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I know that It’s been awhile.  I’ve been hard at work on a DIY SEO video series over at BoneheadSEO.com that is nearing it’s completion and have been working my tail end off lately getting it finished.

I know, I know, you probably don’t care so much about that…but what you might care about is something coming out tomorrow.

It’s VERY likely that over the past week or so you’ve heard about Commission Blueprint 2.0 that’s coming out tomorrow…now hear me out on this one.

I actually own the first Commission Blueprint product (unlike what a vast majority of others can say) and it was hands-down one of the BEST products I’ve ever owned.  And we’re talking about over 13 years of online experience here…so when I say that, it’s a big deal.

Plus, I’m one of a pre-selected group of people that were allowed to get you in on this product.  (I think that’s kinda cool.)

Now I know that if you’re like most people (including myself) you just roll your eyes when it comes to some product that’s being promoted over and over again by everyone and their brother.

And I promise you that tomorrow will be one of the biggest days in “pushing products” you’ll ever see because EVERYONE wants to jump on the 9/9/2009 bandwagon.

But…if I can have your ear for a second…I highly encourage you to at least head on over to http://commissionblueprint20.com/cb20.php and watch the three videos they have there for you and make an educated decision for yourself.

If you’ve ever wanted a way for someone to walk you through step-by-step the entire process of Affiliate Marketing and in such a way that it’s understandable for even the greenest of newbies, (and even for those who consider themselves advanced affiliate marketers), then I highly recommend you at least give it a chance.

Don’t simply ignore it just because you’ve seen too many product promotions lately – I truly feel that would be to your detriment.  (and I’ll be the first to admit that I am completely guilty of that).

When you first visit the site there are three videos.

The first one that you’ll get to is one that explains “How is this different from the first Commission Blueprint product?”

As you scroll to the bottom of the page, you’ll see two additional videos:

• The Game is Changing
• The Keyword Revolution

Again, I highly encourage you to watch those videos which are full of great content that you can start to use in your online business.

Watch the videos:  http://commissionblueprint20.com/cb20.php

Steve gives you access to a report (no charge of course) that is already making people some money (as verified in their forum) – again, you can get to that forum by clicking the link on the page.

I highly recommend you watch everything right now and, as soon as the doors open tomorrow, I will let you know.  Here’s the link to the site again:

http://commissionblueprint20.com/cb20.php

Oh and before I forget, they’re taking it off of the market on September 16, 2009 – so it’s only available for a few days.

*YES, this is a promotional post!* 

I once heard it stated that “…website designers keep SEO’s in business.”  And while that might irritate a few web designers most of the time when it comes to getting a website indexed, ranked and visited, it’s the design of the website itself that can be the culprit.

So how do you know if the firm you hired has done “all the right things” on your site so that when the search engines come to pay a visit, they’ll happily run through your field of flowers like a little girl on a warm spring day?

• Check your mark-up code.  You can check your code for free online by visiting the W3C Markup Validation service.  There are a lot of “best practices” stated by W3C and as mentioned here, suggested by Bing.  Without listing them all, which will make your head spin, just visit (or better yet, have your website designer visit)http://www.w3schools.com/.There’s been some debate on whether or not Google takes proper code into account  but…one website did do a very small test on four of its pages and found that Google tended to prefer the page with the proper mark up code.My advice?  Especially if you’re using XHTML is to be absolutely 100% compliant.  HTML seems to have a little bit more wiggle room.  But…even with that said, it’s better to be safe than sorry and just be sure your code is up to standards.
• Bad Links.  ”Bad” links aren’t just links to bad neighborhoods, they’re also those broken links that you have *gasp!* within your own website or from your website that point out to external sites.  Now, you obviously can’t control whenever someone else moves or gets rid of one of their web pages but you most certainly can find out which links on your site are broken both internally and externally.I suggest using a free program called Xenu’s link sleuth.  This will do a check on all the links on your site to see which ones encountered errors.  Depending upon how large your site is, you may want to run this at least once a week.Other “bad” link problems are…
  • missing page elements – for example, images aren’t loading properly on a page.  This is why it’s so important to usecanonicalization(video) when linking up anything on your site.
  • Don’t use scripts for internal site navigation.  Instead just use anchor tags with keywords as the anchor text.

Other coding errors that can create issues (as stated by Bing) are:

• Missing, empty or duplicate title tags.  (Note the duplicate title tags especially).  What Bing is saying is that you should not use the same title on more than one of your site’s pages (sage advice).
• Missing, empty or duplicate meta description tags.
• Missing, empty or duplicate H1 tags.

Additionally, according to Bing, if you use a 302 redirect on any of your web pages note that it DOES NOT pass link juice.  Proper SEO dictates the use of 301 (permanent) redirects.

You can read Bing’s coding guide here.

This post is an excerpt from Bonehead Bits – The SEO Newsletter.  To get your copy before the public does (for free), click here now and get signed up.

Super affiliates, those affiliates who make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year doing nothing but affiliate marketing, all have one thing in common.

They track what they’re doing….to the detail.

Super affiliates don’t get to where they’re at overnight.  Nope.  They start off their careers just like you, with almost no money to spend in advertising.  The difference is, they realized early on that if they don’t keep track of what’s doing well and what’s not, they may as well throw money out the window.

We’re talking about people like:

• Jeremy Shoemaker of Shoemoney.com.
• Jay Stockwell of SpeedPPC.com
• Aymen from the ArbitrageConspiracy.com
• and Tim Houston from AffiliateLifestyle.com

You should know by now that I don’t recommend things lightly.  And what I’m about to tell you will save you thousands of dollars.  Literally.

The program I’m referring to is StatsJunky and it will change your affiliate life!

Why?

Because you’ll know in an instant if what you’re promoting is making you money or just pulling it out of your pocket.

As an example, there’s one affiliate in particular who set up a StatsJunky account and found that one of their neglected sites was actually converting at over 14% (which is unheard of by the way). Without knowing how well this site was converting, they very well would have overlooked it and lost out of thousands of dollars in sales.

What StatsJunky does is automatically download and update all of your affiliate stats.  If you’ve been doing it the “old fashioned” way your typical day may have gone like this:

1. Visit your affiliate site such as Clickbank.
2. Login to your statistics area.
3. Download the information.
4. Add it to a spreadsheet.
5. Visit another affiliate site.
6. Get your stats.
7. Download your stats.
8. Add it to a spreadsheet.
9. Continue this process until all of your program statistics were updated (including PPC ads).
10. Place all of this into a spreadsheet.
11. Try to figure out what was making you money and what wasn’t.
12. Do this every day.

With StatsJunky you’ll never have to do this again.

Every last one of the programs that you’re promoting as well as the way that you’re promoting them (AdWords for example) is stored and updated within StatsJunky on your own computer in its own encrypted file.

There are over 200 (and growing) programs supported by StatsJunky including:

• ClickBank
• AdWords
• Ad On Network
• Facebook
• 1ShoppingCart
• Aweber
• Azoogle
• CPA Empire
• Profit Center
• Yahoo Publisher
• and tons more!

And in the event your program isn’t listed, just request it and they’ll get the data for you.

Ok, that’s great but now what?

The best thing about StatsJunky is that you can see at a glance what’s making you money and what’s not.

You can sort by things like:

• Impressions
• Clicks
• Sales
• Leads
• Rebills
• Refunds
• EPC/CPC
• Conversion Ratio
• Earnings
• Projected earnings per year
• and more.

Additionally, for those of you who use PPC ads, you can even drill down to the keyword level on your campaigns to see which keywords are giving you the most return on your investment.  Then you can simply get rid of those under-performing keywords and move that traffic to the higher performing keywords.

While all this is fantastic in and of itself, I haven’t even touched on all of the different statistics you can get by using StatsJunky.

Now, I promised you that I’d tell you how to save thousands of dollars on this product…well, here it is…

For a VERY LIMITED TIME, until July 31st 2009, or until all 1,418 spots have been taken, you can get StatsJunky for only $297 FOR LIFE!

Why are they doing this?  Well, it’s their birthday sale.

Why is this such a big deal?  Because this NEVER happens.  “Regular” customers have to pay $99 a month!  But during this promotion you get StatsJunky for only $297 for LIFE!

That saves you over $1,000 a year!

Remember, you will never become a super-affiliate if you don’t understand where your traffic is coming from, if it’s taking money from you or making you a bundle without tracking statistics.

Every successful affiliate marketer knows where they’re income is coming from and where their money’s going.

If you don’t, you are just throwing money down the drain.

Again, you can get lifetime access to StatsJunky for only $297 but ONLY until July 31st, 2009.

And like all quality products, they offer a 30-day, no questions asked money back guarantee.

Visit the site and click the green button that says “Limited Time Offer – Only $297 for Life”.

*Click on any of the affiliate links above to get the $297 Lifetime Offer – but only until July 31st, 2009.*