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I frequently read the wickedfire forum. I have learned a lot from there, and I have met people who make some parts of my affiliate business a breeze.

The majority there, are US affiliates. Everytime someone writes something like “the niche I am targeting has 1 million results, how long till I rank?” I start to laugh. I feel sorry for them, especially for the noobs, because they dive in an over-saturated market, where competition is everywhere. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t brag about being smarter, I just laugh because in my target area, untapped niches are like continents.

It seems as if every project I throw up there, simply ranks in no time. Not because I am doing something special, I do the normal seo and linkbuilding stuff everyone else does. The reason for that, is quite simply, the fact that the competition isn’t there. And even if it is, its rare that I find another webmaster who knows his job (usually, when such a person shows up, we just have a silent agreement of sharing the top 10, 50/50 shares).

Another factor, is the Greek alphabet. You know, the funny letters we use: “μαλακας”

Since the ascii code for this: “Aa” and for this :”Αα” are different, this makes for a completely different game. Where English affiliates try to rank for 1.2 million results, I only have to rank for 300.000 results.

Here comes the downside as well. No competition, means no affiliate networks to work with! We have almost zero CPA offers, users are reluctant to put their credit card online. Half the work I do is simple translation, since a lot of Greek surfers know little or no English. And, I repeat, no affiliate networks at all. Only independent merchants, who are (I am not kidding) around 20. That number includes all niches. Almost every webmaster uses adsense to monetize, simply because there is not much of anything else.

I don’t even have to tell you how few people ever heard of affiliate marketing…

The first check I got, was from CJ. When I took it to the bank to cash it out, 3 employees gathered over the check, including the manager, to discuss whether this was a legitimate check or not. The check said in bold letters: “Bank Of America”. So they decided to make 4 phone calls to verify the validity of the bank. They finally accepted it after 25 minutes, 4 phone calls, and a group vote (still not kidding).

Anyway, my point is this. If you are in a country where affiliate marketing is still at early stages, you have to jump right in. Forget making US campaigns etc, sending traffic to US offers, trying to outrank people in English results.

Here are some of the reasons you should focus on your country:

• Domains. DOMAINS. There are so many unregistered golden tld domains, you will slam your head on the wall in a few years if you don’t invest in domains.
• Keywords. Cheaper clicks, better ROI.
• SERP rankings. Much, much easier to rank for quality terms.
• Few affiliates, getting more from the merchants. Think of it. You are a merchant, and you have 15-20 affiliates sending in shit. Then comes an advanced affiliate, who brings in another paycheck. Who are you gonna pamper?
• Make your own affiliate offer. Seriously. Its much easier than you think.
• Practically every professional and well maintained site becomes authority. I’ve seen it happen here so many times…
• Sell your webuilding/SEO services as if they were made of gold. You can rip off sooooooooo many people. Still, if you don’t wanna rip them off, it still is easier to find clients. And overcharge them. A bit.

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Have you read eli’s seo empire post? If not, you should read it now.

Its what every wannabe affiliate should have read before he even tried putting up his first affiliate link.

Here is my version of the seo empire. I am not trying to copy eli’s post, I am simply trying to show you, how I took eli’s concept and turned it into my creation. (I do tend to turn everything to my own, unique, twisted way). I will not regurgitate everything he says there, so I suggest you read his post as well.

All the information I am sharing here, is simply what I wished someone would tell me when I began affiliate marketing.

First of all, you need a solid foundation, as eli says. A solid foundation means a VPS. It is ok to start off with shared hosting, to lower the starting costs, but you need to make the switch as fast as possible. A 150$ per month cost might sound hefty at first, but you can use that as your starting point. I mean, make your goal to make 150$ per month to pay off the vps cost. It is much easier than you think.

For a good, solid, allaround hosting plan see webmasters.com. They offer a cheap shared hosting service which has more options than what you can think of. The only thing I did not manage to install on that package is wordpress mu.

For VPS servers, you can look around the net. What I use is this

Next, you need a service that allows you to register domains, and bulk modify them. I suggest Moniker, its what I use, and I suggest you do too.

For non US affiliates, you should find a registrar that allows you to mass register and mass modify your domain tld as well. For example, I have a lot of .gr domains, and in the beginning I didnt find a registrar with a good interface, and it made it a nightmare switching dns and managing my portfolio.

I dont even need to tell you, you need a paypal account set up, and a credit card, with internet banking preferably. You also need to organize everything, your notes and your passwords, because if you dont, you will be in chaos in no time.

What you need to start with are autogenerated pages. Lots of them. When I say lots, I mean hundreds of thousands. Pick your niche, e.g credit reports, buy a couple of cheap info domains with some relevant keywords, and start generating and uploading.

You can use a lot of tools to generate the pages, a free solution is yacg. What I recommend is rssevolution, a paid alternative. Check out this post, to see how to make the pages easy to manage. You need to make everything with php includes, so you can switch ads and links easily. The structure I use is this:

I have for example credit-report.info. I generate 30-50.000 pages with rssevolution, with a custom template of course to eliminate footprints. I include 4 files from the root domain, advertical.php, adhorizontal.php, wannacookie.php, and linkz.php.

By doing that, I am able to easily change the content of 50.000 pages, simply by changing 4 files. For example, you start off with one domain, about credit. You put up adsense on it (the bids are killer) and some lead offers. You write or buy some articles, and you let it rank. You put up the link inside the scraped pages, and as they get indexed, the links with the anchor you want to rank for get indexed as well.

Then at some point, you make a second site. Instead of starting at zero, you simply go to your linkz.php file, and add the second domain as well. If 5000 out of the pages are indexed, that means 5000 instant backlinks, before you even start developing the site. (hint, go for inline links, google takes into consideration the text close to the link as well, not only the anchor text).

The cookie php is selfexplanatory, just iframe an affiliate link. The only ones that work are ebay and amazon. Even though people say that amazon hunts down cookiestuffers, I have yet to be banned. Their one day cookie will give you not much though. You need to be really lucky about it. A better alternative I have found is ebay, but you will be banned a lot. And I mean a lot…

For the ad phps I suggest you do not use adsense, cause you will get banned easily. Use adbrite, or, better yet, peakclick. You can also mix ppc with affiliate, one ad for ppc, the other for an affiliate banner.

Then come the splogs. You need splogs. Lots of them. They are the best for ranking. They ping, they get backlnks without you doing anything, they get indexed in no time, they give you link juice for your big projects. Splogs are a major part of your foundation for your seo empire. One reason I said earlier to go for VPS, is that splogs will quickly tear your shared hosting to pieces. The bet I have done without bringing down the whole server, (and making the hosting company nag me because the other hosted sites where pissed) is 10 splogs. Trust me, you need more, much more.

Infact, at some point, you should buy bulk info’s (500 or so) and splog them all.

Now, you could build splogs one by one, and at some point, you will be able to set up a new splog in 5 minutes, but its tedious work, and a life saver I have found is blogsolution. It makes managing a huge network of splogs a breeze, and the support is excellent, as well as the fora. Bear in mind though, blogsolution can bring down a dedicated server as well. Something like 100 splogs will be marginal for a normal VPS. An important feature of blogsolution is the easy interface, the cloaking feature, and the fact that it uses its own blogging software, so if you do it smart, you will have no footprints whatsoever. You can even import wp templates, though I havent tried that feature yet.

If you decide to make splogs by hand, you need to scout the net for at least 10 wp templates. Clean them from any footprints, and links at the footer, and start varying the templates among the blogs.

Then use the concept I said earlier, about making everything modular. An easy way to make splogs modular is to make them scrape the normal feed, but also make a master blog, only for link insertion. Set up the splogs to scrape the master blog’s rss feed (its usually www.masterblog.com/feed). That way, you can simply login to your master blog, post links with the anchor text you want, and it will all get scraped by your splogs and indexed. This is very good for putting pages in the index, and indexing parked domains as well.

So, that is all. This is how I built my foundation. Now go and make yours.

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I recently started a forum, dedicated to Greek affiliates. If you are one of them, or want to become one, hop over to Glowleaf Greek affiliate marketing forum and signup there.

 Please do not post comments in Greek in this blog, as some of you have. Glowleaf.net is purely English. I do not want to delete comments. Anything you want to ask me in Greek, post it at the forum, or email me at glowleaf@gmail.com

I am also reposting here an offer I made at the forum as well:

I am willing to teach to 5 people, the basics of affiliate marketing. The applicants will have to dedicate some time and money into it (I am not making any money out of this venture), so only determined people please. I am willing to hold their hand until they make 100 euro. Then, you are on your own.

More details can be found at the forum 

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Here is a way to create backlinks:

Browse Youtube and find high PR videos relevant to your site. Copy the embed code, and embed it!

Like this:

This will create a backlink on youtube, at the statistics & data tab beneath each video. Like this one
This is an easy way to get indexed fast, and give some linkjuice, as the link is no follow. I believe that no follow simply reduces the linkjuice significantly, but does not nullify it.

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I have discussed this concept in a previous post, but I want to re-examine it.

This is for all the people who really try to succeed in internet marketing, and for some reason, they do not see results.

This guide uses the most complete tools for this job. Administration of this technique is a breeze.

What you need:

• Adwords account, for access to Adwords keyword tool
• Parked.com account (for parking your domains obviously)
• Moniker account (domain registration and administration)
• Excel file for organizing your portfolio
• Paypal account for paying and receiving funds
• a small budget, 50-100$

That is all.  You can try other services, but those are the ones I recommend.

After you have setup all the accounts, you should start researching keywords. The adwords keyword tool is all you really need, since google has the most precise data than anyone else.

Start noting down keywords for high traffic searches, and use your adwords account to see the average bids for those terms. Do not be afraid to go for the high payout ones, you just need a keyword, not the single word domain.

As soon as you have a list of preferred keywords, put them in moniker’s mass domain registration and see what is available. I suggest you go for the .com if your budget permits it. Take .info if your available funds are small, and you want as many domains as possible.

Now, see what domains are already registered, and start changing the keyword, by putting plural (e.g. cars), or by adding numbers at the end (car101.com). Use up all your budget, and register them. Moniker allows you to get a discount if you buy prepaid funds, in increments of 50$. The discount will allow you to register one or two more cheap domains.

Use the bulk dns to change the dns settings to parked.com, they are:

ns1.parked.com

ns2.parked.com

Then go to your parked account, and add the domains to your portfolio.

That is all! The domains will start generating traffic and revenue, and you will get paid for every click directly at your paypal account.

The concept to doing this right, is to find high traffic keywords through research, get a domain that contains those keywords (e.g. cheap-domain-registration.com) and monetize on the traffic. You can use parked.com’s tools to optimize your parked page, by adding more keywords, excluding irrelevant or low paying ones.

A 100$ budget will let you register about 20 cheap domains. Your first goal, is to make those 20 domains, generate revenue of 9$ per month. That way, every month, you will be able register one more from the domains on your preferred list. As months pass, you will accumulate more traffic and more revenue. It is not difficult to get 50$-$200 in monthly revenues, with luck and correct research. In the course of 6 months, you will gain the experience to register domains that work, and discover more opportunities. Your portfolio will become larger and larger, and the accumulated revenue will allow you to buy domains with high traffic from places like moniker marketplace or other domain selling places.

If you can afford it, you can speed up the process by investing a small amount of money on top of revenues each month, registering a few more domains. Have in mind the large cost in updating the registration of the domains after a year. Save some for that time.

To sum up, you just need a small capital to invest, some research to take good traffic domains, a way to generate recurring revenue, and to reinvest that revenue in more small investments. Rinse and repeat.

Tricks:

• A good way to get high traffic domains is by finding misstypes of known domains. Go to alexa, and see the top 100 domains by country. Note all the ones that are not trademarks, there are so many of them. See what you can grab.
• As soon as you have some stats from your parked domains, try to optimize them using the tools parked.com gives you. Switch keywords, templates, colors and see what works and what not. A simple keyword change can increase your revenue tenfold.
• A cheap and dirty way to register, is to find a simple, one high traffic keyword, and get a large number of variations in .info with a number attached to it (poker1.info, poker2.info, poker3.info etc)
• Parked.com gives you two more options. One is to set up an alternate link to redirect visitors in the rare case that they cannot find anything relevant in their feed. Try adultfriendfinder or pkr. The second, is to have all your domains show that they are available for sale. With a portfolio large enough, it is almost certain that buyers will show up at some point. If their offer is good, sell it.

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After a lot of thought, I have decided to launch a Greek-only affiliate forum.

The decision came to me due to the complete lack of something else in that area.

Why am I writing it here then, you might ask? Well, its my blog, I can write what I want! But to be serious, I will post what difficulties come up, how the setup is made, what issues pop up, and how I dealt with them. It might even help some webmaster create a similar affiliate forum for his country.

Since the .gr domain registration is simply shitty, and it takes 15 days (edit: 37 days ffs) to get your domain, I am currently writing content, the first guides and posts to put in the forum. I have also written the purpose of the forum, as well as the guidelines I want people to follow. I think that you need to give people an idea of your vision, so it may move in that direction.

I chose the .gr domain because I know that google favors local domains in the equivalent google engine, in my case, google.gr

I will also use google webmaster tools, and geotarget my domain to Greece and Cyprus, and countries where Greeks live, like Germany and England.

The Glowleaf Project will launch soon, and I will keep you updated.

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• Setting affiliate offers to open in a new window. If you are promoting a product, chances are that you are targeting stupid people. Make stupid people think that the transition is seamless, i.e. the product is yours. Stick to the merchant’s template and colors.
• Getting a keyword rich domain instead of a brandable one. Brand, brand, brand. When you tell someone go register a domain, do you tell them to go to “best-online-domain-registration”, or “Moniker”? Rule of thumb: Keyword rich domains are for splogs, brandable domains are for sites.
• Doing what everyone else is doing. In a saturated market, do you really expect to get a piece of the pie with the same tactics as everyone else? Be competitive for a change!
• Putting adsense on their corporate site. Point discussed in http://www.glowleaf.net/taking-visitors-from-your-competitors/
• Giving nothing for free. Internet is based on freebies. Free info, free memberships, free tips, free guides, free downloads. You need a substantial reader base to sell them something, so create that readership first with freebies, and then charge them when they are hooked. Pairing up a freebie with a sale always works. Just take a look at the supermarket shelves.
• Not using a tool that saves time. Never, ever use something that takes more time than it should. Use cms for your sites, find templates instead of creating them, use big affiliate networks instead of working with individual merchants. If there is something that does the job faster but sloppier than something else, use it.
• Targeting international visitors. The internet is much bigger than you think. So is the world. Dont expect to reach out to everyone with a single site or offer. Go for the people you know, those that you can understand their mindset. Convincing a Greek to put his credit card online is 100 times harder than it is to convince an American. The former is just not used to online purchases. He will happily click through 12 ads though.
• Not letting their page mature. Every site will take from 6 months to a year to reach its true potential. Do not expect results in a week. Be patient, keep building, keep on linking, and if necessary work on another project to take your mind off the first one. Results can take time.
• Not monetizing right from the start. You dont need thousands of visitors to make a sale. Set up your site to look exactly how you want it to look in 2 years. Think big, monetize right away. Dont overdo it though.
• Relying on a single project, or a myriad small ones. Both concepts are wrong. You need 2 big projects to work on. No more, no less. Do work on small projects, but make sure they take as little as possible of your time.

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If you do not know what trackbacks are, just google it.

Trackback spamming is a quick and dirty way of getting some relevant backlinks.

How do you do it?

• Open a clean excel file, and a google page.
• Search for your target keyword + trackback
• Open the results one by one. In firefox, Ctrl+F will let you search for the word “trackback” fast.
• Copy the url for trackbacking the post to your excel.
• Continue to the next page.

Things to note, are these:

Some blogs do not show the trackback url immediately, some need you to click, and then they show it. Others show up a captcha. From experience, blogger.com and wordpress.com blogs have trackbacks disabled by default, so ignore these.

Once you have a list of 200 urls, copy them all in a line in a wordprocessor. Separated by spaces.

Make a new post at your blog, and below where it says “trackbacks” paste the long line of urls.

Once you publish the post, wordpress will start pinging the other blogs, saying “hey, I referenced you”. It will show a link, a reference to your post, referencing their post. Easy.

Expect 5-30 backlinks for every 200 blogs that you spam. It is very easy, effective and gives you relevant backlinks.

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A huge mistake all starting affiliates make, is to leave their installations to default settings. Take wordpress for example.

I have seen many splogs, with the default, kubric I think is its name, template. That is a huuuge footprint, one very easy to track and ban.

When you are trying to cheat the engines, dont hang up a label that says “SPAM”.

• You need to change the template, and also vary the templates you use among installations. Pick 10 light templates you like, remove all the links to the designers and similar stuff.
• Edit the silly “just another wordpress blog”.
• Remove the link to wordpress.org, as well as the “powered by wordpress”.

All these are footprints, that engines can easily use to disqualify any link juice you might have had.

Other engines, have other footprints. Find those too. And remove them.

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“Baby steps are for babies”

Do not make baby steps, like all the other loser wannabe’s in the world. Dive in, fail, fight, and come on top.

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