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An Affiliate Marketers Journey-Week 3

Today is Monday the 27th of June

Now that I am getting into the actual work of site design and creation I have switched to a weekly update format I will continue to do periodic updates as things happen on Twitter between posts so be sure to follow me @turrentllc

I have been studying the fundamentals getting back to basics and focusing my time on keyword research, site structure and documentation. I have created a mind map using a free software called Free Mind this program allowed me to free form design the direction I would like to go with my site woodworking resource .

 

 

I have also built on the email marketing I discussed last time and added a news letter subscription form on the main page  this will support a monthly news letter with articles, product reviews and free project plans only available to subscribers.

My next steps will be to add the additional pages (Privacy, TOs and Contact)

see you then

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An Affiliate Marketers Journey-Day 5-8

June 13, 2011 1 comment

Today is Monday the 13th of June
This week I am going to be focusing on Email marketing and setting up my first auto responder message series. This will be for my site www.maximumfatburning.com this site is set up primarily to promote the Clickbank product Fat Burning Furnace

This campaign has an auto responder series available to affiliates with 4 messages and I will be using these files for my mailings.

I will be using iContact as my email service they are the only one I was able to find that provided a free version that would allow me to get started I can set up a campaign and will not be charged until my subscriber list exceeds 500 email addresses.
This is a good way for me to get started since I am on a low-budget I am hoping that I can start profiting from my list before I exceed the 500 subscriber count.

Based on the information I have been reading an important element of a successful email campaign is the hook needed to get people to subscribe. I will be using an eBook called the 7 secrets to effective weight loss also provided by the Rob Poulos writer of the Fat burning Furnace provided to new subscribers for free.

The second but possibly the most important is planning out the email campaign I have made the following diagram to outline the process I will be using.

 

More to follow as I learn to use iContact and start building my list

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An Affiliate Marketers Journey-Day 2

Well day two has arrived and I am still cleaning up my mess. I made a list of all the WP plugins I have installed across the 6 domains I have registered and have identified the core plugins that I have found to be most useful 23 in all.

I have listed these in 6 categories

Advertising

  • Max Banner Ads
    provides simple banner ad management and placement.
  • Quick Adsense
    provides Google Adsense integration in Posts.
  • WP Clickbank Ad Display
    displays Clickbank Market products in a Adsense like list as a widget.
    this works in keywords placed in the widget I modified it to use post tags.

Post Creation and Management

  • WP Robot
    Auto posting software that pulls content from over 20 sourced and posts to my blogs Available Here
  • The Best Spinner
    I use this to get unique content onto my sites,also works directly with WP Robot to spin Auto posts Available Here
    Not sure if this is as effective as it use to be will need to run some tests.
  • Content Scheduler
    - Allows me to set an end date on a post so it will automatically be removed on that date
  • WP Touch
    - provided a Mobile theme for people who visit my sites from a smart phone
  • YQL Auto Tagger
    - Auto generates a list of possible tags to add to an article based on its content

Security

  • Secure WordPress
    Adds additional security fixes to make WordPress more secure
  • Login Lockdown
    Locks out user login after x number of failed attempts
  • Akismet
    Prevents Comment spamming

SEO

  • BWP Google XML Sitemaps
    Creates sitemap files needed for search engine spiders
  • cbnet Ping Optimizer
    Advanced Ping Management
  • Dagon Design Sitemap Generator Plus
    Creates user-friendly auto updated Site map
  • iRobots.txt SEO
    Creates Google Bot robot.txt file
  • Pretty Link lite
    Creates cloaked URL links to hide affiliate links
  • SEO Ultimate
    Advanced SEO management tools

Users Experiance

  • Five Star Rating Premium
    Tool to allow users to rate posts
  • Really Simple Facebook Twitter Share
    adds Facebook and Twitter share buttons
  • Register Plus Redux
    allows customization of sign-up form including adding additional field

Statistics

  • Google Analyticator
    integrated Google analytics Dashboard
  • StatPress Dashboard Widget Lite
    Simple Traffic dashboard
  • Statpress Visitors
    Detailed Traffic Stats

My next steps will be to update each site to standardize the plugins across each site

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An Affiliate Marketers Journey-Day 1

I have been studying affiliate marketing since November 2010 without any profits to show for my efforts, I have tried several products to learn to create a profitable website but most were just rehashed old and outdated techniques.

So this weekend I decided I was going to hit the reset button and start from scratch. getting back to basics and retracing the steps I did actually find to be useful.

I will be blogging about my experience here. I hope that I will develop a following and that I can turn this into a profitable and valuable resource for others that are also struggling to make internet marketing a workable alternative to the 9 to 5 daily grind.

My goals for today will be to remove all poorly written or swiped posts from my existing domains and cleanup the site structures so that the most effective plugins and techniques are in place.

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