Ron Davies

Ron Davies

I receive emails daily from vendors soliciting me to promote or at least review their products. Unfortunately, that just goes with the territory when you have a face and more so a web site that is well-known in affiliate marketing, especially as it  relates to Clickbank.

Believe it or not, I have almost 2 dozen vendors that want me to show off their products at the Earn1KaDay IM Summit Conference in Orlando this month. Sorry, guys and gals, that’s just not going to happen. Nothing personal, and this is not intended to discredit or even just “dis” any of the products or vendors, but things simply don’t work that way.

We are all competing for the attentions of those that we feel can help us along, but there is due process in place (hint: fill out the contact form and be sure to send a download link to test the product- wait 48 hours or so, you know…be patient :>)

In any event, once in a while a product title or byline catches my eye, and I simply have to open the email and see what is being promoted.  After all, you never know when you will meet the next Seth Godin in your inbox.

Today’s product is one that claims Google is dead as far as affiliates are concerned, which of course concerns me quite a bit, at least if there is any truth to it.

The product is called “Yahoo Cash For Idiots“, perhaps a little less flattering than I might like this early in the new year, but I had a look at this fellow might be onto something. I have been a long time proponent of avoiding Google Adwords at all costs, even after one of us here attending a few very good workshops on the subject, the most notable being Perry Marshall’s Bootcamp at his place in Chicago 2 years ago, and all sorts or smaller less notable ones since.

Truth is, I am waiting with baited breath for somebody to come up with something better than Adwords- better than Adwords in that it works WITHOUT a dergree from Google on how to make it work profitably.

Conservative estimates put the money losers on Adwords in the 80% to 85% percent range, with about 10% breaking even, and the rest are, well, the Adwords Gods, or maybe just Perry Marshall and Seth Godin :>)

Enough belly-aching, I know. Back to the product – it is based on using Yahoo’s PPC program, which purportedly is much less expensive and easier to use, easier to be competitive in for keywords, and even better – the return on investment is actually a POSITIVE number for the average user. Shocking, I know! #;>)

Now the ad copy on the site is full or biased propaganda, and a few figures that had to have been pulled out of the air more or less, but the product and the premise is sound an logical. This in the face of hugely successful Adwords / Clickbank products like Commission Blueprint, which at very least is one of the most over-delivered products I have ever seen, even if I found the work a little too involved for me.

One of the claims on the Yahoo Cash for Idiots site is:

“Yahoo! Is A HUGE Unexploited Mine Of Gold…With No Competition… Just An Extremely Profitable Untapped Playground”

I guess that is yet to be evidenced, but something I am going to toy with for sure, given the less than Godin like results I have had with Google Adwords to date.

Anyway, if you are like I am in terms of success with, or rather without Google Adwords, this might be worth a look.

Cheers,

For a very long time I have researched the single biggest deterrent preventing Internet marketers from using WordPress as their main CMS and marketing platform.

Those that have tinkered with earlier versions of WordPress found the installation cumbersome and complex, not to mention the rather convoluted process of locating, installing and configuring the very limited, almost always unstable plugins that seemed to be unworkable depending on the WP version you were installing them on.

All this has changed with WordPress versions of late, even more so for 2.7. The rules for plugin development have been firmed up, and the stability is far far better, not to mention that the plugins developed for Internet marketers have come a long, long way.

Now the plugins range from SEO positioning and optimization to traffic analyses and RSS aggregation, automatic replacement of words with masked affiliate links, automatic emails sent to commenters, completely self contained affiliate programs and much more.

To cap this, of the 40 or so plugins that I use, all but 2 of them are free, including free updates.

The final show stopped for most is the hassle of locating the right plugins, and uploading them via FTP, setting permissions, etc., and although WordPress 2.7 has some facility to help this, it is still not going to do much of the work for you.

Enter my latest solution for revenue bloggers;

Killer WordPress Plugin Pack With Auto-Installer

A download-able, completely self-contained installer that runs in Windows that uploads, installs and sets up the top WordPress blog plugins that I use personally.

Even better, it is free :>)

You can download the installer by simply completing the form below :
(I have to send a license download).

There is a Help Page that you can open right after starting the installer. It even checks to ensure that your server is 100% compatible with the system, and keeps you informed of the status as you go.

I am working on a simple video that shows how to use it tomorrow.

Cheers!

Ron Davies

PS: Happy New Year!

Looking to expand your online enterprise? Well, if so, backlinks are the way to go. They have real long-term growth advantages, and immediate exposure results when done properly.

One of the easiest way to do this is with your Twitter RSS feed. Now, lots of Twitter users don’t even know they have an RSS feed there, and just as many don’t know what to do with it to help their backlinks. I am going to give you the easiest way to grow your Twitter backlinks there is:

1. Create your free account at Tweetwire.com and login
2. Go to the Submit page and select your category from the drop-down menu.
3. Go to your Twitter user page. No need to login. It will look like: http://twitter.com/RonDavies but with your Twitter username where I have mine, RonDavies. The page will look like this:

   

4. Scroll to the bottom to the RSS button.

   

5. Right-click on the RSS button, select “Copy Link Location” and then paste it in a Tweetwire where it says “RSS Feed URL”. Type in a couple of tags ;ike “Ron Davies Twitter” or whatever, and hit “Submit”

That’s it!

Now, click on “HOMEPAGE” at the top ot Tweetwire, and you will see  creenshot of your Twitter page appear within seconds, putting you at the top of the list, and getting you spidered within minutes as well.

You can add any number of feeds, including feeds from WordPress blogs. A WordPress blog feed is almost always located at: http://www.yourwordpressblogdomain.com/feed

If you are using WordPress.com for your blog, the feed will be at: http://yourwordpressblogname.wordpress.com/feed

You can invite friends to Tweetwire, and do a number of other very social Web 2.0 things #;>)

That’s it for now. I can do this post as a vidoe if someone needs a little help. The kind of back links these sites provide your blog or Twitter is really worth the 3 minutes it takes to do it.

Cheers!