The Affiliates Center Blog

A reader recently asked us what is now a very pertinent question…“how many ads can I put on my site?” Well, that question probably should be how many ads can I put on my webpage? You see, there are changes happening on the number of ads a visitor sees when he first lands on a page.

For example, if you have been taught that your advertising needs to be at the top of the page or above the fold, then you are asking for trouble. Google is going to be coming after you.

Why?

Well, it all gets down to user experience and Google is big on this. Now we are talking about those webmasters who literally take liberties and have all their ads above the fold…in other words, all you can see are ads and no content. This will get you penalized.

It’s about having content above the fold; content that the user is

So, a couple of recent questions on how to make money with your site’s traffic? How best to monetize your site for profit? Well, I would imagine most of you are familiar with the types of monetization available to you yet many are still struggling to make real dollars.

One of the things that was taught to me many years ago when there weren’t nearly as many monetization options open to me was to test and see what worked best. [...] Continue Reading…

So, how to get more website pages indexed? I get this question all the time…why do we need to get pages other than your home page indexed?  Well, you want people to find your site don’t you? Sure, they’ll find your home page but think of how much more opinion Google will have of your site if all your pages are in the index. That’s pretty powerful stuff.

One of the problems with teaching people about getting sites indexed in [...] Continue Reading…

A new year and an energized feeling that this will be the year you turn your blog into a traffic attracting machine. Nice thought right, but the truth is, most people will stumble along doing the same old things and getting the same old results. Sounds like the definition of insanity.:)

So, how to get more traffic to your blog in 2012?

Well, we have 5 ways to get more traffic to your blog today and if you follow each of [...] Continue Reading…

Okay, I’m going to give you the blueprint on how to make $100 a day online in 2012. Well, not me exactly but one of my favorite online marketers, Andrew Hansen.

Andrew has posted an excellent post on his blog laying out a blueprint to make $100 a day online and if this is all you did in 2012 then you would be so far ahead of most other internet marketers that you would be in that small minority actually [...] Continue Reading…

So, how to make money online during the holidays? Or, if you are already making money, then how to make more money online during the holidays? This is a golden period for internet marketers selling everything from electrical goods to toys. But the truth is, many simply don’t get it right.

Here’s what I found marketing during the holiday period. We’re talking from about the end of October to Christmas time. The big mistake most marketers make is they try [...] Continue Reading…

So, what is SEO and how does it work? Why do so many people get hung up on it and literally drive themselves out of their businesses trying to figure it out? How does search optimization make you money?

Lots of questions and the three above are three of the most popular. We see them every day come across our desk and I often wonder whether people over-analyze SEO. For your information, SEO stands for search engine optimization and comprises [...] Continue Reading…

A lot of the questions I see come across my desk relate to Clickbank. Many people simply ask how to make regular money with Clickbank or how do I increase my Clickbank earnings. The truth is, a lot of what you need to know about how to make commissions with Clickbank is contained within it’s own pages.

Are you getting the regular Clickbrief updates?

I know exactly what these people are talking about. They make a commission and get excited. Then [...] Continue Reading…

Traffic Launch Pad is a tool we mentioned a couple of weeks ago that can seriously boost your back linking ability. We spoke about it’s effectiveness in reviving old sites in need of a defibrillator; in other words, a heart starter and it’s ability to get good, solid links to new sites during it’s early months.

But the biggest benefit we’ve found in using Traffic Launch Pad was it cut down the time on doing this manually. Back linking is [...] Continue Reading…

How to come up with article ideas fast? This is in the top ten most asked questions I receive across my desk and it’s one that has a million answers. A million? Yes, because everyone has there own style in how to come up with article ideas.

I have written about quite a few on this site and will continue to post on it but I also like to take a look at article marketing tips from other experts and [...] Continue Reading…