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I just got an email the other day from Super Affiliate Jeremy Palmer to let me know the ebook he used to charge $45 for (I actually bought it) is now going to be free. If you don’t know about Jeremy, he is one of the top publishers at CJ and made around $1.7 million in commissions in 2006. Jeremy has over 100 web sites and works pretty much by himself.

I bought Jeremy’s ebook High Performance Affiliate Marketing a couple of years ago and at the time I thought it was pretty good, but now it has gone through either 2 or 3 revisions and is completely free. I was pretty impressed with Jeremy because he wasn’t in the business of just selling nonsense and pushing you to buy his next silly ebook for even more information. He also personally answered questions in his forum and even personally answered some of mine. I thought that was pretty decent of him considering he had more than 100 web sites to manage.

Jeremy has since renamed his ebook Quit Your Day Job - A Blueprint For Affiliate Marketing Success and not only is he giving the 2007 version away for free, he is working on a version for 2008 and giving that away free as well. The book is filled with his insights, techniques and lot of resources that are a huge benefit to the affiliate marketer. And you can’t beat the free price. He decided to give the book away because he no longer wants to sell info products and as he quotes in the email:

The fact is, making money on the Internet isn’t easy. It takes a lot of knowledge, hard work, and above all - persistence. But it’s hard to get people to understand that on an e-book sales page.  Many think that if they just buy this one product or service all of their financial problems will be solved. This thinking is completely unrealistic and a recipe for failure.

I think that statement is quite revealing and says a lot about the get-rich-quick ebook industry, especially coming from one of the top publishers at Commission Junction who’s ebook wasn’t about getting rich quickly at all. 

Jeremy is also redesigning his QuitYourDayJob.com web site to add new content, an updated member forum, scripts and more. His goal is to have the site be a more community driven one than it has been in the past.

If you want to learn from the very best affiliate marketer in the business, then check out Jeremy Palmer’s free ebook. You can also get a sneak peak at the new design of his web site here.

Alan

Tags: jeremy palmer, ebook, quit your day job, affiliate marketing

I just found out yesterday that Microsoft AdCenter is extending its $50 in free clicks* offer until April 15th. When I originally posted about this, the deadline was January 15th, but I guess they’ve had such a big response they’ve decided to continue it until the middle of April.

Some affiliates have reported Live Search from Microsoft has a different demographic and can convert better. They reportedly have a higher percentage of buyers rather than just shoppers on other search engines. With this offer you can get $50 to check it out and do your own testing without any financial risk to your own pocketbook except a $5 deposit.

The $50 free click offer does require a small deposit* of $5 to open your account and it is for new customers only. Make sure you use the coupon code on the sign up page so you will get the free clicks credit.

If you are tired of $10 and $15 minimum bids and impossible to comply with landing page guidelines from Google, try Microsoft and see what you can do.

Alan

Tags: adcenter, microsoft, live search, ppc, landing pages

There aren’t too many reports these days of mother-ship Google doing something and people bending over backwards to exclaim how pleased they are with the change. Their record is more in the realm of royally pissing people off all over the globe about as fast as possible lately.

Case in point is the recently announced change for Adsense referrals. Darren Rowse of ProBlogger announced that changes in the payment system will affect the amount of money a publisher can earn for referring new sign-ups to Adsense. But that’s not such a big deal when part 2 rears it’s ugly head. Google Adsense will no longer accept referrals for publishers outside of North America, Latin America and Japan regardless of where their traffic comes from.

If you can believe the insanity of this decision it actually means that Darren who has referred thousands of new Adsense publishers to Google can now no longer do so. The majority of ProBlogger’s traffic comes from the US, but that doesn’t count says Google, because he lives in Australia. Here’s what Darren has to say about this:

I’m just one example (I’m the example I know best) and a quick look at my stats shows me that I’ve displayed AdSense referral ads close to 20 million times. I’ve sent them tens of thousands of visitors and have been responsible for thousands of sign ups. I cannot even begin to imagine how much money those signups have made AdSense - yet today they’re telling me that they don’t feel that that kind of evangelism for them is worthwhile paying for?

You have heard the saying that you should never bite the hand that feeds you, but Google seems to be gnawing the hands of publishers like Darren Rowse into a bloody stump. One more example of Google drilling holes in the bottom of their ship.

Story discovered via Shoemoney. Watch the video at the end of his post.

Alan

Tags: darren rowse, problogger, adsense referrals, shoemoney

If you’d like to get started doing some PPC advertising and don’t want the hassle of trying to please Google and have to follow their idiotic landing page guidelines (Does anyone really know what they want?) you can try out Microsoft AdCenter and get $50 in free* clicks.

I’m not the most successful affiliate marketer in the world when it comes to pay per click advertising, but with $50 in free clicks you can afford to make a few mistakes and fine tune your campaigns without risking your own money. I recently signed up for an account at Yahoo Search Marketing, got a coupon for $100 in free clicks and was able to find a couple of niches and earn a little bit of profit driving some traffic to one of my eBay affiliate stores. So, getting free clicks is a great benefit to be able to test things without putting your own cash on the line.

Super Affiliates Jeremy Palmer and Shoemoney have both said that they are seeing higher conversions through Microsoft’s paid search than they saw at Google and reports have show that a higher income demographic of people uses Microsoft Live Search than uses Google. For some reason a higher percentage of buyers uses Microsoft and a higher percentage of shoppers uses Google. Of course in the ppc world we want buyers instead of shoppers.

The $50 coupon at Microsoft AdCenter is only good for new accounts and *does require a small deposit of only $5 to get your account started. Make sure you use the coupon code on the sign-up page to get the $50 credited to your account.

This coupon promotion ends on January 15th (this promotion by Microsoft Adcenter has been extended to April 15th), so sign up before you lose the chance to save $50.

Alan

Tags: microsoft adcenter, ppc, pay per click, $50 coupon, google

I just saw this over at Mixed Market Arts that the Million Dollar Wiki is up for sale at Sitepoint.com.

This could be a great deal for someone with the cash to make the buy if the price doesn’t go to high. It’s an auction style sale and as of this writing the bid is up to $10,000.

There is plenty of stats and charts to show how much money Million Dollar Wiki is making and the seller claims and it looks to be making around $500 per week. Traffic stats are at more than 14,000 uniques per month (not that impressive) and page views are more than 57,000 per month.

The site has grossed over $100,000 since being in business for only 6 months. The concept behind the site is to have your own page on the site for life at a one time cost of only $100. Each page is based on a specific keyword and top keyword pages are getting thousands of page views. It could be worth getting a page for $100. So far 1,079 pages have been sold.

I honestly don’t know much about the site, but I keep running across people mentioning it on their blogs and I believe I’ve seen it being advertised. It looks like a great concept and though it might be something worth taking a look at maybe to buy, that is until the price shot up to $10,000 with 14 more days to go until the end of the auction, it will be interesting to see where the price goes.

The owner and creator Graham Langdon is selling to raise capital for his new project Entrecard.com .

Go take a look at the Million Dollar Wiki Auction.

Alan

Tags: million dollar wiki, sitepoint, page views, auctions