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Why You Need an Akismet on your site!

As you all know this blog page is mainly for reviews on affiliate programs. However today I want to toss out some info on protecting your site from those little Spammie Enchiladas running a muck on the internet and getting into your site and possibly stealing your affiliate codes. The main reason they do it though is to get higher ranking on the search engines with out your permission. There is a lot of money involved it so they will do what ever it takes to get it.

I will do a complete write up on the little thieves later this week.

Akismet? For the bloggers that have been around a while you already know or should know that you need to have it on your blog page.

It is vital to have it in order to keep the spammers at bay. I personally get somewhere in the neighborhood of about 6-10 a day and to tell you the truth most of them are so un-original that they really just doop themselves.

Here is an example of what a stupid spam message looks like… I have gotten this one by three different ding dongs. It’s the exact same message…

Hi, good post. I have been woondering about this issue,so thanks for posting. I’ll definitely be coming back to your site.

What a bunch of monkey’s peeling the same banana’s !!!

The positioning is that they want you to think they are really interested and get you to post the comment. It is a cheap shot at best to get a back link to their site. Lazy Lazy Lazy…

Alright so go get your Akisment plugged in today so you can help yourself fight these guys off.

How do you do that?

Get in your back panel of your site and you will see in the plug in section:

AKISMET CONFIGURATION: Click on that and it will take you through the set up.

Till next time…

Rhonda G.

Stay well and healthy!


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Alright already…

I have been getting lot’s of questions from my subscribers asking me to let them in on my thought process and how I get time to actually test and write about the software, tools, and affiliate programs that are out there. (I’ll get to that in a moment)

Yes, there are a crap load of them and about 90% of them are absolute junk from what I have personally witnessed.

This does take time and dedication to get to the root of it all.

First off there is the burning question new online marketers and affiliate partners and marketers want to know the answer to:

HOW DO I MAKE MONEY AT THIS?

Uh, here comes the open can of worms…

EDUCATE YOURSELF!

O.k, so we got that biggie out of the way.

I will repeat this all day everyday if needed.

Education is a must in this game of internet marketing. Here’s the problem most seem to have.

The Scenario:

Jump on line
Surf pages
Sign up for everything
Get you mail box filled with stuff
Go through your mailbox and delete all the stuff you just signed up for.
Rinse, Repeat…

Come on kids this is not rocket science.

Sit yourself down, write out on paper what it is you want to accomplish.

Need a head start? alright here are a couple of thoughts.

First off you might want to get the notion out of your head that if you hit a button you will get rich. REALITY CHECK!

If anyone could just push a friggin button and make a gazillion dollars on line we would all just be pushing buttons, sitting back and whistle dixie all the way to our paypal accounts.

It takes WORK, DETERMINATION, DEDICATION and without

    PROCRASTINATION!

    Lets say your driving your car to a destination you have never been before.

    Whats the first thing you need to get there? Oh, you already know?

    Winner Winner Winner!

    Yes the almighty map with directions..

    Well unless your one of those that don’t need a map and get lucky once in a while to get there from instinct. I’m certain you have never been lost or gotten turned around before. right?

    O.k, back to me for a minute.

    I use my road maps! I sit down and draw them out point A to point B.

    Do I ever get turned around or take a fork in the road? Of course I do but I do everything in my power to stick to the map.

    Education: I educate myself on what I want to learn but it goes further than learning it.

    I PUT IT INTO ACTION!

    If I ever gave one valuable piece of advice that was given to me from LISTENING. It is this..

    Take what you learn and immediately put it into an action step. It does not matter if you goof something up along the way, you can fix mistakes. However, if you do not take that step to even know if you are going to goof it up your just spinning your wheels and staying in the same spot. Sounds pretty hopeless.

    So, here is my day in a little nut shell.

    I wake up, get dressed, NO PJ’s allowed…(Be ready for anything that comes at you.) Being dressed and ready for business will put you in a mind set of a business person. “I am pretty sure making money online constitutes as running a business.”

    Get a bit of exercise in so I can actually have oxygen running through my brain so I can be as productive as possible.

    Get to work… No phone calls, No emails, Cell phone off…

    I take two hours right out the gate and go down my list of TO Do’s that I already had written out the night or even the week before.

    Focus Focus Focus.

    It takes 15 minutes to get into a zone of focus and clear understanding. So now you’ve got 105 minutes left to get a whole bunch of stuff done.

    Here is an example of what you can do with 105 minutes.

    (This is For Everyone Pretty Much)

    Get a Blog posting done:
    15 minutes or less including pinging and bookmarking.
    Get your Twitter On auto tweets for the day.
    15 minutes or less with social tweets as well as affiliate links attached.( always make time to be social and thankful to your followers..Do Not Spam them) Be true and honest with no B.S.
    Get your affiliate links organized and lined up for marketing:25 minutes at least if you have a handful of companies.
    Make sure you are Marketing for the companies you are an affiliate for. If you just jump around from on to the next you are wasting your time and not benefiting yourself or others that may actually be looking for the product you have to offer.
    Get in your auto-responder and make sure you are updated in your email campaigns. 30 minutes. This is one of the most important places you want to take care with. Content is everything to your subscribers. They trust you as an adviser to give them what you said you would when they signed up in the first place. Do not send junk to your email subscribers. You will piss them off and they will unsubscribe.
    Go through your training that your affiliate partners give you in order to help you succeed. 30 minutes to refresh and put into action. If you are working with a company that does not offer this and you are not making money for them or yourself, well, personally you may want to drop the deal with them. All the best programs out there will have training that you can easily understand and put into action immediately.

    O.k, so I went over by about ten minutes but you get the picture.

    This is what I do. It works for me. I hope it will help you out a bit.

    Peace.

    Rhonda Giarraffa
    http://www.affiliatereviewguru.com
    http://www.affiliatelearninglinks.com
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Viral URL Just stepped it up..

For those of you who have not had the pleasure of working with Viral URL, you are in for a big treat.

I came across this nifty tool via an email that was sent to me from a fellow affiliate marketer.

Now, this guy does not usually send me emails concerning his own links or products but he just put together a new program with a sales page and to get a quick shot of traffic to it he jumped on this free site called Viral URL.

Out of curiosity of course I had to take a peek at what this thing actually does.

Cool, it’s free to sign up I thought to myself so no harm no fail. So, I signed up. At first I was a little confused at on how it all worked.

Duh, tutorials were right in front of me. Awsome Awsome Awsome!

Anyhow, I took about thirty minutes more than I really wanted to due to time constraints but knew if I didn’t I would not get the full benefit out of the concept and workings of how it goes viral with ads.

This is where it gets really cool. You actually earn credits by clicking on other ads that then in turn click on yours and so on. So, yeah totally viral at this point. Also, and you had to know this was coming, AFFILIATE Program to sign up for.

I have another cool site that is close to the same concept but I am keeping it to myself for a couple of days until I test it as well.

Have A Productive Day!
Rhonda G.,