The 100-day countdown to Christmas may have begun, but before we celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, we need to celebrate the scariest, creepiest, most sugar-laden time of the year: Halloween! 

Yes, time to bring out the creepy costumes and the bowls of candy ... and time to make money off them, too!

Halloween Costume Affiliate Programs: A Trick or a Treat? 

Definitely a treat if we go by the National Retail Federation's report that back in 2012, 170 million people...

Happy birthday to Google! According to most sources, Google's birthday is generally celebrated on September 27th, and this year marks Google's 15th year. I fondly remember first using Google in 2001, doing my primary school homework on the first computer my family had ever purchased (just thinking about this is making me nostalgic).

I can still remember the fantastic feeling of typing a few words in the Google search box, hitting the search button, and then waiting forever for the 56k...

Google algorithm updates, such as Panda and Penguin, are dreaded by most affiliate marketers and webmasters. Nothing feels worse than having put countless hours of effort into a website, only to have it struck down by an "algo" change. I have written about Google algorithm updates a number of times on this blog, but in this post I am going to do something a little different. I am going to give a number of pointers on how you can protect your website against future Google algorithm...

Blogging is hard work. You're always writing and forever brainstorming so you can write some more. It's hard work that is usually completely unpaid for. But what if you could make money out of your blog? What if all the work you put into sourcing the perfect image and positioning the comma correctly actually put some dollars in the bank? No, it doesn't involve selling your soul, I promise!

Affiliate marketing can be a really great and reliable way for a blogger to make a steady income....

When most affiliates think of niches they automatically run to the "big guns": weight loss, dog training, making money online etc. There is nothing wrong with these evergreen niches—in fact, I recommend them all the time because of their proven profitability and huge potential for earnings. However, there are times when you need to look beyond the heavyweights of the affiliate world and find relatively untapped niches that are also lucrative. In this blog post I'm going to show you the...