Screenshot of my EPN earnings for the beginning of March, 2009.

The other day I had a record breaker day on my Ebay Partner Network account – $221.04!

I’ve been an affiliate for roughly a year and a half and so far this has been my best day yet. $100 days can be sometimes normal for me,  but never anything over $200

So to celebrate my success I wanted to make a post about everything I’ve learned along the way – what’s been most successful for me in really bringing in the money… Please read on..

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Found some interesting links. Top 10 Reasons Why This List Will Be Popular on Digg, includes some pretty useful info including mention of the WP Super Cache which helps protect your hosting in case of a massively successful Digg. He also brings up the good point of having a Digg Button at the top of your post so people can Digg your article conveniently.

I also came across a site called Socialmediatrader. They did an analysis on what kind of content is most popular on sites like Digg, Propeller, and StumbleUpon. Propellers third most popular is Health, which is one of my major niches – so I will keep that in mind for future submissions.

I’m quickly noticing that the friend system on Digg is wildly different than that of Myspace. On Myspace is the quantity of friends you have that’s important, on Digg it’s the quality of your friends and their activity which carries the most weight.

I’ve decided to add the Top 100 Digg users to my friend list to see if I can make connections with these people, as they pull the most weight on Digg.

Linkbaiting.

Everyone is talking about it, but how many are really successful?

The folks over at SEOMoz really seem to know what they’re doing. According to one of their articles, they brought the site Drivl from 50 vists a day with 90 links to 5,500 visits a day and 19,000 links – in only 3 months. How did they do it? Solely with linkbait.

I especially like their article about how every site is linkbait worthy – it solves the problem of linkbaiting for more “boring” site niches like parts, for instance.

I’ve decided to really master the art of the linkbait – the more I think about it the more it seems like one of the best skills a webmaster could possibly have. It combines great content with amazing inbound link possibilities, all completely free of charge – what more can you ask for?

I will track my progress on this blog. I think it will take a couple of months to really get this down – probably 3 or 4, if not more.

What I Need to Do

1. Establish powerful social bookmarking accounts and grow the friends list on them. Digg, del.icio.us, Propeller, and StumbleUpon
2. Read Up on the Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting Resources. An article a day.
3. Start Brainstorming Good Linkbait Headlines

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Readers on the web spend very little time with each section of writing and if it is direct and to the point then there is a much greater chance that the viewer will actually read what’s there.

Take some time to edit your article after you’re all finished writing it. Editing your article is very important as it allows you to eliminate sentences and words that are not needed.

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Webmasters benefit by saving time through the use of a website content writing service. It’s in inescapable fact that content and articles need to be written. You might just be the best person to write the content, but do you have the time?

You may decide that your time is more valuable when spent on other things, like SEO and link building. A website content writing service will be able to handle your content needs, and you won’t have to worry about content creation anymore. You will always have good content without having to endure the struggle of actually having to write the content yourself.

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