New Share Results Site and Interface

Chris Sanderson of AMWSO says, “On Monday July 13 we can look forward to a totally redesigned Share Results affiliate network! A range of new changes are just the start of many great features and services being added by to the Share Results system over the coming year.”
Which Offer Should I Use?

Derek, posting on the Click Consultants blog is talking about split testing. He says it doesn’t have to be hard. You just have to “understand what exactly you’re doing when testing different offers and deciding which offers to use.” He goes on to explain the process very well.
Finding High-Paying Niche Affiliate Programs

There’s an interesting post on the Affiliate Classroom Blog posted by Evelyn Grazini. Evelyn says, “The best advice to pick your perfect niche is to start with something you already know about. Maybe it’s gardening, home improvements, dogs, cats, etc.” and she goes on to explain how to go about doing just that. Good advice!

This is about as low tech as you can get … and can be surprisingly effective. It’s also a good way to gather your family and friends in an effort to test out your customer support skills.

So, what is this effective, low-tech method we speak of? We speak of getting you started with the art of customer support by enlisting the help of those who are closest to you and are most likely to teach you the wrong way and the right way to provide customer support in a loving, safe way.

And for those of you whose eyebrows are currently raised, think of it this way: if you are new to offering customer support, wouldn’t you rather learn what work and what doesn’t work from those who love you and are more likely to accept any mistakes and errors without demanding a refund or writing a negative post about you on their blog?

So, how do you get started?
For starters, choose a product that has wide appeal, can be downloaded instantly, and pays a nice big commission (try ClickBank for ideas).

When you ask many of the big Internet marketing gurus what niche you should start with, most of them will say something like — anything BUT the Internet marketing niche. They say this for two reasons:

1. You will be their competition.
2. More importantly, there are so many well-known gurus in this niche that it’s very hard for a beginner to get noticed.

The gurus are not really afraid of the newbies for reason number two — but it is something to consider when deciding what niche will be your first.

The best advice to pick your perfect niche is to start with something you already know about. Maybe it’s gardening, home improvements, dogs, cats, etc.

Then all you need to do is find good niche affiliate programs, and write articles that link to them.

Launch Tree LIVE – July 23–25 in Las Vegas

On the Affiliate Classroom blog, Tennyson Rog is talking about the big Launch Tree live event that will take place in Las Vegas July 23-25. Tennyson has posted the schedule of events. This is one you don’t want to miss!

Squidoo Cracks Down on Overly Promotional Lenses
“Squidoo has marketers scrambling after announcing they are cracking down on spam, porn, junk topics, overly self promotional lenses and plagiarism.” That’s what Linda Buquet has posted on the 5 Star Affiliates blog. Interesting post…you should read it.

Google Cracks Down and Bans AdWords CPA Scams
On the 5 Star Affiliates blog, Linda Buquet is blogging about a new Google advertising wrinkle — and this is a biggie. Linda reports that the letter Google sent out to affiliates using the Google Money Tree scam read in part, “It’s come to our attention that you have submitted ads that promote Google Money Tree or ads that promote a misrepresented affiliation with Google.

The word on the net lately is that Squidoo just got slapped by Google!

According to a post on the 5-Star Affiliate Blog, apparently some spammers started abusing the system, resulting in Squidoo lenses getting dropped (or lowered in rank) in the Google search engines. The Google Slap resulted in Squidoo taking measures to control spam. Unfortunately, they have to punish honest affiliates along with the spammers until they find another way to eliminate the fraud.

Two of the major changes mentioned in the 5-Star Blog include:

• If you have a new lens, you need to have more than three modules (not including the introduction) or it will not appear to be publicly published, even if it has been.
• No more iframes

This is very unfortunate, because Squidoo was one of the main social sites that was actually set up with marketers in mind. I hope they can figure this out, get rid of the spammers, and let the rest of us go on providing valuable content in an honest affiliate marketing way.