Earnosphere: Week Ending 24/11/07

Welcome to another edition of the Earnosphere, bringing you the best in Affiliate Tactics & Earning ideas. Hope all the American readers enjoyed thanksgiving, if you’ve been reading for a while I noted Thanksgiving as an important date for Affiliate Marketers so I hope yours was as profitable as mine was.

• Benjamin’s Affiliate Marketing Journal on AffEarners - This is a superb Journal by an ASP Programmer & his journey into Affiliate Marketing, you’ll notice the logical progression that Ben is having from learning from his own mistakes (Mistakes are good, f they don’t happen you don’t know what you did wrong). You’ll learn everything from Keyword Researching Tips to keeping targeted adgroups for Specific Keywords.
• A while ago I wrote some tips for Increasing Views on your Youtube Videos, check out this post on Techcrunch showing some Viral Video Secrets. This post actually caused quite a bit of controversy in the comments, however I think this is a classic example of how Affiliate Marketers can learn to think outside the box.
• UberAffiliate posts about an interesting glitch with Adwords & International Traffic. This personally isn’t something I’ve ever experienced but as he mentions, it really does pay to check your logs & analyse your traffic as you may be wasting money. If you use Adwords you can auto append the gclid tracking to the URL which will allow you to further analyse your PPC Traffic & visitor behaviour in Google Analytics.
• I’m generally not a fan of many posts you find on Digital Point but I quite enjoyed this post on alternative Traffic Tips. Some of them are perfect for your niche Affiliate Marketing websites. Some are also the kind of things you only learn by making mistakes, such as redirecting your 404 pages.
• I found this post on Wickedfire quite disturbing. Let it be a lesson to anyone who is using keywords or traffic sources as subids, I’ll probably write a more detailed post on this at some point.

And if this list wasn’t enough to wet your Thanksgiving appetite then check out The Mad Hat who gives great Weekly roundups with a comical twist.

In my Adsense eCPM poll a whopping 57% of you have seen a significant drop in earnings over the past month. No doubt you’ll all be coming over to the Dark Side of Affiliate Marketing where rewards are sweeter? Don’t forget to subscribe to my feed.