My Affiliate Toolbox

Okay, so I’ve decided to share a few of the resources that I find helpful. I don’t really have a set plan of what I’m going to be adding here. Inspiration comes from unlikely places. So if I find something that helps me make teh monies online, and it isn’t going to harm my margins by crowdsourcing it, you’ll find it here.

Some of them are affiliates link, some are not. Get the fuck over it. I give away all the information on this blog for free. The only source of revenue comes from some nutjob converting a zip submit at 1% under my name.

These are sites and tools that have helped me personally. I’m not adding anything that I haven’t personally tried/read/used/wiped-my-arse-on/whatever and liked.

Check them out.

Affiliate Networks

Neverblue – This was the first serious network I ever joined. The guys at Neverblue, particularly my AM (Dave Fletcher), have taken care of me and answered all of my questions. I recommend them highly as a top notch network if you’re just new and getting started. Truth be told, I think they’re a little light on attractive offers at the moment. In terms of management, interface and providing help to the confused newbie – they’re second to none.

Convert2Media – I wouldn’t even need an affiliate link to happily recommend these guys. C2M is the best network going at the moment for what I need from the market personally. The affiliate managers are all super responsive and it helps that these guys have played the field as affiliates in the past. Not just affiliates, but super motherfucking Ruck sized affiliates. Good luck not getting rejected. They only accept something like 10% of applications and you’ll need to be a successful publisher before you get a piece of that pie.

Communities & Forums

Wicked Fire – If you’ve been a member of Digital Point or Warrior Forum, you could be mistaken for believing that all Internet Marketers are the spawn of stupidity. Wicked Fire breaks the mould by providing discussion that might actually increase your ROI by more than a cheap ebook sale and Shoemoney’s cock up your arse. It’s a CPA-heavy crowd. Stupid questions won’t be taken seriously. Even if you’re not going to sign up and post, this place is a goldmine of information. I lurked there for 18 months before signing up.

Keyword Tools

Keyword Spy – I think my main incentive for signing up to Keyword Spy was to give my dollars to a keyword tool that wasn’t PPC Bully. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the subscription. This is a good first stop for when you’re moving in to a new vertical and you don’t really know what keywords are going to be profitable for you. The downside is that it encourages campaign ripping. If you’re going to use somebody’s keywords, fine. Do us all a favour and build your own landing page though.

News Aggregators

Affbuzz – Where have you been hiding if you haven’t heard about Affbuzz? I’ll keep it short and sweet. Affbuzz tracks and aggregates new blogs from the industry’s top posters. It dumps them all on one easy to digest page. That page is worth visiting at least once a day.

Other Affiliate Marketing Blogs

Nicky Cakes – Back when I was getting started in affiliate marketing, I followed one of Cakes’ guides to making money on Facebook. That bitch cost me more money than I’ve lost on the rest of my campaigns combined. Dirty first impressions aside, the guy knows his stuff. His blog provides the inspiration that we can all one day wear horns and have a domain like a porn star.

Blue Hat SEO – This is more dipping in to the realms of how to be a complete and utter bastard to Google, but I like his style. A post on Blue Hat SEO could be repackaged and sold as an ebook to the Warrior Forum for mega bucks. Some of the tips are a little too out-there for my black hat prowess, but props for actually revealing info that encourages creativity rather than mindless Digging.