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Newb Guide Pt 5: Landing Pages

This is part 5 of Nickycakes’ affiliate marketing tutorial.  Please read the previous parts if you have not yet. What is a landing page?  “Landing Page” can have many meanings, but in the Affiliate Marketing world (and for the sake of this tutorial) it generally means a webpage built between the advertisement and the merchant’s [...]

Newb Guide Pt 4: Picking What to Promote

This is part 4 of Nickycakes’ affiliate newbie guide.  Please go read the previous parts if you have not already. Ok, so you have your tracking set up, you are approved at some affiliate networks, what do you do next?  Well, now you have to pick what you want to advertise.  Since, like Nickycakes, you [...]

Newb Guide Pt 3: Good Affiliate Networks and Getting Approved

This is part 3 of Nickycakes’ newbie Affiliate Marketing Tutorial. Affiliate networks were covered in decent detail in part 1 of the newb guide, but it’s important to get a little more in-depth.  As mentioned in the first post, Affiliate Networks basically bring together a bunch of companies that want you, the affiliate, to promote [...]

Newb Guide Pt 2: Setting Up Tracking

This is part 2 of the Nickycakes newbie Affiliate Marketing Guide. For any type of paid online advertising campaign, accurate tracking is probably the most important part of being successful.  Tracking is what separates the amateur from the pro.  Without it, you will have a difficult time knowing exactly what is going on with your [...]

Newb Guide Pt 1: What is Affiliate Marketing?

This is part 1 of Nickycakes’ Affiliate Marketing Newbie Guide.  This post will not be new information for almost anyone who has done much of anything with affiliate marketing, but there seem to be plenty of people who don’t know anything about the industry, so feel free to direct them to this post if you’re [...]