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How to Make your First $10 in Affiliate Marketing in 10 minutes

I’ve written a full review of Pepperjam’s Affiliate Network before, make sure and check it out if you are unfamiliar with PJN.
This week Pepperjam announced that for July Only they are offering $10 to every new member that signs up under an existing member. (Disclaimer, there’s $7 in it for me too – yep, massive [...]

Ebay – Squidoo Challenge Bonus Offer and Tips

As many of you have probably heard, Squidoo is sponsoring a contest for eBay users masterminded by Giant Squid and Powerseller Katiyana. The Challenge? Build 10 lenses in 10 days from June 4 – June 17th about eBay. There are of course, lots of fabulous prizes and exposure up for grabs including an eBay Live [...]

Firefox Squidoo Tag Page Search Made Easy

During our little discussion on tags the past few days, I noticed that Drew from Squidoography posted an excellent tip on easily searching different squidoo tag pages using Firefox.
Essentially, you can create a firefox bookmark that allows you to type ‘tag search+tag+here‘ into your Firefox address bar and instantly pull up the related squidoo tag [...]

Visualizing Squidoo Link Flow Part One – Lenses

This is the beginning of a 4-part series I’m going to release this week that describes how I believe Squidoo’s internal link structure works to help you get better rankings and what you can do to take advantage of it.
Let’s start off by looking at the 4 different ‘types’ of links that go into and [...]

Ebay Affiliate Feed Generator Live and Updated

Ok, folks after working my piratey butt off for the past few days I was able to finish updating my RSS feed generators for eBay. Here’s a few things I learned the hard way.
1. eBay’s reporting is still slow.
2. when eBay (or my generator or whatever) asks for your ‘Campaign ID’ , that is the [...]

Ebay Partner Network Goes Live

No, this isn’t an April Fool’s Joke. Ebay has officially made the split from Commission Junction to become it’s own stand alone affiliate program.
For the month of April, all the links for both Commission Junction and eBay will be live. All the links you have switched over to the new ebay program will earn an [...]

Are you Using Jumptags to tag your lenses?

I’ve been using Jumptags a lot lately to bookmark my lenses as I complete them. They have a very nifty Firefox or IE extension that allows you to right click on any web page you are on and bookmark it.
It pulls all the info from the page and you just have to click submit.
Note: Make [...]

Primary Tag Domination

In my Lens Publishing Checklist as well as in previous posts, I have repeatedly emphasized the importance of the Primary Tag in Squidoo.
Every one of your tags will include your lens on the related tag page. The Primary tag also is included on tag pages but only if it is also a normal tag. (I [...]

Yahoo Launches New Bookmarking Site to Compete with Self

As many of you probably know, Yahoo! is the owner of the del.icio.us bookmarking service which is hugely popular across the internet.
As I was trying to submit a site to Yahoo’s Site Manager yesterday, I was instead redirected to a new Yahoo Bookmarking site at beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com.
Interested as always in a new bookmarking site, I thought [...]

Squidoo Tool: Free Ebay RSS Feed Generator

I’ve gotten a lot of questions the past 3 days about the RSS feed generator for Ebay Affiliates that I created. In order to help answer them, I’ve created a trial version of the Ebay Affiliate Tool so you can try it out and see how awesome it is. Here are the limitations of the [...]