Smart Ways to Find Article Topics

There are quite a few places you can look to see what others are writing about, and what’s selling in the online world.
Blog sites are an excellent way to get new ideas. Search http://www.Technorati.com or http://www.blogsearch.google.com for some interesting blogs. You are bound to find an endless stream of ideas for things that you can [...]

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Six NEW YouTube Practices to Grow Your Business

Posted by AC Editorial Team under Affiliate Marketing, Free Traffic, Tracking, Web 2.0 Marketing

Read these six YouTube practices to staple into your brain the lessons you learned from Lurn’s YouTube tip sheet last week.
We at Lurn have used video marketing intensively over the past few years to build our company. Using video marketing, we have strengthened our partnerships, taught our students better, and attracted many customers.
You can [...]

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Write an Outstanding Author’s Resource Box

Your purpose for writing an article is to promote your site, service, or product. Unfortunately, in most cases, this really can’t be done in the article content, as it turns the article into more of a sales letter and less of an informative article. Save the promotion for the author’s resource box.
If you don’t know [...]

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Get Our 11 Hottest Insider Tips for Twitter Success, Volume II

Our Twitter expert David received a deluge of questions after posting his first Twitter tip sheet last week. So here are a few more of his key Twitter practices.
Remember, David uses these same practices for Lurn’s Twitter. These are best practices for building long-term high-payout Twitter accounts.

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Get Our 11 Hottest Insider Tips for Twitter Success

Lurn has profited with Twitter because of these simple practices … and you can too!
Here are the best practices for building out a long-term, high-payout Twitter account.
Our in-house Twitter expert, David, spills the beans about the most important tactics for affiliate marketers. We sat down yesterday, and I made him tell me right then [...]

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Selling Links and Ad Space With JVs on Your Side

Once your site develops a good page ranking and/or substantial traffic, you may find that a little unused page real estate can add to your bottom line every month.
And if you’re not sure how to fill that space, one of the first places you should look is your JV (Joint Venture) partners.
Have you not partnered [...]

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This Week’s Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories (May 22, 2009)

Posted by Kathy Jackson under Affiliate Marketing, Web 2.0 Marketing, Weekly eNewsletter

Over the last week there have been some interesting happenings in the world of affiliate marketing:
What Do the Rich Look Like Online?
According to comScore (quoted on eMarketer), “Over 50 million unique affluent Internet users—those with annual household incomes of at least $100,000—visited Websites in March, making up over one-quarter of the entire Internet population for [...]

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Easily Make Your Site Social with Google’s New Friend Connect

Posted by Evelyn Grazini, AC Student and Staff Writer under Affiliate Marketing, Web 2.0 Marketing

Google is developing a new application called Friend Connect – it is currently in beta. With this new tool, anyone can turn their site into a social site, similar to Facebook – for FREE!
The tool is very interesting, and could have many applications for business sites as well as personal blogs. But we’ll have to [...]

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10 Tips to Socialize Your Affiliate Site | Part 2 of 2

Posted by AC Editorial Team under Affiliate Marketing, Web 2.0 Marketing

In the second part of this blog, we will look at the last five tips for socializing your affiliate site.

Tip #6: Embrace Social Search
After bookmarks, networking, and shopping, search has become social! New custom search engines can be built on top of the big engine’s indexes. Anyone can handpick sites relevant to a certain topic [...]

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10 Tips to Socialize Your Affiliate Site | Part 1 of 2

Posted by AC Editorial Team under Affiliate Marketing, Web 2.0 Marketing

To help you get started, we have compiled our top 10 tips for socializing your affiliate business. Some of these tips take just about an hour to implement, and others are more ambitious projects.
In this two-part blog, we will begin today by looking at the first five tips, then finish on Wednesday with the remaining [...]

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The Week’s Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories (April 10, 2009)

Texas Shield Law Won’t Protect Bloggers
A shield law for journalists has advanced in Texas, but the measure appears to exclude many bloggers and other citizen journalists.
Change to Amazon Associates Program
Amazon is not allowing any more direct linking of PPC traffic to their products. However, if you build your own landing page or website, which is [...]

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