The Engine Room

Two easy steps to conquering your fear of PageRank

Two easy steps to conquering your fear of PageRank

PageRank has been with us for awhile now and it seems the years have bred a host of stories: some true, some urban legend and others a mix of the two. This doesn't surprise us – anything that has to do with Google and SEO is bound to be misunderstood or misinterpreted simply because Google guards its results formula with a zeal normally reserved for queens and presidents, and hence the rise in 'making stuff up'.

The problem with so-called experts making stuff up about PageRank is that a lot...

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Affilorama Premium 2010 Edition is Now LIVE

Affilorama Premium 2010 Edition is Now LIVE

Hey Guys!

I'm really excited to announce the launch of Affilorama Premium 2010 Edition today.

We've had a massive prelaunch that everyone's been raving about - but now we're into the serious business.

Affilorama Premium is our monthly subscription product, offering in depth training every month on a different sub topic of Affiliate Marketing. For instance we have one issue on blogging, another on CPA, PPC and many, many more!

Affilorama Premium also comes with one of the most fantastic...

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Affiliate Strategies and FTC Tips Webinar

Affiliate Strategies and FTC Tips Webinar

Hey Guys,

I've just finished recording a live webinar entitled "Affiliate Strategies and FTC Tips".

I've prepared a lot of killer information for you in this webinar so make sure you take the time to watch it.

Below are just some of the things I will be shared:

  • An amazing email marketing trick that I use to increase my affiliate commissions by 50-100%
  • How to make your affiliate sites FTC compliant (new rules are coming into effect December 1 so you need to be aware of what to do
  • My new...
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5 Reasons You Should Sell What You Know

5 Reasons You Should Sell What You Know

Again and again, the biggest question newbie's ask is "how do I decide which products to promote?"

Now when you're first starting out, this decision can be a little daunting - everyone wants to be that overnight success, and if you make a mistake in choosing the right niche, you're worried that you won't be able to recover.

Well for starters - quit worrying so much!

If you get your first niche wrong, you learn what you can from it and you move on! Even the best internet marketers get...

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Writing a blog post? Do you really know your audience?

Writing a blog post? Do you really know your audience?

Writing for the web has its fair share of challenges. We've already addressed a few in our blogging lessons but what about learning more about your audience? There are some enormous advantages to spending time discovering what makes your readers tick, above all, holding their interest in the long term! The difficulty is that when you’re writing it’s all too easy to get so wrapped up in conveying your own amazing insights that you forget the very reason you’re writing a blog post in the...

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Emil's #1 reason why MOST affiliates fail...

Emil's #1 reason why MOST affiliates fail...

Hi Everyone,

It's Mark Ling here. I've just received a guest blog post from Super Affiliate Emil Paz. I met Emil in person in Las Vegas a few months ago at an internet marketing event that we were both speaking at.

Note: You can actually watch the recording of my presentation from that event by signing up to claim my new "Top 6 Super Affiliate Millionaire Secrets" free report here:

Top 6 Super Affiliate Millionaire Secrets + 'Super Affiliate Secrets' Seminar Recording


Before you do that though,...

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Artisteer Review | The code-free way to designing professional Wordpress themes

Artisteer Review | The code-free way to designing professional Wordpress themes

Let's be honest - Wordpress rocks! But if you're anything like me you've been continually disappointed by the themes available. Sure there are some cool looking ones, but they're also the popular ones - meaning your site will look just like a million others. Boring!

Very early on, when I started using Wordpress, I decided that I wanted to be able to create my own themes. Trouble is, as someone with only a basic knowledge of webdesign (we're talking HTML and a bit of CSS here), the task...

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Revolutionary CPA Strategies

Revolutionary CPA Strategies

I recorded a really good webinar today with a couple of guys who are experts at making money through promoting CPA-based Affiliate offers.

Many affiliate marketers have barely even heard of CPA or Cost Per Action marketing - but it can be one of the most profitable ways to make an income online.

Unlike traditional affiliate marketing when you're generally trying to get people to buy a product - with CPA marketing, you're trying to get them to perform an action, for example giving their...

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How To Avoid A Google Slap: 6 Tried and Tested Techniques

How To Avoid A Google Slap: 6 Tried and Tested Techniques

A slap is not usually a pleasant thing and particular when it hits your PPC campaign in the form of a “Google Slap”. It's a phrase that is often misunderstood to refer to any perceived punishment from the major search engine including a drop in the rankings or being de-indexed, but it only has to do with your AdWords campaign.

A Google Slap is when your ad and associated landing pages are determined to be of such poor quality (known as the Google Quality Score) that Google will endeavor to...

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The 12 Best Wordpress Plugins for Affiliates

The 12 Best Wordpress Plugins for Affiliates

I'll be completely honest - I am a Wordpress addict. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I think Wordpress is the best CMS (content management system) for beginners - period. Now I know a lot of people don't think of Wordpress as a CMS - it is, after all primarily used as blogging software. However when it came to choosing a system to use for my own personal website, I quickly found that many of the other open-source CMS solutions, while possibly having more functionality that...

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