This story is so humorous I just had to post it because I’m sure a lot of you can relate. As affiliate marketers, we have accounts with Commission Junction, ClickBank, Share-a-sale, Linkshare, PepperJam, Copeac, ClickBooth, PayPal, Adwords, Adsense, Azoogle, Chitika, InLinks, NetKlix, Webmaster tools, hosting accounts, domain accounts, site logins, blog feed accounts, Digg, Technorati, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, YouTube, WordPress, and I could go on and on and on.

I have so many logins there would be no way to keep them all straight so I use this login management software that keeps my logins all nicely organized and can be easily transferred from desktop to laptop so your logins are always handy.

Almost all my affiliate payments are via PayPal or ACH, but one company had made payment via mailed check up until last fall when I switched from a DBA to a corporation. I had completed all the ACH paperwork, faxed it in to the company and my rep said he would take care of it. Read the rest of this entry

I really hope you’re using some kind of traffic stats program to track the website traffic coming to your blog. I primarily use Google Analytics, although it doesn’t provide real-time tracking and can take up to a day to fully compile your prior day’s stats.

I will freely admit that I am obsessed with tracking visitor statistics on my sites. Not necessarily THIS site, as the traffic patterns for this site are pretty steady from organic Google results, Warrior Forums, Digital Point, a few major blogs and a ton of individual click throughs from blogs that use one of my themes.

My obsession is more with finding out what keywords people are using to find my sites. I hope you’re paying attention here, because your analytics keywords can provide you with a tremendous amount of information and open up new long-tail niches that you hadn’t thought of before. Read the rest of this entry

When I say Affiliate Theme for Wordpress, you might think I’m referring to the new Unique Blog Designs theme that you can view here. Nope, I’m talking about affiliate themes and internet marketing WordPress themes in general.

I’m going to the drawing board for a completely new affiliate theme for WordPress. Having had some great input from hundreds of Flexibility, Flexibility 2 and FlexSqueeze users, I want to narrow the focus to what are the absolute necessary features in an affiliate theme.

My past themes have focused on maximum customization, with options as detailed as controlling the letter spacing in the sidebar titles. With my next project, I want to maximize the usability of the theme while at the same time minimizing the control options in order to facilitate faster deployment and improved user experience. Read the rest of this entry

Affiliate marketers are always looking for tools that make it easier to launch affiliate sites, whether with WordPress or an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver or Expression Web. My new FlexSqueeze theme streamlines either process, as it includes a fully styled HTML sales page along with all the needed CSS styles and images.

If you are building affiliate sites with WordPress, FlexSqueeze reduces the task of creating a WordPress squeeze page to one-click. Once your page has been templated into a squeeze page, the process for getting all your sales page content into the page is quite simple.

I personally use Dreamweaver for all my HTML editing, as the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress is not really suited for creating css-based page layouts. If you have my FlexSqueeze theme, you have a file called ’sample-squeeze-content.html’ within the theme download. There is also an identical file in text format called ’sample-squeeze-content.txt’ that is set up without the CSS styles so you can copy and paste the entire document directly into your FlexSqueeze sales page. All the needed CSS styles are already built into FlexSqueeze theme. Read the rest of this entry

Let me set one thing straight before I get into Affiliate Theme from UBD. I’m biased but I think FlexSqueeze is better.

Ok, now that that’s out of the way, let me tell you about this new affiliate marketing WordPress theme from the masters of blog design down at Unique Blog Design. I have to be a little bit biased towards my own theme obviously, but UBD has done a good job of creating an affiliate marketing theme with the features most bloggers need to quickly launch affiliate sites using our favorite blogging platform, WordPress. UBD is renown for their clean design and really great visuals, and Affiliate Theme is no different from their work for the likes of Shawn Collins, Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker and John Chow.

You can see their theme options panel here, which is a work of art in itself (note to self: make my options panel prettier). You can control your basic blog settings such as the background images, background color and page layout as well as some typography settings for your headlines and body fonts. Read the rest of this entry