Showing Value In 2014: SEO Attribution Deep Dive

Carefully thought out campaign attribution can show your SEO campaign’s true value to your business. Settling on a model which paints the least-wrong picture is your starting point, but pretty quickly you can make your model sing, providing real value …

Where Do You Go When You’ve Maxed Out SEM?

Advertisers frequently tell me, “If you can hit my CPA target, my SEM budget is unlimited!” This is great in theory but often limited in practice — at some point, there simply are no more new keywords, or landing page tweaks, or ad text tests that can increase an…

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How I Create a Strategy for a New Blog or Affiliate Site – Part 2 (Creating Your Sitemap & Wireframe)

In part one of this series – identifying the demographic – you got a good handle on who will be reading your blog based on your niche and where you social efforts should have the most impact (#protip – you can begin working on building a social following long before you launch your new site […]

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How I Create a Strategy for a New Blog or Affiliate Site – Part 1 (Identifying the Demographic)

In prior posts we’ve discussed how to come up with a niche idea, how to research a niche before entering it and how to find the best affiliate programs within a niche to promote. Now it’s time to build and promote that site, right? Wrong. Now it’s time to create a strategy for how you […]

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How to Find the Best Affiliate Programs in Your Niche

In my recent post on how to research a niche one of the topics I glazed over was checking for the presence of multiple affiliate programs. Assuming you’ve found a niche idea that passed the research litmus test (or are already in a niche), it’s time to dig deep to find the best affiliate programs […]

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How to Conduct Niche Research for an Affiliate Site

How do you an evaluate a potential affiliate niche? It’s a question I’m asked several times a week. Half of the niches I’ve created affiliate sites in were ones I stumbled across totally by chance. The rest are in niches I directly set out to target. But regardless of how you find a niche, there’s […]

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Identifying the Money Keywords for Affiliate Marketing & SEO

Keyword targeting can make all the difference revenue wise when working on SEO for an affiliate site that relies on SEO as its primary marketing method. You have vanity terms, traffic terms and then you have your “money” terms. Seeing results from SEO takes a lot of work and a lot of time. So how […]

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9 Quick Tips to Increase Affiliate Income on Your Blog

So you’ve got a blog and you’re doing affiliate marketing – with either no success, little success or great success (high five!) – but hey, you’re always looking for ways to make more. Below are 9 things I’ve done over the years – with success – to earn more revenue from my blogs. 9 Ways […]

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How to cloak your affiliate links

We regularly review sites that monetize, in part, with affiliate links. I’ve always said and will continue to say that affiliate links should be redirected through a redirect script, but when we tried to help a client by linking to a proper explanation and example script, we couldn’t find one. So, in true Yoast style, I wrote…

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How to Create Passive Income with Profitable (Yet Honest) Reviews

When I did my post on how to make money via blogging, I’d mentioned doing product reviews within it as one of my favorite ways to generate passive income with a blog. To me, there’s no better recipe for monetization than taking a product I love, walking you through it, showing you what you can […]

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