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Been a while since my last post so I will do a quick review of the progress we are making or lack of.

Its near the end of the month now and it seems we are not going to meet the milestone target. Its a shame but not much to worry about as the first milestone was not important. This month was really about getting things set-up and learning.

On the learning front, I think we have made great progress and I can now mingle with the best of them without being called a newb too often. On the set-up front, things are also good as we have set up the Article Dashboard script and have stuff in the works.

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Are you getting low Click Through Rates (CTR) on your affiliate banners?

Well ArticleGOLD is and I suspect that its due to the ad placement. At the moment you can see from the below screenshot that the banners are located at the far right column.

Over the last day and a half and over 10,000 impressions we have less than 10 clicks. I admit it may not be all ad placement as we should consider the following:

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Today, I have been a good internet marketer and took some time to submit this blog to blog directories. Below I will list the directories that I have submitted to.

Best of the Web - Paid USD39.95





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Even though its still July and the affiliate journey should really start tomorrow, we have made some big progress and things are set in place for the ride ahead of us.

Firstly, as you may have noticed we have changed the theme of the blog. Whilst reading the well recommended Copyblogger, I noticed that their theme was available for download. So the reading got put aside and out came the FTP.

A few MySQL errors and permission changes later, we have a lovely new theme for the blog. A vast improvement if I do say so myself.

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So this is really the first week of getting on the affiliate bandwagon. Lets see what we got planned so far.

A lot of progress with our ArticleGOLD affiliate mod today and we should be able to launch it tomorrow. The idea is to be able to show affiliate banners of our choosing for each article. This will make sure that the ads we shown on the article page is targeted but I am still skeptical because most of our visitors are looking for information rather than purchasing. ArticleGOLD gets around 1600 uniques a day so we’ll see what kind of results we’ll get soon.

I will put the affiliate banners in a new column on the right I think. Not the best position but I don’t want to change ArticleGOLD too much at the moment as its bringing in around 25USD a day through Adsense. Be interesting to see how the Adsense is affected too after putting in the code.
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Not good today checking on my Commission Junction account and discovering that the last 2 transactions for the T-shirts site has been deemed invalid due to invalid credit card. Also it seems the guy has put another order in judging from the fact hes ordered 10 T-Shirts of the same type. Anyways, so the current total for July is just less than 50USD which may be less if the latest order is also invalid.

Development wise, it seems that its too much hassle to try to hack our way into Article Dashboard’s encoded script to add my affiliate code. What was decided is that we will put an Iframe in the template file and our code in the Iframe. Which strengthens my desire to rebuild ArticleGOLD from ground up with PhP.

Anyways, I’m off to on a little trip on Star Pisces with the family so I’ll be back on Monday to see if things have improved.

After looking into the world of affiliate marketing quite a bit in the last few days, lets have a look at some of the ways people are making money with affiliate marketing.

Method 1 - Niche site
This method usually involves having a website targeted at a certain niche. Site usually has a few product pages where the affiliate links are placed and the rest will be mainly content pages linked to these product pages. Targeting the right keywords are important in this method and usually the homepage and product pages will require heavy keyword research before starting on the site.

Method 2 - PPC Landing page
This method basically has a landing page with a strong Call to Action for the product being marketed. The idea is to buy your way into profits with PPC. Obviously keyword driven again and need to be careful regarding merchant terms and spending too much. I have called it PPC Landing page, but basically any method to get traffic to the page could be used including organic search, socials, forum spamming, and whatever else takes your fancy.
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Wow, my eyes are tired. I’ve been browsing affiliate forums, blogs, tutorials, guides and whatever else I have had time for. This in addition to 6 books I brought from Amazon has meant that I have officially no time for proper work , haha.

Actually, it was the first time I ordered from Amazon and was pleasantly surprised at the speed I got the books. It took less than 2 weeks for the order to reach my Hong Kong address.

Talking about Amazon, someone ordered a USD70 watch through us which was fun. However it was a third party product and has less commission apparently. Time to do more reading on the Amazon site methinks.

Anyways, the point of the thread was to list out some useful stuff that I have been reading lately so here goes.
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Its always advisable to set goals and milestones. We list our targets and milestones for the coming 6 months for our affiliate marketing. Hopefully, I can come back to refer to this thread with pride in future posts.

Its near the end of July now so as per my previous post, we have around USD100 so far for this month from affiliates as a starting point.

August 07 - Target USD150 - 150% increase from previous month
Hey I am not greedy!!! Actually, because we are just starting out, I guess most of the month will be reading, reviewing ideas, starting things off and finishing off a few things.

It also gives me less pressure which is always good.

The main priority targets and tasks for this month are:
1. Decide upon 2 main affiliate projects and do planning.
2. Complete affiliate data feed script we are developing and implement on at least one site for testing purposes.
3. Complete ArticleGOLD affiliate script and implement.
4. Register affiliate earnings from at least 3 merchants.
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Well, as per my New Direction for Xenyo, you are at the start of a journey. I think we’ll call it ‘An SEO’s journey into Affiliate marketing’. This post is the first of the new category in which I’ll start with a bit of why we are launching this new category and then a review of our current affiliate marketing position.

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