We were having dinner at my relatives the other night, and their kid appears to have a huge potential in affiliate marketing. Though he knows nothing about this field, all the dots are in place, you just have to connect everything. I mean, he’s smart, business oriented, practically lives inside his PC. Why let him waste this potential?
Several times I thought that I should just push him in the right direction. But it is not as easy as it sounds.
If I just tell him about affiliate marketing and send him to the internet to find answers, he’s going to waste a year going through all the crap that’s going to be thrown at his direction.
If I give him a good ebook to read, he’s going to learn one, maybe two aspects of affiliate marketing, not getting the whole picture.
And I sure didn’t know how to start teaching him myself. Heck, where do you start? “Hey dude, I make money online.. wanna learn how?”. HAHA…
Anyway, not knowing how to start telling people about it got me thinking. What if I come up with an ebook (!!!) that would teach people affiliate marketing. Crazy idea, I know. But wait, what if it’s a series of ebooks, or even a newsletter that you join and get weekly lessons.
Yea I know, people have done that and probably this as well. But, their main purpose was to make money off the newcomers, right?
What if I create a truly educational piece of information that is going to start at the basics? Treat it as a study guide for someone close, someone that I DON’T want to make money off…
Anyway, the wheels are turning, I’m not a guy to put away ideas without trying. Let’s see how this works out over time.
I’ll keep you posted.
- Alex
How many of you know about the GAP, Google Advertising Professionals program?
The GAP is a program designed for professionals managing multiple Adwords accounts, granting them official Google recognition and other benefits that are helpful in this field.
To become a qualified member you have to pass two exams:
The first one is Google Advertising Fundamentals Exam, a two hour long exam that contains 120 questions. This is a new version of the exam, designed to be more rigorous and strategy-oriented and covers all current products and best practices to help run and manage AdWords campaigns.
And the second one is a choice between the Search Advertising Advanced Exam, which is available and other two, which are in production.
[patting myself on the back]- Today I passed the Google Advertising Fundamentals Exam, with a score of 98% (85% is required to pass)
This puts me half way to being qualified and joining the club!
I will update as soon as I take the second exam in the beginning of March.
- Alex
Internet marketing is hard work. Look for freebies and shortcuts and you are destined to fail. Treat it as a business and succeed!
Learn how to treat this as a business from reliable sources, not hype infested egomaniacs that brag about their income or promise you immediate profits if you purchase this or that.
Put everything into practice immediately. Reading will not get you anywhere. Try, test, loose a bit of money. Get the feeling of things.
Another year had past and now this is my third year online. Man, did a lot of things change since that winter 2007…
If you were expecting an income report of some sort you won’t find one here, if you were following me for a while you would know that.
What I am going to tell you is that I have evolved into a different kind of marketer, one that looks at the big picture and makes strategies instead of having small projects to make a quick buck.
To brake things up, these are the stuff that I didn’t have 3 years ago: Read the rest of this entry »
I just found out about a cool online, free, SEO tool. I’m amazed that I didn’t know anything about it before, but whatcha gonna do, right? I guess I was never into SEO before.
This tool is the LinkDiagnosis, which will help you tremendously if you’re doing any kind of SEO for your sites, but haven’t yet purchased any of tools that I did hear about (*cough* seo elite *uncough*).
First of all, there’s a FireFox extension, so that’s cool 
, you gotta love those…
With this service you can run analysis on
This tool can show you all the important information about your competitor’s links. The report includes PageRank, anchor texts, no-follow information and more.
Having your site indexed is first step in getting traffic from search engines. This tool goes through every url in your XML Sitemaps file and reports if its indexed properly.
See when the page was first indexed. Just right-click on any page and click “Get Page Age” and you will see when the page was indexed by Google for a first time. This information can help you to evaluate e.g. if pagerank is accurate or if its worth getting a link from that page.
Other than that is seems that there’s some link trading action going on over there. You can signup to be a publisher and sell ad-space on your site, or become an advertiser and buy ad-space on other sites.
One thing I can tell you right now is that I’m not going to sign up to be a publisher… no sir, not after the good ole Google slapped the shite out of this blog following my attempts to do business on TNX.
That’s right, despite their claims of being invisible to G… yea right, invisible.. what a joke. Took me months to get any rank back, still haven’t got to where I was. Brr…
So, try that LinkDiagnosis tool and be good.
- Alex
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