My Affiliate Apprentice Review: 2010

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

New Blog Post: Wordpress Magic: The Foundation of My Business

Hi all,

I just put up a new post about Wordpress Magic, a new suite of
autoblogging plugins that can take your affiliate marketing business to a
new level. I have been beta testing Wordpress Magic for six month's and am
very excited about it's release to the public.

To learn more, including how you can receive free training with plugin
purchase, click here.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

New Blog Post: More About WP 3.0 Multisite

On an earlier blog post, I wrote about using WP 3.0's multisite feature to
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niche portal sites using subfolders. If you're interested, you can
grab my PDF on enabling multisite and using the domain mapping plugin with
to create your niche portal site.

But did you know that you can also use top level domains with WP 3.0
multisite to create an empire of blogs that you can control from a single
dashboard? Oh yes, you can!

I know that you want to learn more...so read more here.

Monday, September 20, 2010

New Post: Enable WP 3,0 Multisite

I recently created a tutorial for the My Affiliate Apprentice forum on how
to enable the WP 3.0 multisite function and use the MU Domain Mapping
plugin to create a niche portal site or, alternatively, create a blog
empire that you can control from a single dashboard.

I decided to take the tutorial and create a step-by-step PDF for my
readers, and you can learn more by clicking here.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

New Blog Post: Learn Anything at Your Affiliate Marketing Forum?

Yes, I've poked around some big affiliate marketing forums, but in
general, have been rather nonplussed by them. What is the real function of
these forums? Is it to actually inform the readers of these forums with
information that will help take their business to a new level of success,
or is it simply to sell affiliate products to other marketers?

Saturday, September 11, 2010

New Blog Post:: Building Skills vs. Getting Rich Quick

Hey everyone, I just put up a new post on my blog.

Here's an exerpt:

I just came from a webinar by Shane Melaugh of Backlink Battleplan fame.
Shane said something that really struck a chord with me.

Shane stated that most noobs focus on building wealth instead of focusing
on building skills that will help them build a business. What did he mean
by this?

Shane meant that too many people focus on getting rich quick instead of
investing in the skills needed to build a sustainable business model.
Folks jump from internet marketing course to internet marketing course,
from e-book to e-book, to do-all-piece-of-software to
the-next-great-piece-of-software without any focus on exactly what these
things will do for them, and why they need them in the first place.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

New Ezine Article

Autoblogging and SEO rule, and here's why: I lurk on a few forums, and I
ran across more than one post stating that after a recent tweak, the exact
match returns for certain keywords on the Google keyword tool had dropped
off by as much as 50%....

Friday, September 3, 2010

New Blog Post: Another Reason Why Autoblogging and SEO Rule

I lurk on a few forums, and I ran across more than one post stating that
after a recent tweak, the exact match returns for certain keywords on the
Google keyword tool had dropped off by as much as 50%.

Just think about this: You had bought a domain and ran a PPC campaign
based on the exact match phrase for your keyword. You had thought that
there were at least 5,000 searches for your keyword with long competition
and you had really been hammering hard at this keyword for weeks. You
finally get your site in the top five results for the keyword, only to be
frustrated that you aren't getting the traffic you envisioned. You check
the search results again, only to find that there are now less than 1000
searches for that keyword.

Man, that would be worse than a kid finding out there really is no Santa
Claus.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

New Article Just Published on EZA

Here's a new article about Shane Melaugh's Backlink Battleplan course.
It's a great value for the money, and I recommend you check it out. Shane
is a good guy, and refreshingly free of the usual internet marketing hype.

I guess you could say he's a "meat & taties" kind of marketer--he'll fill
you up with what you need, and not serve you up a bunch of tasteless junk.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

New Blog Post: Backlinks Battleplan Review

For the most part, I am loathe to promote internet marketing courses of
any description. Usually these products are full of hype, rehashed
information and way overpriced for the value received.

Today, I'm going to break with tradition and actually recommend a course
that I think not only provides great value for the money, but actually
over delivers on its promises.

As I have stressed before, creating backlinks for your sites is one of the
most critical steps in getting your site's pages to rank for the keywords
you are targeting. With this in mind, I recently purchased a course called
Backlink Battleplan. . The course was developed by Shane Melaugh of
RichQuickReview.com. As I said previously, I am always highly skeptical of
any type of IM courses, but this one seemed different than any thing I had
seen lately.

New EZA Just Published

Hi everyone! Please check out my latest EZA article titled "Backlinks -
The Cornerstone of Success." It's about why building backlinks is
absolutely critical if you want your website to rank for your chosen
keywords.

No links=No sales!

Read it here. Thanks for reading, Norma

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

New Article From Ezine Articles

Hi! I just had another article published on EzineArticles.com. It's about
my favourite forum, My Affiliate Apprentice, and why this best kept secret
in affiliate forums may just be one of the best ones on the internet for
newbies and advanced marketers alike.

Hint: You won't lose your shirt hanging out here!

New Article Just Published on EZA

Hey everyone,

I just had my latest article published at EzineArticles.com. It's about
how neither autoblogging or creating unique content isn't enough to get
the traffic you need.

You can check it out here.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Latest Blog Post: Why Newbies to IM Get Frustrated and Give Up

Why do newbies to IM get frustrated and give up? Misinformation. Steep
technology learning curve. Bankruptcy.

Ok, the last I'm kidding about, but not by much.

When you are starting out in affiliate marketing, it is very difficult to
find the answers to your questions, or even worse, find so many answers to
your questions that it is nearly impossible to decipher it all. The fact
is, the cult of misinformation BRINGS PROFITS to unscrupulous, unethical
marketers who really do not have a career in affiliate marketing
themselves. Their careers are based in marketing to other marketers. And
keeping you dangling, giving you hope then snatching it away is how they
profit. This is how they get repeat sales.

Monday, August 23, 2010

New Blog Post: Is Free Always Better When It Comes to Affiliate Marketing Forums?

Something for nothing. We all like to think that we've received a great
deal, or received something absolutely free, right? However, something for
nothing can be a serious trade off when it comes to affiliate marketing
forums.

While the forum may be "free," you may end up spending more money in that
forum than you would in a forum with a paid membership. Why? Because free
forums are apt to be full of sharks (seasoned marketers) just waiting to
pounce on a floundering newbie. They will tell you that their latest
product can solve all of your problems, and you will be attracting a bevy
of hot chicks as you cruise by in your new Porsche. You know, the one you
bought with the $23987.97 you made overnight while you slept after buying
their great e-book on how to convert CPA offers using AdWords!

New Blog Post: A Hybrid Approach to Autoblogging

While the majority of my sites are autoblogs, I have noticed something
recently. I have a few sites with a good amount of original content, in
the form of articles that I wrote myself, and some with a mixture of my
own content and content from the UAW plugin. I'll be honest; these sites
with some original content do out perform my straight autoblogs in terms
of income.

Now, just writing original content isn't enough to get you love from
Google. This is Google's mantra, but it's basically a crock of bovine
excrement. Check out this case study from Michael Grey where he outlines
how he created fantastic content over a six-month period, even making it
to the front page of Digg five times, and he still received very little
love from Google.

So what's the best approach then? Autoblogging, or writing unique content?
How about a combination of the two?

Read more at My Affiliate Apprentice Review.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

New Blog Post

Video is an underused medium for driving traffic. Few people realize that
YouTube.com is the number 2 search engine! Especially when people want to
know "how-to", Youtube is the site they will search first, often even
ahead of Google.

Now many people get downright uptight when you mention making a video.
They worry that they are not young enough/pretty enough/glamourous enough
to make videos. Nonsense! Unlike on t.v. or the movies, people viewing
videos would rather see real people who can give them the information that
they are looking for rather than someone who looks good but offers little
in terms of real information.

You might think that you need to invest a lot of money to make videos, but
the truth is that you don't.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Here's my latest blog post

Great…you've built your first site with WordPress! You have it nicely
monetized with WordPress, Amazon, Clickbank or a CPA offer. There's only
one problem–no traffic! If you don't have traffic, you don't have sales.

You have a couple of choices here. You can either pay for traffic, which
is a tricky proposition if you don't know exactly what you are doing and
can afford to take a potential loss, use free methods for building back
links, or invest in some automated tools to help you get those back
links....