Beyond Affiliate Marketing

It's not enough to be a great affiliate marketer. As the online equivalent of the wild west of the early 2000s becomes more and more colonised, affiliate marketers are feeling the pinch. Sites are being penalised or thrown off Google, PPC costs are through the roof and just try to promote something on social media without being reported for being a spammer!

It's time to move beyond affiliate marketing and build a business where you're in control of the income stream.

Affiliate marketers already have a huge piece of the puzzle in place. Maybe you just need a little nudge to take some action that could drastically improve your income and security.

There are a lot of business models where you can utilise your skills. Do some work for local businesses in your area. Heck make your own product. Just do something proactive before the previous waterfall of your affiliate income diminishes into a slow drizzle.

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Facebook EdgeRank Explained

The likelihood of a status update, photo, video, etc showing up in your news feed depends on three things:

Your relationship with the person or page doing the sharing, the type of interaction or content shared and the recency of the shared content or interaction.

You can improve the visibility of your page's updates by encouraging interaction over a long term. The more people interact with your posts, the greater the likelihood that they and others will see them in the future.

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Improve Your Internal Linking

Many people don't spend time linking their posts or pages together on the same website. Your visitors will appreciate a more interconnected website and the search engines sure will too!

Don't overdo it, but make sure when you write new posts to link them to old ones if appropriate.

Take some time right now to go through some of your older posts, particularly popular ones, and if you've explained anything better or explored it deeper, link to the newer article from the old.

You may even get some ideas for new posts by going through this process and realising you haven't covered some things very well. Or perhaps with time you have increased your understanding of concepts you talked about previously.

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Personalised Search Engine Rankings

If you see that your site is ranking really highly for your search terms, before you tell all your friends how clever you are, you might want to read this article: http://ping.fm/pYxja - it could save you a lot of embarrassment!

How To Use The Meta Description

This is something that often trips people up. Either they stress over every tiny detail of it, or they completely ignore it.

The best way is to think of it like the advertising copy for your search engine listing. Keep it under 155 characters and make sure to write in a way that entices the searcher to click through to your website.

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