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Have you or anyone you know of ever approached an advertiser who’s advertising on your website via a brokerage such as Text Link Ads with the intention of cutting out the middle man for a bigger cut of the advertising fee?

Is there anything in the TLA publishers’ terms and conditions that would prevent a publisher from approaching an advertiser directly and perhaps even undercutting TLA? I couldn’t see anything directly, but there is a bit about exclusivity “relative to placing static HTML links designed to drive traffic and increase popularity”.

I guess this means you can’t run your own Openads service on the same website as you’re publishing TLA ads.

Personally, I feel the benefits that a brokerage service provides (i.e. a marketplace with advertisers who do the legwork to come find you) would outweigh the additional income you might make in the short term because as advertisers turnover you’d be responsible for getting replacements signed up.

Technorati Tags: Text Link Ads, TLA, website advertising

My brief experiment into building a non-Internet marketing list for profit has come to a relatively clean point after running a 2-month Google AdWords campaign as the primary source of traffic.

The target market was a traditionally off-line, real world industry that consists of UK home business and shop owners alike. From the offset, I knew it was going to be a challenge to convince such an audience to spend their money on information-based products, but it was something I wanted to experience for myself.

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I say “launched”, but it’s really more of a case of it quietly being made publicly available. After the amount of hype surrounding the launches of some of the more well-known Internet marketing products, this is positively spider footsteps territory. That’s not to say I haven’t got a few ideas for promotion lined up, but more on that some other time.

So what is it? To sum it up, it’s a handy desktop keyword tool for creating permutations of input keywords. It’s especially useful for pay per click advertisers and those using website generation tools.

What makes it different from any other keyword permutation tool? Well, for a start it’s very easy to use and then there’s a little twist that I hinted at previously. No, I’m not ready to tell yet, but it’s a fantastic proposition for owners of mailing lists. Again, more on that when the time is right.

I’d actually developing the application a couple of months ago, but it’s really been the last 20% of the project that’s taken 80% of the time. To be honest, as a PHP developer, developing a desktop application on my own was always going to be a challenge and there were moments when my thoughts thrashed about trying to produce the killer application. It certainly wasn’t easy avoiding the overdevelopment that leads to a later and later launch.

I’d originally developed the website payment system to be PayPal based as I prefer instant payments (who doesn’t ), but then the issue of affiliates cropped up and whilst I had thought about integrating my own affiliate system I knew that I was at risk of scope creep (continually adding additional functionality for a better product). So, at the last minute I replaced the PayPal payment route with ClickBank. Sure, there’s the disadvantages of delayed payments, currency exchange charges and the $49.99 initial charge, but with it comes the benefits of an established referral system with plenty of affiliates.

The project so far has been quite a learning experience. There were certainly a few steps along the way that could have been made easier with the proper guidance so maybe you’ll see in a future $7 guide!

Anyway, do check out Keyword Permutator, laugh at my video, buy a copy and promote it to your lists for a 40% share!
A special thanks to all of the beta testers for your valuable feedback.

Technorati Tags: Keyword Permutator, keyword tools, pay per click, website generators

It’s here. The follow-up to one of my favourite ebooks of all time is finally here and the email storm from JV partners has already begun. Ever since picking up my copy of Affiliate Project X, I’ve been applying some of the techniques described and tweaking some of my affiliate promotions. Let just say the results have been noticeable.

It was only recently that I found out about the impending release of Day Job Killer and without even viewing the preview video I was already set to buy my own copy. After all, I’d only be spending money I’d earnt because of Affiliate Project X so why not?!

Anyway, Day Job Killer is the second in the series of affiliate how-to guides that are sold as “industry changing”. Affiliate Project X was certainly a refreshing change from most of the other IM ebooks I’ve read. Just as Casino Royale 2006 was the gritty James Bond movie, Affiliate Project X was the gritty IM how-to ebook.

These aren’t just more IM ebooks. The methods described really do work! Today, I received a commission payment of $331 for January. That was just from one merchant and primarly because of just one of the methods described in Affiliate Project X.

If you’re interested in affiliate marketing at all then do have a look over at Day Job Killer. Hell, don’t even use my affiliate link! www.dayjobkiller.com. It’s discounted as an introductory offer so if you’re going to check it out, do it now.

Technorati Tags: Day Job Killer, Affiliate Project X

One method of generating revenue from a website that’s fast becoming one of my favourites is through the selling of on-site text links. It’s quick to add new websites into your portfolio and there’s a healthy supply of advertisers if you have what they want.

I was just in middle of listing one of my well-established content websites with TLA when I suddenly realised that there was no ad code for static .html suffixed web pages. I was hoping for a JavaScript solution, but since the code needs to write to the server file system a server-side platform was required.

A less than ideal workaround would have been to rename the relevant files to .php and amend all of the internal links to those pages. Unfortunately, what I wouldn’t be able to do is amend any inbound links from external sources so any links to specific .html pages could end up being broken. What I really needed was to be able to incorporate the TLA code without breaking the current website file structure.

Fortunately, an extra line in the websites .htaccess file allowed me to include PHP code in my static .html files as have them parsed as if they had a .php extension.

So, half an hour later, I’ve added another potential $100 a month income stream thanks to TLA and the following line in my .htaccess file.

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html

Technorati Tags: Text Link Ads, TLA, PHP, .htaccess