a webinar with a friend of mine that makes 3 million dollars a year online. He does a lot of affiliate marketing, but also loads of other things too, and the secret to his success is his amazing skill at driving traffic. He uses many methods, SEO being just one.

The feedback I got from that webinar was very positive indeed, so I decided to put the replay link up on the blog so you can watch it anytime you need.

The webinar covered three specific traffic techniques that you

Article source: http://mattsmarketingblog.com/affiliate-marketing/traffic-masters-webinar/

$25,000 From Adsense Sites

Recently I did a blog post about Adsense, and in it I mentioned a friend of mine who’s making 25K every month from Adsesne alone!!

The great news is, that after pursuing this guy for the past three weeks I finally managed to pin him down for a webinar, where I grilled him for his best Adsense secrets, and how is able to make so much with it.

The replay link is here for you to watch right now:

==25K a month Adsense Webinar replay==

In the interview I grilled my friend, on the following:

*what

Article source: http://mattsmarketingblog.com/affiliate-marketing/25000-from-adsense-sites/

Online Lead Generation

Another way to make great money online, that isn’t affiilate marketing, CPA or Adsense, is online lead generation. I’ve been looking into this for a while now and will be launching a site in the next few months, once I’ve done some more research and planning.

In this post I’m about to explain what online lead generation is, why it is an appealing revenue generating method and a few other things I’ve learned about it recently.

What is Online Lead Generation?

For those of you who don’t know, online lead generation is where you collect leads, using

Article source: http://mattsmarketingblog.com/seo/online-lead-generation/

Content Unlocking is a Growing Industry

As part of trying to expand our coverage of new parts of the industry, Performance Marketing Insider started a series of interviews with content unlocking companies. Please note, at first I questioned the entire Content Unlocking industry, but have begun to realize the benefits and that there are legit uses for the methods. This incentive based industry is one of the fastest growing segments, very similar to the social media currency, except that is generally not social based. The whole model is simple: sites want to provide

Article source: http://performinsider.com/2011/07/content_unlocking/

Content Unlocking King: Fehzan Ali is Now Big Man on Campus

 Fehzan Ali is one of the new breed of young entrepreneurs who are making a killing in the industry.  He’s the owner of AdscendMedia, one of the top content unlocking companies in the world.  He’s part of an industry that is starting to grow very fast, but is extremely misunderstood by much of the industry. I actual first met him when I criticized the entire content unlocking industry on another publication, and he quickly

Article source: http://performinsider.com/2011/07/fehzan_ali/