Cindy Bidar

5 Article Marketing Mistakes that will Kill Your Conversions

1. Treating article marketing the same as backlinking. All article marketing is a form of backlinking, but not all backlinking is article marketing. Here's the difference: Article marketing provides value to the reader and may result in massive backlinking, backlinking provides backlinks in great quantity, but offers little in the way of value to readers. Backlinkers write 200 words and call … [Continue reading...]

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How to Write Articles that Don’t Suck

Here's a shocker for you: There's a lot of crap articles out there online. Especially in the niche affiliate marketing world. Somewhere along the line, marketers got the idea that quantity trumps quality, and so rather than spending an hour or two every day crafting a good quality, helpful article to publish on their blog or in a directory somewhere, they spend ten minutes pounding out some piece … [Continue reading...]

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2011: The Year I learn to Focus

My friend and mentor Kelly McCausey has always (well, as long as I've known her, anyway) begun each year by deciding on a theme. Her theme becomes the guide in every choice she makes for her business, kind of like a business plan, but not as dry. This year I'm going to do the same. My theme is focus. There are just too many distractions in my life. Email, blogs to read, comments to respond … [Continue reading...]

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Friday Link Love: Blogs You Should Be Reading

A few of the treasures discovered in my feed reader this week: How to Turn a Lousy Blog Headline into a Great One from Tristan Higbee shows how a bland blog post title evolved into an interesting - and very clickable - headline. It's a good read for anyone who needs help crafting compelling titles. Master this Skill Before Setting New Writing Goals from Suzannah at Write it Sideways is a … [Continue reading...]

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Digital Access Pass Review

Digital Access Pass is a powerful membership script that allows you to build a membership site either within your WordPress blog or on an HTML website. When you think of recurring income and passive profits, you often think of a membership site. But installing and configuring the software to handle memberships can be pretty frustrating. I know. While All Quality PLR was still in the planning … [Continue reading...]

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The Thrill of the Hunt: Choosing a Domain Name

This is the third in a series of articles designed to help you build a niche blog you love. In the first, we talked about finding a niche. Then we talked about doing keyword research and how to use keywords to ensure surfers can find your site. Today we're going to talk about chosing a domain name. Your home or business has a street address so visitors can easily find you. Your home online is … [Continue reading...]

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing

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How to Cloak Affiliate Links

If you're an affiliate for anything then you're certainly familiar with those long, ugly affiliate links the tracking software uses. They usually look like this: http://c0b870yjr2s6yb4cxj4gp8vzgg.hop.clickbank.net/ Yuck. It doesn't exactly make your reader feel safe and secure when she's about to click and sees that monstrosity pop up in her browser's status bar. What you want is a nice, pretty … [Continue reading...]

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing