This Week’s Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories (September 18, 2009)
Quick Steps to Accurate Keyword Research
Ann Smarty, writing on the Daily SEO Tip website, says, “Most SEOs and internet marketers are already quite aware of Google’s free keyword tool. However, there are some details that you should pay attention to when you use this tool to get the best results when doing your keyword research here.” Then Ms. Smarty goes on to explain the details she refers to.
8 Tips for Tracking with Google
In an interesting article posted on his website, Fields Marshall offers some excellent information, and this read will be well worth your time! He says, “If you are tracking clickthrus, events, conversions using Google Analytics here are a few tips, ideas and hints for tracking and then later on improving your webpage using Google tools: analytics, adwords and Google website optimizer.”
You Are the Definition of Quality in Affiliate Marketing
There’s a post on the Affspot website that you really should read. The writer asks, “how can we look at the big picture and define “Quality” as affiliate marketers? What is a standard of “Quality” that is broad enough to cover our affiliate marketing businesses but narrow enough to be actionable and meaningful?” He offers a free eBook, “Magic Ebook of Quality”, to answer those and other questions.
5 Ways to Market like a Psychotherapist
Posting on the Copy Blogger website, Melissa Karnaze compares psychotherapy to marketing. She says, “Psychotherapy, a discipline intended to help people, is actually a form of marketing” and she goes on explain how the two are related. Melissa makes some good points. This is a good read and worth your time.
Zero to 1B Hero: Watch Tony’s Story this Weekend
On her blog, Rosalind Gardner says that it’s not often that she blogs “about a single speaker that I’ve seen at an event, but I did that back in February after attending the Undergound Seminar and hearing Tony Hsieh (sounds like ‘‘Shea’ or ‘Shay’) of Zappos speak.” Now, Rosalind says, you can hear his speech free and in its entirety at http://www.undergroundonlineseminar.com/zappos/?spook
