Are You Ready To Join The Evolution Of Affiliate Marketing?
August 1st, 2010 @ Hamlet Batista // 11 Comments
Last December, while speaking at an affiliate convention in LA, I had the opportunity to share a panel with Dush Ramachandran, the vice president of sales, marketing, and business development for ClickBank. We talked about some of the challenges facing his organization. One of those challenges is the fact that after years of success, many [...]
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Delayed Gratification: The key to untold riches down the line
October 1st, 2008 @ Hamlet Batista // One Comment
You have probably heard about the two most important metrics for the success of a website: traffic and conversions. No one will dispute that the more traffic you receive, and the better that traffic converts, the more sales/profits you are going to make. Entire professions are dedicated to driving traffic to your website and to [...]
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An Active Mindset: 100 new RSS subscribers and the power of endorsements
November 20th, 2007 @ Hamlet Batista // 19 Comments
Everybody in the search marketing industry has fallen head over heels for social media. Certainly it’s nice to see those traffic spikes in your website stats. Personally, I see social media as excellent for viral marketing, branding and long-term relationship building. But I don’t see that new visitors coming to a site from social media [...]
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On gurus, Google, and gaining marketshare: Leveraging your position as number one
August 6th, 2007 @ Hamlet Batista // 7 Comments
A lot of people read blogs, books, articles and other materials from so-called 'gurus' that made it big. Readers are hoping to do the same but I know that no one will match success by simply following a guru’s advice. I am not saying this because I think those gurus are necessarily dishonest or are [...]
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I'm not slacking, I'm working on a homerun post!
June 28th, 2007 @ Hamlet Batista // 12 Comments
I am working on a killer post for next Monday where I am going to detail my best kept secret: a very simple technique to identify keywords with high demand and little or no competition. Do you want to have keywords like this? I've asked several A-list bloggers for their niche finding formula. And guess [...]
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Advanced link cloaking techniques
June 6th, 2007 @ Hamlet Batista // 3 Comments
The interesting discussion between Rand and Jeremy had me thinking about some of the things affiliates do to protect their links. I am talking about link cloaking — the art of hiding links. We can hide links from our potential customer (in the case of affiliate links), and we can hide them from the search [...]
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Why start SEO and Affiliate Marketing with PPC?
May 26th, 2007 @ Hamlet Batista // One Comment
1. Accurate keyword research. There are numerous keyword research tools that help you identify keywords that people are searching for, their volume of searches, level of competition, etc… Unfortunately, every single tool has a critical problem: the source of the information. Wordtracker relies on information from meta search engine Dogpile, and similar sources. Yahoo mixes [...]
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Finding profitable niches
May 25th, 2007 @ Hamlet Batista // One Comment
Oftentimes what we would really like to do, will not bring the money we need to survive immediately. What I really love is writing software and solving problems, yet I had to learn the boring part of business and marketing. I was very lucky that SEO required a great deal of technical understanding and was [...]
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Measuring your affiliate success
May 25th, 2007 @ Hamlet Batista // No Comments
As an affiliate you have many advantages. You don’t need to keep inventory; manage people, suppliers, banks, etc… You only need to concentrate on marketing. Find good and reliable merchants and create content to pre-sell their stuff. I started as an affiliate 5 years ago and I can attest that it works. You can gradually [...]
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