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1and1.com Domain and Hosting Review

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:58:02 +0000

1and1.com is a great company that gives domains and hosting packages. There are millions of other ones such as go daddy, namecheap, etc..etc. Let me give you guys a review on this hosting company. I only use this to buy domains. Their prices were cheaper but now they actually raised it. (lots of these companies did too). They have a promo code right now that gives you 6.99 hosting from 1and1.com. It is for the FIRST year and it 8.99 afterwards. That isn’t too bad at all since all you are paying is the domain. Now let me get to the service. They make it easy for you to navigate. When you buy a domain you will get offered a bunch of BS hosting that you shouldn’t buy. Always register your domain to private. Godaddy I heard has private registration fees which I think is BS. So once you do buy a domain in 1and1.com it takes less than 12 hours to actually be approved by them. Then about 2-3hours for them to connect your domain to your hosting plan. Seriously, that wait isn’t so bad. Do it in the morning and you should have the whole day to actualyl create your web site.

However Canceling them is another story.You can find how to cancel at the end of this paragraph. They are not friendly when cancelling. I actually had to google on how to even cancel it. Well overall, they are a very good company. Just remember to TURN OFF AUTO RENEWAL if you just want the domain for one year.

http://faq.oneandone.com/miscellaneous/1.html

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Affiliate Stats from Affiliate Summit

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:11:18 +0000

I was browsing through my favorite affiliate marketer’s pages such has many of the super affiliates. I found a survey that gave affiliate stats. I give shoemoney credit for finding this.

www.shoemoney.com/2009/06/15/affstat-releases-key-affiliate-numbers/

I found some surprising numbers. There was a pie graph of a piece that was saying “I have been an affilaite since..” Being myself as useless affiliate, I started around 2004 just barely making money online. 2007, which was 2 years ago was when I started geting into the business then, 2008 was when I was actually more aware. 2007 was the year that had 15% on the pie graph. It was the biggest slice of the pie. So what does this mean? It means that a lot of people started back in 2007. It means the market will get more saturated soon.

“How many domains do you own?”

21+ = 39%

2-4 =28%

This number makes me think. There are people with 21+ domains and others with only 2-4. What does this mean? Can someone comment me and let me know. So you got people makin money with 21+ domains and people with 2-4 domains making money? Hmm….

“What is your average gross monthly income with affiliate programs?”

$0-$500 = 46%

$1,000-$5,000 = 21%

That sounds like a good number. There are people that make pennies vs people who make some good money. There are more to come

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Affiliate Marketing is a Scam?

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:12:05 +0000

I get this a lot from people and we get into a conversation that leads no where. There are some things that I always get confronted with

Affiliate Marketing is Illegal!

Hold on for a second. First of all I dont’ want to repeat the question again asking you how you found out its illegal. Let me explain the legal issues. There is a catergory called, BlackHatSEO. This one is the illegal way to earn revenue. Most of it is bending the rules and hiding it and some are just wrong. There are some affiliate that do this but not a lot. There is whitehatseo which is purely legal. The way you are suppose to. Is adding a link with a banner and your affiliate link illegal? There are millions of sites that do this and no it is NOT illegal.

O yeah smart guy I will snitch on the IRS

So what? Go ahead but let me post a video of it on youtube and we can all laugh on how you will get pwned. Seriously. We get TAXED. I had to do my taxes for these. You can even get a LLC to do business take or a SP. Its the same thing as a contractor from a construction site.

Its a scam like that google bucks web site where it promises you income.

No.. they are legit too. And they don’t PROMISE anything. They give you to secrets but 99% of people are lazy

Its a pyramid scam

You sign up for offers by your own will through an affiliate network. No one tells you to refer people. No one is on a conga line. You have chances to advance when you double triple your earnings. You are a sales person. Sigh..

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What I need to learn for affiliate marketing

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:36:24 +0000

I just realized that setting up a blog, setting up a web site, iframing a site, signing up for affiliate networks, and desinging a web page isn’t too easy. In the beginning I was just like everyone else. I always refer back to a point where I was so frustrated at dreamweaver when I still new. I downloaded dreamweaver and then I bought my first domain which was commonsickness.com. My goal was to make a medical site and throw some adsense in it to make some revenue. So when I got to dreamweaver, I tested it out. First I wanted to post a picture in the body of the web site. Easy right? NOO!! It was so hard just to post it the way I wanted it. Believe it or not it took me 3-4hours to figure it out. That was how much I was a newbie back then. I also had a problem of getting the web site from my computer to the internet. That took another hour or so! But now I can do it very quickly since I learned from pure experience.

What do we need to know? The answer is simple but the task is difficult.

EVERYTHING!!

html!

HTML .I recommend starting off with very simple things like learning html The most basic internet essential out there is learning how to change the font and color. Then adding on to posting pictures in html. You do not have to necessarily know the code by heart but that will help you speed up the process in the future.

Photoshop

Learn Basic Photoshop. There is no way to avoid this. Just learn how to do web 2.0 graphics and change the color of fonts with designing. Just google “photoshop tricks” and there should be thousands of web sites that show you step by step. It is not hard. Most of the graphics that you see from web sites are easy to make and capable for newbies. It is just putting everything together to get one picture. Advance photoshop is something that takes so much practice. It is not essential to make money online. Advance techniques of photoshop is usually for designing and artists.

Firefox ftp logo

FTP/UPLOAD. Great! You have a design of a web page and its stuck in your computer. Now you can actually post it on the internet. I only use 2 programs which are firefox ftp and cute ftp. Firefoxftp is great! It is a small plugin for firefox and all it does is upload all the files from your computer to your hosting. Cuteftp is a program that is a little more than uploading. It gives you the ablity to edit files and do some last minute coding. So both these programs dominate each other in one way or another.

Google.com

Google. Please..seriously. Use google.com for your research tools. 99% of the time what you need or what you are looking for is already online because someone in a forum asked how to do it. Or somebody like me posts something about your subject that would teach you.

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Infomercials to Promote clickbank

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:01:35 +0000

Shamwow! Watch this hilarious infomercial that aired last year in 2008. Hello? Do you know what year we are on? Basically if you try and analyze the cost of making this commercial it is going to be so cheap. All you need is rent some high definition (maybe not even) camcorder with a camera man and get your product with the examples such as a carpet and waterbowl. Go use someone’s kitchen and make it look so generic just for the commercials. Then have some noob who does video editing to do it. Bam! I’m telling you that they probably spent less than $1,000. Hell! I can even do that for low cost. The only expensive thing is actually getting the ad on air. Now that one is going to burn a hole.

So what does this have to do with affiliate marketing? Commercials are out of my budget!! LOL of course it is because if it was in your budget you would be making a shamwow commercial. I see that this commercial sticks out from the rest and makes it way through in being so unique. The emotion on this man’s face just makes you want to buy it. Its a very simple commercial but I’m telling you that this commercial has probably made more sales than the current infomercials.

Clickbank.com is a place to promote ebooks and things like this. Its mostly per sale and commision. Actually it is per sale, not by leads. So you see many affiliates making ebooks and having them promote in this. Instead of having it on video they use a huge landing page. They show graphs, images, powerpoint slides, just to promote at the highest level. Affiliates seem to always use a steam of media to promte the products. They get a voice to say the main points of the product to promte it throuhg sound. Then they might even post a youtube video on the top the demeonstrate what they are selling. This is a very popular tactic and hopefully make money. However to wrap things up, we can say the Shamwow! is unique and instead of thinking and making the best looking landing page, go try something very simple for once!

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Content and Web Design

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:26:58 +0000

When starting out a web site there is always a common question of “Does my web design have to look good?” Obviously there is no straight forward answer for that. There are many factors that would go into creating a web site and the content that it is going to have. As you can see, web sites like craigslist.org has the worst web design ever. Sorry! But your web design is crap. Also google has a bad web design. Yahoo.com Vs. Google.com, which looks better? Yahoo.com is leading with its design and user interface. The graphics and logo is way more superior compared to google’s. Actually I didn’t mean to target the logo because both of them have a good trademark. But so what if a web site has a crappy design? Is that all we need?

Answer is NO. If that were the case, Anyone can hire a professional designer and make a million dollar logo and beat every web site out there. People as in your traffic, look for more than the design. They also look for the contents. Craigslist.org is the best example for this type. Yes it looks like crap and looks like something out of a 1990s web site. I don’t even see any graphics. But there the web site gets millions of views a day if not more. The idea behind craig, was to create a network where people can do the basic thing. Sell your item, post an ad and buy from the seller. Very simple isn’t it? Of course. When somebody looks for information on the internet since this is the internet is mostly an information database. If you can give what the traffic what they want in the most least efficient way, you save money on hosting AND they love your web site because of its user interface. Google.com lured me in when I had 56k back in well….long long time ago. 56k as you know is so slow that it loads web sites so long. Back then load times were so important because people in this generation are always in a rush. So google.com was simple but got the job done and in today’s world that is all what we need.

So the question arises. . .When should we do a nice fancy design? EASY! Examples of web sites would be sites that have business. Landing pages are a MUST and web pages with information about a business. Those kind of web sites are trying to promote a product they are selling or trying to promote and give information about their corporation or small business. Most of these type of web sits are going to be direct linked through a business card. That is not always the case but if you are going to pass out business cards please have a good looking web site. This will increase your creditability and hold your content together.

My main point here is, content will always be key but there is a certain ratio where it should balance out. I would have to say that

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Affiliate PayCheck Screenshot

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:42:58 +0000

Its been a while since I actually did some hardcore PPCing. Life just doesn’t get any easier. I earned this “revenue” last summer in one month. Not a bad start right? This is just a screenshot evidence of how people make money online through affiliate marketing. First I ran the ringtones campaign which was very saturated and about 70%-80% of that just came from ringtones alone. The other ones are just random niches that I will not post due to the future. I mean even if a campaign is dead, it can still be brought to life. Notice that I said REVENUE and not Net Income. I really didn’t EARN that as 100% revenue. If you can make that with 100% revenue I give you my respects. That would mean that your web site would be SEO’d. However this is just PAID TRAFFIC and Paid traffic is expensive. Can someone guess what my revenue is? Well lets just put it this way. It was under $1,000 since I had a bunch of keywords that would not convert. For now my plan is to PPC but not like how it was with ringtones since ringtones was always going up and down and it was a very high maintenance campaign. Even though, some affiliate networks such as NBA is promoting ringtones with a payout of $20, I don’t think you can make ends meet.

Ringtones was a very saturated market and the people who made money would be the ones who started it back then when the niche was top secret. Now everyone is starting to promote it. A word of caution though, ringtones is not for newbies. When I was a super noob, I started off with ringtones. So this will be one of my earning screenshots but will not be my last. The past few months I have not been working online very productive. I have just been trying to get through life since everyone is broke nowadays. I’m just focusing on school right now.

Paycheck

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Bad Uses Of Pay Per Click Traffic

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:36:14 +0000

The worst thing you can do with Pay Per Click traffic is use it for useless reasons. I was looking at some forums where they were giving out Free $250 Facebook traffic. I would post the coupons but it is now expired and you can not use it. The forum that I was looking through is where people post deals. The people here are people looking for deals and sales. Well I saw there was a post for Free Facebook Traffic.

There are plenty of ways where new affiliates use the pay per click traffic for anything other than affiliate marketing.

Do Not Use Pay Per Click Traffic for the Following:

3) Marketing your Blog. If you just made a wordpress blog and you want to people to give you comments and get traffic this will be so useless. So what if 100people click your campaign that has a title of “earn money” or “(insert name of blog) – my blog click here”. You will get traffic but you will not make anything out of it. If you have an affiliate link chances are no one will join under you.

2) Your Personal Myspace/Facebook/Friendster. etc Account Profile. I don’t know if you would even get approved for this but someone out there probably wants to get friend requests so they will put up the ad. This will only make you lose money and I don’t see what you will gain out of it.

1) Selling Physical Items. Unless you are a distributor or have your own production plant do not sell it. I’m talking about putting your car for sale. Or putting your rare baseball card. No ONE will buy it. You can drive $1,000 worth of traffic and I gurantee that no one will even inquire. Do yourself a favor and go on craigslist.org and post your damn car. In 5 mins someone will be all over it.

The reason why I am posting this is because someone on that forum posted they will use $250 worth of facebook traffic to advertise the car they are selling.So please.. use PPC just for the sake of commissioned revenue.

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Yahoo Search Marketing No Impressions

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:20:19 +0000

I can’t believe I missed this huge problem that affiliates make. Its not really a mistake its just being ignorant. This always used to happen to me all the time while I was running my ringtones campaign. The ringtones campaign was high maintenance so I was always checking my keywords religiously. What happens is when you try to check your stats and you see that you did not spend money and you have no impressions.

TroubleShooting :

1) First of all check if your campaign is not on “pause”. If you pause a campaign it will not run. The pause feature is great when you want to modify your keywords and update your ad copy.

2) Keywords. Your Campaign can be up and running but your keywords and be all paused. Maybe you were up last night and paused every keyword in your ad group. Or worst yet, you paused your whole ad group Yes Laugh at yourself.

3) Editorial Status. After you complete the ad copy, yahoo will have to approve your ad. This takes about to 10mins and even days. If it takes 2 days go email them or resubmit it.

4) Keyword Relevance. Not all keywords will be searched. Lets take for example 2 keywords. Keyword #1 is “macbook”. and Keyword #2 is “platypus”. Macbook will give you thousands if not millions more of searches instead of a low traffic keyword like platypus.

5) Biggest Trouble. Check the DATE of report!!!!!! countless times i spent half an hour trying to figure out why my campaign is not getting hits when I have 5,000+ keywords and #1-4 is accurate. Then I figured I’m looking at a date when I was born or when your grandparents were born. So yeah make sure if you want todays impressions/ctr CHECK THE CALENDAR!!!

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Setting Up Domain and Hosting

admin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:27:54 +0000

When starting off any web site with your domain and hosting stuff, you have to keep doing this over and over and it never gets easier. Let me explain what a Domain is. A domain is a unique name that helps other web sites distinguish itself. However domain names are really just a set of numbers. In reality you are just typing a bunch of letters that are being transcribed with numbers through the HTTP or hyper text transfer protocol. Yup that sounds familiar since this is suppose to be on your address bar. So instead of having to type in a bunch of ip numbers such as 12.345.678.9.10. you can just type in my domain name which is uselessaffiliate.com

Think of the domain name as a name tag. We are in a virtual world and we have a name tag. So now we have a name tag but no body. The body would be HOSTING. Hosting is web server space that an individual can use up and write up content in their unique domains. Without hosting you can not have a web site and vice versa. So hosting should fit your needs and not get anything too much. I have seen newbies get so much extras that it costed them $100/year to get a hosting package & the monthly payment. All you need is a basic host. Get the CHEAPEST hosting you find from your hosting company. Expensive will not be “good” for the price. Let me explain. This rule usually goes for newbies. I have seen people stay with their basic plans and still able to PPC. You will not use all your resources in one web site. However if you do use it all up you should have a good amount of revenue! Go advance when you know you need it. Btw don’t get my thought wrong, don’t get the cheapest but get the best cheapest hosting!

So lets get to the technical stuff shall we? Sign up for a domain first on any of the companies you want. I use 1and1.com since they offer one of the best prices but the worst customer service. All you need is a domain so that wouldn’t be an issue and I don’t think you will ever talk to them. Once you signed up, getting a domain to get approved will usually take 2-6 hours. I know they say 24-48 hours but they always do it fast. Next up is the hosting. Once you sign up with the hosting, they will send you your account information. Not all hosting companies use the same format so just remember this one thing. “Add Domain”. They all have something that has an add domain link. So add your domain and click submit. Your hosting should give you a name server. This usually comes in 2 or 3. It could look like this

ns2.example.xxx
ns3.example.xxx

Once that happens go to your 1and1 and go to manage domains. Click your domain box and go to DNS. Input the 2 name severs in that box. Don’t worry if you only have 2 because you don’t have to use up all the server spots. So now you have everything set up.

Within about 6 hours everything should be linked and working for you.

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