How I Launched A New Website And Received 1,200 Visitors Day One

If you read my August 2014 Income Report, you know that I recently just launched my newest project, Famous Parenting.  I'm really excited about this project, as it is a collaboration between my wife and I (the first time together online)! The goal of the site is simple: find the best parenting articles online and share them with other parents.  Now that I'm a parent, I've been looking for fun and interesting articles to read.  But what I've found across a ton of different parenting sites is the following: Coupons, sponsored posts, and crap Aggregator sites that pull RSS feeds and don't curate the crap Mom bloggers that dislike dad bloggers and vice versa Fun family photos, with no story or message The bottom line is, I … [Read more...]

How To Craft a Blog Post Marketing Plan

You've probably heard the saying, "You should focus 20% of your effort on creating content, and 80% of your effort on promoting and marketing it."  It's one of the sayings that many of the top bloggers subscribe to - and I know I just recently read it on Derek Halpern's Social Triggers site.  But you know what?  I've been blogging for 4 years, and I never really understood what that meant until the beginning of this year. I want to share with you what I have learned about building a blog post marketing plan, and I'm going to walk you step by step through what I do - from the beginning of post generation, all the way through publishing and promoting.  And you know what I've learned along the way - if you do it right, you really do spend … [Read more...]

Affiliate Marketers and Brands Beware of Outsourced Affiliate Programs

Last week I was supposed to be enjoying a wonderful baby moon ahead of the baby boy being born.  Instead, I awoke one morning to find an email in my inbox that said Commission Junction Removal: Non-Bona Fide Transactions: This letter shall serve as notice that your publisher account has been terminated and removed from the Commission Junction Network and transactions may be reversed ("charged-back"). This termination and removal is the result of non-bona fide transactions performed on your account in violation of the Commission Junction Publisher Service Agreement you agreed to follow. Non-bona fide transactions include, but are not limited to, false, self-inflated, and/or duplicate leads or transactions. You are not eligible to rejoin … [Read more...]

The Most Comprehensive Affiliate Marketing Program List

If you run a website, there is a high likelihood that you are also in the business of monetizing that website. The most common way to monetize a website is to join an affiliate network, which gives you access to advertisers that you can post on your site.  This is an easy way to get access to a bunch of different advertisers, and most networks make it easy to ad the necessary code to your website.   Types of Affiliate Advertising Programs Affiliate networks or programs have several different ways that they pay: - Pay-per-click: As it sounds, you are paid every time someone clicks on a link or ad. The most popular pay-per-click affiliate network is Google Adsense. - Pay-per-lead: This option is for advertisers that are … [Read more...]