Webmasters’ Corner
Jun 14th, 2009 by guitarnews
This page has been created for all those hardworking webmasters of guitar and music sites. It contains a guide to some of the resources and materials which we found particularly helpful when designing and creating our website.
The programs and resources below have all been written by experts in their field – those who have done the hard yards and learnt from the long hard school of experience. The software tools will help make your life as an Internet or affiliate marketer easier.
Some will help you research topics and keywords, while others will help you work with affiliate links and article directories. We hope you will find them as helpful as we have, and that you will reap the benefits of a two-fold purpose – quality resources for your visitors, and lots of cheques in the post!
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The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business On the Internet has been the #1 best-selling internet marketing course online for more than 7 years running. This is the first internet course we bought back in 2001, and still one of the very best available.
The course package contains 2 beefy three-ring binders, 3 CDs, and 4 guides containing over 1,300 pages packed with the exact tested and proven fast-growth strategies that Corey Rudl personally used to turn his own one-man business into a $7.6 million enterprise — all on a shoestring budget. To find out more, visit the Internet Marketing Centre.
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The Super Affiliate Handbook. This book has been our bible during the development of GuitaroJam’s website and has been read and re-read countless times. It’s the amazing true story of how one woman, with no previous business experience, earns $400,000+ per year…..selling other people’s stuff online!
In her down-to-earth, sincere and often humorous style, Rosalind Garner guides you through the entire process of building an affiliate marketing business on the ‘Net. In 236 pages, and more than 68,000 words, you’ll learn how to pick the best programs, negotiate a commission raise and save time, money and effort on everything from affiliate software to web hosting. To learn exactly how she does it, visit the Super Affiliate Handbook Centre.
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Adsense Secrets. Another one in our “bible” category – this has also been read & reread many times. The author’s name is Joel Comm and it wasn’t so long ago he was making only $30 a day with Google’s Adsense program. Now you can have access to it all where you’ll view actual details of what Joel does to make some of the biggest commissions you’ll ever hear about online…..http://www.adsense-secrets.com.
In case you didn’t know, Adsense is a program where Google allows you to make money when people click on advertising links that you can place at your own website(s). In his new Adsense book sweeping the internet, Joel candidly allows you to look over his shoulder. Now your odds at winning with Google Adsense are more in your favour than ever before. Joel’s commissions are so huge now……UPS has begun delivering his cheques!
His case study shows how it didn’t take long once he knew how to tweak his Adsense pages. This one book is crammed solid with Adsense marketing tips – the kind you won’t easily find elsewhere. This is must-have marketing information and we highly recommend that you check it out for yourself if you are using Adsense now…or ever plan to. Visit the Adsense Secrets site to find out more.
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The Definitive Guide To Google Adwords. Have you advertised on Google – and perhaps found it frustrating? We’ve used Google’s AdWords system to generate traffic for our website, but it’s something you definitely need to get the hang of, and there are some techniques you need to know before it really performs for you.
Our colleague Perry Marshall has written a 5-day email tutorial on Google AdWords and it covers some of the most important things you need to know. The course is free and you’re sure to find it very helpful. We took the email tutorial and found it so valuable that we immediately bought Perry’s Definitive Guide to Google Adwords.
Currently the world’s most popular book for winning the Google Adwords game, it comes as an instant PDF download with quick-start manual and powerful bonus audio seminars in MP3. Visits Perry Marshall’s site for more info.
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Wordtracker: Wordtracker is the leading keyword research tool available today, and one we have been using since 2001. If you’re serious about making money online, keyword research is one of the most important aspects of your planning.
The most powerful way to design a web site is to take the Search Engines into consideration at the outset. The very first step in optimizing site design to score highly with the search engines, is to intelligently choose which keywords and keyphrases upon which to focus.
Wordtracker helps you find all keyword combinations that bear any relation to your business or service – many of which you might never have considered. You’ll find out how popular these keywords really are (how often people use them to search). Then for each major search engine, it shows you how many competitors are using the keywords, then calculates your chances of making the top 10.
Visit Wordtracker for further details – we highly recommend it!
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Aweber Autoresponder Service: If you are serious about online sales profits, you will need a reliable autoresponder to give you the edge – it’s as simple as that. Choosing which one from the dozens of autoresponders that are available can be difficult.
We searched the web for the best service, and also took the recommendation from Ros Gardner (Super Affiliate Handbook) who says the Aweber Autoresponder Service is the ‘most valuable tool in my arsenal”. So far, AWeber has exceeded our expectations in terms of its ease of use and cost effectiveness. Also, on the rare occasions we’ve required assistance, we’ve received speedy, helpful and courteous customer service. To find out more, visit AWeber Autoresponders.
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Affiliate Link Cloaker is a brilliant software product that protects you from affiliate link hijacking. We discovered just how easy it is to use, and consider it to be one of the most important investments we made during the set-up phase of GuitaroJam’s website.
Did you ever suspect people are stealing your commissions by going around you or removing your affiliate ID from the URL? New research proves it’s happening up to 30% of the time. Now there’s a way to stop all but the most desperate thief. Affiliate Link Cloaker software protects you from thefts by turning links into pages on your website!
You’ll make more money right aways, so visit Affiliate Link Cloaker and find out more now.
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Adword Analyzer – this software by Jeff Alderson helps you instantly uncover targeted keywords with high search volume and very little competition. It also shows the supply and demand for all of your keywords. We have used Adword Analyzer since starting GuitaroJam and have used it to test niche ideas. The time saved is quite amazing – within seconds we know exactly how competitive the field is. Not only that, we can figure exactly which keywords to target. Adword Analyzer is a great tool for affiliate marketers or anyone who advertises on Google or Yahoo. Visit the Adword Analyzer site to find out more.
