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How to Conduct Niche Research for an Affiliate Site

By Rae / November 6, 2013 /

How do you an evaluate a potential affiliate niche? It’s a question I’m asked several times a week. Half of the niches I’ve created affiliate sites in were ones I stumbled across totally by chance. The rest are in niches I directly set out to target. But regardless of how you find a niche, there’s…

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Identifying the Money Keywords for Affiliate Marketing & SEO

By Rae / November 4, 2013 /

Keyword targeting can make all the difference revenue wise when working on SEO for an affiliate site that relies on SEO as its primary marketing method. You have vanity terms, traffic terms, and then you have your “money” terms. Seeing results from SEO takes a lot of work and a lot of time. So how…

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SEMRush Review – A Kickass Keyword Research Tool, Rank Tracker & More

By Rae / October 18, 2013 /

I’ve known about SEMRush for a long time. I’d heard people mention it and had seen the site, but I’d never really used it until my partner in my agency signed up for it. He loved the service – and since we were paying for it – I decided to fully check it out. It…

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9 Quick Tips to Increase Affiliate Income on Your Blog

By Rae / July 22, 2013 /

So you’ve got a blog, and you’re doing affiliate marketing – with either no success, little success or great success (high five!) – but hey, you’re always looking for ways to make more. Below are nine things I’ve done over the years – with success – to earn more revenue from my blogs. Nine Ways…

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Content Marketing is the “Escort” of Online Marketing

By Rae / May 13, 2013 /

Content Marketing. It’s the new buzz word flowing around the Internet marketing community for the last year or so. I’ve been doing this online marketing “thing” for over a decade. When I first heard the phrase “content marketing” I was a little confused. What is that? I read the posts explaining it, but it left…

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Women, Tech Conferences and the BullSh!t Surrounding It

By Rae / April 15, 2013 /

Damn it. I try so hard these days to resist doing things that don’t make me money. I do. But sometimes I make an exception and today is going to be one of those days. Today Debra Mastaler tweeted a link to an article in The Atlantic about the latest up in arms cause in…

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11 Things My Son Taught Me about Life & Business

By Rae / April 4, 2013 /

Yesterday I came across the Complete Guide to Not Giving a Fuck by Julien. I found myself nodding in agreement with each point he made. These were lessons I learned long ago thanks to the most courageous person I’ve ever known – my son CJ. He’s been gone for four months now. But the impact…

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Search Engine Submission Services? DON’T – Here’s Why…

By Rae / March 27, 2013 /

This post is a short one – and a very basic post – but a needed one. Think of this like a PSA that is attempting to pay it forward to new marketers everywhere. In doing some keyword research today, I was a little startled to see tens of thousands of searches being performed centering…

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Link Building Services – You Get What You Pay For

By Rae / March 26, 2013 /

I’m kind of sitting here in shock right now. I’ve been in the online marketing game for well over a decade, but this morning I had an email exchange that dumbfounded me. To be clear, this isn’t an “outing” post – even though I could do so – I just don’t believe in “outing”. This…

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