A primary ingredient in achieving any type of online success is marketing. But it is particularly important if you are promoting affiliate programs. Many people fail to find affiliate success because they use inefficient or even fraudulent marketing programs.

I once had an affiliate send over 5,000 viewers to one of my sales pages without making a single sale. Normally this program converts at over 1%. All of his traffic came from one traffic source and none of the visitors spent more than 10 seconds on my site. I debated over whether I should contact him about it because Read the rest of this entry »

Let me ask you a simple question. What is your homepages address? Just tell me the URL to your homepage.My guess is, that you just told me the domain name, as in www.bettergoogleposition.com.

Right? Of course! But take a second thinking about your website structure. You probably have a default page, like default.asp, index.html or something similar, which work as your homepage. For instance, on my website Toastforums.com, we have a default.asp file. Going to www.toastforums.com and www.toastforums.com/default.asp will bring you to the same page.

So - does it matter which one you use? As I will show you shortly - YES, it truly does matter, and you should think about this EVERY time you make a link to your frontpage.

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This is a very common question from people who are new online or to part time work at home businesses. And the answer is really simple; there is really no limit to how much money a part time affiliate can earn.

There have been reports about sites that are making close to $500,000 per month from the google adsense affiliate program alone. Usually most sites are able to run several different affiliate programs at the same time. The really exciting thing is that quite often what you are talking about in these cases are businesses run by a single individual on a part time basis. Of course this makes them very profitable because there are minimal overhead expenses to think about. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re a new webmaster, no doubt you know that it’s quite difficult to get traffic to come to your site. This is because building legitimate traffic takes both money and time. Why? If a webmaster is trying to get traffic through search engines, he or she will need to spend a lot of time on content creation and on link building. If traffic is coming through a pay per click program, a new webmaster might have to invest hundreds or even thousands of dollars to get the best use of a high-performance keyword. However, another alternative is out there that can allow a new webmaster to get a lot of traffic without having to invest much time or money. What is it? Purchasing expired domain names.

What’s an expired domain name? It’s a domain name that never got renewed by its owner so that it’s out there, ready for use by someone else. Read the rest of this entry »