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#1 Mistake Most Blogs Do
Copyright 2005 Rok Hrastnik As much as this might surprise most bloggers, the #1 mistake most blogs are doing is not publishing their content via e-mail, as a supplement to their RSS feeds. Just think about it: while RSS is growing strong, it...
14 Tips To Catch Repeat Visitors To Your Websites
It is not enough to get people to visit your website. The most important things are to make them stay and visit again the next time they log on to the internet, and to inform other people of the existence of your website. Here are some helpful tips...
15 Tips to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
There are many factors that make blogs much better than normal WebPages including the speed at which blogs are indexed, ability to submit to blog directories & normal directories, pings and track backs. All these little things can help drive more...
Google Does RSS or How You Can Benefit From Google's New Sitemaps
Google Does RSS Has Google finally embraced RSS with their new XML powered Sitemaps program? Well, sort of, but it seems more like a hug than a strong impassioned embrace! It does use XML technology which allows for the crawling and updating...
How to Build a Niche Site With a Blog
Building niche sites is all the rage these days.
The basic strategy is very simple. Find a niche market that isn't oversaturated. Develop a list of related keywords people are searching on. Then write an article optimized for each one of your...
Marketing With Blogs - Part 2
Copyright © 2005 Priya Shah In part 1 of this article series on marketing with blogs, I discussed the reasons why blogs are excellent tools for marketing. In this article I outline some tips on using your blog as a good vehicle for your marketing...
Should Bloggers be Helping Google Fix Their PageRank System?
By now, most bloggers have heard the announcement that the Big 3 search engines - Google, Yahoo, and MSN - have united in support of a new tag that will supposedly combat comment spam. The new tag is a nofollow attribute that can be added to...
Top Search Engine Ranks, Part 2- Mastering the Secret- Explained
In the first part of this series on ranking at the top of the search engines, we discussed diversifying your Internet marketing efforts. We introduced several methods including RSS feeds, Link Popularity, Article Marketing, Blogs, and physically...
Why It Took Me So Long To Blog
When I saw my first blog, I wasn't impressed. The first blogs I ever read were embarrassing tales of teenage angst better left private, political diatribes from both the rabid right and the rabid left, and jargon-filled tech rags that made my...
Write a single article and get loads of free traffic to your blog or web site
For readers who have always doubted the power of well written articles as an online marketing weapon, I recommend this one article test. When I started off posting articles, I wrote only one article and as ignorant and inexperienced as I was in...
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My Story of Lifetime "Unpaid" Commissions
Yesterday I found a site that I have been an affiliate for a long period suddenly disappeared. This site let me make about $100 commissions every month. Not much but because I only used automatic methods like article marketing to promote it, thus it was a nice residual income. And since the site made sales, I have absolutely no idea why the site and its owner disappeared from the net.
If you have been in internet marketing industry for a period, you should know the situation in my story is very common. Sites and their owners disappeared everyday. As an affiliate, if the site you are promoting suddenly goes away, what leaves to you will just be lifetime unpaid commissions...
So do you want to protect yourself from this situation? Here are 2 suggestions that I want to share with you:
Select Affiliate Program Carefully
Is the site exist for more than 1 year? Do you know the site owner? Heard any good things about the site? Was the site owner written good articles? If you answer YES to any of these
questions, then the site you are going to promote will have greater chance to keep doing business on internet.
Protect Affiliate Link
If you own a website, you should use redirection script to protect affiliate links. For example, I use http://www.marktse.com/recommend/affiliateclassroom.php to redirect to my Affiliate Classroom affiliate link.
The importance of using redirection is if the site disappears, you can redirect the landing location to another affiliate program as soon as possible. Therefore no traffic will lost from your past promotion.
If you do not have your own website, I highly recommend you get one first. Or if you like you can use short url service like tinyurl.com.
To your affiliate marketing success,
Mark Tse
http://www.marktse.com
About the Author
This article is written by Mark Tse. Mark shares free tips, articles and downloads about Internet Marketing. You can visit his Internet Marketing Blog and read his latest posts here:
http://www.marktse.com/blog/
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