Search Marketing Research Tool, How To Find The Value Of Your Traffic

One of main search engine metrics you need to track is for which keyword term the site competitors are ranking for.

If you would much more as competitive research tool, you would like to have more data, as PPC, tracking AdWords keywords, more graphics for market research, then SEMRush seems to have all the features that you could use for any your needs.

SEMRush is a useful SEO business tool which searches through countless domains and words and tracks the visibility of websites via a huge set of keywords. As a keyword suggestion tool, SEM Rush performs very well, while as volume and cost estimator have made many updates in these month.

The guys behind SemRush keyword research tool have built a good reputation among internet marketers, and are the same creators of SEOquake and FireFox extension. Also, SEMRush has Firefox addon that can be pretty cool for at-you- finger-tips-access.

Why SEM Rush Is Better Than Compete?

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It’s sure, that this tool is a competitor to services like Compete.com. However, SEM Rush provides more tools than Compete.com such as cost per click estimates (scraped from Google’s Traffic Estimator tool) and estimated traffic volumes (from the Google AdWords keyword tool) near each keyword.

While Compete showing the traffic distribution to each site, this tool can list keyword value distribution for the sites (keyword value * estimated traffic).

Sign Up And Start

Signing up with Semrush is very simple and once done you get some videos that will go into detail to guide you through the step by step process. I will start looking at the first screenshots that they offer.

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As you can see on the image above in the homepage they show the top 9 domains that Google shows must (organic) and the top 9 domains that most use adwords.

Ok, let’s start playing this cool tool, I used Problogger.net as website to see how true are the data that they display:

Note: Their offer includes 4 type of packages: Free(with limit results), Pro, Guru, and Enterprise. So if you want to test them for free, go ahead but I will recommend to try at least the Pro version to understand the really potentiality of this tool.

How Do It Works

Through their search box, you can type domain, keyword or url as well, for this example I added “problogger.net” as website and you can see that this tool is just scary! It shows all the keywords that we rank for and most of our valuable long tail keywords are there WOW.

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What I especially like about this tool is that it let you track many things of your competitors sites. Here are only a few element you can track through this tool:

  • Keyword: You can know for what keyword your site competitors is ranking for. If you are into affiliate marketing you can also know what are the company is ranking.
  • Pos: It show you any position ranking for the keyword you select.
  • Volum: Average volume of searches for this keyword per month.
  • Cpc: Cost per click based Google Adwords keyword tool.
  • Url: You can know which url of the site is ranking for that keyword.
  • Traffic: For each keyword you know the percentage of traffic that refer that keyword.
  • Cost: Cost of traffic in percentage that the website get for a particular keyword.
  • Competition: Advertisers activity in Google Adwords for this keyword.
  • Results: Number of results for this keyword known by Google.

Scraping Google Adwords Traffic: Compare AdWords to Organic Search

The first table show the sites that rank for keywords that Problogger is buying through AdWords. The second table are sites that buy AdWords ads for keywords that this site ranks for(in this case the screenshot show “Nothing Found”.

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Organic keywords

SEM Rush goes to the effort of analysis what’s going on organically around 40 million keywords. Here is the list of a few words where Problogger compete in the rankings.

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SEM Rush Competitor Analysis

The best thing it offers from my perspective is that SEM Rush helps to highlight who is competing for the same keywords you are. Here is a list of sites that rank for many of the same keywords that Problogger ranks for.

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As you can see in the image below it let you to compare your site traffic with other competitors site.

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Final Verdict

As you could notice SemRush has all necessary for your SEO needs. When it comes to running effective marketing campaigns this program give you a great help , especially when you’re trying to stay within a budget.

A lot of marketers who joined to this tool say that worth it, included me, and considering the pros of SEMRush, it does seem to be a very good investment. The best thing is that you can cancel your subscription at any time. Read their refund policy here.

Reasons Your Business Will Fail, 3 Online Marketing Mistakes That Will Kill Your Small Business

I always talked about how to increase traffic to your business, get more potential customers, increase your conversion rate, and so on, but today I want to talk about the factors that will kill off your business as well.

Often a business fails due the scared of success and failure, or only because people consider their site or blog like an hobby and don’t how a platform to make money.

Of course we should to add some mistakes, which, fortunately, can be corrected.

So, if you want your business to have successful, watch out for these warning signs. Get them straightened out and you’ll get your business on the road to robust good health.

1. They Doesn’t Choose The Right Niche

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A niche is a small but profitable segment of a market suitable for focused attention by a marketer.

So, what is the right niche? Poetry stories are not a right niche. Copywriters are not a right niche. Love stories are not a niche.

Those are all bad niches — and they’re all niche that I’ve seen people try to market to. In my experience as 4 years like affiliate marketers, right marketers are make moeny online, weight loss, dental products, natural supplements, an so on.

2. Not Have A Nice Approach

Through your Twitter and FaceBook contacts, your readers will know more details about you. They’ll know all about your own business which will affect on your success online. There are some things you need to check about your attitude to your own business.

  • When you choose your friend and build your mailing list or Twitter followers you don’t check if they are friends in the same niche or however interested for.
  • When you haven’t upgraded a new product or service for the last months.
  • When you don’t post on daily basis.
  • When you say your business have alot of subscribers but you have only some followers or friend to your account.
  • When you think to make money overnight and you discover that convert reader into customers is more difficult then ever.

3. Not Know About Your Potential Clients

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Often happens that readers visit your site, reads some posts and leave it. There’s nothing strange in this, but the fact is that they could forget the domain of your site, and you’ve lost them forever.

There are different way to capture visitors in order to reach them in a second moment. For instance, by installing a subscription form. In this way you can grab visitor details such as their names and email addresses as well.

Of course, creating a strong list of readers is a slow process and It takes both time and effort, but once done you can set up an email newsletter list and offer a valuable free report or ebook in exchange for their details.

Campaignmonitor is a good place where start, and you can build from there. Don’t leave your readers get away from your site. Once you’ve lost a potential customer they’re gone forever, along with every person they may have referred you to.

4. No Take action

People who take action on what they’ve learned are rare. It happened to me too to read a lot of ebooks, listen to teleseminars and watch hours of business videos, and often they don’t give you the step by step necessary to do what really you need to do.

Information is great, but nothing beats taking action. In these year I’ve learned more in my first twelve months of actually running my business and putting myself out there than you will from any number of books, courses and videos.

To Our Success,

Nicola Deiana

Internet entrepreneur

How To Improve Sales Conversion For Free: URL Shorteners With Conversion Tracking, LinkShiftr Is Here

There comes a time in every affiliate marketers when the thought of increasing the affiliate conversion rate make them to discover new trick and strategy.

Today I thought I would introduce a simple that could help you to save your business as affiliate marketers.

You must be aware that software that will easily mask your URL’s or Affiliate Links allows you to increase your profits dramatically. Today I thought to introduce an useful FREE service that could help you to save your conversion too.

Before to enter the details about this new service, let me share you which are the benefit to mask your URL in affiliate marketing:

  • Benefit  n° 1 – The first reason I always use short affiliate links to redirect my affiliate products, is because once joined to affiliate network, affiliate programs provide affiliate links too long and I’m too afraid of having my commission stolen and lose up to 50% of affiliate commission.
  • Benefit n° 2 – I’m annoyed by the the ugliness of affiliate URL’s and I also believe that when my readers visit my site and click on affiliate link, the first thing that they may get is own be annoyed by the long affiliate URL. Shortening service allows you to get more click on your links by using short links, not long affiliate links.

What Is LinkShiftr?

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URL shorteners is become very popular on social media like Twitter and Facebook, due its the character count restrictions. I have saw many of these URL shortening services out there, and some of them that offer some statistics and metrics, but LinkShiftr bring the its service at the next level.

Today I want to tell you more about this service and some of the features that set LinkShiftr apart from the competition.

So I highly reccomend to read this post at all affiliate and Internet marketers out there.

According to the site, LinkShiftr includes is a comprehensive service which includes some of the best elements of URL shorteners like bit.ly and combines them with the higher-end capabilities of a service like Tracking202.

This service was created to help affiliates make better campaigns in less time.” Among the key features included in LinkShiftr are easy link rotation, split test optimization, cloaked links, variable passing, and conversion tracking across platforms.

How to Promote Your Affiliate Products For Free With LinkShiftr

Once you’ve registered to LinkShiftr aalyou have to do is “shifting” your URLs directly from your control panel.

I will make a clear example with the latest affiliate ads guide by Johnatan Volk. First to all I grab the affiliate from Clickbank.

Go on Clickbank, then marketplace. Now, type the affiliate product you wish to promote.

For instance I’ll type “Facebook Ads Guide Johnatan Volk”. Once got the result, then click on the “promote” button. A little window will open where you must to type your Account Nickname. Now, click on “create” button, you will get an affiliate link like this:

“http://f2dc7akb-2sfjae4nxnf6oez3o.hop.clickbank.net/”

Now Go on LinkShiftr and enter the URL to shift.

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One of the best features of LinkShiftr is the ability to change the destination of a shortened URL after it has already been set.

Imagine the situation: You have used an affiliate link which you have already posted in multiple webpages for a long time but, at an certain point, the affiliate offer expires, and you have a lot of pages where the link si broke.

Well, Linkshift allows you to change all your affiliate URL without change the link in each webpage at time.

Additional Options

More still, in addition to setting “vanity” shortened URLs, you can have that single URL point toward multiple destinations on a weighted random basis.

If I add three URL, each of them are able to redirect my visitors to my affiliate site. Also, I can configure the relative “weight” of the destinations, for instance I can add 5/10 visitors go to the first, 2/10 go to the second and 3/10 go to the third, and so on.

Split Tests

Split test is an important factor that any affiliate marketers should to consider. Most marketers know the method of A/B split testing to determine which elements on a page are performing well, and which are not.

For instance, one might typically test two different landing page. One would then outperform the other, and you would know which is the top-performing page.

The traffic control center of LinkShiftr can help you with that too. It offers multiple conversion tracking capabilities, including unsecure pixel, secure pixel and third-party pixel. These tracking pixels are placed on your conversion page, whatever that may be.

When combined with the stats afforded by the multiple destination shortened URL above, you can gain quite a bit of information about which offers perform the best, which landing pages are most popular, and so on.

Free and Paid Subscription

The best thing of this service is that is FREE to use. However there are a paid subscription as well.

If you use the free “basic” account, you are offered core link redirection, destination URL rotation, click tracking, variable passing, location tracking, destination URL weighting. This do not costs you a cent so I reccomend to sign up right now.

As I said first, there’s the chance to choose for a paid “pro” account. This does everything that the basic account can do, but it also provides for conversion tracking and unlimited destination URLs. The cost of a pro account is $9.99 per month.

Make Money With LinkShiftr

Through LinkShiftr you can make money too. They have an affiliate program that pay $1 for free account signups and $3 for pro accounts. However, I’ve noticed that when I try my signup link, it sends me to a blank page. I wonder if this is getting ironed out during the current “beta” phase of LinkShiftr.

Conclusion

If you wish using LinkShiftr for URL shortening and redirection purposes, the FREE account will be  definitely the way to go . Weighting and the destination URL rotation are particularly valuable. If you are serious about affiliate marketing the pro account will be the right choice because you’ll get conversion tracking capability.

The Importance Of Having Your Own Highly Profitable Niche Information Product To Sell

I know that many people wish to build a business online because they want money too. The truth is that if on one hand open a small-business is very simple, on the other hand make it profitable is very hard — at least as far as I could seen. I can attest this because now I’m a self-employed person, but I worked hard for at least 12 hours daily for 4 years before to get some results.

This job allows me to express myself freely and I believe this is the real freedom for those people that create an own business and who love what they do.

Every blogger when start their own blogging journey try to make some buck from simple programs that allows them to add an ads banner on their blog post, or just try to sell space on their web pages as well, but they get stuck thinking about making money by using other ways, and it the same trap I’ve fallen into over the years.

You Have Never Throught To Sell A Product Online?


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Of course, creating an own product whether it be a 100 page ebook or an useful sofware and make money by selling them, has the potential to increase your monthly income stream too. The best thing about it is that you no need to share revenue with an ad network or someone whose product you’re promoting with an affiliate promotion – but it’s all yours.

Now, do keep in mind that there are several pros in promoting niche information products

  • You can build future relationship – If you have something to sell you can keep in relationship with readers, keep in mind those have purchased something from you and try to have a future profittable relationship as well.
  • Have new opportunities – When you sell an product any all kinds of opportunities can emerge. For instance, if you sell an ebook you could be contacted by publishers that are interest in promoting your works as affiliate.
  • Grow your knowledges – I’ve read a lot about how make a successful launches, I’ve viewed a lot of case studies of launch products online. Developing and launching a product will teach you so much about many aspects of blogging, business and yourself – it’s the kind of experience money can’t buy.

The Three Key Point That Make Sell More


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Having a strategy for your ebook sale is ideal for good business. There are three main things you need to think before launch your product:

  • Grow Trust – According to its ancient origins, the word trust is related to the word, ‘faithful’. It takes patience, persistence,  to create something that can lend weight to your authority and improve people trust.
  • Grow your network experience –  Twitter, Facebook and other social networks have a great potentiality to grow your business.
  • Use Bonus – It’s a great way that might help you to convert many readers into buyers.

Ok, Are You Ready? Get Your First Niche Information Product For Free?

Of course, promoting products online is the only fun part of the entire sales process. The hard part is that you need to create your product. I can imagine the frustration on people that are start writing their first ebook or developing their software. In my experience when it comes to write an ebook it take a lot of time.

Here is where INDIGITALworks comes into play. Have you never throught to purchase the rights of an e-book or software? No?

For instance, when you acquire “master resell rights” to an eBook, you get the job done. all you need to do is just to change the information within the eBook as the name of the author and sell that eBook as if the ebook is yours. The great thing is that you can keep 100% of the profits for every sales you get. Yes, you understood. You no need to share any commission to other.

Also, the person who bought it from you can also sell the eBook, keep 100% of the profits and pass on the resell rights again to the next person.

Don’t worry if you want to make money online and you have not time to write your eBook from scratch, the advantages of selling Master Resell Rights products is that you will be able to build your own brand and use that brand to get leverage in the marketplace.

To Our Success,

Nicola Deiana

Blogger and Interent entrepreneurs

Day 9 -10 Inspiring Blogs Helped Me To Blogging, Make Money, And Do What I Love…

Today is Day 9 for the the 31 days for build a successful blog. In my 4 years like blogger there have been some blogs that regularly influenced my life and my business.

I followed over 100+ blogs in particular, through my rss reader as many that I followed via Twitter and Facebook as well. However, it take me a lot of time to keep up with many of them.

They caught my attention for obvious reasons. They are all expert in one or two particular topics, and I could to learn more about blogging, marketing, make money online as well.

Today, I would to share 10 of  what I think be the better blogs I’m following, and that I highly reccomend you to follow as well.

My Best Resources For Personal Finance And Save Money

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Ge Rich Slowly – Is written by JD. Roth, a guy that has developed quite a reputation by sharing personal knowledge. It was JD.Roth who turned me onto personal finance interest. It one of site I read frequently and one I take inspiration when I need to find something related personal finance.

The simple dollar – Is an online site written by trent Hassim, which started sharing personal finance knowledge. The site is similar to GRS, however I’ve noticed that talk about technology, software, Photo Diary and much more as well.

Zen Habits – Leo is always been a guru for me, and I highly reccomend to follow him if you have not done it yet. Look at Zen Habits Guided Tour.  Here you can find all-time most popular posts on Leo has put togheter.

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Problogger – Darren is one of my all-time favorite blogger. When I was a newbie blogger, one of the first sites I used to learn more about Domain name, WordPress  and most important to make money online was Problogger.net.

Copyblogger – Copyblogger is my main source when I need to know more about crafting landing pages, headline writing, and copywriting tips. Copyblogger is the best source to learn all these thing.

Dailyblogtips.com - Daniel is a well know blogger that has been making money online for quite some time now. His blog dailyblogtips.com is very popular blogger. He in the Technorati’s Top 100 blogs.

Shoemoney.com – When it comes to making money with Affiliate Marketing, Jeremy is one of the foremost authorities in the world. Every day he share different ways that any webmaster can make more money from their web sites and blogs.

Entrepreneurs-journey.com – Yaro is a young entrepreneur from Australia. Yaro has created, managed and sold several different Internet businesses since 1998 and currently teaches people how to make a full time income from blogging part time through his Blog Mastermind mentoring program

Johnchow.com – John  is one of the foremost authorities in the world when it comes to making money with Affiliate Marketing. With his sites Johnchow.com and The TechZone has made a lot of money from different source of incomes  such as affiliate marketing , direct advertising, and paid review.

Pronetadvertising.com - Neil Patel is the author of the Quick Sprout blog and the co-founder of Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics. Neil Patel is considered to be an expert on SEO and marketing, the attendance of his conferences attest to the fact that he is very good at what he does.

If you have not yet done, I reccomend you to create an Google reader account and start adding your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. Of course, if you wish can add my site too.

If you have any question feel free to ask.

To our success,

Nicola Deiana

Blogger, and affiliate marketer

Top 50 Affiliate Networks

websitemagazine.com sent me latest copy of WebSite Magazine and they have an article on the “Top 50 Affiliate Networks“.

The article just give a quick summary of how people in this economic crisis are looking to make money online and what affiliate networks they use.

There so many affiliate marketers focus their energies solely on the affiliate programs offered by eBay and Amazon, but there are a lot affiliate network out there and that means more opportunities for affiliates. However, not all affiliate networks  are guaranteed to be successful and affiliate offers are not all high-paying.

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When you choose an affiliate networks, you need to check the trustworthiness of the network, quality of offers, and most important whether they pay.

This list was compiled through research from ranking.com which calculates the online popularity and other information. I’m sure you already familiar with many of those listed.

Website Magazine intentionally left out two famous affiliate networks, Google Affiliate Network Amazon Associates. Here the list:

1. ClickBooth.com
2. OurFreeStuff.net
3. Copeac.com
4. XY7.com
5. RevenueLoop.com
6. CJ.com
7. ClickBank.com
8. FriendFinder.com
9. ShareaSale.com
10. Zanox.com
11. Fluxads.com
12. LinkShare.com
13. Axill.com
14. TradeDoubler.com
15. AffiliateFuture.co.uk
16. HydraNetwork.com
17. AdsMarket.com
18. AdValiant.com
19. WebGains.com
20. InstantDollarz.com
21. MarketLeverage.com
22. PantheraNetwork.com
23. LevelClick.com
24. aZoogleAds.com
25. DirectLeads.com
26. MaxBounty.com
27. MotiveInteractive.com
28. ROIrocket.com
29. ShareResults.com
30. PlatinumPartner.com
31. Rextopia.com
32. IronOffers.com
33. ClickXChange.com
34. LeaderMarkets.com
35. MarketHealth.com
36. TriadMediaNetwork.com
37. OfferWeb.com
38. ClixGalore.com
39. Convert2Media.com
40. PepperJamNetwork.com
41. iLogins.com
42. PrimaryAds.com
43. CandadianSponsors.com
44. Affiliateer.com
45. AffiliateWindow.com
46. LogicalMedia.com
47. AffiliateFuel.com
48. MoreNiche.com
49. Affiliatebot.com
50. LinkConnector.com

In my view, this is a quanty over quality list. You don’t know the rank if based on the network quality, but you only know the rank based on their current “traffic rank“.

I’ve been in the industry for 2 years now and I can see most of them have the same product offers. Also, there are some of those I haven’t heard and I don’t know how they missed Neverblue.

Leave any comment if you think has been left out.

WordPress Theme For Affiliate Marketing

UPDATE - 30 January 2011 - So you want to use WordPress to create killer landing pages? So you want to starting your first affiliate website without any effort?

If so, recently I came accross another great way to help people on their goal of making money online through their affiliate site.

It’s clear that, while you could certainly attempt to do affiliate marketing through your website, it probably that without a specific template optimized for that purpose, your chances of success will greatly diminish.

Today I’m posting about this product because I think can be a valuable opportunity for every affiliate marketers that want to increase their affiliate conversion rate. The product in question is a WordPress theme, simply called “Affiliate Theme” which was developed only for affiliate marketers.

How you will find out through this review, it seems that have everything you need to allows you to build mini-sites, landing pages and review sites, and yes, you can also use it for a blog if that’s what you want.

So, if you are ready to working with the most well-known affiliate programs, then keep reading and I’ll tell more about this great theme.

Affiliate Theme: What Is?

Unique blog Design team has released a Premium Worpress Theme that allows any affiliate marketers to create a strong affiliate website from scratch.

Unique Blog Designs began on August 22, 2007 with the re-launch of John Chow dot Com – a top blog about making money online and internet marketing.

Compared to standard WordPress themes or building sites from scratch using frontpage or other similar software, this new special theme simplify the entire process of creating affiliate marketing sites.

Affiliate Theme Is a premium WordPress theme built for those who want create and manage affiliate sites to selling affiliate offers. It’s a great way to save a huge amount of your time that you normally use to creating different landing pages. I tested it for a few days, and I was able to set any elements of my WordPress blog without need to go in and hack the code. It let you with just a few click to controlling any elements of your blog.

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Affiliate Theme: A Flexible WordPress Theme

For a newbie is extremely easy to customize a theme with Affiliate Theme. The entire layout of affiliate theme is fully customizable(look the images below): You can setting your theme from 1-column theme to 2,3,4 column theme and decide if have a left-column sidebar or right-column sidebar. Thus, you do not need to have multiple themes to get six different website layouts.

You are also able to control blog width, built-in opt-in forms, built-in subscribe via email form, built-in Adsense. Also, you can change the background colors or images, font, homepage title and header graphics, and much, much more.

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CLICK HERE TO GRAB YOUR AFFILIATE THEME

Price

“Affiliate theme” starting at $97 for a single site license, $147 multi-use or $197.00 super affiliate.  I would highly recommend getting either the Multi-Use or Super Affiliate packages if you want to use it across multiple sites as well as give you free upgrades for life. It’s enough expensive, but in my view it worth.

The following video teaser gives a good quick overview of how it works:

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The Better Affiliate Marketing Guru’s Are Affiliate Theme Testimonials

“If you want to increase your affiliate marketing income (by promoting affiliate programs or CPA offers) I give Affiliate Theme my highest recommendation.” John Reese, Income.com

“Affiliate Theme is by far the SIMPLEST system for setting up, tweaking and PROFITING from affiliate marketing using WordPress. If you like easy, this is it.” Yaro Starak, BlogMastermind.com

“This is awesome! Never before has it been so easy and fast to set up dedicated landing pages and mini-sites. I love working with WordPress and Affiliate Theme makes it MUCH more efficient!” Zac Johnson, ZacJohnson.com

“If you’re an affiliate marketer and you don’t at least use Affiliate Theme to TEST, you are WAY behind the curve.” Jeremy Schoemaker, Shoemoney.com

Why You Must Grab This Theme?

  • Easy to customize and lost of options. Change colors, fonts, header graphic, navigation style, and even page layout from the theme option panel.
  • Fully optimized theme for PPC campaigns.
  • You will get more than 30 unique header graphics that are suitable for different niches.
  • A premium WordPress theme exclusively designed for creating affiliate sites or landing pages.
  • Built-in color-pickers for changing the colors of everything without touching any codes.
  • Better and easier Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
  • Theme support forums.
  • Easy integration of tracking scripts.
  • Comes with 6 in-built homepage layouts and 3 inner page layouts.
  • Lifetime access to affiliate resource center, which is fully loaded with valuable resources.

Conclusion

According to  Unique blog Design team the next versions of the Affiliate Theme,  will offer even more options. It also will be able to add an opt-in box to the layout and creating squeeze pages and sales pages.

I really like the different layouts, and how easy it is to change the headers and footers. Obviously the “Affiliate Theme” doesn’t make all the work, because you need to go to increasing your site traffic if you want to start making sales, but this theme will help you to simplify the entire process.

CLICK HERE TO GRAB YOUR AFFILIATE THEME



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