Showing Value In 2014: SEO Attribution Deep Dive
Carefully thought out campaign attribution can show your SEO campaign’s true value to your business. Settling on a model which paints the least-wrong picture is your starting point, but pretty quickly you can make your model sing, providing real value …
Where Do You Go When You’ve Maxed Out SEM?
Advertisers frequently tell me, “If you can hit my CPA target, my SEM budget is unlimited!” This is great in theory but often limited in practice — at some point, there simply are no more new keywords, or landing page tweaks, or ad text tests that can increase an…
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How I Create a Strategy for a New Blog or Affiliate Site – Part 2 (Creating Your Sitemap & Wireframe)
In part one of this series – identifying the demographic – you got a good handle on who will be reading your blog based on your niche and where you social efforts should have the most impact (#protip – you can begin working on building a social following long before you launch your new site […]
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How I Create a Strategy for a New Blog or Affiliate Site – Part 1 (Identifying the Demographic)
In prior posts we’ve discussed how to come up with a niche idea, how to research a niche before entering it and how to find the best affiliate programs within a niche to promote. Now it’s time to build and promote that site, right? Wrong. Now it’s time to create a strategy for how you […]
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How to Find the Best Affiliate Programs in Your Niche
In my recent post on how to research a niche one of the topics I glazed over was checking for the presence of multiple affiliate programs. Assuming you’ve found a niche idea that passed the research litmus test (or are already in a niche), it’s time to dig deep to find the best affiliate programs […]
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Tips for Successful Affiliate Program Management
There are of thousands of opinions on how to build a successful affiliate program. The easiest way to sum it up is to say the affiliate manager needs to “Get It”. If they don’t understand affiliate marketing, the program will never see its full potential. It took me a few years to really get it. […]
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How to Brainstorm for Affiliate Niche Ideas
Figuring out which niche to target is the stumbling point for a lot of wannabe affiliates. As I mentioned in my post on how to research a niche, I’ve stumbled on some of my niches completely by chance – others I found and targeted. If you’re reading this article then you likely didn’t stumble upon […]
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How to Conduct Niche Research for an Affiliate Site
How do you an evaluate a potential affiliate niche? It’s a question I’m asked several times a week. Half of the niches I’ve created affiliate sites in were ones I stumbled across totally by chance. The rest are in niches I directly set out to target. But regardless of how you find a niche, there’s […]
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Identifying the Money Keywords for Affiliate Marketing & SEO
Keyword targeting can make all the difference revenue wise when working on SEO for an affiliate site that relies on SEO as its primary marketing method. You have vanity terms, traffic terms and then you have your “money” terms. Seeing results from SEO takes a lot of work and a lot of time. So how […]
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9 Quick Tips to Increase Affiliate Income on Your Blog
So you’ve got a blog and you’re doing affiliate marketing – with either no success, little success or great success (high five!) – but hey, you’re always looking for ways to make more. Below are 9 things I’ve done over the years – with success – to earn more revenue from my blogs. 9 Ways […]
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How to cloak your affiliate links
We regularly review sites that monetize, in part, with affiliate links. I’ve always said and will continue to say that affiliate links should be redirected through a redirect script, but when we tried to help a client by linking to a proper explanation and example script, we couldn’t find one. So, in true Yoast style, I wrote…
How to cloak your affiliate links is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
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How to Create Passive Income with Profitable (Yet Honest) Reviews
When I did my post on how to make money via blogging, I’d mentioned doing product reviews within it as one of my favorite ways to generate passive income with a blog. To me, there’s no better recipe for monetization than taking a product I love, walking you through it, showing you what you can […]
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How Affiliate Adware Affects Your Revenue
[Note from Rae – This post is a guest post from Adam Riemer. When I published my affiliate marketing glossary, he showed a very impassioned stance on Adware, as well as an amazing amount of knowledge on the topic with his comment. When he offered to guest post to fully explain what Adware is and […]
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Understanding Affiliate Marketing Lingo (Glossary of Terms)
Ok, I know this post isn’t going to be earth shattering for most. But I get a lot of newer, aspiring affiliates on the Sugarrae site and when you’ve never done affiliate marketing before, all of the terms can get a little confusing. So this post is more being done for me to have a […]
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