Hey guys,

I've been meaning to make this blog post for a while now, but time has just flown by with all that has been happening.

Anyway, without further ado I'm very happy to announce that my wife Michelle and I are now parents to a beautiful baby boy called Benjamin Logan Ling.

He was born on April 22nd weighing 9.4 pounds.

He's our first child.

He has been keeping us up till all hours some nights, then others he has given us blissful sleep (between feeds anyway). All in all he is healthy and...

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Hi Guys!

Just a very quick blog post to let you know that there was a massive earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand (where Affilorama's head office is) and the city centre is in a pretty bad way. It is currently on lock down and there is no power or access to our offices unfortunately.

We are all safe and well but ask you to please bare with us for the next few days while we try and get everything back to normal. There may be some slight delays in us repsonding to questions on the...

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Hi Everyone,

Last September, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit the city that I live in (Christchurch, New Zealand) and caused a lot of damage, although luckily noone was killed (My blog post from last September's quake is here).

This time on the 22nd of February, we weren't so lucky. A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit, and it caused a LOT more damage, injuries and death than the previous quake. It is a total disaster.

Thanks for all of you who have written in asking about how my staff and my family...

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Hi Everyone,

I meant to get this post out several weeks ago, however I've been taking a lot of time out to be a full time dad lately, so I thought I might as well wait till I had some Christmas snapshots to share also before announcing that I'm once again a proud father :)

Here is the story of what happened:

Six weeks ago, on November 16 my 2nd son, Caleb Johnny Ling, was born (pronounced 'Cay-lib').

When he came out I thought he looked so much like my other son Benjamin, here is a photo...

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The following is a guest blog post by Matthew Carter:

Hey everybody,

So it looks like Google has brought out a new keyword tool!

I have recently spent some time using it, and overall I was really impressed with the new metrics and the way Google are displaying the keyword data.

In this post I have provided an explanation with screen shots, of some of the initial things that I think are going to be really useful with the new tool.

The first and very obvious difference that I can see, is that...

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Hey Everyone,

Do you get too many 'guru' emails hitting your inbox that it distracts you away from spending productive time making money online?

Personally, I'm subscribed to over 100 different internet marketing guru's newsletters.

Some are good, most are spammy, some are appallingly spammy.

With most of them I have set up categories and rules so that the emails automatically go into folders that are categorized by the guru's name.

That way I only take a look through a particular guru's...

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Search engine optimization has two vital parts – on-page and off-page optimization. Each is needed to complement the other’s end goal, when being implemented, in order to work efficiently. 

When we say off-page optimization, or “link building”, we mean the process of making the website/webpage popular through citations from other websites; on-page optimization, however, refers to making the website/webpage relevant to the targeted search term, so it is returned by the search engines when...

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Hi Everyone,

In todays blog post I'm going to let you know how I go about recording affiliate videos.

There are 2 ways of doing these kinds of videos.

1. Recording them with me on camera, ie as a full motion video.
2. Recording a powerpoint presentation, ie as a screencam video (usually at 1 frame per second).

From my experience, usually the 2nd method converts better to sales, but not always. I think it is due to the fact that the videos load faster and are usually better planned when they are...

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I have to confess, it can be kind of hard working for Affilorama.

All around me people are doing affiliate promotions and earning cash on the side... while I'm the fresh graduate whose eyes boggle at the very prospect of it all.

So six months ago (has it been that long?) I started following AffiloBlueprint and putting together my own affiliate site.

Here I am with all these resources around me, this great course to follow, and a very big student loan I'd like to pay off... and still I...

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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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