http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com The Long Walk to Full-Time Affiliate Marketing Success Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:47:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en theaffiliatejourney/eciihttp://feedburner.google.com I've decided to not continue to use VisitorSpy. While the concept is neat they are lacking a few features that make it cumbersome to use. 1.) You cannot just look at the visits to an individual page easily unless it's the only page you have the tracking script on. 2.) The videos ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/visitorspy-quick-update/ For those that aren't familiar with VisitorSpy.com, it's a new program launched by Matt Callen (brother I believe to Brad Callen, SEOelite creator) designed to "record" your visitors while their on your web pages to see what it is they're doing when they visit your site. A Quick Overview of Why ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/visitorspy-review-spy-visitors/ The new year is almost upon us. It's an exciting and also stressful time for those of us who run our own businesses. I love the idea of putting pen to paper to start planning for the new year ahead  of me, but I also know that some of those ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/affiliate-business-planning-2010-personal-rant/ When I first saw Google Sidewiki yesterday when I fired up my browser I had some mixed feelings. For those that aren't 100% familiar with what it is I'm talking about, Google Sidewiki is basically a collection of comments about a particular webpage stored in the "side bar" wiki. Here's a ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/google-sidewiki-change-affiliate-marketing/ This will be a really quick post, but I wanted to go over something I believe a lot of beginner affiliates, whether doing PPC or SEO, get wrong. That is the difference of keyword matches when using the Google Keyword tool. FIRST: If you're not using the Google Keyword tool for ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/exact-phrase-broad-3-stooges-keyword-research/ One thing that causes a lot of affiliate marketers to stall and often become paralyzed in their marketing efforts is not knowing if what they're doing is going to work or make them more money. We've all been there. I call it analysis paralysis and it happens to all of us. I ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/5-tips-cure-affiliate-analysis-paralysis-self-doubt/ I was reading another blog the yesterday and the author was asking for question about how he could help his readers with affiliate marketing. It just happened that I also had a conversation with a blog owner who is getting well over 5000 uniques a week and is making less ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/affiliate-marketing-not-about-traffic/ One of the most frequent things I get asked by other affiliates is how they aren't making any money. They are getting 500, 1000, 10,000 uniques a month their site but aren't making more then what they feel is chump change. Each of these webmasters is suffering from one of 2 ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/how-many-affiliate-programs-are-your-promoting/ It can be easy for us as affiliate marketers to be attracted to shiny new things. For us those shiny new things might be a new method to generate traffic or master PPC, or a great new program that promises HUGE commissions. I've fallen into this trap more then once only ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/commissions-size-matter-conversion/ It's easy to feel we need to be doing 100 things in a day to feel we're being productive when affiliate marketing. I know this because I fall into the trap of feeling if I don't have a to-do list as long as a novel I'm not doing enough. I ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/today-todos-daily-goal-setting-affiliate-marketing/