My Affiliate Marketing Guide

Article Marketer And Your Questions!

Herschel Lawhorn — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:07:03 +0000

John asks…

Can I place the same article on ezine and idea marketers? And will it be good for me as far as page Rank? no?

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

Google has been very aware of article marketing. In the last webmasters conference they had, someone asked this question and below is the response of Matt Cutts, head of the Google web spam team:

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“Until recently (the last six months or so) a high ranking was achievable by submitting articles to article directories (providing they were 40%-60% unique), it no longer seems to be the case. Have links from article sites been de-valued at all?”

ANSWER By Matt Cutts:

In my experience, not every article directory site is high-quality. Sometimes you see a ton of articles copied all over the place, and it’s hard to even find original content on the site. The user experience for a lot of those article directory sites can be pretty bad too. So you’d see users landing on those sorts of pages have a bad experience. If you’re thinking of boosting your reputation and getting to be well-known, I might not start as the very first thing with an article directory. Sometimes it’s nice to get to be known a little better before jumping in and submitting a ton of articles as the first thing.
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They did not answer the question directly. But if you want your efforts to pay off, be sure that you are not submitting to every single article directory out there. Choose the high quality ones — high quality meaning human reviewed and very particular as to what articles they post.

If you want page rank benefit, look for those that do not have a “rel=nofollow” tag as that means they’re not going to pass some link juice

Sandy asks…

how often should an internet marketer be producing new content?

A full time freelancer who writes new articles , uses affiliate marketing etc

can someone give me an example of a good schedule with tasks

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

Every single day is a good strategy but to be honest as long as it is 2 or 3 times a week then it should be ok. I recently didn’t blog for 2 weeks and my ranking went from 38 to 850+ for my keyword and then when I started posting 2 or 3 times a week it went back to around 40.

Interestingly a period of daily posting made no difference to my ranking so I would say 2 to 3 times a week is the minimum.

Mandy asks…

How do marketers identify a target audience?

I want to write a short article, where I pick an advertisement from a magazine or newspaper and then describe the target audience is for the ad, and also describe one activity marketers might have done to identify the target audience for the product or service. How would I go about writing a concise and informative essay that is less than 100 words long? Any good ideas for the kind of ad I should choose?

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

Marketers take focus groups of all races, ages, sex’s, and orientations. They show the product and find out which type of person it appeals to most. Depending on which type of person it appeals to, is how they decide to market it. If it appeals to male children, then they will probably advertise it with action a fantastical things. If it is older women, then they will advertise it as a sensible, practical, product. Marketers custom advertise to whichever group they think will buy their product more.
I would choose and ad that blatenly show’s which group they are focused on. Get a catolog from Wal-Mart. Even the colors on the page change depending on what they are selling.
Good Luck with your project

Google Calendar And Your Questions!

Herschel Lawhorn — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:07:05 +0000

Steven asks…

How does one convert a Google calendar into one of the following types of files?

Does anyone know how to convert a Google calendar file to a .dba or .vcs? I am trying to upload my google calendar to my Palm Desktop.

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

You need to export the calendar – the easiest way to do this is to sync it with Outlook and then export it -

Linda asks…

Can I transfer a Google Calendar to a different Google Account?

I want to transfer a calendar from my a Google Account (account 1) to a different one (account 2)

I’ve shared the calendar with the account 2, now I want to make the ‘master owner’ the calendar account 2 instead of account 1.

Is this possible without deleting any events?

If I delete the calendar from account 1, will it still be available for account 2?

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

The easiest way to do this is to export your first calendar and then import into the second.

The links below will give you a detailed walk through of the process.

Mary asks…

How do I import my iPhone calendar into Google Calendars?

I have an empty Google calendar and I want to sync my iPhone calendar with my Google one. If I choose to simply sync them it erases all my iPhone events to begin with. I need to import my iPhone calendar to Google Calendars before I sync them.

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

You can use the MobileMe software within iTunes to do this, although I would highly recommend installing the Google app from the App Store, onto your iPhone and using that. It syncs immediately with your google calendar just the same, however it is free.

I use it constantly as I work shifts and need to know what I’m working each day. It’s great!

Good luck!

How Did Penguin Affect You?

Herschel — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

I found this post on “The Daily SEO Blog” and thought it was relative to all the things that are going on today.

Google’s war on lovable critters escalated on April 24th with the release of the “Penguin” update (originally dubbed the “webspam update” by Google). While every major algorithm update causes some protest, post-Penguin panic seems to be at near record levels, worsened by weeks of speculation about an “over-optimization” penalty. Webmasters and SEOs are understandably worried, and many have legitimately lost traffic and revenue. Before you go out and burn your website to the ground for fear of a penguin in the pantry, I want to offer some advice on how to handle life after an algorithm update.

1. What We Know

First, let’s review what we know. I’m going to break the rules of blogging and recommend that you stop and read this level-headed Penguin post by Danny Sullivan. It covers some of the basics and is the most speculation-free post I’ve read on the subject so far. Glenn Gabe also had a good post on potential Penguin factors. There’s still a lot of speculation, but likely culprits include:

Aggressive exact-match anchor text

Overuse of exact-match domains

Low-quality article marketing & blog spam

Keyword stuffing in internal/outbound links

Many people have suggested low-quality link profiles in general, but analysis of Panda has been complicated by Google’s recent attack on link networks, which seems to have been manual and has probably been going on for weeks. The overlap has made analysis difficult, so let’s take a quick look at the timeline.

What’s the Timeline?

The official roll-out date for Penguin was April 24th, and it seems to have rolled out, for the most part, in a single day. Unfortunately, it came on the heels of other events. On April 19th, Panda 3.5 rolled out (most likely a data update). On April 16th, a data glitch caused a number of sites to be mistakenly tagged as parked domains. Throughout April (and weeks before Penguin), Google started sending out a large number of unnatural link notices via Google Webmaster Tools. Sadly, it seems that April really was the cruelest month.

How Bad Was It?

Google officially claimed that Penguin impacted about 3.1% of English queries, compared to Panda 1.0’s 12%. Since rankings change daily – even hourly – even with no updates, these numbers are nearly impossible to confirm, but it does appear that the impact of Penguin was immediate and substantial. This is an internal SEOmoz graph of Top 10 ranking changes around April 24th (please note that the Y-axis is scaled to accentuate changes):

Pardon the slightly cryptic nature of this graph – it’s for an upcoming project – but the core point is that the impact of Penguin dwarfed either Panda 3.5 or Google’s 4/16 glitch.

Is It Going Away?

In a word: no. Penguin wasn’t accidental, and Google is clearly serious about combatting spam tactics that have been lingering for too long. As you can see from the graph, it doesn’t appear that there were any major reversals in the few days since Penguin rolled out. Does that mean Google won’t make ANY adjustments? Of course not – it’s entirely likely that they’ll continue to tweak Penguin.

For comparison’s sake, remember that Panda 3.5 came 14 months after the initial launch of Panda 1.0. We’ve come a long way since the monthly “Google Dances” of 2003. Keep in mind, though, that Panda was somewhat unique – we believe that it feeds multiple variables into a single ranking factor that gets updated outside of the real-time index. There’s currently no compelling evidence to suggest that Penguin works in the same way. The Penguin update appears to be integrated directly into the main algorithm, like a more traditional Google update….

More at Penguins, Pandas, and Panic at the Zoo

I hope you read the complete post and will make a comment on what you think about Penguin or any of the other items covered in the post.

Google Images And Your Questions!

Herschel Lawhorn — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:07:24 +0000

Carol asks…

Google Images?!?!?!?!?

Ok so i have a blogger..where you make a blog.
and you know how on google images tehre are always pics of peoples things and stuff and then it gives a link to their website.
well I was wondering how do they get theirs up there and how can i make it where some of my pictures make it on google images?
and also if one of your images from your blog is on google images do you get to pick the one that goes up on there?

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I, myself has my pictures in my blogs available at Google Images

It is already automatic that if you have a blog and you have images on it, the images are already part of Google Images…

If your pictures are not in Google Images then check if your picture has a name, then if it has a name, try putting in that name in the Google Images Search Engine. Surely, you will find you’re images because all pictures from around the world are in Google Images…

John asks…

google IMAGES?

On google images, How do you paste your own picture?? And another question, which one was more of a nightmare : Middle school, or high school

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

Cant put your own pic sorry =/
when you search the words it picks out thepictures from a page that has those words on it.
If itsa more popular page, like profile.myspace.com then it will have better results and will more than likely come up first.

And highschool even tho i havent finished its already worse than middle.

Sandra asks…

google images?

i was looking to make a video to put on youtube or metacafe, but need some photos. can i use google images or does this goagainst the copyright law? Also how can i tell if an image is under the copyright law?

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

You are supposed to ask them (the host of the image should be displayed when you first click the image on your search page), but the owners of it have no way of tracking you, nor does the administration of the website ever enforce such strict rules.

Not saying you should do it, but the odds of any type of “infingement” charges against you are slim to zero.

Affiliate Marketing Guidelines And Your Questions!

Herschel Lawhorn — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:07:03 +0000

Paul asks…

EMBED AFFILIATE LINKS IN DOMAIN NAME?

Hello friends, I am a newbie in the field of internet marketing. I intent to initiate article marketing with affiliate links embedded in the resource box. But article directories do not permit to put direct affiliate links in their resource box. For instance ezinearticle says:
EzineArticles.com Editorial Guidelines: (AFFILIATE PROGRAMS):

Affiliate links will be allowed if the link is a domain name you own which forward/redirects to the affiliate link from the top-level of the domain name. For example, it is permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/

…but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html

http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Any article with an affiliate link that does not adhere to this guideline will cause the article to be rejected.
Now my questions are: 1.would a free domain name from blogger.com do?
2. Is it possible to embed affiliate links in my domain, so that each time one clicks the domain name would be send directly to the vendor’s website instead of my blog. I want to use my domain name as a bridge between my articles and the vendor’s websites. If it is possible how can I do it?
3.Do article directories allow it?
4. Is it legit?
THANKS FOR YOUR ANSWER.
N.B. ANSWER IF YOU KNOW IT VERY WELL.

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I remember getting away with signing up for a free blog on blogger and editing the html so it redirects to your affiliate link when you type in your site (http://www.XXXXX.blogspot.com)

You’ll have to search around for the redirect code.

Richard asks…

PUTTING AFFILIATE LINKS IN SUB-DOMAIN NAME?

http://your-company-name.com/

…but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html

http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Any article with an affiliate link that does not adhere to this guideline will cause the article to be rejected.
Now my questions are: 1.would a free sub-domain name from blogger.com do?
2. Is it possible to embed affiliate links in my domain, so that each time one clicks the domain name would be send directly to the vendor’s website instead of my blog. I want to use my domain name as a bridge between my articles and the vendor’s websites. If it is possible how can I do it?
3.Do article directories allow it?
4. Is it legit?
THANKS FOR YOUR ANSWER.
N.B. ANSWER IF YOU KNOW IT VERY WELL.

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

With Ezine I would just put the link to your blog and forward from there. You can try a redirect with them but a lot of times if the page isn’t a top level page then they won’t accept it. Although, I have seen people use redirects and get away with it. I never have though. They must be kissing some ass or something. Other article directories will allow it but read the guidelines first to avoid a lot of rejection.

Another thing you can do is buy a cheap domain name from godaddy and ‘mask’ your affiliate link with your new domain name. This will force your new domain url to stay in view instead of the vendors url. Some companies do not allow this though but it will be stated in their ‘affiliate contract’. Godaddy makes it easy to mask the url. For instance my http://enlightenment-course.com is my masked url…and http://enlightenmentcourse.com is the actual vendors url. I just added a dash between the words.

I wouldn’t use blogger because you could lose those domain names down the road and then your ‘bridge’ would be lost. It would work for right now though.

I own my own websites and this is the page redirect I use:

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Good luck!

Mary asks…

Winner-promote your ads(here the right place)?

more guideline for advertisements earn per click, affiliate,marketing and for the publishers who create individual strength…

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I’m sorry, I don’t understand your question. What IS your question, please?

Affiliate Marketing Guidelines And Your Questions!

Herschel Lawhorn — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:07:03 +0000

Betty asks…

EMBED AFFILIATE LINKS IN DOMAIN NAME?

http://your-company-name.com/

…but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html

http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I remember getting away with signing up for a free blog on blogger and editing the html so it redirects to your affiliate link when you type in your site (http://www.XXXXX.blogspot.com)

You’ll have to search around for the redirect code.

Helen asks…

PUTTING AFFILIATE LINKS IN SUB-DOMAIN NAME?

http://your-company-name.com/

…but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html

http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I wouldn’t use blogger because you could lose those domain names down the road and then your ‘bridge’ would be lost. It would work for right now though.

I own my own websites and this is the page redirect I use:

optional text here

Good luck!

Chris asks…

Winner-promote your ads(here the right place)?

more guideline for advertisements earn per click, affiliate,marketing and for the publishers who create individual strength…

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I’m sorry, I don’t understand your question. What IS your question, please?

Affiliate Marketing Guidelines And Your Questions!

Herschel Lawhorn — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:07:02 +0000

Sandra asks…

EMBED AFFILIATE LINKS IN DOMAIN NAME?

http://your-company-name.com/

…but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html

http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I remember getting away with signing up for a free blog on blogger and editing the html so it redirects to your affiliate link when you type in your site (http://www.XXXXX.blogspot.com)

You’ll have to search around for the redirect code.

Mary asks…

PUTTING AFFILIATE LINKS IN SUB-DOMAIN NAME?

http://your-company-name.com/

…but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html

http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I wouldn’t use blogger because you could lose those domain names down the road and then your ‘bridge’ would be lost. It would work for right now though.

I own my own websites and this is the page redirect I use:

optional text here

Good luck!

David asks…

Winner-promote your ads(here the right place)?

more guideline for advertisements earn per click, affiliate,marketing and for the publishers who create individual strength…

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I’m sorry, I don’t understand your question. What IS your question, please?

Affiliate Marketing Guidelines And Your Questions!

Herschel Lawhorn — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:07:03 +0000

Steven asks…

EMBED AFFILIATE LINKS IN DOMAIN NAME?

http://your-company-name.com/

…but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html

http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I remember getting away with signing up for a free blog on blogger and editing the html so it redirects to your affiliate link when you type in your site (http://www.XXXXX.blogspot.com)

You’ll have to search around for the redirect code.

Sandra asks…

PUTTING AFFILIATE LINKS IN SUB-DOMAIN NAME?

http://your-company-name.com/

…but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html

http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I wouldn’t use blogger because you could lose those domain names down the road and then your ‘bridge’ would be lost. It would work for right now though.

I own my own websites and this is the page redirect I use:

optional text here

Good luck!

Paul asks…

Winner-promote your ads(here the right place)?

more guideline for advertisements earn per click, affiliate,marketing and for the publishers who create individual strength…

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I’m sorry, I don’t understand your question. What IS your question, please?

Affiliate Marketing Guidelines And Your Questions!

Herschel Lawhorn — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:07:02 +0000

David asks…

EMBED AFFILIATE LINKS IN DOMAIN NAME?

http://your-company-name.com/

…but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html

http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I remember getting away with signing up for a free blog on blogger and editing the html so it redirects to your affiliate link when you type in your site (http://www.XXXXX.blogspot.com)

You’ll have to search around for the redirect code.

William asks…

PUTTING AFFILIATE LINKS IN SUB-DOMAIN NAME?

http://your-company-name.com/

…but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html

http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I wouldn’t use blogger because you could lose those domain names down the road and then your ‘bridge’ would be lost. It would work for right now though.

I own my own websites and this is the page redirect I use:

optional text here

Good luck!

Jenny asks…

Winner-promote your ads(here the right place)?

more guideline for advertisements earn per click, affiliate,marketing and for the publishers who create individual strength…

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I’m sorry, I don’t understand your question. What IS your question, please?

How To Become An Affiliate Marketer And Your Questions!

Herschel Lawhorn — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:07:04 +0000

Robert asks…

Money with Affiliate Marketing?

How does affiliate marketing work? Where do you go to become an Affiliate Marketer? And how do you make money from it?

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I have been researching & practicing affiliate marketing for several years now. My goal is to help others learn to work for themselves & enjoy true financial freedom. After much research I have built an informational website for those who are new to the business & want to learn more. You will find free instructional videos, ebooks, & tools to help you get started. Best of luck…

David asks…

Is Wealthy Affiliate a scam?

I want to become an affiliate marketer. How do i distinguish between the fakes and the legits?

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

Wealthy affiliate is not a scam. It is very real. There are a lot of people that earns money because of it. Basically, it shows you how to become a sucessful internet marketer. I too was asking myself at first if it was a scam or not. I checked the reviews and they all said positive things about it. It is probably one of the most real money earning website there is now. If you are looking for a job or wanting to earn extra income for you or your family, I suggest you give it a try and become a member. If you’re having a hard time with the tutorials, there are hundreds of people who can help you understand and earn money. I can guarantee you that.

If you want to know more about Wealthy affiliate, I included reviews below. Just check them out.

Ken asks…

Affiliate marketing and youtube?

There’s a company that sells a product online that I use on a day to day basis. I want to become an affiliate marketer for that company ie; drive customers and business to their site and get a kick back for it. i want to start by creating a youtube video of me demonstrating the produce with a link to the their site. I went on to the companies site that sells the product and found nothing about any sort of affiliate program. Does every company participate in affiliate programs… if I call what are the chances that they’ll say they don’t need my help? I plan on calling over the next couple days but figured I’d ask here first so I don’t look like an idiot. How does affiliate marketing work.. will they simply provide me with a link I can embed into my video? Do I need a domain name to act as a sort of middle man between my video and their site or can i simply use the video? Do I need a license to do this? If a customer follows my link and creates an account with their company (you need to do this in order to buy anything from them) will I get residual income on each time they purchase from then on? Any good books to read up on affiliate marketing to find out other ways to make money online? Thanks.

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

You will need to sign up for domain name and web hosting account. That way you can rank well in yahoo, google and msn. You can do that at http://www.domain-names.nu and they are very helpful as well. You can get free domain name when you sign up for web hosting account.