Eric Nagel

Eric Nagel

CTO, PHP Programmer, Affiliate Marketer & IT Consultant

Vote for Affiliate Summit Sessions

Affiliate SummitAffiliate Summit West is just about 3 months away, and the board is working on putting together a session schedule. Once again, they’re looking for attendee input, allowing you to vote on what sessions you’d like to see. You can vote at affiliatesummit.slinkset.com (you have to register, but if you voted last time, it’s the same system, so you’re already registered!) Here are some highlights:

Inside the Minds of Affiliates

I’m going to start with the obvious. If this panel is chosen to present at Affiliate Summit, you’ll find me in this room, because I’m on the panel! Won’t you vote for me, please? 🙂

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An Exhaustive Review of Raven Internet Marketing Tools

Raven Internet Marketing ToolsI first signed up for Raven Internet Marketing Tools about a month ago, played around with it for a bit, but couldn’t really make heads or tails out of it. I added some websites, set up some SERP tracking, but then pretty much forgot about it.

But recently I revisited my Raven Tools account, and found the data in there much more useful, now that there actually was data! You really need to use the 30-day trial to the fullest to get the real value out of Raven Tools.

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Wordtracker Webinar: How to Build Links to Your Website

WordtrackerWordtracker held a free webinar today entitled, How to Build Links to Your Website. The webinar will be live again a few more times, or you can watch it at your leisure at the webinar page. I’ll try to recap the important points:

First, let’s call the webinar what is really is: an infomercial. But that’s ok, because Ken McGaffin (our host) still gave some great tips on how to use Wordtracker’s Link Builder. The Wordtracker Link Builder offers a 7-day free trial and a 30-day no questions asked money back guarantee.

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Wil Reynolds’ Link Building Victories & Failures

At the Link Building Victories & Failures Affiliate Summit session, Wil Reynolds explained that authority links aren’t always the answer! In his example, Wil explained how a client of his had numerous authority links (fashion magazine websites) but still was not getting the same rankings as the competition. So Wil and the folks at SEER tried some different techniques.

To start, before you can ask for help, you must offer help. RT others, link to their content, build your Karma bank. Some ways to do this for your niche are twitter searches (search.twitter.com or a column in TweetDeck)

Wil mentioned The Ontolo Link Building Book which has given him many ideas, and briefly showed Majestic SEO as a tool he uses at SEER.

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