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Good News for the New Year

To all of you out there who missed out on the good ol’ days of affiliate marketing, when you didn’t need a website or programming experience to make a bundle, I have some GREAT news… Those days are back!

Even better, it’s easier, cheaper and more effective than direct search marketing ever was.

To what do we owe this exciting revolution?

QR codes.

Never heard of them? That’s okay. I’ll give you the short explanation.

QR codes are like bar codes, only square, and all the newest smartphones have QR code readers built-in.

What happens when you scan these QR codes with your smart phone?

It takes you to a website.

That’s right. An ad you can put in the mail, staple to a telephone pole, or hand out in the subway can send smartphone users to web sites, thanks to the magic of QR codes.

Best of all, a new guerilla marketing company, PayPoster.com has all the materials, tools and programs for you to start right now, for FREE!

That’s right! Assuming you have a printer and know how to use it, you could be earning money in just a few short minutes without investing a dime.

Tony

Business License and taxes

Will I need to delcare myself a business or get a license of any kind to do this?  Will I need a tax id number?  Do I need to pay estimated taxes throughout the year?  I was quite excited when I thougt that I would not have to develop a website or better yet come up with any content.  Not so excited now but may try it anyway.

Thanks,

Stuart

So the “get link” text-only ads don’t work anymore?

Hi,

I apologize if the question sounds abvious but I read the book and the comments on this blog as well:

true now Amazon, CJ are asking to provide a web site name to complete the registration,

However, what happens if I apply the “old concept” of  get a link from, for ex, an Amazon product and then

advertise it on Google AdWords?  it wont be accepted?     

My registration account at Amazon - (I provided as website a simple website regarding my career) has been approuved, what happens if I try the get link scheme and I advertise it on Google?

Can you please clarify the “technical changes” : an organic search would still be able to show sponsored ads or not? 

Forgive my ignorance but this is a complete new world for me;  and again congrats for your book, I found it to be a revolutionary book;

Thank you

rob

March Newsletter (yes I know, I am posting this very late)

Hi Everybody,

Once again, it’s been quite some time since my last newsletter, but I don’t like sending one out unless I have something to say and lately – as so many affiliate marketing programs have been disallowing direct search – I really haven’t had too much to say.

But today is different. Today I am launching a new website which will hopefully prove that there is still a lot of money to be made in the affiliate marketing world, and you don’t have to be a trained web-design professional to make it happen. I’ve built this site entirely by myself, and on the cheap. Better than that even, is that if you really don’t want to be bothered to build a site of your own, you are welcome to make money off of my new site, with no investment at all, and hopefully even have fun doing it (especially if you are – or would like to be – a writer and/or news-junkie like myself).

A few months ago I took a second look at all the domain names I have bought over the years, and identified a few that I decided had a great deal of potential, if only I would stop being so lazy and apply a little elbow grease. The one I chose to start with is www.ThirdReport.com and I have totally redesigned the site with a focus on two things;

Citizen Journalism – Relying on (and paying) average citizens the world over to write their own news and opinions, and also to refer the most interesting news and opinions from other sites.
Local News Worldwide – Adding local news tailored to the individual’s location to all the other news available on the site.

If you are a writer yourself, become a Third Man and I’ll share 50% of the advertising revenue generated by your exclusively written news and opinions.

If you happen to be a news junkie, you can even make money on the site simply by becoming a Third Man and submitting links to all the most interesting news you see, and I’ll share 1% per headline of the advertising revenue generated by the ad block your headlines run in.

The only expenditures I made were signing up with a web-hosting company that had free database functionality (I used GoDaddy’s New – Unlimited Hosting) and I had to purchase a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver which you can get really cheap if you are a student, or if you have a student or teacher – grade school through college – in your household) to design the site with. I never took a web design class in my life and was able to build the site on a learn-as-you-go basis (though I’ll admit, I had to Google the answers to hundreds of questions).

Anyway, check out the site. I’ll be reporting back on its success. And hopefully you’ll be inspired to start designing a site of your own or – even better (for me) – maybe you’ll just prefer to start writing and referring news for the Third Report.

Good Luck, Affiliate Millionaires in training!

Anthony Borelli

Can you give us an update?

It’s been quite a few months since you told us about your new concept of earning money by forwarding web traffic through the CasinoBlasters link. I wondered if you would be willing to give us an update on how that was going, maybe including some numbers like what percentage of visitors you’re finding convert on your foreign domains and what the annual earnings per domain look like? This would be useful information for those, like me, who have been hesitant to just plunge in!

Thanks.

Janelle

Found your book and …

I have just started reading today … I have to tell you my excitement level was diminished when I logged on here to find a lot of changes have taken place in the industry since your book was published.  Is there still a chance for a newbie or has the ship already sailed?

Pay Per Sale

I am new to affiliate marketing.  I have heard Pay per Sale is a great way to go . I have a great product to offer and I am willing to pay 30 percent plus commission on my sales and I will do all the selling. I just need the leads driven to my site. Can anyone give me any advise on how I would find affiliates that would consider this kind of offer.

Thanks

Ty

Time between clicks and commission reporting

Tony, your book definitely gave me a kickstart into setting up programs on google adwords. After a few campaigns/learning experiences, I think I finally found a few programs that should start working well now that the ad campaigns are generating clicks at a good cost, and I have had a chance to refine them and get the CTR up. On the few that are in this category, they have had 2-3 days of steady click activity, but I have only had one $14 commission reported, which is well below the reported EPC on CJ. I checked the advertiser’s detail pages to see if they used batch reporting, but they don’t. How long does it typically take for advertisers to report sales/commissions? I’m trying to make sure there isn’t something wrong with the way I set up the program before I get too far in. The clicks are definitely registering on Commission Junction, so the links appear solid. Any help would be appreciated.

David

Just Read Your Book

Tony:
I am new to this general industry. I just read your book and found it quite interesting especially in light of the fact that you were successful without a website. However, seeing that it has an ‘07 copyright date I figured that the search marketing business had changed. After reading your blog, it appears that little or no search marketing exists, at least in the sense described in your book. Is my assessment correct? Do you now suggest that only affiliate marketing that directs one to your website / content affiliate marketing will be profitable and/or is the best route? Thank you in advance for your reply.

Keyword links & other

Tony,

I took a few months off from search marketing and now Commission Junction no longer shows keyword links in my existing affilliate programs – are they gone or just renamed?

Also, if I buy a new UK casino domain name then can I do search marketing in the UK to drive traffic to the site? Was just wondering why you recommended purchasing an existing site with traffic instead of creating a new one and advertising on Google to drive traffic?

Thanks,
T

Casino Affiliate

I took your advice and bought 2 domain names and linked them to my casino affiliate site.  In the past 3 months I have had over 10,000 hits and 400 downloads.  I have yet to see any deposits or actual money played.  Any suggestions?

Hoplink

I am a newby at affiliate marketing.
I am trying to work out how to collect customers to my mail-list, before they click on the hoplink on the same page???
What I see as a problem is:- how do I get the customer to fill in the mail-list box before pressing the hoplink button.

Must I list google.com?

[Edited: the quoted text below is not in font page but in Affiliate Network page. Sorry for confusion.]

In your front page [no, not front page but in Affiliate Network page] it says that “Search Marketers signing up for any of these networks should list a search engine URL (such as www.google.com) in the website URL field, and explain in the description that you will run your ads on search and content networks like Google’s.”

I had setup a Commission Junction account using my own website name URL. Although cj.com allows me to add more websites and I can certainly list google.com as one of the websites associated with my account, is it necessary to do that?

Display URL in Search Marketing Text Ads

I am new to Search Marketing, and my question is in regards to the Display URL’s. One of the Affiliate Programs I joined prohibits the use of their Website URL as a Display URL in Search Marketing Text Ads. Would I use the Destination URL as the Display URL also? I don’t want to be penalized so I’m posting this question.

Search Engines

I am a newbie to the concept of Affiliate Marketing, I know for a fact it is somthing I think i will begin taking part in in the near future, I am going to start with a website instead of search marketing because I feel there is not as big of a risk with the affiliate websites but I will begin search marketing in the future when I am comfortable with the process.

so my question is, when i register my domain name, select a web host, create a website, how do I get my website to appear on search engines? will it show automaticly? will there be a fee charged to register my website for a search engine? thanks