How to avoid losing traffic from a poorly chosen domain name

How to avoid losing traffic from a poorly chosen domain name

How much thought do you put into choosing a domain name?

Surely it's the easy part of setting up a website, right?

You could be missing out on well-deserved traffic and not even know it if you haven't been savvy about choosing your domain name.  

So what can you do to make sure you're not sending your hard-earned traffic to someone else's website?

You need to put yourself in your customers' shoes. Say your fancied domain name out loud and see how many interpretations you can get out...

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Guidelines to Avoid the Google Adwords Slap

Guidelines to Avoid the Google Adwords Slap

The following blog post is a guest post by Clickbank Account Specialist, Jeni Rogers.

As you already may be aware, Google has recently stepped up their quality enforcement activities. ClickBank is working closely with Google to learn more about quality guidelines so we can provide information on best practices to our clients on how to avoid a Google Slap. The term "Google Slap" is typically used to describe a situation when an AdWords ad’s Quality Score has been lowered, affecting traffic...

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How Merchants Could Make An Affiliate Marketer's Life Easier

How Merchants Could Make An Affiliate Marketer's Life Easier

I've been kept rather busy lately piecing together a year-long auto-responder email series for my subscribers. Let me tell you, it has been a mind-numbing task at times, requiring a lot of ‘suck it up Kim and just get through these next 50 days of newsletters' self encouragement talk.

Luckily, I'm happy with the end result :)

After taking a moment to bask in the relief and glory of having a WHOLE year's worth of emails set up and running (cha-ching!), the memories of exasperation...

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How to Rank Highly in MSN's Bing

How to Rank Highly in MSN's Bing

Hi Everyone,

Today I'm writing about how to rank highly in MSN Bing.

Microsoft’s newest search engine, Bing, was first released in May 2009. With Bing, it seems like they’ve finally hit on something the public can get behind. This is a very pretty piece of tech. So, like the rest of the marketing community, I’ve been digging in and analysing how to rank highly in MSN Bing.

Not shockingly, the rankings for Bing versus Yahoo! or Google are not necessarily very different. The major differences...

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Tips for Elance Outsourcing

Tips for Elance Outsourcing

Hi Everyone,

As an internet marketer, one thing that you’ll find is that there are just not enough hours in the day in order for you to grow your online business as fast as you’d like.

Not to mention that some of the activities that you need to do to make great commissions online require work that you may find to be boring.

Some people enjoy article writing, other people find it tedious, some people find graphic design to be painfully difficult, others struggle with getting their website online...

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