Learning to use amazon.com links

This is my first try: ab machines

Obviously, I have a site where I'm promoting ab machines.
A far cry from remortgages, ain't it?

This is my 2nd link: Hyper Extension Roman Chair

Obviously, I'm using this blog to test. Obviously, I'm moving up in the world of affiliate marketing. However, my main site, which is a marketing site, is still not ready. But I landed the first marketing job. I charged too little. Reasons: I'll get a kick ass testimonial, I got 8 referrals, I will get hired many times as the guy owns 2 restaurants and a service business and is keen on getting all kinds of consulting/coaching.

Of course, it might not work out as planned.

The good out of this: I now have proof I can sell my coaching services.

Oh, yeah. I also sold a copy of my book on marketing. Book's not finished. But I got $35. I am to charge $47. I assume when the book is finished, it will be possible.

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Article Marketing - or I Am Wise Beyond My Years

When I invested $29 dollars in that article marketing program, it's actually an article writing plus a 4-day squdioo campaign blueprint, I was very wise.  Surprisingly wise, if I say so myself.

Not only did I help me write better but since I'm promoting it, I've helped others too.  How do I know?  A few of the people who bought it emailed me to say, Thank you, oh wise one for telling me to buy that program.  Well, they don't have my way with words, so their thank you came off a lot more prosaic than my rendition of it.

Anyway, I was too busy with other stuff to write articles for http://www.squidoo.com/earning-money-online-with-article-marketing and, 2 days after indexing it, Google lost it, disappeared it and didn't reappear it yet. 

Anyway, tomorrow I start promoting it with some articles.

Tomorrow I also start another campaign, one in the sports area.  I'm going to promote some sports equipment and some exercise programs.  2 of the exercise programs I've used myself.  One of them we got for my wife, then she asked me to do it.  "It's really hard," she said.  At the time I was on a treadmill for one hour, three times a week, and also did weights.  I didn't think a bit of aerobically enhanced yoga was hard.

It didn't look hard when my wife was doing it.  And she has bum knees from a ski accident.  But it kicked my ass.

So I'll write 3 articles for the article marketing campaign and start a rather large website (wordpress) for the sports stuff.  Yay!

Squidoo Lenses - Made One I'm Proud of. It's About Making Money Online with Article Marketing of All Things

It's been a while since I posted anything about Squidoo.com lenses, been busy with article marketing. Also forum marketing.

I've been more successful at forum marketing than at article marketing. Till recently, when I invested $29 dollars in an article marketing program.

Now, that I've learned how to do articles so I have real article marketing campaigns, things are looking up for article marketing and me, we're getting to be pals, now.

My first lens, http://www.squidoo.com/earning-money-online-with-article-marketing, was fun to do. Hope you're seeing this if you visit. Yes, the article marketing program I'm promoting is great, taught me things I did not even dream of knowing about writing persuasive articles. But don't miss out on the fun I had. It's showing, honest to goodness, cross my heart too.

Now, let's index that puppy.

PS I know 3 times more ways to get the spiders to get my earning money online with article marketing lens indexed than the last time I mentioned a lens. But I'm 3 times lazier too.

Must be the late June air.

PPS Article marketing here I come! Got to write articles for this lens. Then a blog. Then... Ah, the busy life of an article marketing dude in the early part of the 21st century!

You Can Make Money Online With Article Marketing

Article marketing is a funny thing.  You can write great articles, from a readability point of view, that no one reads, because you messed up the title.  It can be #1 on Google for your chosen keyword, and you don't get one, not one, person to read.

Found that the hard way, with a hard to manipulate keyword: remortgage bad. Can't have a great title with that. And without a great title you don't have readers. Without readers, you don't have article marketing.

So far, forum marketing, not article marketing is making me the most money.  But recently I got me a program (course?) to teach myself proper article writing for proper article marketing.

It's an awesome program, works for me, it's got my article marketing where it's earning money online for me.

Remortgage Blog

The word does make sense, however, I spent over 45 years never hearing it.   Obviously now I come across it often, but never in conversations that I do not initiate on the subject.  I started a remortgage blog.  You know, because I take an interest in Chicago mortgage stuff.

How many new words must enter your active vocabulary before you're a different person?

In other news, it's hot in Chicago, too hot for my taste already.  My oldest daughter has a field trip today, at the zoo.  She told me she doesn't want to go but she wants to go.  Life is hard when you're six.

Writing Successful Proifles - Interesting Writing Niche

I found this by accident.  Never thought of this niche before.  Maybe I'll go into it myself.

Professional personal ad and dating profile writer Felicity Fairport reveals secrets for hacking the ultimate self-marketing challenge: the online dating profile. Her Squidoo lens, "Learn to Write Successful Profiles" (http://www.squidoo.com/writing-successful-profiles ), shows how to break the task into manageable bites--how to come up with a riveting headline, an intriguing user name, an unforgettable photo, and an irresistible self-description. Her advice is hard to argue with: You're throwing your monthly dating subscription fee down the drain if your profile isn't working for you--so learn to write successful profiles!

Remortgage Web Site

I finished the site a couple of days agoa and got Google Adsense.  I copied the codes and pasted.  I had codes at the top.  It did not work.  The codes disappeared. I did it again.  This time it still did not work.  I went online and found out that many people have the same problem. So ciao world.  I was putting the top codes directly at the top.

When I say it did not work, I mean the codes actually disappeared from my pages. 

I took a break, figured I do it one more time, then leave it alone.  So I did.  Except, this time I put the codes not at the top but below the title on each page.  It worked on 2 pages.  Pumped up, I figured, I'd add codes to the bottom.  That screwed everything up.

Way to go!

I took a break, put the codes at the top, right below the title and called it a day.

I let it be for till the following morning.  Lo and behold, without me doing anything, there were Google Adsense Ads except on the home page and  www.RemortgagesBadCreditOrNot.com/RemortgageAdvice .  In addition, on www.RemortgagesBadCreditOrNot.com/OnlineRemortgages the ads were in Russian.  I'm in the Chicago area, so I said, "Huh?" 

I looked at some of the other ads more carefully: not exactly the kind of ads I was aiming to get.

So I proceeded to Google Adsense, copied and pasted codes again.  Results did not improve.  I copied and pasted and checked and copied and pasted and checked.  Ads did not match, the ads in Russian were still in Russian, and www.RemortgagesBadCreditOrNot.com/RemortgageAdvice was still ad-less.

I figured I'd let it be till this morning.  This morning, I only touched the ad-less page and the home page.  And, magically, everything is woring fine.  Some of the ads are a bit of stretch, if you ask me, but my wife's siding with Google Adsense, so, overwhelmed, I decide to enjoy the results of my toils.