If anyone remembers Sesame Street, Cookie Monster sang a song that went, “C is for Cookie, that’s good enough for me…” So what does an old song from a children’s television show have to do with affiliate marketing? Well, one term that any affiliate marketer should be familiar with is Cookie. In affiliate marketing, a [...]

Long time no post! It wasn’t all spent lounging around by the pool, unfortunately. Since this my second income report I have come to some conclusions about what I will classify as ‘monthly income.’ In my last blog income report I posed some questions about what ‘types’ of income I should include. I received some [...]

The acronym, CTR refers to Click Through Rate and it is a measure by which affiliate marketers estimate the success of an online advertising campaign. I think that the success of any affiliate marketing endeavor should really be based on conversions, not CTR, but CTR can tell us how successful our ad copy, link placement [...]

Welcome to my first ever Blog Income Report. Although I titled this post ‘Blog Income Report - April 2008′ since I know that’s how many of you search for these types of posts in Google, I want to make this more than just a report about the money this blog has earned over the previous [...]

Although I have alluded to my ‘other sites’ and even mentioned one or two of my affiliate marketing websites in prior posts, I never really mentioned all of my sites.  This post is to let my readers know what my other sites are. I felt this post was overdue, especially since the end of the [...]

One of the things I realized upon reading through some of the posts I have written so far is that even though I think many of them should be beneficial to new WordPress bloggers, as well as to people trying to make money online through affiliate marketing I still found that I have taken certain things [...]

One question that I often ask myself is: Must we use each of the affiliate programs we promote on our blogs and/or websites or is it okay to sometimes promote programs that we have not tested ourselves? First off, I normally make it a habit to have at least tried each affiliate program you see [...]

I just read a pretty cool post at 45n5.com about the current value of make money online blogs where Mark came up with an ‘interesting’, if not the most scientific, way to value blogs that discuss how to make money on the internet. In that post, the general idea was to take a look at what some blogs in [...]

As a new blog publisher, I am certainly excited about the opportunity to gain more readers, more RSS subscribers, and more traffic.  It’s exciting trying to build a readership base and to think that there will/might/could be people out there who would like to hear what I have to say or who derive some benefit from [...]

No, folks the title of this post is not a joke. Just like many other new Bloggers, I am trying to get this site noticed. One of the things that I believe is important is to network with other blogs in your niche. This can be done in several different ways. One, which I would [...]