***The Official Affiliate Marketing/Make Money Online Thread Part 8***

[peteyyytran]

Anyone know exactly why Amazon doubled their web service costs?

$39.99 to $79.99.......

I shut down the account instantly. Looks like I will be using shopify soon.

Petey, what are you using for your store? Not looking to spend more than $60 a month until products pick up.


Currently browsing around prestashop.

shopify bro

^ lol at coming in asking for free logos. pls go man this place is for advice and guys trying to help each other not some random who comes in and ask for ****.

[MrDeafMuscle]

shopify bro

Looks good to me.

Do you guys get business lic/tax id before making a new webstore/website??

I read somewhere that there's a minimum you can make yearly before claiming/having to get lic or am I wrong?

[sirmisc]

Looks good to me.

Do you guys get business lic/tax id before making a new webstore/website??

I read somewhere that there's a minimum you can make yearly before claiming/having to get lic or am I wrong?

theres usually a minimum you can earn, though some companies require tax registration before they will pay out to you.

sorry if that sounds kinda vague as im australian and id imagine US guidelines are probably state by state so would vary alot depending on your location.

[peteyyytran]

actually about to do the whole tax id and bus lic this weekend ;x

[MrDeafMuscle]

theres usually a minimum you can earn, though some companies require tax registration before they will pay out to you.

sorry if that sounds kinda vague as im australian and id imagine US guidelines are probably state by state so would vary alot depending on your location.

actually about to do the whole tax id and bus lic this weekend ;x

I hate this part. I did it once before. I was sent on a wild goose chase and spent almost $250 getting it. Florida does not have one stop shop to pick them up at.

[peteyyytran]

I hate this part. I did it once before. I was sent on a wild goose chase and spent almost $250 getting it. Florida does not have one stop shop to pick them up at.

yeah... im about to do that tonight... lawd dem pheelz

[Cruzader510]

Haven't posted in here in a while but just released my first set of Shirts for my site www.primedforce.com. Would love if you guys could check it out and shoot me some feedback.

[KerryH]

I'm a cofounder for an SaaS company. Anybody down for some SaaS talk?

Hell ya man, what service are you providing? Also what resources do you use similar to this thread that are a little more SaaS specific?

I'm focusing this year on my first app.

[MrDeafMuscle]

Anyone know if you can create multiple websites with one shopify account?

Amazon allowed multi websites.

[Who?]

Is creating a blog/website necessary for this? Can you make any money without doing so?

From my understanding this is basically making a website and earning ad revenue.. is that correct?

[ScottFlear]

Hi guys, quick question hopefully someone with knowledge can answer.

Working with a company that runs a directory and they want to add a wordpress blog. What's the best way to go about this?

www.nameofwebsite.com/blog - would have to create a subdomain to achieve this correct?

Or buy a new domain with www.nameofwebsiteblog.com (variation of that) then link it to the directory?

Pros and cons to both, building it up as a seperate site then linking to the directory could be beneficial or would it be best to just create a subdomain? (or how ever you add a wordpress blog to a directory and still have same domain name)

[Nostalgiac]

Hi guys, quick question hopefully someone with knowledge can answer.

Working with a company that runs a directory and they want to add a wordpress blog. What's the best way to go about this?

www.nameofwebsite.com/blog - would have to create a subdomain to achieve this correct?

Or buy a new domain with www.nameofwebsiteblog.com (variation of that) then link it to the directory?

Pros and cons to both, building it up as a seperate site then linking to the directory could be beneficial or would it be best to just create a subdomain? (or how ever you add a wordpress blog to a directory and still have same domain name)

Don't need to create a subdomain to do company.com/blog - and this is one of the more preferred options.
Otherwise to blog.company.com - usually no need.

Definitely wouldn't go for a completely separate domain unless it was a whole different division of the business.

[Whey Hey]

Any Analytics brahs help me understand why my organic traffic has dropped to 200 a shocking 14 a day yesterday? I only do Whitehat SEO and i have been consistently building content every day.

I average around 800 uniques a day overall (referrals, direct & organic), and yesterday only 14 came from Google, that is absolutely terrible, and the day before it was 100.... so ive gone from 100 to 14...., have i been slapped by Google or what? I'm seriously confused right now.

[pbnugget]

if you have a manual penalty it will appear in your webmaster tools acct.

Need more info to really know, but try looking at the landing pages. Is the content on that page seasonal/only relevant for a certain time period?

[ScottFlear]

Don't need to create a subdomain to do company.com/blog - and this is one of the more preferred options.
Otherwise to blog.company.com - usually no need.

Definitely wouldn't go for a completely separate domain unless it was a whole different division of the business.

Ye main site is built by a web design company from HTML i assume. Their blog on it is shocking. I want to design a wordpress site and have it as /blog in the website. So when they press blog a whole new and better looking wordpress site loads (I'll make the wordpress site similar to main site with its features.)

Is this possible?

[Dup15]

Hey guys, I could use some clarification.

I'm about to start a website which I plan to customize/build up on Wordpress, but I want my own domain.
Do I need to buy hosting or can I just purchase the domain separately from namecheap for example, and then somehow link it to wordpress?

[ScottFlear]

Hey guys, I could use some clarification.

I'm about to start a website which I plan to customize/build up on Wordpress, but I want my own domain.
Do I need to buy hosting or can I just purchase the domain separately from namecheap for example, and then somehow link it to wordpress?

can purchase separately and then host it on your chosen hosting provider. set up wordpress via 1-click install or upload it to the directory.

[Whey Hey]

if you have a manual penalty it will appear in your webmaster tools acct.

Need more info to really know, but try looking at the landing pages. Is the content on that page seasonal/only relevant for a certain time period?

I have no manual penalties.

There was an article on christmas gifts i wrote and then ran stumbleupon and ******** PPC campaigns, but that never showed up as organic traffic, only referral. Yet somehow I have gone from 200 organic a day consistently, slowly down to 100, and now to 14... and who knows, tommorow, maybe 0?

It seems like as my site gets bigger, my organic search drops?

I have checked for a lot of my articles, and where I was appearing on Page 1, position 2-3, now I am nowhere to be seen, unless its like Page 50-100 . Its like all my articles have been abolished from the serps?

[Mishunyah]

I have no manual penalties.

There was an article on christmas gifts i wrote and then ran stumbleupon and ******** PPC campaigns, but that never showed up as organic traffic, only referral. Yet somehow I have gone from 200 organic a day consistently, slowly down to 100, and now to 14... and who knows, tommorow, maybe 0?

It seems like as my site gets bigger, my organic search drops?

I have checked for a lot of my articles, and where I was appearing on Page 1, position 2-3, now I am nowhere to be seen, unless its like Page 50-100 . Its like all my articles have been abolished from the serps?

Go to webmaster tools, look at your search queries, set it for the whole month of December. Then click the "with change" button. Sort by change.

If I am not mistaken, it will show you the search queries which you have dropped in ranking for.

[Whey Hey]

Go to webmaster tools, look at your search queries, set it for the whole month of December. Then click the "with change" button. Sort by change.

If I am not mistaken, it will show you the search queries which you have dropped in ranking for.

Ok will do.

I have just checked my analytics (due to living in the UK its gone past Midnight) and i have had 5 Organic Visitors... I am actually dropping to 0 faster than I can put up content and recover.... WHATS GOING ON? :S This time last month i had 200 organic visitors per day

So you guys know, my website is http://www.layerform.com, its an Art & Design website.

I honestly cant believe my goddam eyes... i was growing in organic traffic every day and then BAM... i might aswell be getting nothing at all. If it wasnt for my referral traffic being so strong, I'd probably have to drop this website altogether

[Whey Hey]

Just checked for my most popular keywords in the SERPS. I was ranking on Page 1 for "Best Gifts for Designers" and now I dont even appear in the top 300????!!!

Seriously guys, help me out here, how have i just been "removed" from google altogether?

[Jerry158]

Just checked for my most popular keywords in the SERPS. I was ranking on Page 1 for "Best Gifts for Designers" and now I dont even appear in the top 300????!!!

Seriously guys, help me out here, how have i just been "removed" from google altogether?

Have you checked whether your site has been online/offline at any points? Whether someone has paid for bad links for your website... maybe google search site:YOURWEBSITEURL and see if all the meta descriptions, titles etc. are correct.

[Whey Hey]

Have you checked whether your site has been online/offline at any points? Whether someone has paid for bad links for your website... maybe google search site:YOURWEBSITEURL and see if all the meta descriptions, titles etc. are correct.

I've tried site:layerform.com and everything seems to be fine. Heres whats been removed:

- My Google authorship for results
- My Google Rankings for all my search terms

I'm hoping its just google messing around and i'll jump back up in a week or so, but dam... it seems like i dont exist in google at all..

[Nostalgiac]

Ye main site is built by a web design company from HTML i assume. Their blog on it is shocking. I want to design a wordpress site and have it as /blog in the website. So when they press blog a whole new and better looking wordpress site loads (I'll make the wordpress site similar to main site with its features.)

Is this possible?

Yep pretty standard installation.

[TheProgressiveOne]

Started a podcast and website around personal trainer marketing type services.

Had some pretty cool guys on there Nick Mitchell, Kris Gethin and a few big ones comin up.

Having a lot of fun chatting to these guys.

If anyone wants to check it out on iTunes or site it's: http://ptprophet.com

[Toguro]

is this one of those things where if you didn't get in sooner it's probably not that worthwhile to start up now?

I have nothing but free time atm and this seems real interesting so I'm tempted to read all 8 threads start to finish



any starting advice would be appreciated

[Nostalgiac]

is this one of those things where if you didn't get in sooner it's probably not that worthwhile to start up now?

I have nothing but free time atm and this seems real interesting so I'm tempted to read all 8 threads start to finish

any starting advice would be appreciated

It's never to late to start.
I see this thread of more an entrepreneurship thread than affiliate marketing thread. (I don't think entrepreneurship thread exists on misc?).
I wouldn't bother reading all 8 threads as a ton of the info is reposted over and over again.

[Dup15]

Does anyone happen to have any Hostgator/Namecheap discount codes, or knows where I could get them?

[Nostalgiac]

Does anyone happen to have any Hostgator/Namecheap discount codes, or knows where I could get them?

I don't have any coupons for Namecheap, just an affiliate link.
http://www.namecheap.com/?aff=42476

You can try from here:
http://www.retailmenot.com/view/namecheap.com

Hostgator:
25% off - 25PRCNT0FF
$10 off a package - 10DORRAOFF

[Dup15]

I don't have any coupons for Namecheap, just an affiliate link.
http://www.namecheap.com/?aff=42476

You can try from here:
http://www.retailmenot.com/view/namecheap.com

Hostgator:
25% off - 25PRCNT0FF
$10 off a package - 10DORRAOFF

Thanks, I ended up picking GoDaddy instead of NC and used the link you gave.