I was going through my feedreader this afternoon and saw that Alan over at Affiliate Confession posted about some Better Category Stats At eBay Partner Network soon! Immediately, I jumped over, read his post and was delighted to see how we will be use this for vertical sales opportunities!
One of more popular sites is HIGH on hits and sales, but not always in the same niche the site is focused on! The reason behind that is because the items are pretty high cost. Alot of the visitors go in from my links… then …

It has now been 1 full week since I launched a WordPress website and started building it one day at a time. If you have followed along,  you know that my original site goals included 5 unique posts every week and one top 10 list every week. You guessed it… today, I will write my first top 10 list to the site!
At this point, I am also going to review the previous week stats and see where I can make small improvements toward my overall goals.

Direct from eBay – they provide tips for sending engaged traffic! This is all a direct copy/paste from the post…
“Engagement” is how we look at a user’s experience on eBay once directed via an affiliate link.  Among other metrics, we look at the time that users spend on eBay, the number of pages that they view, and their bidding and buying activity after coming through an affiliate link.  For example, a user who visits eBay and then leaves the site immediately is not “engaged”, whereas a user who comes and …

In the Day 4 post, I talked briefly about listing your site in blog directories to start gaining exposure your new wordpress website. These directories are also your BEST resource for finding related blogs and participating in their own discussions. GB Singh of the Third Eye Health, posted a link to a great List of Blog Directories, and since there are currently 234 places listed, I will visit the links and make sure my new site is listed in as many that will accept me! It may take a while!
Lets take a look at …

Many of you have asked me about the Get a Race Car site over the past few months, and wondered if it has even been re-indexed in Google. The short answer… No! However, the true answer is much longer! :-)
From Launch to Index to Deindexed to Today!
September 2007 - Launched
The site was launched back in Sept 07, just over 13 months ago. It was actually an experiment of my own, to see how much I could modify the BANS templates and customize the system to my own needs. To say the least… …

While we have all been trying to get a clear answer on what the eBay Affiliate Program expects from us, there are still many unanswered questions out there! I mean, how the heck can we get our visitors “engaged” if we don’t understand their meaning of the term?! Over the weekend, I found a post on the ePN forums that may have given a small bit of insight into this…
Main Goal of eBay Affiliate Program
In a post about Roundtripping the ePN (round tripping is a practice of sending an existing ebay visitor …

I know someone will say it… so let me just get this out of the way. Yes, I skipped Day 3! The reason I skipped it is because it was a Sunday and I will not let my work tie me down to a PC on Sundays! Work to Live… not the other way around.
Today, I need to spend a bit of time on 2 specific things… Finding related blogs and forums with the same target audience of my own, and getting this new site listed in some of the …

On Day 1 of launching our new WordPress website, we made sure we had at least 10 posts in the queue and got our first inbound link. Today, on Day 2 of the site being live… we first want to check if the link did any good at all, and of course, add some more content!

Backlinks – We all know they are one of the most important factors in a websites’ success or failure! Unfortunately, it also the most time consuming process we will use to promote our sites and due to that time investment, most of us skip it!
What is Social Bookmarking?
In a nutshell, Social Bookmarking is a way for you to store all of your favorite web pages on a third party website like Digg, StumbleUpon, and literally hundreds or even thousands of others! The benefit to using these online repositories, is that …

On Day 1 of launching a new WordPress website, you need to be sure you have at least 10 posts on your site! I cannot tell you how many sites I have launched with NO posts on them, but suffice to say… they are still sitting in the same position today! Along with your first bit of content, you have to post a link to your site somewhere so it can be found by search engines and crawled by search spiders.