Duplicate content can hurt SEO on your site
When you are trying to optimize your website for search engines, it is worth it to make sure you’re not using duplicate content in a way that will degrade the popularity of your site. Duplicate content can be put to work for you, but it can also harm your search engine optimization if used incorrectly. [...]
Useful plugins for your WordPress affiliate website
WordPress is an incredibly powerful content management system and blogging software. It’s search engine friendly, easily editable and even open-source. We’ve sung the praises of using WordPress for your affiliate website in the past and think it’s a great program for affiliate marketing. There are reasons, though, that you may need to expand or improve [...]
Affiliate Marketing How To: FTC disclosure requirements
Since the 1980s, the Federal Trade Commission has required paid advertisers to disclose their relationship with the company paying them. In 2009, the FTC updated these guidelines to include bloggers and other social media marketers. The issue of proper legal disclosures is incredibly important when you are working as an affiliate marketer. Ensuring that your [...]
Affiliate Marketing How-To: Complying with the CAN-SPAM act
If you choose to use e-mail to promote your affiliate offers, it is incredibly important that you comply with the laws governing marketing e-mails. E-mail can be an incredibly effective way of marketing, but misusing the method can turn off customers and cost you money. In this affiliate marketing how-to, we will discuss the basics [...]
Affiliate Marketing Basics: Including your affiliate links
Once you have signed up for an Adworkz affiliate account, you can start making money by including affiliate links and affiliate banners. These links and banners can be included anywhere from your own website to articles that you write for other websites. Be sure to carefully read the terms and conditions of the website where [...]
Affiliate Marketing how-to: Using WordPress
Using WordPress to maximize your affiliate commissions When you are getting started with affiliate marketing, there are a lot of things to think about. Page titles and content, URL structure, link development, social networking profiles, traffic types, content management, search engine crawlers, keywords — the list goes on and on. If you want to get [...]
Affiliate Marketing Basics: Driving traffic
When you are getting started in affiliate marketing, driving traffic to your website is your biggest challenge. Traffic coming to your website increases the likelihood that your offers will be viewed and clicked. There are two major categories of traffic — organic and paid. Both types of traffic are valuable, but they are very different. [...]
Affiliate Marketing How To: Starting an affiliate website
When you’re getting started in affiliate marketing, having and maintaining a website can be a great way to improve your earnings. While setting up your own website can seem intimidating, it is actually relatively quick and simple. In this affiliate marketing how-to, we will cover the two basic types of websites you can set up, [...]
