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How Happy Are You With Networks?

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 at 11:09 am by Anik Singal

In an attempt to evaluate the various different networks that are out there right now such as Commission Junction, LinkShare, PartnerWeekly, etc… Affiliate Classroom wants to ask you about your thoughts?

Anything - positive/negative/interesting - just give us your thoughts on the various networks in the industry right now.

Please do so by commenting below using the “Post Your Comments” button…

Happy Turkey Day!

Thursday, November 24th, 2005 at 1:46 pm by Anik Singal

This Thanksgiving, we at The Affiliate Classroom (myself especially) have a LOT to be thankful for. A little over a year ago, we launched The Affiliate Classroom and this has been an amazing year.

We want to take a special moment to thank all of our affiliates, all of our expert contributors and everyone who has supported us.

Instead of digging into the industry, we decided to take today off and just leave a note thanking every single one of you.

Have a great trukey day,

Anik Singal

GoldenCAN.com and Overstock.comŽ Offer Powerful Tool to Affiliate Marketers

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 at 2:09 pm by Anik Singal

=== PRESS RELEASE ===

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Overstock.com’s entire inventory is available through GoldenCAN’s Data Feed Integration program at no charge to affiliate marketers.

Cape Coral, FL (PRWEB) November 22, 2005 — GoldenCAN.com, online marketing’s best and brightest new program, is offering thousands of affiliate marketers the power and versatility of Overstock.com’s data feeds with a simple click of a mouse. At no cost to affiliates, thousands of Overstock.comŽ products are now available for use on affiliate Web sites with the addition of only one line of JavaScript code, available at http://www.goldencan.com/merchants/display_25.aspx.

GoldenCAN creator Asif Malik was proud to unveil the latest news, stating, “Adding Overstock.com truly solidifies the GoldenCAN Data Feed Integration program’s position as one of the most unique and necessary affiliate marketing tools on the Web. When the best retailer on the Web and the best Web marketing program come together, Christmas comes early for online marketers. I am confident this partnership has come at the perfect time, in anticipation of what will certainly be a busy and successful shopping season.”

Since its inception in June of 2005, GoldenCAN.com has quickly become a leading provider of affiliate tools online, featuring its revolutionary Data Feed/Store Integration program. The addition of Overstock.com’s vast inventory to the program makes GoldenCAN’s Data Feed Integration the simplest and most comprehensive marketing program on the Internet.

“To date, I have yet to see an easier way to incorporate a merchant data feed into an affiliate site,” notes Jacob Hawkins, VP of Online Marketing at Overstock.com.

The GoldenCAN program owes its ease and utility to its unique technology, providing affiliate marketers with data feeds, coupons, recent price drops and product searches from hundreds of merchants in one simple line of code. In an unprecedented offering, GoldenCAN’s Data Feed Integration program provides affiliate marketers with an easy-to-use and sure-to-succeed tool, regardless of their technical and programming knowledge.

“The beauty of the Data Feed Integration program is that it opens up affiliate opportunities to business people and entrepreneurs who would have previously been excluded from this type of advanced technology,” Mr. Malik explains. “With one simple line of code, affiliate marketers with no previous programming experience can offer their customers a wealth of shopping options through GoldenCAN.”

Affiliates with existing Overstock.com affiliate websites can also benefit from GoldenCAN’s Search Integration and Coupon Integration programs. Enabling their users to search, shop, view recent price drops and find what they’re looking for without leaving the affiliate site, GoldenCAN has created one of the most high-tech Web site tools available to affiliate marketers today.

About GoldenCAN
GoldenCAN.com offers pioneering online marketing tools, enabling affiliate marketers and users to combine hundreds of thousands of categories, millions of products, thousands of coupons and recent price drop products, multiple merchant searching and price comparisons, all in one line of code. For more information on GoldenCAN’s Internet marketing solutions, visit www.goldencan.com.

Overstock.com is a registered trademark of Overstock.com, Inc.

Last Day of Affiliate Competition…

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005 at 11:59 am by Anik Singal

The last 14 days have been nothing but amazing. I have to (once again) thank all the wonderful affiliates of Affiliate Classroom who really came around and flexed their muscles!

Today is the last day of the competition and we’re just busy calculating all the results so we can announce the multiple winners soon. For those of you wondering whether it was a success, I’ll let you decide:

- 135% increase in sales
- 26% increase in # of affiliates in our system
- 5 new MAJOR promotional partners

Many of you have caught on to the “real reason” behind the competition and caught me (and e-mailed me about it). But some still don’t know… ;)

There was a “behind the scenes” goal of this competition and I am very proud to announce that I think that goal was firmly met. In a few days, Affiliate Classroom is going to release a full case study that reveals what we did, how we did it and what our goal was…

Till then - start thinking about how you can implement ‘competitions’ into your own marketing plan.

Having Trouble Getting Your Site Indexed?

Friday, November 18th, 2005 at 11:20 am by Anik Singal

This is a question we get regularly at The Affiliate Classroom - “How do I get my website indexed into all the major search engines.” Before I give you the simple and easy way to do that, I want to clear up some myths:

1. Submitting to search engine helps - It doesn’t. I have tested this and I never saw it do a thing!

2. “Just wait…” - No way. If you don’t actually do the right things, getting indexed is almost impossible now days.

3. Indexing in 3 days - On a brand new website? Good luck - Maybe the home page will get indexed. But a “deep crawl” for all your pages is not really possible in that short time anymore.

4. Blogging and Pinging - Ahhaaa my favorite. The latest craze (which is now dying). Let’s set it straight when it comes to blogging and pinging.

Blogging and pinging will MOST DEFINITELY give your site some short term indexing in Yahoo and MSN (not really Google). However, if you stop blogging and pinging, you’ll soon noticed that the engines (especially Yahoo) will fast remove your site. If you blog/ping too much, they will remove your sites, etc…

Personally, I am not a big fan of blogging/pinging - it just seems like a short-term solution that can get you in trouble if not done right.

So, what IS the best way to get indexed?

Simple - LINKS, LINKS and more LINKS.

The oldest, most traditional way is still the best way. The only difference is that now you need more links and they take longer to get you indexed. Well, this month, our magazine reveals 80+ directories that you can go list your website at almost immediately and get back-links from…

Indexing should not really be a problem any more:

November 2005 Magazine
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Google Analytics Launched and Free…

Thursday, November 17th, 2005 at 10:20 am by Anik Singal

Google just launched a program called “Google Analytics” - this is a service that can tell you a lot of information about your website, the traffic, where it came from, etc…

This is a service that once used to cost up to $200/month - now it’s 100% free from Google.

Also, a huge benefit of this service is when you tie it in with your Google Adwords account (it integrates very easily).

Here are some benefits of using Google Analytics:

- Track your website traffic
- Tie it in with Adwords
- Multiple/Unlimited campaigns
- No size limits
- Absolutely FREE!

For more information, click here…

November 2005 Magazine Issue Released!

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 at 11:59 am by Anik Singal

November 2005 Magazine
Download Now!

The November 2005 Magazine issue is ready for you to download immediately!

Here are some of the topics we discuss:

- Web Directories for Link Success
- The Easiest Way to Get Links
- Writing Effective Product Reviews
- SEO Talk-Are Paid Directories Actually Worth It?
- Affiliate Classroom Hosts Affiliate Business Competion!

As always we have a printable version for our readers to easily print and read.

This month Affiliate Classroom reveals the best linking strategies for affiliates to use. To top that off, we give away places you can go to right now to get free incoming links.

Trying to get indexed? No problem! Just open the magazine, get some links from our FREE resources and you’re set.

Click here to download the magazine immediately!

CJ Lets Merchants Contact Advertisers…

Monday, November 14th, 2005 at 10:29 am by Anik Singal

I was just browsing Shawn Collins’s blog and saw something really interesting. A few months ago I learned that CJ did not allow merchants to e-mail their affiliates? I found this really strange since contacting affiliates on a regular basis is such an important part of having active affiliates!

It seems that CJ has listened and changed their rules. So, if you’re an affiliate and you have a habit of signing up for every and any program in CJ, you better log-in and clean it out. Otherwise, you’re going to get bombarded with e-mail!

You can read more at Shawn’s blog…

Is Your Head Going To Explode?

Thursday, November 10th, 2005 at 1:13 am by Anik Singal

Alright, typically I find good articles, do a brief synopsis and then link you up. But, today I want to do things a bit differently - I want to talk about something I’m seeing becoming a HUGE problem for any/all internet entrepreneurs (myself included).

You see, its a little past 12 AM here and I just got done stressing out (don’t worry I figured out the problem, resolved it and am moving on). But, before I crash for the night I wanted to pass on this “piece of wisdom” to you.

Let’s say you go out and buy a McDonald’s franchise tomorrow, you invest $1.5 million (or whatever huge sum it costs) and it opens up. Are you going to turn around the next day and say, “Hey, I think I’ll buy a Wendy’s now too…”

Absolutely not! At least not until that McDonalds is running smoothly and you have free time to invest into another business.

Well, then tell me this - why in the world do we not follow the same principle on the internet? Why is it that since it’s so “easy” to start a website, we go nuts trying to start 5 projects at a time.

What happens? We never get even ONE done - don’t make any money - get stressed out - lose hope and get depressed! I’m not kidding…if I could get a dime for every student I see going through this…

Who am I kidding? “I” go through this even though I teach people not to. I JUST got done shedding off multiple projects, I never even knew when I just started adding all of them! Today, I realized myself getting stressed, disorganized, confused and frustrated. Immediately I knew it was because I was spreading myself too thin.

Take my advice on this please - work on ONE thing at a time. Get it to the point that you are happy with and then re-invest your free time to a new project. Don’t work on multiple projects at the same time…

Well that’s my 2 cents for the day.

Affiliate Competition Under Way! - Win $1000!

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 at 5:29 pm by Anik Singal

The competition is well under way and new promotional material is close to being rolled out!

For this competition, everyone should be focusing on getting at LEAST 1 sale - all you need is 1 sale to qualify for the $1000 CASH prize drawing. The more sales you get the more chance you have of winning - get in right now and start!

Click here to learn more…

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