Rae

SEO & AFFILIATE MARKETING BLOG

How to Create Passive Income with Profitable (Yet Honest) Reviews

By Rae / March 18, 2013 /

When I did my post on how to make money via blogging, I’d mentioned doing product reviews within it as one of my favorite ways to generate passive income with a blog. To me, there’s no better recipe for monetization than taking a product I love, walking you through it, showing you what you can…

Read More

Why Turnkey Affiliate Websites are a Waste of Money

By Rae / March 1, 2013 /

When I did the Sugarrae reader survey, one of the questions I asked was: “Have you ever paid for a “turnkey” affiliate marketing product? (Such as a domain and a store setup to sell affiliate products with promises that it was ready, set, make money?)” .8% of you said you had an found it useful.…

Read More

Creating a Custom 404 Page with Genesis – Tutorial

By Rae / February 28, 2013 /

Genesis uses a very busy default 404 page. When I made the switch, I didn’t want to lose my old custom 404 page, but couldn’t figure out how to create a new one either. But I wanted my custom 404 page damn it. So, I asked the Genesis team for some help to make it…

Read More

Genesis Theme for WordPress Review

By Rae / February 19, 2013 /

Those with a sharp WordPress eye may have noticed that Sugarrae flipped to using the Genesis theme today. What? The long time Thesis theme evangelist has gone Genesis? Yes, on Sugarrae. But, you can find more on Thesis vs. Genesis and why I switched the Sugarrae site from one to the other here. For right…

Read More

Tracking Your Affiliate Partners and Website Earnings

By Rae / February 13, 2013 /

Years ago, the word organization and I did not belong in the same sentence (some days they still don’t, but I’m so much better than I was before LOL). I really couldn’t even tell you how much I even actually made from affiliate marketing in the early days… I only knew that I made more…

Read More

Hey ForbesWoman – WTF Exactly is a “Man’s Job”?

By Rae / January 9, 2013 /

You may have noticed the rants category has been a little ignored lately. Honestly? I’ve been too busy getting shit done. But, as I checked into Twitter today, I saw a tweet from ForbesWoman in my stream. [Blink] Did I actually just see that? Did I not only see that but see that coming from…

Read More

My Hero – CJ Hoffman 10.02.97 to 11.29.12 – RIP

By Rae / November 30, 2012 /

This post is unequivocally the hardest post I will ever write in my life. Some of you already know from being on my Facebook, but I felt it was time to let those not connected there to me know. Last night, my son CJ, the reason I even have my career and the driving force…

Read More

How I Doubled My Blog Traffic (& Got a Bigger Audience) in 3 Weeks

By Rae / October 12, 2012 /

Building more blog traffic requires work. But it’s not rocket science. It’s a series of simple steps that require time and effort to execute, but the steps themselves aren’t a secret. You simply have to be willing to DO THE WORK. Three weeks ago, I set out to prove that point by following those simple…

Read More

Finding a (Good) Niche in Affiliate Marketing

By Rae / October 9, 2012 /

The question I get asked the most often – hands down – is how to go about finding – and evaluating – a potential niche in affiliate marketing. Most people give the same advice. Find something you love and go into it. If this were 2002, I’d have laughed at that advice. I’ve always joked…

Read More