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June 20, 2007

Internet Marketing Affiliate Program

Before you join any Internet marketing affiliate program you should take into consideration how competitive the Internet marketing affiliate program is and if the product or products they offer are any good.

You don’t want to join an Internet marketing affiliate program that is too competitive because the competition will be fierce and it will be very difficult to compete with affiliate marketers who are more experienced and are better at it than you are.

There are generally quite a few super affiliate marketers in very competitive Internet marketing affiliate programs and they generally can offer a more attractive deal for their potential customers and will almost always be able to beat out the less experienced affiliate marketers.

If you are not an experienced affiliate marketer you are much better off trying a less competitive Internet marketing affiliate program rather than a competitive one because you will have a much better chance in this type of affiliate program because you will be on a much more level playing field than with the more competitive Internet marketing affiliate program.

Just because an Internet marketing affiliate program is less competitive doesn’t mean that it isn’t as good. It just means that less people know about it which is good for you. You want to find Internet marketing affiliate programs that are low in competition and offer a good product.

A great place to check is clickbank. The clickbank marketplace is a place where different Internet marketing affiliate programs are listed.. Clickbank only offers digital products. The nice thing about clickbank is they list the affiliate programs by most popular on down to the least popular Internet marketing affiliate program.

What you want to do is go and find the less popular programs on the list and run a google search on the affiliate program to see if anyone is making any negative comments about the affiliate program. If you find only positive comments about the Internet marketing affiliate program then the product that they offer is probably good and will probably be a good choice. You can find clickbank here. http://clickbank.com

March 20, 2007

Use a Spam Filter Plug-In On Your Blog

Because of what happened to this blog overnight last night compels me to post this.

If you have a blog and don’t use any kind of spam filtering plug-in you are asking for trouble. I woke up this morning to 102 spams that were caught by spam karma.

The moron who attempted to spam this blog must have been using some sort of submission software because he or she attempted to post a comment to every, one, of the posts in every category on this blog.

If I didn’t have a spam filter in place I would have a serious mess to clean up after because some jerk thought that spamming a blog would be beneficial to his or her marketing approach.

The spammer has absolutely no clue on how to market because he or she didn’t even bother to try to spam a blog that is relevant to the product he or she is promoting. I don’t think that IM and Insurance quotes are real relevant. :wink:

Anyway, the point is, if you don’t yet have some kind of spam protection in place get it done right away. There’s no excuse not to. WordPress comes with Akismet so if you have a WordPress blog you don’t even have to find a plug-in for it. You only need to activate it.

Just because you haven’t had a problem with spam to this point doesn’t mean that you never will. At some point in time a spammer will find you. Make sure that you are protected when that happens.