The latest article on Mark Ling’s ‘Affilorama’ blog is titled “8 Easy Steps to Affiliate Marketing Success”.Raianne says, “You may have heard about people earning seven figures or more a year—sometimes even a month—from affiliate marketing. By seven figures, we mean a million dollars or more. While many affiliate marketers earn only a few dollars a month as residual income, some experienced ones earn full-time salaries and a few others earn a fortune.There are those who fail in affiliate marketing while there are many others who succeed. Those who do”.8 Easy Steps to Affiliate... [...]

The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “Understanding Ad Position in Pay-per-click Advertising”.Melissa Mackey says, “One of the good things about pay-per-click advertising is the ability to decide how much to spend for each click. Most traditional advertising involves buying space at a set price — if you want a full-page ad in a newspaper or magazine, it’s going to cost you a flat amount.With pay-per-click advertising, you decide how much you want to pay for each click on each ad group and keyword. If one keyword is more valuable than another, you can elect to pay... [...]

Coolice has just released his latest “clone” Amazon affiliate store. This time he tackles the lucrative toy marketplace. He calls it Toy Store Clone.As with all his stores, he has loaded this one with over 1000 Amazon products – this time it’s toys and games. And as toys come and go the store automatically adjusts so you will always have the freshest inventory.Don’t make the mistake of thinking toys are not worth your attention. Toys are a booming billion-dollar industry. The toy industry generates more revenue than the movie and music industry combined.With your... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Six common conversion killers from ecommerce sites”.Pratik Dholakiya says, “The wrong strategic approach can be costly for ecommerce sites, but many still make some fairly basic errors. Try to avoid these six common errorss in your ecommerce site to avoid deterring customers and generate more conversions”.Six common conversion killers from ecommerce sites‘Econsultancy’ Blog [...]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “Mobile App Metrics that Matter – Whiteboard Friday”.Adam Singer says, “Measuring the performance of your mobile apps is every bit as important as measuring your web properties. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Adam Singer, Google’s analytics advocate, walks us through some of the most important pieces to watch”.Mobile App Metrics that Matter – Whiteboard FridayMOZ Blog [...]

Jay Baer‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “Here’s the Difference Between Content Marketing and Social Media″.Baer says, “What is the difference between content marketing and social media? And, with the burgeoning interest in the former, will the latter wane as a tactic or as a marketing term? These were the questions posed to me by my very wise friend Jeff Cohen of the SocialMediaB2B blog. Jeff asked several other content/social thinkers and”.Here’s the Difference Between Content Marketing and Social MediaJay Baer’s ‘Convince & Convert’ Blog [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Content marketing the Google Hummingbird way”.Michelle Hill says, “While Hummingbird has been much discussed, not many people understand it yet, or appreciate its benefits because it isn’t an obvious feature of Google search. If you want to try it, go to Google on your smartphone and click on the microphone to activate a voice search.For a bit of fun, say ‘Tottenham Hotspur’. Google will search for the greatest team in the world (guest opinion – Ed), and then read out an up to date fact, perhaps... [...]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Site Visitors Arriving From Search Are More Likely to Click on Ads”.Ayaz Nanji says, “Users arriving to Web pages from search engines are more likely to click on ads than are users arriving from other pages within the same site, according to a recent analysis by Chitika.The average indexed click-through rate (CTR) of users arriving from search is also higher than that of traffic arriving directly (e.g., from bookmarks and URLs typed directly into browsers).Why? The report speculates that internal and direct users are more likely... [...]

The latest article on Mark Ling’s ‘Affilorama’ blog is titled “Online Video Trends to Watch Out For”.Radhika says, “2013 has been a huge year for video. YouTube hasn’t stopped growing but the video landscape isn’t just about YouTube and Vimeo alone anymore. 2013 saw the birth of Vineand Instagram video and this has added a whole new dimension.Video is an important part of our lives now. We are reaching more people and including them in the conversation with video, and thanks to mobile devices and easy accessibility to video creation tools, there are more of us making... [...]

The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “Facebook Shifts Focus; Marketers Could Too”.Kunle Campbell says, “Facebook has presented itself to marketers as a place where organic social interactions reign supreme.  Marketers and small businesses have treated fan acquisition, reach, and engagement as the key components of building audiences that will allow them to convert their fans into customers. It’s the reach and visibility of posts on Facebook that make all of this possible. But Facebook’s most recent update seems to have dampened the potency of organic reach in favor... [...]