Best of 5 Star ★ ★ ★ Tips & How-To Posts

[Linda Buquet]

Larry and I have talked about starting a "Best of 5 Star Section" but there are some logistical issues we haven't decided on yet. So I thought I would start this thread just as a repository for good threads in the meantime.

Sometimes someone asks a question and I know we had a major thread a year ago with tons of good info, but it takes forever to search and find it. So this is where I'll try to remember to add those as I dig and find them.

I'll also add the category or type of info it is in the title.
(ie traffic generation, marketing definitions, article marketing, how to redirect links, etc.)

 

[Linda Buquet]

Affiliate Marketing Basics - Glossary - Definitions

Great info for newbies and people who want to learn about affiliate marketing.

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...s-affiliate-marketing-sugarrae.html#post45233

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...ing-definitions-what-affiliate-marketing.html

 

[Linda Buquet]

Traffic Generation - Marketing Ideas

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/general-topics-affiliate-forum/10120-how-get-massive-amounts-traffic-your-site.html?highlight=traffic">How to get massive amounts of traffic to your site!</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/search-engine-marketing-seo-forum/4889-target-traffic-help.html?highlight=traffic">Target traffic help</a>

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...-link-building-affiliate-sites.html#post45234

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/general-topics-affiliate-forum/11566-best-free-method-youve-ever-used-marketing-your-business-online.html?highlight=traffic">Best Free Method You've Ever Used in Marketing Your Business Online</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/rss-marketing-blogging-forums/1195-get-traffic-2-your-blog-7-ways.html?highlight=traffic">Get Traffic 2 Your Blog - 7 Ways</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/general-topics-affiliate-forum/7913-increase-traffic-website.html">Increase traffic to website</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/newbie-affiliate-forum/9884-how-do-i-get-more-traffic.html">How do I get more traffic?</a>

 

[Linda Buquet]

Article Marketing

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/general-topics-affiliate-forum/10273-article-marketing-affiliates-huge-free-resource.html?highlight=article+marketing">Article Marketing for Affiliates - Huge Free Resource</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/internet-marketing-article-submissions/10547-how-do-article-submission-sites-work.html?highlight=article+marketing">How do article submission sites work?</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/article-marketing/15663-article-directories-ranked-their-affect-rankings.html#post48394">Article Directories Ranked and Their Affect on Rankings</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/general-topics-affiliate-forum/11032-creative-article-marketing-product-based-affiliate.html?highlight=article+marketing">Creative Article Marketing for Product-Based Affiliate</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/internet-marketing-article-submissions/10549-search-engine-optimization-article-marketing.html?highlight=article+marketing">Seo & Article Marketing</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/internet-marketing-article-submissions/10267-mass-article-submission.html?highlight=article+marketing">Mass Article submission</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/internet-marketing-article-submissions/10312-article-directory-would-you-recommend-hub-pages-ezinearticles.html?highlight=article+marketing">Which Article directory would you recommend? Hub Pages or Ezinearticles</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/search-engine-marketing-seo-forum/9759-insider-secrets-massive-clicks-your-ads-articles.html?highlight=article+marketing">Insider Secrets To Massive Clicks On Your Ads And Articles</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/newbie-affiliate-forum/9685-question-about-sending-out-articles.html?highlight=article+marketing">Question about sending out articles</a>

 

[Linda Buquet]

Link Cloaking

HTAccess Cloaking How-To http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...s/9457-how-redirect-using-html.html#post28579 (Best method IMHO)

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/internet-marketing-article-submissions/1992-how-hide-your-affiliate-links.html">How to hide your affiliate links</a>

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...m/10121-cloaking.html?highlight=link+cloaking

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...m/13244-link-cloaking.html?highlight=htaccess

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/45516-post6.html
(Invisible Link Masking Instructions from Edwin)

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...cloak-affiliate-links.html?highlight=htaccess

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...pting-affiliate-links.html?highlight=htaccess

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...liate-links-wordpress.html?highlight=htaccess

 

[Linda Buquet]

KeyWord Research - Niche Research - Keyword Competition

Here some great tips and resources:

How to do Niche Keyword Research

Step by step Key word research to evaluate niche

More Step by Step keyword research from Linda using another example

Question about keywords

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...-popularity-vs-competing-pages.html#post21070

SEO and KW tips - From Edwin

Questions about SEO???

Cool ways to use the Adwords KW tool combined with Google Trends for research

KEYWORD TOOLS - NICHE RESEARCH TOOLS

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/niche-marketing/5750-niche-tools-main-link-list-important-resources.html#post15965">Niche Tools MAIN Link List - IMPORTANT Resources</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/webmasters-universe/4420-keyword-selection-tools.html#post12203">Keyword selection tools</a> LOTS of good ones.

 

[Larwee]

Landing Pages

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...hics-forum/11275-great-landing-page-tips.html

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...inking-vs-landing-pages-vs-landing-sites.html

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...-100-killer-landing-page-tools-resources.html

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...6734-ultimate-landing-page-resource-list.html

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...-want-learn-more-about-landing-pages-huh.html

Here are some FREE landing page templates

 

[Linda Buquet]

Affiliate Recruiting

Here are some of our best thread with tips about affiliate recruiting.

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/merchant-affiliate-manager-discussions/12198-best-ways-recruiting-affiliates.html">Best ways of recruiting affiliates?</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/merchant-affiliate-manager-discussions/10789-how-recruit-affiliates-leaders-share-top-tips.html?highlight=recruiting">How to Recruit Affiliates - Leaders Share Top Tips</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/merchant-affiliate-manager-discussions/2837-launching-affiliate-program-heres-how-do.html?highlight=recruiting">Launching an Affiliate Program? Here's How to Do It</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/merchant-affiliate-manager-discussions/12141-question-about-affiliate-program-directories.html?highlight=recruiting">question about affiliate program directories</a>

<a href="http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/merchant-affiliate-manager-discussions/10935-how-can-i-steal-other-companies-affiliates.html?highlight=recruiting">How can I steal other companies' affiliates?</a>

Hope this helps and best of luck!

 

[Linda Buquet]

How to Build your 1st Affiliate Web Site

We have a few good threads about how to build web sites and site building tools.

1st Affiliate Website? Where to get it? How to build it? this 9 page thread
has TONS of great ideas and information.

I just made a new post that was good. I'll add it below, then go find some other good
site-building posts to populate this new "Best of 5 Star" section.

How 2 Build a Complete Site Using WordPress as CMS

 

[Linda Buquet]

Moved a copy of this to newbie forum as I thought it would be helpful to have in both places.