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12 top tips for building better email templates

Emails are essential in effective online marketing but creating professional looking email templates from scratch can be a real nightmare. Here I outline 12 killer tips to help you design and build better emails and avoid the most common pitfalls people encounter when trying to put together a template. 1. Don’t be  too ambitious So [...]

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Take your affiliate site from thin to thought leader

Affiliate sites with little more going for them than an exact match domain and some questionable review content are hurting right now, they are working still in some industries but the rankings are much less stable. You might have heard of AuthorRank, Google’s latest idea soon to be deployed, which will mean they look at [...]

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Pandas social impact – adjust and flourish

Affiliate marketing has really changed over the last 12 months or so. In fact it is safe to say anyone who has a keen interest in making money online (whether it be affiliates, SEO’s, ecommerce or lead generation) will have felt that change – and if you havent yet, you soon will! I am talking [...]

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10 tips to increase your sites organic traffic

I often see a lot of posts and questions on various forums asking that age old question – how to increase organic traffic to your site without spending a penny. Over the last few years I have read many articles and studies in this area and so will share my thoughts on how best to [...]

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7 useful tools for rapid website development

If you’re an affiliate marketer like myself chances are you will have multiple websites across several sectors and niches (and if you don’t yet you probably will at some stage). Not only does spreading your portfolio give you a much wider potential target audience it also safeguards against one of your sites being penalised by [...]

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Adding microdata to your markup

Google, Yahoo and Bing recently launched an initiative called schema.org, to create and support common ways to represent web page metadata. The project offers web publishers the tools to make their content more easily understood by search engines and more effectively represented in search results by introducing unified HTML tags (known as microdata) to help [...]

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Replacing broken images dynamically with JQuery

As any affiliate worth their salt knows, your website is only as good as your content. And when relying on third party datafeeds to populate parts of your site there is always the risk that some content may not reach the high standards you desire. A prime example of this is product images. When dealing [...]

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Permanently moving a website – the right way

Recently I was faced with a rather intriguing problem I hadn’t come across before – moving an entire website (indexed by Google etc.) to a completely new domain. The website was hosted by myself but the domain was owned by another affiliate (pointing at my nameservers on a revenue share basis). Upon informing myself that [...]

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Automating datafeed imports using cron jobs

Datafeeds are extremely common in affiliate marketing these days and offer affiliates a quick and easy way to import hundreds (if not thousands) of products into 3rd party applications and websites. For sites that offer a price comparison functionality this import has to be done regularly – and can therefore be a real pain if [...]

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Hello and welcome

Welcome to affiliatetuts.com The idea behind this website is to provide a technical resource to the thousands of affiliate marketers out there. There are plenty of blogs and tutorial sites dedicated to web design and development in general – but none that really address the specific needs and challenges most affiliate marketers face on a [...]

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