lurksteraz on September 6th, 2007
Thought I’d share this with you. Derek B has hit another home run with one his posts about Building An Authority Affiliate Site .
I do have to say one thing though. I’ve been reading alot of blogs about affiliate marketing there is alot of crap out there. I think DB’s site is one of the most informative I’ve read and will continue to read. I’ve noticed that there are blogs out there that all they mention is how good they do with affiliate marketing and how they have every toy known to man, yet offer nothing really informative. “I went here, I bought this” kind of posts are inspiring, but at the same time offer no substance for truly learning the craft of affiliate marketing.
Anyways, that’s my rant for the moment.
lurksteraz on August 29th, 2007
Looks like Bodog has taken a hit from someone on the ownership of the Bodog.com domain name. Calvin Ayre has issued a statement. According to some people, 1st Technology LLC is the company behind taking the domain in a $49 million dollar lawsuit. I wonder what it’s going to take for Bodog to get the name back?
I still use Bodog for some affiliate stuff, so now I need to go through and change the links out to the new domain, newbodog.com.
What sucks for them is that fact that my affiliate site and their site were actually competing for some popular keywords. I guess I’ll have to step up some efforts to make some conversions.
lurksteraz on August 28th, 2007
Have you ever started a project, completed halfway only to never return to it and finish? That’s the story of my life. I have so many projects that are just sitting out there in cyber space collecting dust. Here is what happens to me:
1. Think of something that has the potential to make some cash.
2. Start researching the market and collecting keywords
3. Start working on a layout for the website
4. Think of a new domain or niche
5. Launch the new site
6. Searching for a new domain name from line 4
7. Find a few links to the newly launched website
8. Start another new layout for domain I just bought
9. and so on
You can kind of see a pattern in the way I’ve been doing it. Work on one thing and think of something else that could be better and start working on that, and the vicious cycle continues. I call this affiliate er-web-tile dysfunction. I just can’t get it going.
Solution:
I’ve started to focus on just a few niches. Starting with building a site and then further building it out. Obviously I’ll shoot for natural rankings as this is the easiest to start with, then when the time(and money) are available I can start to throw PPC advertising at some offers. I’m sure people reading this are saying, ‘go for the ppc advertising first, instant traffic’, well unless you want to deposit some cash into my paypal, I would do it. But when money is tight, I have to shoot for natural rankings.
To start, I have 3 websites I’m focusing my effort on and are ranking already for some keywords but the high traffic keywords haven;t surfaced yet. I’ll try to post some progress reports on these, so stay tuned.
lurksteraz on August 17th, 2007
That’s right, Pimpin aint easy. If you think about it, affiliate marketing is just like pimpin’.
Now bear with me, and take a look at this chart I created about the relationship between them.
| AffiliateMarketing |
Pimpin |
| Find a new niche |
Find a new corner to pimp your women |
| You build a website from scratch, |
You find a new bitch, doll her up with makeup and clothes |
| Make your site conversion friendly |
Teach her how to turn tricks |
| Testing keyword sets in PPC |
Send her to private events to see if it’s the right crowd for Ho’in |
| Narrow in on a niche and capitalize |
If she does well at a moose lodge party in a major hotel, send the bitch back for more |
| Build the site out if it works |
Give her some fake breasts and new finger nails |
| If it loses money over a long period of time, start on something else |
If she can’t turn tricks, kick the bitch to the curb |
| Your niche is now making massive amounts of money |
She’s a well known Ho on the block and every Tom wants a spin |
| Recieve monthly checks |
Snatch the bitches money and send her back out |
| Affiliate company doesn’t pay |
Ball up the fist and knock the bitch out! |
Ok, so the last one is for affiliate businesses that don’t pay, I had to throw that in there. I may be crazy, but if you look at them side by side it makes sense. Now I don’t know about you, but I think I’ll stick with affiliate marketing and leave the pimpin to the Don Juan’s and Sugar Daddys.
So anyways, I’ve decided to try the global approach. I’ve secured my euro-host and registered some co.uk domains. I think I’ll give this a shot as well. has anyone else had success with the European market?
