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Notice anything wrong here?
So do I , so do I.
That image you see above has been “spoofed” – its a fake.
Sure, I took it from my account, then I threw a little javascript at it and manipulated the appearance. Makes you think I took the first half of the month off from promoting products, doesn’t it?
It better not.
Hopefully, you don’t fall for this type of hype that promises the moon … and delivers nothing but hot air.
That’s why I am pleased to say “Black is Back”
The Affiliate Black Book is available for purchase.
Like a breath of fresh air – if you want to get into the mind of a genius that shows you some killer strategies, then I suggest you purchase this now.
I’ll even “incentivize” you, I’ll provide access to one of my killer little scripts that makes it easy for your to increase your sales … and does so in “X” fashion.
Purchase the Affiliate Black Book through my link, hit the CONTACT page and let me know you purchased (let me know your receipt number) and I’ll give you access to this script.
Heck, even if you don’t purchase, lets have a little fun here.
The first person that replies in the comment section and knows EXACTLY what this script does will get access to the script regardless.
I’ll give you a little hint … most affiliate programs use these?
Lets see how the comments go, I’ll add hints as needed.
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Adding articles to your new affiliate gardening site involves uploading a text file to your web site.
The important points are:
- Your article needs to be a text file, for instance, “rose-bushes.txt”.
- The text file needs to be named EXACTLY like you want it to appear on your site. If your text file is “rose-bushes.txt”, then the page that gets displays your article on your site is “http://www.example.com/rosh-bushes.html”.
- The text file needs to be in the same directory as THE SCRIPT.
This short 3 minute video shows you how to upload a text file using a FTP program (I use SmartFTP)
Click here to see the … CLICK HERE >>> article video.
And as an added bonus, the last 30 seconds include some music from the a movie of the 1970s. Enjoy.
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The next step in creating a database driven website is to display the results.
We have the contents loaded up in the MySQL database ready and waiting.
First thing to do is write a simple query that pulls out a few of the entries.
The way I will do that looks like this:
The important part is line #62, the one that starts with $sql.
The way to read it is “Give me everything that has the word ‘Tree’ in the title.
Once we have that information, then lets print it out.
The “while” statement on line #65 goes through the results and prints out the title and description. Nothing fancy … at least not yet.
That’s enough to hold me over. Enjoy the “family video” that shows you how to do this.
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There’s a problem with datafeed affiliate sites – at least it is a problem if you want your sites to stand out from all of the competition – duplicate content.
Who do you think will rank higher in the search engines for specific terms that you might find in your datafeed? Probably the merchant. If this happens, then your site is less likely to get the click that gets the affiliate sale.
So what to do, what to do – let me think. Hmm.
Let’s get a little creative with what the merchant gives us, shall we.
Here’s an example entry that we can use from the affiliate’s datafeed.
I was planning on using the second line, the one that says “American Beech” as the title. What is to stop me from also adding the word “Tree” found on the 12th line down to the title. Nothing really. I can make the affiliate script combine portions of the datafeed and mash it up to create a new title. Pretty cool, huh!
Or how about this idea.
Instead of using the “Dahlia – Dinnerplate – Magic Sunrise” as the title, why not (1) get rid of the dash (-) and also rearrange the words to read “Magic Sunrise Dahlia Dinnerplate”? I can already see the PHP code to do that.
Want in on a big secret – on how I am going to make each site affiliate datafeed site that I create unique?
What secret little piece of PHP code that I have planned for making certain that no matter what, each site I build is not identical to any other site.
Ready? Here it is … modulus.
I’ll explain later 
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Here’s what you need to do to get signed up as an affiliate for Nature Hills.
1) Go to ShareASale and signup as an affiliate. If you are already an affiliate, sign in.
2) Click on the link that says “View those with Datafeeds” under the Find/Join Merchants title.
3) In the keyword search box type “garden” and change the Show me merchants programs that … to “Both – show me all.”
4) Find Nature Hills Nursery.
5) Click on “Join Program”
Typically Nature Hills auto accepts and you are ready to go.
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“And in the beginning” … what a great opening line.
Time to start building a brand for myself. Get out and press the flesh with the people. Shake some hands, get pictures taken with the babies, break ground on the new skyscraper. Oh, sorry, wrong conversation.
Where was I? Oh, yes, talking with you. Letting you know what’s going on around here. Telling you my great plans for this little old weblog out on the internut.
I guess I should start with what I have planned for this site. After I spruce up the interior a little – a new paint job, refinish the floors, new kitchen cabinets … no, no, no, no – there I go again, getting off track.
Actually, I do mean I need to spruce up the interior of this weblog a bit. Give it a solid foundation to build on. Stuff like tricking out the title – get rid of that damn raquo thing, you know that ‘greater than symbol’ that services no worthwhile purpose. I have the latest and greatest version of Wordpress running this site. Not sure what all of its capabilities are, noticed a bunch of widgets running around when I went to muck around with the presentation. I’ll have to wrap my head around widgets and I see if I like what I have here. Or maybe just do it the old fashion way and edit using vi on the command line. Something like this.
Dont’ worry, I won’t make you touch it, it doesn’t hurt.
Once I have the look and feel stuff done, will move on to adding analytics – maybe Statcounter or Google Analytics for tracking.
Of course, I’ll make the effort to build a list of subscribers – plan on making it worthwhile by giving stuff away. When I say stuff, I mean useful PHP scripts – kind of like what Robert Plank does at his site.
Then I’m going on a bender and getting setup with a bunch of Web 2.0 stuff for promoting this bad boy blog. De.licio.us, onlywire, propeller, youtube, slideshare – whatever else I can think of to toot my own horn.
I have thought about linkbaiting. Already have in mind who I’m targeting – going for the big fish on this one. Title will read something like “_____ ____, I have your wife hostage.” The ironic thing is I have something to back it up with – something I bought November 2007 when I first found out about this little factoid. Cloak and dagger stuff – ohhh, ahhhh, exiting!
And to finish up, I’m going to click on those links I just dropped and see if I can attract any attention over here.
There you go, the first blog post.
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I bought Dave Kelly and Chris Rempel’s MSN Ranking Loophole, The Ultimate Search Engine Loophole.
I know from previous experience that what is delivered in the pdf manual works (or has worked), I’ll find out if it still works and specifically does it work on getting your site ranked near the top of MSN search results for competitive terms.
When I saw the work “linkubator” on the sales page I wondered if it does what “linktator” does. Yep, it does.
There is some intial setup (which I think is downplayed on the sales page) that needs to occur before you can start dropping one page mini sites into the system. But once it is setup in the way specified in the manual, then all that setup should pay off.
Of course, being the person that I am, there was no way I was going to set this up without automating as much as possible.
I ended up creating a suite of scripts that take care of a good portion of the work involved. I’m offering access to those Ranking LoopHole scripts as a bonus to anyone who buys through my affiliate link.
Even if you don’t buy through my affiliate link you can still access the scripts by paying a nominal fee.
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Here’s how to setup Robert Plank’s JVPlus for use with ClickBank.
1) First thing you should do is buy it. The second thing is to upload all of the files to your website.
The files include jvplus.css, jvplus-config.php, jvplus-packer.php, jvplus-share.php and jvplus.php.
2) Next, you need to test it out to make sure it works on your PHP enabled web server.
Open a new text file and created a web page that links to some url, for instance, http://www.example.com. At the bottom of the text file, add the following line:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/jvplus/jvplus.php"></script>
Save the file as either index.html. index.htm, or index.php.
3) Upload the newly created index file to a directory on your server, in my case, you can visit my JVPlus subdirectory to see an example.
Here’s what it looks like.
Fancy, huh?
If you were to put your mouse of the link, you should see that it goes to “http://www.example.com”.
4) Now add on a “?hop=yourname” at the end of the url. Something like this:
Click here for an example, http://www.davewooding.com/jvplus/?hop=dwooding
5) Put your mouse over the link now and notice the difference …
Everything should be working now – you should see your name show up in the url that you put your mouse over.
6) Time to do this for real.
Edit the jvplus-config.php file.
Add in links to your clickbank products that look like these:
Save and close the jvplus-config.php file
7) Edit your index file.
Add links to your Clickbank product(s) that look like straight links (and not Clickbank hop links).
Save the index file and close it. Go back to the subdirectory and reload, here’s what my page looks like now.
9) Put your mouse over the newly added links and notice that the link goes through ClickBank’s hop link system.
10) Let people link to your subdirectory with you Clickbank products and have ALL your products use THEIR affiliate link, give them a link that looks like this
CLICK HERE
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Right now I am in the middle of building a system for using Adwords, one that includes tracking results on the keyword level as taught by Double Digit CTR.
And one thing I want to be able to do is instantly track any sales from Clickbank back to the keyword that generated the sale. I recently built a PHP script that logs all visitors, the keyword used to arrive at my site, the referring url, tracking id, I.P. address and date.
The key for tracking sales results is to include a tracking id, TID, with the destination (referring) url, something like this: http://www.example.com/?k=keyword&q=tid
The information after the ? gets stripped off and dumped into a database.
Now I just need to compare that with the actual sales results and compare the sales results TID with what is in my log database.
… and I thought you might benefit.
If you are a Clickbank publisher or affiliate, and in particular if you have multiple accounts, then you might like this script I recently created.
It is a PHP script that you install on your site; there is no database involved, no storing personal information. If you know how to upload a file to your website, thats all you need.
very simple to use. Just type in your Clickbank username and password with a comma seperated each. If you have multiple accounts, then the username/password combinations are one per line. Just like this:
Choose the start and end date, click “Get Stats!”.
Almost right away you will be presented with a CSV (comma separated value) file that will easily open in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Office Excel.
There’s your stats.
You can see a short video on how in works and demo it at Salestator.
