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Affiliate Theme is developed by the people at Unique Blog Designs (Nate Whitehill, Josh Mullineaux and Matthew Blancarte.) They are also the people behind Theme Wars, and Squeeze Theme.

The only reason I am including the links to the above sites, is to avoid confusion with other similarly named sites. There are a couple of other affiliate type themes for Word Press available on the internet.

What the Affiliate Theme is Supposed to Do

• Make building and customizing affiliate sites using Word Press easy
• 6 unique layouts
• Built in color picker
• Lifetime access to Resource Center and Support
• Optimized for PPC and SEO campaigns
• Ability to build dynamic, high converting affiliate marketing web sites using a single theme

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So you’ve jumped on the Twitter band wagon and you’ve heard you can make money via Twitter and you want a gazillion followers. First stop right there, TwitterPants! This blog is about what NOT to do.

He who is without sin, let him cast the first tweet. Yes, I have been guilty of some of these things when I first started tweeting. What’s worst…I have witnessed some of the so-called social media gurus and big name bloggers  (especially tips #3 and #4) commit these offenses.  Perhaps they feel since they have numerous followers they can get away it.

If you are yearning to get reported for spam, unfollowed or blocked,  just take up the following Twitter practices. Read the rest

After countless spammy and useless comments, I have decided to write a comment policy. Please, take a moment to read the policy before posting a comment policy.

We welcome comments from all of our readers and definitely want your feedback.  Rather than just totally turn off the comments, I have implemented this policy.

You will find a permanent link to the comment policy in the top link bar. Thanks.

So you have a friend or relative who’s into affiliate marketing and you’re just dieing to make some money on the internet. Well before you just leap into affiliate marketing, you need to know a few things.

This kind of sounds like a Jeff Foxworthy post. Read the rest

I’ve been using Twitter for a couple of months  and in fact I  have a couple of Twitter accounts for other web sites. At first I wasn’t too sure about Twitter…what was all the hype about? Twitter what? Now I love it!

Finally I decided I just needed to develop some sort of  Twitter policy or philosophy and take some actions on my accounts. Read the rest

No, I’m not there yet, but I’m on my way….just be quiet and let me drive!

Today I stumbled across a blog by Andy Hagans, Tropical SEO, and I loved his post on The Dream.

I don’t personally know Andy Hagans, so I did what any internet savvy person would do I Googled him…’cause I was curious if we were near the same age. Well long story short he’s probably a few years younger than I am. Read the rest

Signing up for an affiliate program step by step process:

1. You join an affiliate program by signing up with a user name and password and URL (if you have a web site). On the sign up form you will provide your contact information, such as: your name, address, and phone number.
2. Normally you will need to furnish your Tax ID or social security number, if you are a sole proprietor. If you live in the US, you will have to fill out and submit a W9 form( taxpayer identification and certification form).

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Affiliate marketing is an internet-based marketing practice in which a business (Affiliate or Associates Program) rewards affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts.

Simple explanation – Affiliate Marketing is commission based selling on the internet. Read the rest

A couple of weeks ago I added this new Word Press plug-in, WP-Ban to my site. This plug is by Lester Chan and I might also add he has a number of other awesome Word Press plug-ins.

WP-Ban gives you the ability to ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and referrer URL from visiting your WordPress’s blog. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name, user agent or referrer URL tries to visit your blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. It also gives you statistics on how many times they attempt to visit your blog. It allows wild card matching too. Read the rest

Michelle MacPhearson has updated her free eBook, Social Media Daily.

Social Media Daily is an eBook and is available in PDF format. All you have to do to download your copy is sign up with your name and email address.

Basically the eBook is a blueprint for marketing your web site with social media, social bookmarking, social networking and other Web 2.0 fun. Read the rest