This move is quite interesting, because search marketing is not an easy thing to master. Every bit helps, and the webinars offered up there are completely free. They even have a ball of string, and “NO STRINGS ATTACHED”

Clickbooth offers a new webinar every two weeks, about one hour long, in which top internet marketers are interviewed on their ideas and techniques for search marketing. The information provided is not “insider” or anything like that of course, but the mere fact that experts discuss real working examples of landing pages and search campaigns has a lot to offer. Simply listening to how these guys approach different problems and situations can educate you beyond anything else. And, if you are like me, seeing how an expert works and thinks is priceless.

There are currently 3 video clips available, all of them quite interesting. I personally enjoyed the third one, which is Traffic Geyser’s method of generating traffic from videos. Very forward thinking, very interesting, and coming from someone who generates so much traffic, the vid is golden.

Clickbooth claims that their top marketers reveal their “secrets”, which is of course an overstatement. The videos are indeed informational, and I am anticipating to see the upcoming ones.

Definately worth a look, definately useful, newbies will find a lot of info in there, and more experienced marketers will see a new trick or two. It’s free, so check it out. Stop watching silly youtubes and educate yourself a bit.

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Partially because I got tired of talking to myself, and mostly because I have many projects chewing up my time, I am opening this Q&A. 

You can ask me whatever you want to know about affiliate marketing, and if I have something useful to reply, I will. If I don’t have the required experience, I will try to help you the best I can.

Nooby questions are ok, but don’t ask me how to register a domain for example… Also, no programming questions. Take them to a developer forum, or to wordpress.org

Other people pay me for answering their questions and finding solutions, you get it for free!

Fire away, the comment box is right below.

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The mobile phone has a dimension of  121 mm height x 77 mm width x 18 mm depth. Thumb operated track wheel and an Esc key is there for navigation purpose. Through this option we can find direction for distant places. Like computer device it has 32-key QWERTY keypad.  Through this keypad we can type the words. It helps to feel that we are having keyboard in the mobile phone. This handset is protected by giving password protection and keypad lock.

The Blackberry 7730 Mobile phone has mailbox to store all mail details. Incoming and outgoing mails are encrypted and stored in the mail box. Pre-Planned schedules in the calendar are automatically updated at the desktop. Java platform is provided for web based applications. We can access the world wide network and the information can be easily gathered through the mobile phone.

This Latest Blackberry mobile phone supports 5 hrs of talk time and 9 days of standby time. It has memory capacity of 16MB flash memory with 2MB SDRAM. This system has attached speaker and micro phone. It operates on Triband network. The other features which are included with the mobile phone are task list, Memo pad, 30 different types of file formats can be attached and opened through this mobile device. This compact device can access the Global Address List and we can store more number of details. The compact mobile device has many features and latest network to communicate other mobile number easily and quickly.

You can also compare Mobile phones Special Offers and read expert reviews on popular models at Mobile Phone Reviews Site.

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Here is a little trick I just found out for Google Webmaster Tools. Ok, I’ve known it for long, but people seem to be unaware of it.

GWT has a great feature, where it shows you the top search queries your site has appeared. Not the clicks, the positioning. So, simply by checking out that page, you can see for example that you rank No 11 for a longtail like “make monies online using your boobs”. 

A quick Adwords keyword search shows that the phrase has no searches at all! What a shock. Nevermind, lets assume that it does. You want to do some optimization to your site, so you create a new page/post with the title “Make monies online using your boobs”.

A quick Google search shows that 20.400 results appear in the index, a measly number. But we rank No 11, that means at the second page. With a slight push, we can get our site to the first page. It is much easier than it sounds.

What we need, is to create an SEO optimized page to rank for the term “Make monies online using your boobs”. Url rewrites are a must, so, like this post, the permalink is something like glowleaf.net/make-monies-online-using-your-boobs

Then we need to write the keyphrase “make monies online using your boobs” plenty of times inside the post. That is called keyword stuffing. Keyword percentages are a thing of the past, forget that stuff. Just don’t make it spammy, make it readable. Also, you need to get the keyphrase in every nook and cranny, so put it in the alt image tag as well.

Next thing we need to do, is do some inside linking with our preferred anchor text, meaning we do something like this: make monies online using your boobs

Internal linking anchor text is mostly ignored by Google, but works for MSN. Since we are trying to rank for the phrase “make monies online using your boobs”, we also need to include the phrase to the post tags. And a category with the keyphrase would be ideal.

The next step is to build some backlinks for our post, with our anchor text “make monies online using your boobs”. The easiest way is to social bookmark the post, and also add the link to your splog farm. You do have a splog farm, right?

Why are we doing this whole deal with the post? Because, it is much easier to rank a page dedicated to a particular keyphrase, than to try and rank the homepage for a whole keyword list. I see that mistake all the time. People build and buy links to their site’s homepage. You can only put so many stuff on a homepage, you cannot possibly optimize one page for everything. Fire up GWT, check the top search queries, see what rankings you got that are decent, and make some pages to rank for those like I wrote here.

Check out the Google SERP’s for “make monies online using your boobs” and try to spot this page.

EDIT: And now that the tags are live, here is the second tip from this post. If you go to the dashboard of Google Webmaster tools, you can add not only e.g. www.glowleaf.net but also www.glowleaf.net/tag and www.glowleaf.net/category, even www.glowleaf.net/tag/affiliate

Go to your new “site” and click top search queries again. Yes, you see the ranking of that folder and below. Priceless.

What this gives you is even more ranking data, straight from Google. You can see which tags make you rank, and give you an even better edge over the competition. Now who is gonna write us a script to pull all that data and dump it into a csv?

Go. Rank. Dominate.

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Spydermate, an seo and website analysis web tool is getting a facelift, and a bunch of new features. The penguins who are developing it are adding new analysis graphs. Here is a sneak peek:

The green is my blog (duh!), and the red is the average of the most recent crawls for every domain ever crawled by SpyderMate.

All of the data points are percentiles of the overall data set, meaning that everything is in scale, not actual numbers. Let’s not see anyone comparing the Google PR graph with Alexa rank, shall we?

The fact that the average is dynamic, is both a good and a bad thing. This is the same case as the Alexa rank, where it skews the data towards sites in US and who are tech savvy orientated.

Same goes for this case, only SEO’s will use this tool, so this average will be derived from all of our sites, and our competition

Anyway, even if it misses a percentile, who cares. This is a neat feature, and coupled with the other overview tabs in Spydermate you have a complete general picture of a website. What this analysis shows is that I should have a higher PR and Google neglected me…

As I said in the review post, experienced SEO’s find the site compare ability priceless.

The tool is getting some final finishing touches as we speak, and it will be live for the public very soon, maybe within the month. Go bookmark it now.

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No, this is not a fake pic. And it has nothing to do with 9/11. It is a real advertisement, an old one, presenting the Pakistani airlines ability to fly you to NY in 16h 30.

I put it here so I can prove to you how powerful an emotional responce can get, and how important symbols are in marketing.

Some things never change. The basic needs for a man, of food, sleep, sex and shelter are all hardwired since the dawn of the human race.

And there has always been a strange breed of humans, that studied their fellow people, and tried to manipulate them into buying or trading.

The basic stuff does not change. Whatever techniques marketers used 200 years ago still apply today. Only the products and the tools change, not the methodology.

So, lets examine some classic tricks marketers used for centuries, and see what tricks we can learn from these old advertisements.

Plants

Do you remember Doc from the classic Lucky Luke cartoon? Sure, this is a kid’s movie, but the character is a mockery of real shady marketers of the times.

What Doc did was to create a miraculous hair growth potion. He scoured the Wild West looking for people to buy his stuff. If I remember correctly, the potion was plain water. He had an assosiate, posing as a regular bystander. After his sales pitch, he would call upon a volunteer to come to the stage, and show the miraculous effects of the hair growth potion. The plant would go behind the scenes and wear a big wig, and people believed that the potion was amazing. So they bought it.

Ok, people are not that stupid anymore. Or are they? Hmm…. Acai Berry *cough*.

The lesson here is to show the effects of your product to people, and if it is possible, to show a “regular” person using it, and of course being left satisfied by it. Then the mob mentality kicks in, and everyone buys it.

Desires

See the expression on those faces? It is so far stretched it does not even seem real. The point is not to make it real, but to transfer an emotion to the viewer. A face expressing desire instantly has a mimical effect on the customer. The appropriate sections in his brain fire, and endorphins are pumped into his bloodstream.

If you can create such a strong emotional responce, the world is your playground.

Laconic

It doesn’t get more straightforward than this. Absoluteness “Best you ever ate”, price is up there, image to show what it is like, and “Hot soup” to describe the product.

Eye catching titles

Do you think linkbait is something new? Check out these titles. Especially the “Drop Dead” one… Pure fucking genius.

Emotional hammering

The first one is not that old, but it has a very powerful message. Note that it is delivered in “Sin City” style. White, black and red.

“To be killed in action” and shows a baby. No parent can ignore this ad.

“Feeling Blue?” catchy tagline, and the classic before and after trick. We don’t make ads like this anymore, but they work. Note the smile in the last picture. The marketer is trying to intertwine that image with the memory of the product. If I were to make that ad, I would put the bottom 2 pictures the other way around, to preserve the antithesis structure. Ivory Soap, it floats!

“Cough, you chump”. It’s your own fault, you didn’t use listerine. You all know how big that brand is now. Note the bullshit scientific data “66% reduction shown in tests”.

“Be first in your gang/ Leaders go for Dinky toys”. This one targets the alpha males, and the beta who are wannabe alpha’s. Always worked, and always will.

“Their hero arrives on the next bus”. Powerful emotional message targeted to father figures. I believe the advice to wives part should be omitted. This is a pathetic attempt at reaching the whole of the audience with a single ad. Wrong. The idea is good, but needs to be separated. This is a man’s ad.

Died and buried

Indeed, the day has come. All beer cans open easily now. But no one knows Schlitz beer. I am sure this is due to the stupid name. This is a classic example of good ideas but no marketing skills.

Authority recommendation

Most of the times this is used, the authority person has nothing to do with the product. It does not matter, the more well known that person is, the more sales this ad brings. Michael Jordan advertised half the US products, and of course he had nothing to do with any of them. Except maybe Nike Air Jordan.

Scientific Bullshitting

The first comes from the era when cigarettes were starting to prove bad for your health. It is nicely pictured in the movie “Thank you for smoking”. This marketer tries to convince customers that their smokes are less smoky than the others. The cigarette companies had managed to bullshit their way with bought scientific data through years of denial.

Yes, this is a real Max Factor ad. Makes you think how stupid today’s products will seem in the future. Scientific bullshiting at its finest.

Sexual Innuendo

This has been used for sooo long. It works, that is the reason. Coca Cola and many alcoholic drinks have used this technique, of putting sexual images inside their ads. Even straightforward sexual messages work. You can be subtle or straight ass dirty, like the last one. Which, by the way, is not that old, but nevermind that.

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I could not decide which pic to use on this post, so I decided to settle this issue the way I settle all my dilemmas: I just put them all up there.

You decide which is the best one. The demotivational? The in game pwnage? The Starcraft 2 Zerg Rush with cool 3D graphics? Or the real face of Starcraft? I got no poll plugin on this site, so just vote at the comment section.

What does a jergling have to do with affiliate marketing?

Nothing actually, and it would be very weird if I actually had an answer to that… Oh wait, I do.

How can we leverage on the Battlenet system to make sales? Here is a technique that is neither new nor secret, and works fine if you do it right.

The idea is to use your battlenet account to host a game on battlenet, and in the title area put up your url. Simple as that!

But, every hardcore Battlenet player knows that the games need their slots to be refreshed in order to stay visible on the queue. So, download this little script, and there it is, auto refresh!

Here is the to do list:

• Get a warcraft/starcraft account.
• Register a free Battlenet account.
• Download the battlenet refresher.
• Get a CPA offer, direct link it from a domain name. Something with starcraft/warcraft/game/cheat/maps/patches in it.
• Run the refresher script.
• Fire up a game, host it. In the game’s title put up your domain name.
• Make sure it refreshes and people join and quit.
• Leave the pc box running till it crashes.

This technique works, but you need some imagination, trial and error, and some intimate knowledge of the online gamer community to make it a killer.

A hint is to use warcraft III maps that have cool thumbnails and look interesting, and are not well known. People will join to check it out and download it. Also, DOTA latest maps work too, people join so they can download the map without getting kicked, and in return they notice your url. If you make it look interesting, they will visit.

Keep in mind that the online gamer crowd is more tech savvy on average, you will need something more than a random CPA to make this work. You might find some idiots to rip off with some crush offers, but in general those kids know how to navigate the net. Think minisites with warcraft maps, think cheats, think mods, think warcraft/starcraft jokes, etc.

So, if you have a copy of Warcraft III, this is a simple method to promote some offers. Depending on your chosen domain name, your chosen map and the traffic at that point in Battlenet, you can easily get 400 uniques in a day with this. I used to leave an old pc running this 24/7. Your promo will stumble on diminishing returns after a few days, so try to refresh the whole presentation a bit.

EDIT: This post had so many spelling and grammatical errors, that it was enough to convince me to go for a walk. C ya tomorrow.

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It’s a shock, I know.

First off, the insanity on Twitter as a terrorist tool continues… I don’t really want to comment on that, I mean, WTF? As if they can’t send an SMS or use other internet communication means. IRC? Custom messaging platform? This is crazy.

Secondly, a nice opportunity for affiliate promotion is F-secure on Commission Junction. They compensate an amount in cpc, but please note that it applies after 10.000 clicks, and at a minimum of 100 sales. Not for newbies apparently, but a great opportunity nonetheless. Their landing page is sleek and professional, and it generally appears to be a converter.

Finally Jon announced the creation of an Affiliate Manager and Ad networks section on Wickedfire. The place is meant for people on the other side of the “affiliate world” fence, helping them network, sort out the fights and chit chat. A great idea, and hopefully next year, after I launch my affiliate program I will be allowed in. By the way, entry is by manual review, meaning you have to prove that you really are an AM or work or own an Affiliate Network. You can find the AM and ad networks forum here.

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See how intelligently it passes through spam filters, all the while remaining intelligible and eye catching? There are no spam words to raise red flags, and the word “Amaze” is a power word. So is “hot”, because it triggers an emotional reaction.

Power words are words like “Sex”, “Money”, “Rich”, “Happy”, “Buy”, “Bargain”, “Order now”, “Passion” and a bunch of others. Actually, if you write down the keyword cloud of a few telemarketing ads you will instantly have a list of power words that really work.

I have said it before, and I will say it again:

Study the porn biz. These guys are waaay ahead of the curve.

Another place where you can really learn a lot is from spammers. Spammers, like anyone running a ppc ad campaign, get one chance only to grab the reader’s attention. Win = profit, fail = loss. 

The spammers also have the spam filters to consider on top of the marketing pitch. You may not care how to write catchy titles that grab attention AND pass spam inspection at the same time, but if you study those guys, you will learn how to think differently. Slightly shady said it very nicely.

You either fool the bot(or the person submitting the spam report) or you fool the person reviewing your site.

Simply put, PPCers have to fool the human. Spammers have to fool both machine and human. Conclusion: the latter have bigger balls.

So, what can we learn from this?

As always, zap your brain with so much data that it oveloads, and think on the stuff you read. Gather a bunch of spam mails, and write down the titles. Glance casually over them and see which ones grab your attention, and try to find out how they did it. It is usually a single power word that does the trick!

Disclaimer for idiots: Power words are bolded in the list below.

• Girls mock at your size? (Very good)
• Barak Obama shot in White House (Yes, power words can be names, and recent words, like terrorism)
• Instantly boost your website’s traffic (As good as it gets)
• How would you like to put your ad right to the screens of millions in minutes? (This one FAILS miserably. Why?)
• Incredible News (This kind of power word as a marketing concept was invented at the time Marvel made their first comic. It is no wonder they used “The Fantastic Four”, “The Amazing Spiderman” etc. This is Seth Godin’s method of integrating marketing inside the product itself. Or in this case, in its name. Learn from this or fail.)
• Post your ads where people read them! (No power, no naked showers. See how I made my point using a power word?)
• Beating the high cost (Not powerful enough. Passive is for gays.)
• Get all or nothing (Not that good, does not give any amount of info)
• Great bargains here (Oldie but goodie)
• Unbelievable sale (So is this one. Marvel.)
• YOUR EMAIL ID HAVE WON (As stupid as it may seem, this one works)
• Amazing increasing system (Medium, might work but has no info. Marvel.)
• What Britney hides? (Pop means popular)
• you’ll get 1000’s of Highly Targeted visitors to your web site or affiliate web site overnight (FAIL again)
• Better ways to please her (Medium)
• Never be soft again (Good one. Absoluteness is key. NEVAH!)
• Male probs are dangerous (”You are in Danger!” doesn’t that work better? Fail.)
• Big saving for your family (Emotional trigger word)
• Fail too fast in bed? (It works, that is why I use it too )
• Small size isnt a crime! (Mushy. Too passive. Could be better.)
• Feed Blaster puts your ad right to the screens of millions in 15 minutes! (FAIL)
• Quit Your Day Job Within 30 Days (Would rewrite it “within” to “in”. This is not a contract, you are trying to catch clicks here. As I said, be absolute. What the fuck spammer? Man up!)
• How would you like unlimited hits to your website 15 minutes from now ? (FAIL…At this point, I hope you know why.)
• Do you suck? (EPIC. Truly. Epic. Pure awesomeness.)

Some douchebag might ask me how I would write the ones I tagged as failed. So here it is:

“GET A GAZILLION HITS NOW!”

Gives no info at all, but it sure makes people click. I dare you not to click that link. Just try to resist the temptation. Is it a dick roll? Is it a java game? A sales pitch? A porn pic? Who knows…

I sincerely hope some people’s minds get a slight nudge in the right direction from this. For actual business mailing, go to Wickedfire’s mailing forum, and snoop around.

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