James Brown reports that he has found that the taboo against “reciprocal links” is not valid. If the sites that link to you are quality sites, their links are beneficial, even if you also link to them. In the first place, most traffic comes to most websites apart from Google. Google, itself, only claims that they account for 28% of a site’s traffic. So if high-value sites link to you, it’s almost entirely positive. Their customers make good candidates for your products and services. In the second place, if Google likes a site, they will tend to like the sites that they link... [...]

Marketers are using Facebook more and more, but many are seeing their Facebook ad dollars wasted. They are not getting the optins and click-throughs they need. Chad Nicely and his partners, Karthik Ramani and Chris Jenkins were having the same problem. They poked around, trying this and that, looking for what was going wrong. Their mistake (and the mistake of many others) was that they sent their ad traffic to a squeeze page and almost no one had enough trust to opt in there. So they changed their flow to send people to their blog instead. The visitor sees a post written to inform and interest... [...]

Over the past 2 years the IM Wealth Builders have released 12 powerful WordPress plugins and themes that help marketers present their products and services in the most favorable light possible. All of their products have cause a lot of buzz in the internet marketing world with over 55,000 copies being sold. Friday, the IM Wealth Builders team released their newest WordPress plugin, Covert Context Using this new plugin, your blogs can generate Amazon affiliate commissions on complete auto pilot. You set up the plugin so the ads make sense for your site (you select the keywords that will be turned... [...]

George Katsoudas is a prolific creator of WordPress plugins. His latest is a WP Plugin for Amazon Affiliates. This plugin adds an Amazon custom-search bar on your sites (or your customer’s sites.) It supports 90-day cookies and has several other cool features as well: • You can select the niche within Amazon (e.g., pet supplies) so that your visitors to your pet website are automatically focused on the products they are interested in. • The plugin automatically selects the best of 5 Amazon sites (Amazon.UK, Amazon.com, Amazon.DE, Amazon.CA, Amazon.ES) based on the visitor’s IP... [...]

Ken Reno just announced WpNewsTicker, a WordPress plugin that lets you place scrolling content in a small window at the bottom of your posts and pages. Now you can add news ticker style ads to your blog, and even include your own affiliate links in your ads. There’s a lot of flexibility in the ticker. You choose the font and font size, the background color, the size of the ticker window and more. Besides using it on all your own sites, you are licensed to sell it to other marketers for their sites. Although the price is rising, you can get it for about $6.20 at this writing, here: WpNewsTicker.  [...]

The IM Wealth BuildersMarketing team of Cindy Battye, Soren Jordansen, and John Merrick have just released another of their Covert products, this one called Covert Context. As with their earlier covert products, Covert Context is designed to place non-intrusive ads into your blog or website, “covert ads”, if you will. It automatically places links to Amazon products when it finds an appropriate keyword to turn into a link. Like most of their covert products, Covert Context is a WordPress plugin. It offers these capabilities: • You get a super easy “set & forget”... [...]

Mark Thompson has just released his latest version of BonusPress, his WordPress plugin that helps product developers and affiliate marketers deliver bonuses for products they sell. Now, as an affiliate you can give free bonuses when you recommend a product, a practice that will increase your sales. Plus, if you are a product developer, you can set up a bonus page for your affiliates, and give them a custom URL for the page so they can promote it and earn commissions, while building your list. Because no effort is required from them to build the page, they will jump at the chance to promote; the... [...]

Your squeeze page is the key to building your mailing list. You need a compelling page, one that holds people’s attention. Jeff Bode just released WP Video Squeezify, a plugin to add video backgrounds to your squeeze pages. After all, if you’re building a list you really need to use the best squeeze page possible. Otherwise, you’re missing subscribers you could have acquired. Video squeeze pages are going to be big, and it’s time to look into before everyone starts using them. Like all other technology trends, these squeeze pages will eventually become so common-place that... [...]

There’s no need to limit your Amazon marketing to pages the list products and show pictures of them. Now with Azon Publisher Studio WordPress Plugin, you can place links to Amazon products in your site’s articles, and (fortunately) you can have complete control over what products are advertised and where. With this new WordPress plugin, you decide what phrase would make a good link, you highlight the phrase and a search box opens where you can see a list of Amazon products related to the phrase. Select the one you want to advertise, and a link to it is automatically dropped into your... [...]

Ken Sar has just started selling AffiliatePress at a discount. This WordPress plugin lets you build a sales page that motivates a quick decision. It has a count-down timer that warns of the impending end of the special offer you are promoting. This page is intended as a pre-sell page to be used by an affiliate promoting someone else’s product. You include enough text to make the visitor interested. You include a video to show them what it can do. And your timer screams “Do it now; time is almost up.” This timer the most prominent feature feature of the page, but it works together... [...]