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If your interesting in Affiliate Marketing Training or if your looking for a way to learn affiliate marketing you might want to consider a training/mentoring program. It should not come as a surprise to many that the affiliate marketing industry can be a difficult one to crack. There is loads of competition and most of the competition is well funded. If your new, it certainly can’t hurt to have someone in your corner when facing the heavyweights!

Unfortunately not all advice is good advice. Many of the free information given away on blogs and public forums either isn’t very useful, is very outdated, or is downright wrong. Many bloggers and forum posters will try to sabotage the competition by feeding them false information. Obviously not everyone does this, but some do. You need to find people that you can trust.

Affiliit, Wealthy Affiliate and PPC Coach are all good trustworthy names. I have been a member of the former 2 and I am one of the founders of Affiliit. I know the people that run these programs are top notch. In an affiliate training program it is the goal of the site owners to ensure you succeed, there isn’t any hidden agenda, they want you to succeed. If you succeed they have succeeded.

So how do you go about deciding which training program to join? A good start would be to do a search on them and find out real reviews by real members. Make sure you get the details from real members and not just an affiliate promoting the site. Ask questions on affiliate marketing forums, ask if anyone has experience with the programs. Even go as far as contacting the site owners and ask them what they have that the others don’t. It will be interesting if you get the answers from all of them and compare.

In the end, just do your research, don’t just jump into the first program you see. Make sure you make and informed decision. Remember you are investing in yourself, you need to find the program which is best suited for YOU!

It’s not often I will post about a product or service. Affiliit is the odd exception!

Now why is Affiliit an exception? It is my product! I have teamed up with Clint from ClintLenard.com and we have put together an in-depth affiliate training program. We made sure this program was designed to reflect several aspects of affiliate marketing and not just one section such as PPC. Clint and I have help tons of people achieve their goals and more in affiliate marketing, we feel this was a natural progression to start our own training program.

Affiliit focuses on several aspects of Affiliate Marketing. They teach and train in-depth on PPC, SEO, Article Marketing and more. They also teach you how to use these methods with CPA programs, datafeed programs and pay per sale programs.

Affiliit shares the same monthly structure as PPC-Coach, this helps newbies from experiencing information overload. After each month you progress onto the next month and you gain access to another section of the forum.

One of the key features of Affiliit is the amount of training material. The majority of the information is on the forums, however they also incorporate videos and case studies. They also have several tools which help you along your way.

If your having problems, struggling or just plain want to learn more – Affiliit might be for you!

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This E-Book talks about common mistakes made by new and seasoned affiliates. It also discusses how to avoid making these mistakes and other things you could do instead. While I am not a huge fan of E-Books, I have been told this is helpful so I thought I’d post it up.

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This video is a must see for all newbies! It could also be beneficial to all people in our industry but newbies will benefit the most.

At Affiliate Summit West West from Tracking202 interviews Jason Akatiff – owner of the Ads4Dough affiliate network.

ASW 2009 Tracking202 – Ads4dough Interview

I’ve never been too fond of Google AdSense, nor have I ever used it as a primary (or any) source or type of income nor have I ever really tried to optimize any sites for it. With that being said you may find it as odd as I do – I’m very close to receiving my first AdSense check.

My current AdSense earnings are at a whopping $89.02. When I first started throwing AdSense on some of my sites, it just never took off, people just never clicked on the ads.

So I did what everyone else would do, and got my friends to start clicking on them……. just kidding.

So when creating a new site I often play with the idea of throwing AdSense on it, if it looks like it goes with the site I will normally do it, if not – I wont. You’ll notice there is no Adsense on this site – that’s because I am confident anyone visiting this site doesn’t really care about those ads and knows if they need to find something to just use Google directly. In other words I have respect for you guys and think you are an intelligent bunch.

So what happened? One of my sites which I had no idea would do any good with AdSense started to bring in consistent money. Not a lot, but some and it was consistent. So I just let it ride. I don’t want to go into too much detail of this site, but it’s not a blog nor is it a site full of rich content. I still can’t figure out why this site of all of them has the most consistent Adsense earnings. It definitely is an interesting beast.

Going forward I’m thinking of trying Google Adsense on more sites just to test out and if it doesn’t work out well, just yank it. Maybe it’s time you tried it too! Don’t be affraid to try it on any type of site either, you never know what will work.

Well the month (and year) are almost over. One thing that I found kind of odd, December 2008 was my highest earning month for EPN (Ebay Partner Network) to date!

I just started promoting EPN products June this year. It was a test at a low budget project to see how much I could earn with spending the bare minimum. I created several sites and did not promote them PPC or any paid advertising, I just tried to promote them with SEO.

The costs were very simple and relatively small – domain name(s), phpbay and webhosting. Since those were so low, ROI was very high. However it’s very difficult to scale. I found the best way was to whip out many sites, once they looked good and were working leave it and start another.

For anyone looking to break out into the affiliate marketing industry should considering start off with EPN sites. It’s very cheap and easy to do.

One thing to keep in mind – if you are strictly using SEO to promote your sites, it will can some time (a few months) to start seeing significant traffic, so patience is required.

Hope everyone else had a good month!

When working with PPC or any advertising your looking for the ultimate ROI and Profit. Normally you try to achieve this by keeping your cost per click down (for PPC advertising). BUT… Sometimes a lower CPC is not always better.

Affiliate Marketing isn’t that simple. Cheaper isn’t always better, nor is it always best to have your ads in the number 1 position. Like everything else in this industry, it’s all about testing.

Recently with one of my successful campaigns I had my clicks so damn low I didn’t think it could get any better. One day I was thinking, how can I squeeze more out of this campaign? I raised my bit by quite a bit (in comparison to what it was at). A day later, my profits had doubled.

My ROI had gone down a little, which is to be expected, but for the extra profit for this campaign it was worth it. Sometimes you need to spend a little more to get A LOT more back.

Too often new affiliates get blown away with the whole Super Affiliate mindset thinking they need to become huge and become huge right away.

When starting off – focus on the little things, start small and make reasonable goals.

Ok, so you’re starting off – you see tons of people making (or at least claiming to be making) thousands a month on affiliate marketing. It’s easy to get your hopes up and think that you’ll be making that right away as well. Anyone that is making a living by Affiliate Marketing is doing so because they have put in the time, effort and money. It doesn’t happen by accident, nor does it happy over night.

Remember – we all started somewhere.

So $100 a day seem like a lot? How about $10 a day? Or even $5 a day? Why not focus on getting 1 campaign to $10 profit a day. Then after that instead of trying to massively scale that, start another one and get that to $10 a day. Now do that over and over again. Soon enough you’ll be at $100 a day, then $200 a day, $500 a day and so on. And — in the unfortunate event that your campaign is taken offline you will have several others up and you’ll barely notice it as you will have several others still making a reasonable amount.

You don’t update it enough

To have a successful blog you need to update it often, once or twice a day or at least once every other day. There is nothing more annoying than someone who does not update their blog often enough. Yes I am aware of the irony as I have not updated this site in a while But you need to get new posts up and running as quickly as possible.

You update it too much

Yes it is possible to have too much of a good thing. If you update your page too much visitors could get bored and have a hard time keeping up with the new content. Also having a 1 or 2 line post every few hours is garbage. Come up with some nice rich content.

You don’t promote it

Guess what kiddies – your blog or website isn’t going to get visitors on it’s own. You need to get out there and promote it. Get out on other blogs and websites and promote yourself – DON’T SPAM, just promote.

Over Advertising

Some people think their readers are morons (some blog readers are morons) – you shouldn’t over do the ads. I know I have a few banners but that’s as far as I want to go. I’m back and forth on them right now. I only have them in case I help someone out they might want to give me a referral

Your posts SUCK

Writing posts on irrelevant topics don’t get you any brownie points with your audience. Except maybe in John Chows case where he posts pictures of what he eats. Most of the time that crap won’t fly. Writing repetitive posts are just as bad, if your readers already read it a month ago, why would they want to read it again just reworded?