2010 - A new decade! That can only mean bigger and better things - and that's exactly what we've got in store for you here at Affilorama.

But let's not downplay how great 2009 has been. A big thank you to all of our existing members and new Affilorama members who joined us this year, we really appreciate seeing Affilorama flourish into an even greater community.

It's great to track our member's progress and see them achieve their affiliate marketing goals. Well done to all of you,...

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Sales are not the only number that matters. "What?!" I hear you say... sales aren't everything?

In a word... no.

Of course sales are the ultimate goal - but the problem with only worrying about the number of sales is that if something changes - the number of sales suddenly decreases, or even increases - people have absolutely no clue why!

So they guess and make assumptions. The trouble is with guessing is you're putting an awful lot of faith in your own ability to understand what the...

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A huge number of emails get sent every day, and perhaps you're responsible for a few of them. If you already have an email newsletter, then you know how much work goes into setting it up. Coming up with content ideas, figuring out how to monetize it, writing it, checking it twice and sending it out – it all adds up to hours of time and effort. The problem is that all that hard work can be undone if your subscribers aren’t reading your emails. So what are the secrets to getting your...

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Last month Jason wrote a blog post of some techniques to avoid the dreaded Google Slap which were very well received so when I received an email from Dush Ramachandran, VP of Sales, Marketing & Business Development at Clickbank the other day I thought it would well wroth passing onto Affilorama members. So with Dush's permission I have republished the email below. This has been passed to Dush directly from a contact at Google so it contains some pretty good advice and is well worth...

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This contest is now over - Congratulations to @Lucie7 and @Juwoko who both walked away with Affilorama Premium for one year! But there's still another two chances to win with Facebook - read about that here.

Hey Guys,

So with Christmas coming up, we here at Affilorama decided that it would be a great time to give some stuff away!

And what better way to do it than with Twitter!

Here's the deal - follow us on Twitter, and retweet the message below to enter. At the end of the competition...

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Christmas! Wow, is it already that time of year when Santa comes to visit? Time sure flies when you're having fun. Hopefully you've been raking in those extra Christmas sales - they definitely don't call it the ‘silly season' for no reason!

Itis time for a well-earned break and we hope that is exactly what you'll be doing. We sure are looking forward to relaxing with our friends and family (and eating too much food!).

Here's a few photos of some of the staff at Affilorama indulging in...

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Alright, so the title sounds extreme but this wayward reference to a popular skating game from the 80s illustrates the point that backlinks are a vital part of your overall SEO strategy. Without them no amount of on-page search engine optimization will get your site ranking. In fact, some SEO experts claim that about 80% of your ranking is determined by backlinks to your site, and where those backlinks come from.

A little while back we talked about how authority sites were like...

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Are you stressed about competition? With almost 200 million websites currently online and climbing every day you could be forgiven for thinking your affiliate site will get crowded out by the competition. But you can still thrive despite competing sites in your niche. How?

It comes back to an old schoolyard principle.

At school if there was ever a chance you might get into a fight, and you were smart, you would check out your potential opponent first. What were your chances of successfully...

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"Hello and welcome to Best Buy, would you like to see our selection of pineapples?"

Would you ever expect to walk into an electronics store only to have them offer you a great deal on fruit?

How about going to the local gas station to find them offering you the best designer fashion? (Exxon Versace?)  Sounds absurd right? Of course it does! But it's no less absurd if you do it online!

I am officially sick to death of irrelevant advertisements on websites. If I go to a site that is...

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ClickBank have recently announced some major improvements to the ClickBank Marketplace in an effort to make it easier for vendors to rank higher and affiliates find relevant products to promote.

It appears in part that these changes have been driven by feedback from vendors that complained of competing products ranking higher than theirs, even though these competing products had nothing to do with their chosen category. Since vendors are limited to one category this proved frustrating and...

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