Affiliate Odyssey

Sheesh…it’s been a while.
This affiliate marketing game is so damn hard.
Since the last post, I’ve been following the Black Ink Project where updates have slowed to a crawl and I’ve also completed Ed Dale’s 30 Day Challenge.
The 30 Day Challenge was great and I learned a load of techniques for market research, keyword discovery, traffic [...]

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Choosing The Domain Name 
Domain naming is the most hotly debated subject on the web with camps split between those who recommend short, memorable names and those who believe keyword-rich names are the way to go.
Eric recently posted 3 Steps To Keyword-Rich Domains which, when looking at an affiliate campaign, seems the right way to go.
My [...]

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Yesterday, I looked at 3 strategies for starting an affiliate campaign.
Well, I’ve decided to go the long-term, authority site route and here’s why.
By nature, I’m risk averse.
I need a strategy where I can “hedge” a campaign by linking to a large number of merchants with diverse offers while still keeping within a niche where I [...]

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The first decision to make with any new affiliate campaign is the niche or product to target.
There are 3 strategies I think have merit:

Temporal - look for a niche which has high consumer demand and urgency based on a specific date/season. Obvious examples of this are Christmas, Easter, World Cup Finals, snowfall, etc. For this [...]

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After a pitiful start to 2008 posting-wise, I came across this One Page A Day Challenge on Eric Giguere’s blog.
It seems like the perfect excuse to kick-start this blog (again!) and has a great prize for all those who complete the challenge - Eric’s Uncommon Adsense e-book.
I really like the idea that everyone gets a [...]

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