Top 5 Do’s and Don’ts to Make Money on Twitter
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With recent reports that the number of Facebook visitors has overtaken Google’s, there’s no doubt that fellow social media heavyweight Twitter is close behind.
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5 Tips to Spring Clean Your Content
The long Easter weekend has a reputation for being a popular time for home DIY, as professionals and amateurs alike bring out the hammer, paintbrush, and saw in an attempt to give their home a fresh look. It’s also a great time to give your site a polish and see what you can do to improve it. Here are 5 tips to help you spruce up your web and blog content, without the bruised fingers or paint marks.
- Get organised– Categorizing all your blog posts is a great way to make it easier for your users to find old posts, and new users will have an easier time navigating through your site to find what they want. Having organized content makes your site a place people will want to return to if they know they easily find what they are looking for.
- Out with the old… – It’s important to let users comment freely on you posts, but every once in awhile nasty spam comments can appear. Go through your posts and delete the spam to keep your blog clean.
- Fix what’s broken– Links to products can often change without your knowledge, so when a user clicks on them, they don’t get to the product you’re talking about, and you lose both credibility and potential commission. Have a trawl through your content, making sure all the links work, including images, and fix or delete ones that don’t.
- Lighten-up– While having a lot of posts is certainly beneficial for search, the quality of your content remains king, and outdated irrelevant content brings that down. If users are stuck filtering through posts about how everyone needs to buy a Furby for Christmas 2008, they won’t want to come back.
- Do some shopping around – It’s a great time to start building up some ideas for future blog posts. Search around for new interesting products and tools that might help your business and and save them so you have a little idea bank to refer to and use for inspiration.
And after all that heavy typing and clicking, you will definitely have earned some Easter chocolate treats!
Affiliate marketing for web-startups
Recently, I gave a talk at the awesome Techcrunch Geek n Rolla event, which was a quickfire day of presentations and panels for London based entrepreneurs, with about 200 in attendance. Mark summarised some of the highlights from the day in the previous post.
My task, was to give startups some practical advice on how to generate revenues from an early stage – specifically looking at advertising and affiliate marketing.
10 reasons why affiliates should use Skimlinks
If you are already an affiliate you may be thinking “why would I give Skimlinks a share of my commission when I do affiliate stuff myself already“? Here are 10 reasons why you should, or if you’re in a hurry skip to #1.
Types of sites and average commissions for Skimlinks
Many of our clients ask us what they can expect to earn via Skimlinks. It varies in so many ways, but we are starting to build a picture of what different types of publishers should expect from our service.
What type of site?
Firstly, the best performing sites are forums, by a long stretch. Forums generate a greater sense of community and interactivity, and as the content is generated by users for other users, carries a higher degree of authenticity than editorial content. Also, the people reading forums tend to be closer to a purchase decision, and are more likely to click on outbound links.
