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The Villainous Affiliate Code

November 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Bad Coding Habits

I’ve been working on validating my xhtml code for my Blogs for the past several days and I’ll admit that I leave out an “ALT” tag here and forget to close “</a>” there, but by and large I’m really pretty clean ……… except for my “YouTube” code which I can’t validate no matter how hard I try.

One thing that has constantly provided me with a challenge is “The Villainous Affiliate Code”. Just because you sign-up for the latest affiliate product launch and you get all that cool artwork, just keep in mind that doesn’t necessarily come with a guarantee of clean code. On the contrary. I have found that the so-called pro-bloggers with the top products have the worst code.

I was watching a video from Google the other day about the validation question. And it seemed that the general consensus is that while everyone would like to validate, It’s not set in stone that you should or even have to. There really is no SEO penalty, so long as you follow protocol and don’t attempt to code while drunk ( “CUI” ). And as far as browser compatibility; I say as long as I can get it to call in I.E and Firefox, I’m good to go. You iphoners and ipaders’ will have to fend for yourselves.

My issue here is not that the affiliates can’t get the code right. Rather, it’s got me thinking about their products in general. If they can’t get the affiliate links right, what makes you think that 200 pages of affiliate product or E-Book are going to be any better.

Like I said, I myself have a few errors in my code and I continually drive my editors crazy with my writing, ( I just can’t get “your” and “you’re” straight no matter how hard I try ) that said, I do eventually get it right by going over and over the material …….. and code, again and again.

This is just one more red flag that you should be aware of when you are considering an affiliate offer from someone who you are not really all that close with……… that and the failure to pay commissions on sales is a sure clue that things are not as they should be in the “Blogosphere”.

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Write, Write, Right? – Lesson 29

July 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

It’s sometimes hard for me to communicate everything that you need to know about a subject and to keep a clear thread going in this series of featured content lessons. It’s called the challenge of writing: making it clear and productive for both me (the writer), and you (the reader).

That is what Blogging is all about of course……writing!

If you are fortunate enough to make a few dollars with your Blog in the first year, you can consider yourself lucky. You can take this to the bank: you won’t be making any real money until you learn to write and manage your Blog as a business.

You see, the more you write, the more you read. And the more you read, the more you understand what it is that you’re trying to do. (I have also noted that the more you write, the better you get at typing!)

For the first year, you need to concentrate on your writing and on building your following. The more you use social media, the faster you build traffic; but you will find that it is much harder to define your true readership if you simply socialize anywhere, everywhere, all the time. Good SEO comes from following and commenting on others Blogs that are similar to yours, and Twittering with like minds and interests or sharing those interest with other on Facebook. These techniques will build your traffic in a much slower manner, but will create a much, much stronger following.

After you polish your writing skills, it will be time to pay the bills. Once you write and write and write and write, you will have to move off into another direction. After you have a year at best (and more like two years) of writing to your audience under your belt, it will now be time to make your move.

You wanted to be a Blogger right? Well this is the reality of the pursuit. This is quite different from Internet Marketing. But if you do this right, and with deliberation, you can write your own ticket! We’ll talk about that ticket next week.

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What’s In A Tag ?

January 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I was doing the Google Analytics thing late Friday night ………. yeah I know ……… get a life! I noticed that I was hitting the top of Google kinda hard for the keyword “Engadget” which is a web magazine for consumer electronics.

I’m holding down the number six spot as I write this and for the life of me I can’t figure out why. I wrote a top ten list almost a year ago and that’s it. As much as I write about blogs, bloggers, blogging. I get nothing. I mean I think I scored a 7,371,864 indexed position once when I mentioned David Risley, but that’s about it. (Time to brush up on my SEO). When I looked closer at the engadget listing; I was actually indexed as edgadget right there under engadgets’ listing.

Now I know that I’m not quite that careless.  Anyone can misspell a word, but with that type of post, (a top 10 list) I go over and over it, again and again. When I clicked on the link, sure enough I had spelled it correctly. I guess Google must have mis-indexed the thing. Hold it ………. I decided to check my tags on the post and there it was ………. I had misspelled the tag. Great!  I get indexed on my poor grammar (talk about a Google slap).

I guess the moral of the story, or post as the case may be, is that if Google is intent on indexing poor grammar, you might as well take advantage of it. Now, I’ve been at it long enough to realize that this is a common SEO technique for Adwords marketing, but I always thought it showed bad form to try to rank on misspelled keywords.

You decide for yourself ………. this is Jeffrey signing off at BBloggers Markket.com. Thanks for stopping by.

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