Ewen Chia (pronounced chee-ah) has been described as the world's #1 affiliate marketer and has a huge online reputation, having made millions with his internet business. His untold story is now available in his new book, How I Made My First Million on the Internet, which tells his story of how he found success doing business online.

What’s interesting about Ewen’s story is that it’s not a magical ‘rags to riches’ story. In fact he talks about five long years from when he started in 1997 to...

Hey Guys,

I’ve seen a lot of product launches go on in the internet marketing world these last few months. Some good, others I’ve decided to avoid.

The one that I’m about to tell you about today shocked me and I’m sure will delight you.

Amit Mehta and Anik Singal from PPC Classroom have decided to give away a FREE DVD which covers 75 minutes of non-stop content as Amit reveals exactly how to run a 2.4 million dollar a year pay per click business.

All you have to do is pay for the shipping,...

If email marketing is one of the strings in your bow, you might be thinking it’s getting a little tired. You’re not getting the response you hoped for and you imagine that your list has been ‘all spammed out’. Well, maybe it’s just you need to rethink your subject lines. Forty characters could be standing between you and email campaign victories!

And anyone who thinks that email marketing is dead, hasn’t visited an inbox lately. Every day millions of free offers, exclusive deals and...

As we all know SEO is hard work (even harder if you’re not using tools like Traffic Travis) so us being humans we naturally are drawn to the path of least resistance and avoid work like the plague (and clichés if we can help it).

So it’s with great interest I came across a story from Brad Fallon (co-founder of StomperNet) who mentioned Google’s “Universal Search” initiative, which allows all Google-owned properties to be searched at any given moment.

What does this mean?

1. When choosing...

Hey Guys,

Late last year I recorded a detailed interview with Amit Mehta where I grilled him for over an hour, while he revealed exactly how he goes about making over 2 million a year from pay per click.

Feedback from that interview has been incredible:

"That, how to make money with ppc, interview that you recorded with Amit was the springboard in knowledge and motivation that I needed to finally make this work. I've finally been able to get myself over the 100 dollars a day hurdle" - Jeetan...

If you’re reading this, it’s quite likely you have your own blog. That being the case, you face the same challenges that all bloggers face, including us here at Affilorama. What do I blog about? How long and how often should I blog? How can I keep it interesting? How can I encourage comments?

So what is the magic formula that makes a blog popular? How did the likes of Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin rise to the giddy heights of online ‘celebrity-ness’? It's good to remember they weren't always...

We talked about search engine optimisation in our last post and we all know it’s a big focus of most site owners but could we be overlooking the power of doing more to drive direct traffic. What percentage of your site visits come from direct traffic? The pie chart on this page is taken from a website that I’m involved with and shows the high number of visits coming from people typing the website name in directly (stats are: 52% direct traffic, 35% referring sites and 13% search engines). I...

Before I get started I just want to say (maybe by way of disclaimer) that I'm very new to the affiliate industry so there's bound to be some gaps in my knowledge. That said something I have learnt is that affiliates share much in common with a lot of other business models, particularly in the online world. Affiliates face the same challenge of effectively guiding their affiliate site through the maze of technical hoopla along with the usual requirements of running a business.

The

Hi, my name is Jason and this is my first day working as the new technical copywriter for Affilorama. I'm looking forward to getting to know you over the coming months and learn more about the challenges you face building a successful affiliate site.

What does a technical copywriter do? Essentially a technical copywriter is a combination of two disciplines: technical writing and copywriting. They do share a lot of similarities with the main difference being that a technical writer is more...

Guest post by Dush Ramachandran, Vice President Business Development and Marketing, ClickBank

As new entrepreneurs look to make a livelihood on the Internet, affiliate marketing always seems like a good starting point. Working with an affiliate network appears like the way to go. But which one? The choices are many and bewildering.

Here are the Top 5 reasons why ClickBank is your best choice for an affiliate network:

5. Low Barrier to entry:  ClickBank is free for affiliates to join, and...

One of the primary aims of an affiliate site is to attract visitors and build traffic. It goes without saying then that if you're more likely to be found by a search engine, then your site will be more successful. In fact, it's most likely the biggest issue facing site owners and quite possibly what keeps them up at night (hopefully in a good way!).

So the question has been asked – what achieves a higher ranking; a blog or a website? Before we discuss this question in more detail, let's just...