I don't know about you but I have tried so many ?get rich quick schemes? its ridiculous. I've also tried so many other ways all to no avail. I got to a point where I thought there's no point, ?a regular 9-5 job isn't so bad, I can even walk myself up the company with promotions, money isn't everything anyway.? Who was I kidding, I wanted to be rich not just get by in life, yes money may not be everything but there is a heck of a lot is. Then I stumbled on a book called ?Secrets of the Millionaire Mind? (actually, my dad gave it to me to read).
At first I must admit I was a sceptic, ?another ?how to get rich book? just what I need. What has this book got that all the others didn't.? Well I wasn't going to get my answers just staring at the front cover was, so I thought I might as well read it and know that at least I gave it a try and boy am I glad I did.
This book changed my perspective on how money works. The difference between this book and every other money book is it doesn't focus only focus on ways of making money by joining, this or that, instead it allows you really evaluate yourself and your mind. It also helps you find the root of your money problems while other books focus on the fruits of your problems, you need to find out what the root it before you can change its fruits.
Ever wondered why no matter what you try, nothing seems to be working for you? You seem to know all there if to know about money yet you are unable to make a single dime. Why is that you make all that money, then seems to just disappear without a trace? You'll find all the answers in the Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. This book is full of insight in why rich people are rich and poor people are poor. You'll find out things you never would have figured out had you not read the book, it'll leave you amazed, enlightened and extremely motivated, not just the type of motivation that lasts for a few weeks at the most, but the type of motivation that will make you your million. I recommend it to all who are serious about becoming rich. To know more or to order the book visit: http://www.onestopshopbargain.com/books.html
Some very interesting things started to appear when I started doing this.
I was doing research on one of favourite authors- Jim Edwards, because he tells it like it is (no fluff!) and his book, Turn Words into Traffic, is pure gold for anybody looking for free traffic from articles.
Now Jim publishes products via Clickbank. They also mange his affiliate program for him. Clickbank takes care of all the issues with the credit card payments, affiliate tracking, paying affiliates and refunds etc.
The clickbank customer service is great and they are generally the leader when it comes to managing/selling downloadable information products.
From a linking or a search engine ranking point of view the links the affiliates don't count in your search engine ranking because logically, they don't go to your site- they are redirected by clickbank hop links. Affiliate links from Clickbank look something like this: hop.clickbank.net/?XXXX
It looks like Google is getting smarter and tracking not just links provided by clickbank but also other redirected links.
Lets look closer. By using the link command in Google when can see the links that Google "sees" as the most important. That's not to say it doesn't recognize (or include them it its calculations) all the many other links to a site, just doesn't show them all.
So in this case it would be:
link:[ include whole url: www.turnwordsintotraffic.com]
or use the google toolbar.
This bought up some interesting links- one of them being a link from a well-known marketer and writer - Tim Knox (prosperityandprofits.com) Now the link from Tims web site is a redirect. (It redirects so fast I can't tell if its an affiliate link or not!)
The link is something like this: /members/go.php'l=11 and is on the middle right
So in following logic, that the link doesn't actually show as a link to the site, Google must be following the link, working out that it is an affiliate link using clickbank and count it towards Jims site.
Lets have a look at another link:
www.biztipsblog.com/2007/10/drive-more-traf.html (see middle right for link)
By hovering over the link- you will see in the bottom status bar of the browser that this is definitely an affiliate link, which is also being counted towards Jim Edwards site TurnWordsintoTraffic.com
So what does this mean to you? This is a good this that Google does this, however keeping in mind that probably yahoo or MSN haven't followed Google in doing this. (yet to be checked at this time)
Be sure and plan or advise Affiliates to link to you using your keyword or a version of it
If you use clickbank and you allow clickback to manage all you affiliates, then you wont have much choice. I always recommend that you manage a list of your own affiliates using a sign up using aweber or a similar service - then send them to clickbank.
This also allows me to provide specific training for affiliates to help them make more sales- a win-win
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