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This married life is really hectic, but the plan for this year is to send you more content and quality offers rather than just hitting you all the time with offers for “shiney new things” where my commission is more important than if the product is any good.

BTW if you want more info on the reasons behind this paradigm shift then perhaps you should read Yaro Starak’s blog post (link opens in a new window)

I have made a video walk through of surfing ThumbVu, but thought I’d also give you the 5 reasons in writing in case I didn’t cover them in the video.

1. It’s all about the branding, not only do you get your pages seen, but you can really build up your social media profiles at the same time.
2. Watch out for the thumbnails with the border, these people are paying to get their pages seen, so start following them and do some proper networking.
3. If you have a smart phone you can be generating traffic to your site without being at your computer. Great if you have to spend time waiting about for the kids!
4. List building, having your opt-in form on the surfbar is brilliant, but I don’t think this option is available for free members.
5. Last but probably most importantly – Results! I’ve been looking at my TEtoolbox stats, and not only is ThumbVu delivering the traffic, it’s currently got the highest conversions, so please think long and hard about the upgrade – I took the 2nd option of $17 per month.

Hope this honest review will make you see the value in traffic exchange advertising.

Happy surfing

Andrew

p.s. I’ve installed sexy bookmarks, and it you like this video please give me a digg, and I’ll follow you back.

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For the last 2 weeks I’ve had no access to the internet, as the video shows I was in the Highlands getting married.

After 1 day back at work I’ve now got a couple of “snow days” as the 6 inches of snow mean that all the schools have shut – unlike Scotland cheshire council seem to just hope for the best and haven’t got any snowplough’s capable of clearing the roads!

Anyway enough ranting, I hope that you had a great christmas / hogmany and look forward to a profitable 2010.

Andrew

p.s. I just installed the sexybookmark plugin, so feel free to use it.

Head’s up for Thursday when Phantom Link Cloacker goes live.

In case you can’t be bothered watching the video I’m offering the perfect bonus.

I will install the script for you, so that all you do is paste in your affiliate link and you’re creating /recommends /uses /download links that go onto the end of your main domain. This is powerfull stuff and will really increase clickthtough rates and help you build up your brand.

To claim the bonus send an email to andrew.stark79@gmail.com with the details of the site you want phantom link cloacker installed onto. Please note I will need your cpanel details, and the license code that you will generate inside the members area of phantom link cloacker – if you can’t figure this out then include your login in the email.

Look forward to setting up this cool software for you.

Andrew

If you’re like me then time management is probably your biggest problem.

You have loads of things you want to do, but once you’ve checked your e-mail, looked at some stats about your list / done some traffic generation or looking longly at your clickbank back office then you’ve forgotten what you were going to do!

Add on top of this my full time day job, 3 kids, and a wedding in a month and you’ll see why this blog isn’t being updated as often as it should. So I thought I’d share with you how I’m going to use this spare hour to grow my business.

#1 Publish this post and send the link to my list – hopefully you’ll like the content and leave a comment

#2 I’m listening / watching the replay of Howie’s Apprentice 5 webinar so that I can find hot clickbank products to promote in the future.

#3 Blast out my safelist advertising. Note I’m now using TrafficZipper so this will be a 5 minute job rather than 30 minutes. I’ll be adding this to my follow-up series shortly – that means it very good! Also note that I’ve changed to TEtoobox as my tracker of choice and I know that last week viraladstore generated 16 new members from 1 mailing!

#4 My mother called, so I lost 30 minutes, but this means I can tell you that TrafficZipper worked, and I’d like to welcome the 6 newest members of SqueezePageSecretsRevealed

#5 I need to reply to a graphic designer, I’m going to start buying Traffic Exchange credits, so I need to have a proper splash page.

#6 Add TrafficZipper to the follow-up messages, so apologies if you get it minutes after the e-mail about this post.

#7 Be prepared to get excited about a new cloaking service from the CBpirates, I’ll be sending at 2 emails about this over the next week.

Well that’s me well and truely over the hour mark, time to relax, grab a beer, and then watch Gavin & Stacey via the wonders of the BT Vision box – it’s sky plus but without the sports On the plus side if I had Sky Sports I’d get even less done!

Andrew

p.s. Post a comment to let me know what you’ll be doing in your productive hour.

Recently I’ve going back to basics, and it has added hundreds of new members to squeezepagesecretsrevealed.

The video above shows you what to do when joining a credit based safelist, and how to label up your gmail accounts so that you easily sort out the mail. Remember that if you don’t check for good headlines then why are you expecting other people to click and join your list?

The advertising I’ve been using is just the standard copy & paste of the promo tools within the members area, and a couple of lucky members are now owed commission as I’ve been using affiliate links rather than just the main link.

My next plan is to set up a splash page using TEtoolbox and compare Traffic Exchanges against Safelists, and I’ll be posting the results here so that you can see the best places to spend your advertising dollars.

Happy List Building

Andrew

Search Engine Optimization gets tossed around like a baseball in the massively competitive online world today. If you’re not an SEO ranker, people will be quick to point out that you’re truly a nobody. While that’s not entirely true, for you could be raking in money through other methods and channels, SEO is truly one of the most important parts of any online campaign, and without it making up a significant portion of your online base you’re throwing away a large amount of cash. Don’t become one of those marketers that’s desperately chasing what “could have been.” Instead, apply some SEO principles, tricks and disciplines to your affiliate websites and watch the cash come crawling in. These five tips, tricks and principles will help you get to #1 on Google, Yahoo and whatever other search engine you fancy, saving you a massive amount of marketing muscle and generating a massive online income for you.

#1 – Pick your keywords carefully.
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#2 – Build a list, and keep in touch.
It’s common sense to mega-marketers, but list building gets passed over too often by the small timers. Without a huge sales list, you’re as good as dead out there in the marketing world. Build that asset through opt-in pages, and use the list to get your products out there. You’ll generate links on websites, which will quickly boost your search engine rankings.

#3 – Add your keywords in post-writing.
Have you ever tried to write for SEO right from the start? It’s certainly difficult, and not something that you want to spend your time doing. Not only does it take up a huge amount of time, but it compromises the quality of your articles. Instead of writing for SEO from the beginning, write an article with a general topic in mind and add keywords in after you’ve completed it.

#4 – Pick your products carefully.
If you’re looking at affiliate marketing and SEO courses, you need to weigh up the good with the bad. Some just aren’t that valuable, and just take your money and leave you without the great information that you deserve. Be careful, and only ever pick courses that have proven benefits and can show you how well they work. Look for earnings screenshots to confirm this.

#5 – Give it some time.
You don’t hit number one in a week. Give your SEO efforts the time and attention that they deserve, and don’t rush things simply to get them out there. Build your SEO strategy, use high quality content and links to get your websites to the top, and make sure that you don’t compromise your long-term strategy by giving in to short-term incentives.

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The basic principle of online business is as follows:

Traffic + Offer = Sales

Like most people my favourite part is the Sales, but even those with no mathematical qualification will realise that if you don’t work on Traffic & Offers then you don’t make any sales.

By the same principal if you spend all your time creating offers then it would the same as setting up a bespoke suit for rich City Traders in the Outer Hebrides rather than Saville Row in London – for those from outside the UK look up Google Maps!

Now I’m guilty of buying products that help me understand the whole offer process. I know that you give away free content, include upsells & downsells via the butterfly marketing script, and that you put loads of cross sells on the download page, and put a dozen messages into your autoresponder. Heck I’m even planning on a micro-continuity site where I do free plus shipping with 2 weeks free coaching followed by 12 weeks @ $47 per month.

So I think that you can see that the part of business I hate is traffic generation. Now I do have some systems in place, eg adswaps and safelist mailings, but with so many tactics available I just don’t have the time / get bored, and end up doing a half arsed job to actually get the results I want.

Over the next few weeks this is about to change, I’ve realised that the way to make a business grow is to hire people to do the bits that you hate. The more I study the marketers I want to emulate, the more I realise that they also hate traffic generation, and they outsource it people all over the world who in this current ecomonic climate are more than willing to do it.

At the moment I’m waiting for my Automated Traffic Blast to arrive, Lee’s video was exactly what I was looking for – it may be worth hiding your credit card before watching!

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Thanks for reading

Andrew

So I’ve set myself a challange. Life has been getting in the way of my business, and it’s time I pulled my finger out.

After recording this video I also recorded a video squeezepage message and another that explains the double opt-in process and leads into a special offer ie a OTO.

I’ll be posting updates on each stage of my progress via twitter.

Andrew

This video shows you an example of a great squeezepage that converts traffic into leads. These leads are converted into clickbank sales by the brilliant follow-up system that Soren & Cindy have in place.

Now the dullest and most difficult part of affiliate marketing is trying to figure out where the sales came from, and having to deal with really ugly tracking links – I mean does http://cbpirate.com/s/cbp/shugster/10-09-09BlogPost really look a link you’d be desperate to click in an email?

By creating a new folder on your server & uploading this index.php redirect onto your website you will be able to have proper tracking & get people seeing your brand.

<?php
header( ‘Location: http://cbpirate.com/s/cbp/shugster/trafficsource’ ) ;
?>

If you’ve joined cbpirate it’s just a case of sending traffic and seeing what gives results and repeating.

For those of you who have your own squeezepages then use the same redirect technique, but put in your hitsconnect link with the traffic source tagged onto the end. If you want to have the opt-in conversion added then you’ll need the premium account, so it’s probably more cost effective for newbies to promote & use the tracking provide within CBpirate to find good traffic sources. Then once you a solid residual income you can invest time and money building your own list.

If anything doesn’t make sense then post a comment, and I’ll try to explain spefic points in more detail.

Andrew