Affiliate marketing beginner tip: Safe CSS

October 22, 2010

——————————————————————- Now playing: Brand New Day by Forty Foot Echo ——————————————————————- What is safe CSS? Basically, it’s having a safety net when you start messing around in the CSS of your site. Let me explain. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. The code in your stylesheets controls the appearance of your site from one central [...]

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Affiliate marketing case study: Pat, week 5

October 20, 2010

Pat’s report: The H1 conundrum [mentioned in Lesson 35] was certainly a conundrum for me. I had no problem changing the post tag to to H1, but I also placed an angle bracket “>” where it shouldn’t have been, resulting in code showing up next to my titles. I could not find what I had [...]

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Student question: How to evaluate competition numbers

October 18, 2010

———————————————————— Now playing: Sweet Talkin’ Woman by ELO ———————————————————— While evaluating competition, since we are only interested in the first 10 competitors on the front page of the search results, does it mean that we can totally ignore the million of sites returned? For instance, maybe searching “golf” gives you back 2-3 million pages. Should [...]

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Write your articles with keywords in mind

October 15, 2010

————————————————————- Now playing: Biggest Part of Me by Ambrosia ————————————————————- As affiliate marketers, we need to be aware of keywords as we build our sites. There’s so much to remember it can easily get forgotten, but really, they need to be one of our top priorities if we hope for people to find our sites. [...]

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Affiliate marketing case study: Pat, week 4

October 13, 2010

Pat’s report: Hi! I am very determined to cover this course in as short a time period as possible. I apologize to Laura and to the students for working so many lessons a week, but I just cannot stop working on my site. This course is super great and I am enjoying it tremendously. Site [...]

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Site design with “ease of access” in mind

October 8, 2010

by Pat H. I would like to digress from the course a little bit and offer some explanation of a situation I am facing concerning working on the computer. A problem that I have, and may not  be too common among other students taking this course, is that I need to use the “Ease of [...]

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Affiliate marketing case study: Pat, week 3

October 6, 2010

Pat’s report: This has been a fantastic week for me. I am guilty of spending quite a few hours on my site and doing the ‘behind the scenes” work. It has been an profitable week and I have covered a lot of ground. Last week I was on lesson 9 and had quite a few [...]

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Celebrating “Work From Home” Week With a Special Deal

October 5, 2010

One of the blogs I keep up with, wahumor.com, brought to my attention yesterday morning that we are smack dab in the middle of National Work From Home Week, October 3-9. In doing some research, I found some slightly different dates, October 1-7. I’m not sure which are “official,” but either way, we are in [...]

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File formats for web site photos

October 4, 2010

———————————————————————————- Now playing: This Song Is Just Six Words Long by Weird Al ———————————————————————————- People are a lot more familiar with computer file formats for photos than they used to be, thanks to the proliferation and affordability of digital cameras, especially over the last decade. In the old days (the ’90s and earlier), most people [...]

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Make your photos work for you!

October 1, 2010

————————————————————— Now playing: Already Gone by Kelly Clarkson —————————————————————- Most of us like to insert photos into our posts. They’re visually appealing and can capture people’s attention. If you can have at least one photo for every article, that’s ideal. But there are several important things photos can help you with, rather than just sitting [...]

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