By putting a link or an advert to another service from your site using your special affiliate link – you  can earn a commission if a person who visits from your link makes a purchase. That’s how affiliate programs work and it’s a great way to make money.

There are loads of WordPress Theme developers and theme shops that have affiliate programs so they’re a good place to get started if you want to start making money. WordPress 3.2 has been downloaded more than 12 million times – that’s a whole lot of sites running on WordPress, and a whole lot of people looking for WordPress themes. Here’s a run down of the main players, with a bit of info about their program and how much lovely cash-money you can earn.

Of course this list is not finished and I’ll be keeping it updated as time goes on. If you know of a WordPress theme developer not on this list then leave a comment below.

What does an article spinner do?

An article spinner allows you to take any content be it an article, PLR content, etc. and unique-ify it… ie. it replaces synonyms in your copy with words that virtually mean the same thing allowing you to easily reword your content.

What can an article spinner be used for?

• Generating unique content that doesn’t get penalized for being duplicate content by search engines.
• Generating multiple copies of the same content for use in different online marketing campaigns or on different websites.
• Rewriting product descriptions for affiliate marketing promotions
• Helping writing students find synonyms to build their vocabulary and rewrite reports.

Is it an Article rewriter?

Yes and no. Yes it replaces words and phrases but your articles will still sound the same. So, you can increase your chances of getting by duplicate content filters but overall for a real article rewrite it is suggested you do further manual edits. ie. make additions and subtractions and maybe use a different perspective.

How can an article spinner help to generate traffic?

Face it creating content takes time and money. For the best ROI you can duplicate your existing content and syndicate it across the web without fear that it will be seen as duplicate content and be de-indexed. Doing this helps you generate more traffic by allowing you to target many new keyword phrases you might not have otherwise thought of. WHat it comes down to is multiplying your content.

This article spinner software works fast replacing all identified synonyms in an article.. or you can go through one by one if you want. So the downside of software like is that it has the potential to be abused by people creating spammy content for the web. I definitely advice against using this software for that. I can tell you it pays to create valuable because it has a longer shelf life. That means it must be legible and not be some gibberish pumped out by a piece of software.

So in saying that although The Best Spinner is very powerful and time saving you still should spend some time proofreading your spun articles. But yes, it does work fast and save you a lot of time which is why I purchased a copy of it.

If you’re looking for a great article spinner to save you some time and help you create original and unique content then check out The Best Spinner. You can get a copy of it until Feb. 5th for half off.

Article Spinner Features:

Hands-down the BEST built-in thesaurus with hundreds of thousands of entries added by Actual users writing real-world articles!

The fastest, easiest interface for spinning articles and creating unique content with lightening speed.

Unlimited nested spinning — go as a many levels deep as you want. Various color coding for up to four nested levels.

Fast individual article rewrites with the built in “word replacement” functionality.

Full-sentence and paragraph spinning.

Enables saving “Favorite” synonym lists for terms you commonly use in your articles — and replaces them ALL with one click of a button.

Permits using all users’ “Favorite” synonym lists to actually kick-start your article spinning!

Generates up to 100 spun versions of your article at a time into a ZIP file or automatically generates one spun version on screen that you can copy to the Windows clipboard.

Export to virtually any other spin format for compatibility with other systems.

Display article word count and uniqueness percentage.

The thesaurus updates constantly as the thousands of users work in the system.

Supports thesauri in English, Spanish, French and German.

View more info about The Best Spinner around.. and remember you can get a discount until Feb. 5th of 50% off.

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Updated: This report is no longer free and only comes with this current update.

So I was one of the 5 winners of the Envato referral competition, came in 2nd place.  Many people wondered how many referrals it took and I’m sure some were wondering how the winners did it.  Then a new competition was launched where you can win $3,500 if you create the most popular bookmark collection (by votes).  So that got me thinking…

It’s pretty easy to create a collection of bookmarks but I wanted to go one step further and create something I think is of real value.  And that is a collection of files you can use to earn money with along with a How-to guide.  So I went about writing a 23 page report on how to make money from the Envato marketplace that I’m offering as a free download.

Inside I show you one of the methods I use to generate over a thousand dollars a month in commissions.

You can download it by clicking the link below.  It’s in PDF format.  So check it out and let me know what you think.

In the report I show screenshots of my earnings from last month (June 2009) which I think you might find interesting.

**This Report Has Been Downloaded Over 1,079 Times Since June 2009**

To access this report please visit the link below.

How to Make Money With WordPress Affiliate Programs

Why am I asking for your name and email?.. Simply to keep you up-to-date on free updates to the report.  Don’t worry your info won’t be shared with anyone.  I hate spam as much or more than you do.

Please feel free to leave a comment below if you found this report useful.

It explains keyword research a bit and what is needed to dominate Google for competitive keywords.  So here it is…

Google’s Keyword Tool – Understanding The Numbers

Here are examples of the two keywords you suggested you wanted to rank for “muscle pain” and “back pain”. As you can see below there are different numbers of searches performed for each which pertain to the way in which people search. The match types are “broad”, “exact” and “phrase”.

Broad Match means those keywords appear anywhere in the search parameter ex. “lower back pain” counts in that given search volume just as “back pain relief” or even “relieve my back pain”. It basicaly means those keywords “back” or “pain” appear anywhere and in any order when someone does a search. This is why it has the largest search volume.

Exact Match means that the person searching searched for exactly that phrase with no other keywords. This is why the search volume is lower than both Broad and Phrase matches.

Phrase Match means that the keyword was included in a search in that exact order. People searching might still include other keywords in their search but the order inwhich the keywords appear is always in the same order. So these keyword phrases would count towards that monthly search volume: “back pain relief”, “back pain medication”, but not “pain in lower back”.

The reason I am pointing this out is because you noted you want to rank for “muscle pain” and “back pain” which from a Broad Match perspective has a very high monthly search volume. That might lead you to believe you’ll receive 2+ million unique visitors a month if you rank #1 for the term “back pain” but this is not the case.

These Broad Match search volume numbers come from hundreds in not thousands of different keyword phrases. You’d have to rank #1 for every single one to receive that many visitors a month.

A large portion of searches performed each month come from what are called “long tail keywords”. That basically means keyword phrases that have atleast 4 words in them. An example would be “How to cure back pain”.

To rank on the first page of Google or any other search engine you need to focus on several very competitive keywords but also have a large number of pages focused on smaller related “long tail” keywords.

So if you do a search on Google for “back pain” you’ll notice that the sites that are on the first page are very large sites containing hundreds of pages. Sites like webmd.com and wikipedia.org are very hard, if not impossible to beat when it comes to SEO. They are considered authoritative sites and will most likely never fall off the first page under such competitive keywords.

But you’ll notice a website ranked #9 on that page cure-back-pain.org that is operated by an individual who spent a lot of time writing articles about back pain and doing SEO so he ranks on the first page. He actually started the site in 2006 so it has been online for 2 years now. The age of a website also plays a role in SEO but I’ll explain more about that later.

The reason I am pointing out his website is because he has hundreds of pages of content on his website and that is one of the main reasons why he is ranking so well.

To rank as well as his website you’re going to need hundreds of pages of content all related to back pain. You’re going to have to create a portal of information related to the symptoms people have and then explain how your products can help relieve these symptoms.

I am focusing on the keyword “back pain” because that is one of the keywords you mentioned but I noticed you have other products that you’ll be selling from your site as well. Your product line contains items such as herbal tea, safron capsules, Tibetan rhodiola capsules etc. that are all considered natural medicines.

My thoughts are that you could focus on the natural aspect of your products. Or the fact that your products are Tibetan medicines.

One option you have is developing a portal about Tibetan medicine and the benefits of natural remedies for instance. This is possibly what you were trying to accomplish with your site *url deleted*.

SEO is a long term strategy and one that has a greater return on investment than say PPC advertising because once you do the work and build up a resourceful site you can reap the rewards of organic search traffic for years to come. And since 70% of people click on sites listed in the organic search results over the ads that appear alongside them you’ll fair far better in terms of converting traffic to buyers.

How to Rank on The First Page of Google For Your Keywords

I’m going to now advise you of what is required for your company to dominate the U.S. market using internet marketing tactics such as SEO, affiliate marketing and social networking.

The main goal is to achieve maximum visibility wherever people are active online whether it be from an internet search or an online community. You want to be the first thing people see when they go online to look for help with their ailments.

To accomplish this you must apply a comprehensive online marketing strategy that will ensure your brand is at the forefront of major search terms, related websites, communities and social networks.

1. An ecommerce website with these features:

• SEO friendly meaning URLs are static and meta titles and descriptions can be controlled for every product page.
• Affiliate tracking so an affiliate program can be operated and run successfuly.
• Built in CMS so content can be added easily.
• W3C-standards compatible meaning everyone can see your store in the same way, regardless of which web browser they use.
• Ability to accept all major forms of payment including Paypal, Google Checkout etc.
• Ability to detect the geographical location of a customer and shows prices in their local currency.
• Integration with UPS, UPS online tools, USPS, FedEx, Canada Post, Australia Post and Royal Mail for live shipping quotes.
• Single page checkout system as well as guest checkout which make it easy to order.
• Complete backend for customers so they can view orders, track their shipments and order easily in the future.

Along with your products you should have at least 100 other content pages explaining the benefits of each product. In depth articles about how your products help customers as well as news and company info should be provided.

This ecommerce website should be hosted on a dedicated server which would have dedicated resources for it including a dedicated IP address. This adds a level of security that you cannot receive when dealing with shared hosting. Of course the site would be protected by 128 bit industry-standard SSL security.

2. An information portal with these features:

• SEO optimized including static URLs. This includes optimized Meta titles, descriptions, content and site structure.
• Ability to easily add content by multiple authors online via browser.
• Between 300-500 articles related to your products. These articles would be optimized for search engines but also humans so they are of high quality.
• A complete user forum (bulletin board) where people can join in discussions. This forum would be optimized for search engines so the pages and content get indexed on search engines.

3. Social Networking

Because a majority of people online are spending their time on social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook it is essential to add this to your online marketing strategy. It is fundamental to be proactive on such sites and be engaged in conversations related to your products.

• Myspace page optimized with your search terms and product info.
• Facebook business page

4. Press Release Distribution

Press releases are an excellent method for not only announcing news to the public but also for SEO.

5. Article Distribution

Articles written around keywords you are targeting should be written, optimized and submitted to the major article repositories online. Many of these articles are redistributed on news and personal websites that further help build your link popularity.

6. Social Media Optimization

Just like article repository websites there are websites that focus on user generated content such as hubpages.com and squidoo.com where you can create and distribute your own content. These sites are an essential part of creating buzz and interest around your product as well as driving traffic to your main website.

7. Satellite Websites

Because of the vast majority of keywords you’ll be optimizing for it is suggested you create a number of satellite websites. Satellite websites are smaller informational websites optimized around alternative keywords. These sites would be focused on one main keyword such as “arthritis pain relief” and would contain unique information related solely to arthritis and relieving pain.

These Satellite websites would collect and drive traffic to your main ecommerce website to increase sales and also help boost the ranking of your main site.

8. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is another essential component of online marketing that I suggest you implement. Affiliate marketing gives incentives to website owners and online marketers to promote your products online.

Affiliates drive traffic to your ecommerce store via their own websites, PPC ads with banners and text links you provide them so that they receive a commission when someone purchases your products. You pay out commissions only after an order is made.

A complete affiliate program can be implemented along with program management and ad creation.

9. Aquiring Websites

One method to fasttrack brand visibility online is to purhase existing websites that already rank for keywords that we want to rank for.

After doing some initial research I’ve found atleast one person who is willing to sell their website. I can aquire more info and negotiate a deal with them or others to see if it is worthwhile to pursue.

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So that is where I am stopping.  It gives you an overview of what I propose needed to be done to not only enter but dominate major keywords on Google.  This is a pretty big project and by no means do you need to do all of these things if you are a small business.  Of course the more marketing you do that is focused the better.

I hope someone finds this info useful.  I figured I’d post it instead of letting it sit in a folder on my hard drive.

Feature short, non-interactive animated banner ads.

They automatically start, have continuous play and generally last approximately 5-15 seconds.

Use advertiser created Flash (.swf) files, which are created using Adobe Flash software or with other programs capable of writing .swf files.

Commission Junction hosts and tracks these links just like other link types. You can obtain link code for Flash links the same way you do for all other link types via the CJ Account ManagerTM.

What are the key benefits of Flash Hosting for publishers?

Flash Hosting simplifies the process of an advertiser creating and offering Flash links via the CJ Account Manager, meaning that more advertisers may be inclined to start offering Flash links. In addition, industry research points to rich media, such as Flash, driving higher conversion rates than their standard .GIF/.JPEG counterparts.

Who can use Flash links?

All publishers can utilize Flash links once their joined advertisers offer them.

What do clients need to do to begin using Flash Links?

Once an advertiser begins offering the Flash ads, you can immediately begin to obtain the Flash link code as you would for any other link type. Please note that you can only obtain HTML code for Flash links (no JavaScript).

When will Flash Ads be available?

Flash Ads will be available starting August 29, 2008.

Pepperjam Network – “The Next Generation of Affiliate Marketing” Releases PepperjamAds. PepperjamAds is a way to display affiliate ads from multiple companies in one ad block, kinda like you see in your adsense block. So now you can rotate multiple affiliate ads in the same space instead of just one.

The ads are not contextual as I was told because they don’t rely on your website content to select which ads to display, you preselect the ads yourself. So you can run them along with adsense.

You simply sign up for multiple companies programs if you haven’t already and click on PepperjamAds in the top menu. Well I don’t have to type out how to do it when they’ve already created a helpful video…

You can see my PepperjamAds to the right. Super simple to set up and they rotate between 3 different companies ads I chose; text-link-ads.com, pepperjam and seomoz.

You can define how the ads look just like you do with adsense i.e. pick background, border, font colors to match your site.

I’m new to their network and just signed up because I was asked to review their service. After signing up though it only took about 5 minutes to be approved which is something I appreciate.. speed.

Their user interface once you log in is impressive. Everything is laid out very clearly.

The one thing I have a problem with is that the interface is set in reverse type, meaning white type on a black background. That’s a nono in design because it’s a lot harder to read. I’m sure they are going for an “edgy” look but readability is a lot more important.

Oh and they seem to have only 85 partners in their network which isn’t a lot. I didn’t find a whole lot to promote with this blog but I’m sure things will change. They look like they are only going to get better with time.

If you haven’t already done so go check them out.

The following was a paid review.

As a designer I judge a lot of things solely on their looks but I want to give Auction Ads a fair review… and give it a bit of testing before I toss it totally.

Here’s how I’m  testing it further.  I’m selling a site via eBay.  I have some newsletter subscribers on the directory I’m selling and I get visitors to the site.  So instead of linking directly to eBay, or the auctions I’m running I link to it via Auction Ads convert URL method which allows you to link to any page on eBay.  I send out an email letting everyone know the site is for sale on eBay via the cloaked Auction Ads link.  Ok,, so I’ve gotten some clicks so far but what I want to happen is someone to find my site or link, sign up for eBay, win the site for millions and I’ll get a nice fat commission check from Auction Ads…

Still in testing of course but this lead to a lot of other ideas about sellers on eBay who have websites or newsletters that they can promote their auctions on.

With the eBay URL Converter feature of Auction Ads you can literally link to any page on eBay and turn it into an affiliate link.  Run a fan site on Corvettes? or how about fancy China, or high-end electronics site?  Do you have a newsletter?  Why not link to eBay auctions with affiliate links?  If you do or want to start promoting stuff for sale on eBay why not do it through Auction Ads?  It can’t hurt to try.  You can even hide Auction Ads links like you do any other affiliate links.

What about PPC marketing.  You could definetely advertise auctions via adwords, adcenter or YPN also in hopes of big commission checks.  I haven’t tested that out yet.

I’ll get back to you after the auction is over to see if my idea paid off.  Even though someone might not sign up to win a semi expensive site via the affiliate links, I need to test this method out before totally shunning Auction Ads.  I think Jeremy would appreciate that.  Who knows…

Want to run some of your own tests with your newsletter subscribers?  Make sure you promoting something you know about on eBay and go sign up at Auction Ads.

This new version has been built with an emphasis on unique destination content and will include the following updates:

Use of the new multiple product search box

Its own cascading style sheets. On our current page the look and feel is controlled by the hotel CSS which is added to the hotel (default) header. With this new page, we will no longer be supporting CSS in the header.

Hotel destinations are randomly selected based on a combination of popularity, availability and price and are dynamically updated every four hours. This provides for unique destinations and hotels to allow your customer choice when shopping on your site.
The destinations and hotels on the Travel Portal will have a 4-hour lifespan. When the time expires, the system repeats the steps above updating the destinations and hotels
This process provides for unique destinations and hotels (within the set of rules above).

Hotel listings will include star rating

Hotel destinations will include a link to the hotel merchandising page

And here is a screenshot if you are familiar with how the old one looked.

Redirect /shorturl/ http://superlong-affiliate-link.com?=go.php+affiliateID-etc-etc-etc

or

Redirect /url/ url to redirect to

I couldn’t get this to work when using wordpress on the root of another site and I searched all over google to find a fix but I couldn’t find anything till I found this cool script that gives you a way to do this without having to edit your htaccess file. So if you are using wordpress or you don’t like or know how to edit your htaccess file (some hosting companies don’t give access to the htaccess) you can use Get Shorty. You will need one free mysql database and installation is a snap. Just upload the entire folder to a new folder on your site. Log in and start creating your short urls. I would suggest using it if you promote affiliate programs as it hides your affiliate ID and also makes your affiliate links not look like affiliate links. So instead of a long amazon.com affiliate url you can have something like www.yourdomain.com/go/amazon/

Get Shorty gives you a complete admin section to log into to create your urls and works very nicely. You can create as many urls as you want and even counts the number of times a link was clicked, something that you don’t get when using your htaccess file. If you ever use tinyurl then I would suggest switching to using links on your own domain as you will now be seemingly deep linking into your own site instead of linking to tinyurl’s domain. Also if tinyurl ever goes down, so does your link. Anyway, check it out if it sounds like something you might be interested in. I think it’s a great script. Oh and it’s free.