http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com The Long Walk to Full-Time Affiliate Marketing Success Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:47:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en theaffiliatejourney/eciihttp://feedburner.google.com 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/ Long title for a really short post I promise! Do you do your own link building? Do your outsource link building? Do you have ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH LINK BUILDING? If so listen up... I'm going to share with you a very quick point of interest that I consider to be the ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/secret-link-building-sauce-affiliate-marketers-seos-alike/ I'm as guilty as the next person of what I'm going to talk about in this post. Worrying, Focusing and wasting time on the things I/we cannot control in our affiliate marketing businesses. Affiliate marketing is just that "marketing". It's almost a science. You can test, tweak, measure and modify based on ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/focus-on-what-you-control/ I wanted to write this post as a sort of silent response to the large number of membership sites out there now that claim to build you unlimited links. I'm not talking about those spammy systems that just swap hundreds of links with off topic sites... What I mean are those ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/link-building/ I just finished the first my real first day of work towards my $10,000 goal. If you've read my first post here then you have an idea about what I was starting off doing. Today was a day of setting up some tests in Google Website Optimizer as well as modifying ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/day-1-10000-dollar-affiliate-goal/ I posted last week about an experiment I was doing using several social media platforms (i.e. squidoo, hubpages, weebly etc.) for link building. The process is taking a lot longer then I expected, how ever it is moving forward. What it's looking like is at the end of this experiment I ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/social-media-link-building-update-1/ I have to admit I haven't had a very productive summer. It's only been a few months since I've gone full time in affiliate marketing, and to say the least I haven't been doing the best job at staying on top of my business. I took my new found freedom a ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/slow-sales-means-time-goal-setting/ There always seems to be some new technique coming out for how to use social media for link building. I had a mind flash the other day so I grabbed my business journal and started sketching out an idea I had to use social media sites along with article marketing, ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/social-media-link-building-test/ I know a lot of you have come to the same conclusion in the last year or two that Adsense is the worst performing affiliate program out there. Maybe calling it the worst is a little harsh, but in comparison to programs that are targeted to your visitors it does ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/boosting-earnings-visitor-revenues-adsense/ For those that know me, I'm a big organic SEO guy. I don't do a lot of PPC, I tend to get frustrated with it. How ever I'm sure that if I did do more PPC I'd be a better writer, more diligent tester, and probably pay more attention to ... http://www.theaffiliatejourney.com/secret-ingredient-super-affiliates-sky-rocket-commissions-conversion-rate/