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Any­one who is in our busi­ness, or an online mar­keter, will almost surely have seen screen­shots of huge Click­Bank checks posted on forums and splashed on sales pages.

It’s no secret that the top Click­Bank earn­ers are mak­ing the big money by using the already exist­ing base of Click­Bank affil­i­ates, the only ques­tion is… how can you do it too?!

Want to know how top Click­Bank sell­ers get those huge checks? They use the mas­sive base of Click­Bank affil­i­ates, over 100,000, to flood their web­sites with a never end­ing stream of cash-in-hand visitors.

I’ve dis­cussed the value of using affil­i­ates here before, both on this blog and on my site. Affil­i­ates are a crit­i­cal com­po­nent of suc­cess­fully mar­ket­ing your prod­uct on the Inter­net. Many affil­i­ate pro­grams, offered through carts like ‘1 Shop­ping Cart’ or ded­i­cated pro­grams such as ‘Com­mis­sion Junc­tion’ (CJ) pro­vide you with tools and access to recruit­ing affil­i­ates and directly inter­act­ing with them.

How­ever, Click­Bank does not give easy access to their army of affil­i­ates, but recently, I found a prod­uct called Click­Bank Stam­pede that appears to have solved this. It is reveal­ing back­doors and loop­holes that will let you tap into this mas­sive base of sell­ers who are wait­ing to sell for you.

http://www.jbcr-virtualsolutions.com/stampede/

This is the fastest, eas­i­est and most effec­tive method I’ve seen for get­ting tons of vis­i­tors to your Click­Bank sales page. Even if you don’t sell any­thing on Click­Bank, you should still check it out.

Jan

I caught a bit of Oprah yes­ter­day. On the show they were talk­ing about the book “The Secret” and “The Law of Attrac­tion”. Some very inter­est­ing guests and sub­ject mat­ter, for sure.

Some­thing I notice is when a par­tic­u­lar book / topic is aired or pub­lished every­one wants to use the fla­vor of the week buzz word /phrase. Now, in the scheme of things this is not bad, don’t we all want to jump on the ‘riches’ band­wagon. But in fact what hap­pens is that the search engine searches become sat­u­rated with the buzz word / phrase so if, in fact, you are using it to try to draw more traf­fic to your site it is prob­a­bly not a wise deci­sion. You are actu­ally more likely to go down the search list for that term.

Why? You are going to become a much smaller fish in a much big­ger ocean!

In this exam­ple, the folks who wrote “The Secret” and who wrote the book “The Law of Attrac­tion” are so far up the search lad­der, as well as their affil­i­ates, that you likely will never be found.

So is it worth it to use ‘buzz’ words / phrases. Yes and no.

In my hum­ble opin­ion, do not use them on their own. Only use them if you they are actu­ally part of your web­site and busi­ness and even then it is very impor­tant to incor­po­rate your own spe­cial niche. Stand out — be a unique fish

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Jan

Work­ing in the inter­net bussi­ness indus­try (web design, seo, mar­ket­ing, etc.) I am often asked what to do to get ‘your’ name and ‘your’ busi­ness in front of poten­tial clients /customers. After a web site I always recommed set­ting up a blog. About 90% of my clients are thrilled with the idea and I set up a blog for them… then… yes, silence.

Now I know that I am not a great exam­ple at blog­ging (see the last time I posted) — but I have a good excuse — I’m work­ing ) Ok, not a ‘good excuse’, but the truth.

So what can you do when you have a blog and can’t seem to find the time, or the con­tent. After think­ing about what I do on my lunch break (which is in front of my com­puter) I came up with the answer.

Take 5 min­utes out of your day and just write about what’s new with you. Don’t think read­ers will be inter­ested? Well, in fact, it is amaz­ing how many blogs are at the top of searches just from talk­ing about “what’s new”. For exam­ple, on my lunch break I grab a cup of soup and read through emails I have received from forums I belong to, newslet­ters I have signed for, and unau­tho­rized spam )) Ok, so maybe for­get the spam, but the lit­tle tib-bits you get from other emails you receive can be worth their weight in gold on a blog.

Not at your com­puter on a lunch break? Well then how about post­ing about your day just before you read your email after you get home. I know, prob­a­bly the last thing you want to do. But in fact if you start to do it every day by two weeks you it will feel nor­mal, by 30 days it will be a routine.

So… have a blog — now what? Now you write!

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Jan

One of my clients asked me this today and I thought that it was a good ques­tion and worth talk­ing about here.

As a web developer/designer, and SEO opti­mizer, I totally believe in blogs. A blog informs your cus­tomers / clients about you, your products/ ser­vices, your events, whether per­sonal or busi­ness, and much more. A blog also intro­duces read­ers to your website.

As well, a blog can increase cred­i­bil­ity. Why? Because peo­ple get to know and trust you. You become more than just a name. I have been blog­ging for a num­ber of years now and I have seen the dif­fer­ence when I blog often and when I haven’t ’cause of lack of time.

I started a new blog just over a year ago for a spe­cific topic. This has been very inter­est­ing, and learn­ing expe­ri­ence. Over this past year, on this spe­cific blog, just an exam­ple the Alexa is almost equal to my busi­ness web site rat­ing. From this expe­ri­ence I do have to say that I do believe, even more so, that blog­ging not only works but it goes beyond that.

Is hav­ing a blog enough? Yes but — BUT.… sub­mit­ting a blog to blog direc­to­ries, shar­ing it through social net­work­ing, adding images, audio, video and RSS… all of these are crit­i­cal. As in all things, it grows.

As I said many years ago, and I still say today, for a blog to be effec­tive you need to “blog”. In other words, you need to update often, keep peo­ple inter­ested and informed, invite com­ments. Of course, make sure you host the blog on your own url. Even bet­ter, buy a domain name just for your blog host it on its own is an even bet­ter way to make peo­ple aware of your blog and your site.

So, yes I do think a blog is worth it — do you? Would love to hear your comments.

Jan

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I was work­ing on a few things on my site tonight and typed in a file name that didn’t work. The page redi­rected to a 404 page at my host­ing com­pany. I’m sure you have seen that hap­pen on sites you have been on — doesn’t look very pro­fes­sional does it.

I changed the appear­ance of my site a few months ago and elim­i­nated some pages and — oops — for­got to upload my cus­tom 404 page. This made me real­ize it would be a good ‘tid-bit’ to pass on to you. Here is what you do.

Check the con­trol panel of your host­ing com­pany to see what they say the cus­tom 404 page is named. With mine it gave me the abil­ity to do a very gen­eral text mes­sage, but I knew if I named the page what it was going to name it I could make my own page. In this case it is:

404.shtml

So this is how my 404 page looks (this page does not exist):

http://www.jbcr-virtualsolutions.com/error.html

Try your url with error.html and see what comes up. Do you need a cus­tom 404?

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Jan