In this episode of the Friday Podcast, we look at shaping your content to draw relevant traffic and monetize the traffic.
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The 5Star Affiliate Forum turns 2 on Monday June 25th, 2007 and founder and president Linda Buquet has put up $400 in their blogging competition.
You can check out Linda’s Affiliate Forum Blogging Contest and decide if you meet the criteria and take part in the contest.
I’d first heard Linda on the Shoemoney Net Income radio show.
If you missed it you can listen to the podcast here:
[audio:http://media.webmasterradio.fm/episodes/audio/2006/NI100306.mp3]I remember Linda gave a few nuggests of affiliate marketing advice on the show.
Let’s look at contests for a moment.
Are they worth taking part in?
For experienced affiliates $400 will seem like chump change, but the big payout comes Continue reading
Segregating your traffic by geographical location is a useful thing and is known in the search engine marketing circles as “geotracking”, but you could go one step further and target specific traffic based on geographical location using the cryptic practise known as “geotargeting”. But what happens when it’s used to block access to users based on their geography?
Witness:
So now I’m not able to use my favorite music service at Pandora.com.
Pandora works in the following fashion: You select your favourite artist and the service makes Continue reading
Here’s an open solicitation for questions in the 3 areas I focus on:
I get lots of feedback on general posts, but here’s a chance for you to pose questions and get answers in a future post.
To make things a little easier, here’re some of the foundation between each of the areas I cover, so you can better “get” me and pose a question which might best help you:
Blogging
I see blogging as the next generation of web publishing. It certainly beats the HTML I was bashing out on a text editor in 1997 when I was managing web portals.
The introduction of RSS and Social Networking/Bookmarking widgets means you can easily get a blog from the starting point to more than 10,000 uniques in less than 6 months after starting.
Someone might say, “Sure, I can do that in a single day by getting my post listed on Digg or one of the other big bookmarking sites”, but what I’m refering to is a consistent stream of traffic, as in a consistent 1,500-2,000 page views per day. Not 50,000 page views today, and 200 page views tomorrow.
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The biggest obstacle that will stand in your path as you start and travel along your Internet Marketing journey can be encapsulated in one word: Laziness. Conquering it is key to reaching your money goals.
People keep asking me why I say that 90% of Internet Marketers drop out of the industry within 6 months.
The truth is I don’t have a fixed answer, but on bad days, it seems like everyone else who started out about the same time as me has moved on to:
The sad part is that they inevitably hit a brick wall, then look at what I’ve achieved in the last year and comment “Gee, you’re lucky”.
That kind of stings, considering the amount of effort I’ve spent in Internet Marketing, determining a path, building bridges to other Internet Marketers (sometimes taking a 20 hour flight each way) and taking on more than what others would normally do because I want to move along the road further.
So when I hear about the aspiring Internet Marketer who hasn’t taken action because he bought a new laptop and couldn’t figure out how to use it, and didn’t know how to configure his email, it makes me sad. Very sad.
In 2 minutes I informed him that he ought to call Dell and his ISP’s toll-free number and get his problems fixed by the next day.
Allaying blame on an inanimate laptop is tantamount to Continue reading
This episode of the Friday podcast focuses on creating podcast content leveraging on industry trends.
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