I have been a full time affiliate marketer since 1999, and I have learned a great deal about the business during that time. Some things have changed or evolved, mostly to our benefit. However, some things have remained the same, such as the basics of becoming successful.

If you are looking for the secrets to becoming a successful affiliate marketer, with profitable topics and products, read on to learn what I have discovered along the way.

Do You Have the Passion for It?

Perhaps this is a question you need to ask yourself before reading any further. Just as with many other careers, affiliate marketing requires a certain amount of passion. Without it, your career will not flourish. [Read more…]

For any website, the amount of traffic serves as its lifeblood, and that traffic is partly dependent upon your website’s loading time. The following outlines 10 reasons why it’s crucial to create web pages that load fast.

1 – Use HTML

The most important tip to create a fast-loading website is to use HTML as much as possible. You can create anything you want by using HTML, and it makes your website significantly faster as well.

2 – Avoid Animated GIFs

Animated GIFs look extremely cool, and engage your website’s visitors with its attractiveness. However, the downside is that the animated GIFs are extremely slow to load. Therefore, avoid them as much as you can. [Read more…]

You don’t need a huge budget or expensive graphic designers to have a successful business on the Internet. The key to a flourishing e-commerce website is an understanding of your product and your customers.

If you are a family owned business, you do want an ultra sleek web design that a giant retailer would use. You want your site to accurately reflect your image and your products in order to build trust with your potential clientele.

The following are things you want to keep in mind when designing your website’s layout and functionality in order to build your brand in the right image: [Read more…]

Most people do affiliate marketing incorrectly by blatantly promoting the product, which is what makes them fail in their affiliate business. Here are some tips you can use to promote affiliate products without actually promoting them:

1 – Create a sense of lack

Well, this method revolves around creating content which will be incomplete without the usage of your affiliate product. For example, when you write an article about “How I Made $2000 within One Week”, people will be compelled to read how you did it.

Then, you will tell people about how you did it in chronological order, but in the middle you state to them that you won’t achieve this success if you don’t use X (affiliate product). [Read more…]

According to web giant Adobe, 85% of the top websites on the internet run Flash which seems like an incredibly high number. This got me wondering just how HTML 5 is shaping up against Flash and can it ever be a serious competitor?

Evan’s Data, a web statistics company recently polled 1,200 web developers about their usage or planned usage of HTML 5 and the results were quite surprising. From the looks of things HTML 5 is starting to gain big traction with more and more web design companies who are making the switch away from Adobe Flash. [Read more…]