To find out the entire story, I would read the CNet news and the Associated Press.

What does this mean?  I have on clue what this means for the affiliate business.   Honestly.

First off, the FTC is based in the USA so I am not sure how they will be monitoring.  Will it be by IP address?  Will other countries adopt a similar policy so this becomes something that is standard across the board?  I cannot imagine the ligistical nightmares of this.  Laslty, does this mean that marketers that reside outside of the USA will have a distinct advantage over their peers?

The second item that needs to be anazlyed is how they will insist we (as affiliate marketers) present this information to our readers.  Will it be as simple as providing something like the privacy policy that all adsense users must have now?  Or will it be much more obvious and have to be stated during the sale.

Lastly, is this going to change the face of the affiliate business and internet marketing?  What is this going to mean for a booming industry that is responsible for billions of dollars in revenue.

I sure hope the FTC is prepared to hire on a few extra staffers.  Let’s face it, this is going to be a very huge and daunting task and I’m curious to see how this is enforced.

Jodie

At first I thought that if you had nine outgoing links to the same site,
you may be a little nuts.  But then I started really thinking about it and
I realized I had been using Squidoo lenses to link to ezine articles to boost
the PR of the ezine article (it works well, just make sure you are using
the linking system that is “follow” links.  Their easy linker module is in
fact “no follow” (tricky…).  So, in fact I did have to modify one lens to suit
the part of this new rule.

The second part is a bit more stinky for marketers.  At first I was not
terribly concerned about the change because I’m personally only
losing a few lenses that never got visitors anyway.  It was from a
Strip That Fat campaign that has to this day only sold one ebook.  lol
But then I grew a bit more of a heart and truly felt compassion
for those that are going to lose a lot of work.  That does stink.

So what should you do?  Grab some hosting and post this information
on your own site.  Do you feel you aren’t ready for this?  If not, then
save the information on a blog at blogger.com or perhaps on
hubpages or xomba.  It may take a few hours to transfer all off the information
but if it is truly of financial value to you, then move it.  If it’s of sentimental
value, then ditch it.  Start brand new.  The learning process is over for that
site.

I have read by a few people in Wealthy Affiliate
that they feel that this has become
an opportunity for them because they
are now realizing that they should be
doing this for themselves on their
own domain.

So is Squidoo Marketing dead?  Nope, not at all.  In fact,
it just got waaaaay better.    In theory anyway.  PR should
go up, especially with the Purple Star program they
implemented.  But at the end of the day, let’s
accept that this could have been a brush stroke
and erased much of our hard work.  We
should all be prepared for when that day
comes… better prepared than getting
caught with your pants down if it ever does.

Diversify.  Hubpages, Ehow.com, Xomba, on and on and on…  (Please comment about
your favourites so I can continue exploring more).

Cheers!
Jodie

Well Jodie and I put our heads together to see where our careers in affiliate marketing were heading.  For a couple of self trained people we actually do great but we also realized a few things.

We know the effort it takes to be successful in affiliate marketing and dont let anybody tell you this will be an easy adventure.  We both work our tails off to try and stay ahead of the game.  Not to mention we are very different then most other affiliate marketers.

You see we could have built the massive lists and then pepper your inbox with each and every new product that comes online.  However we have choosen not to take that path.  We know how much we hate it so why should we expect any of you to like it.

Right now Jodie and I are focusing on some of our rather lucrative niches as they are what pay the bills right now.

We have also been putting our heads together to decide on the future of the Affiliate Nuts.  Here is our options.  We can take the website down and go totally underground and just be invisible affiliates making a nice income,  we can get back in full throttle and jeopradize our other dealings or we can back off a bit and work with Affiliate Nuts one day at a time.

After very careful consideration and endless hours of talking we have decided that Affiliate Nuts are not going anywhere.  We are definately going to be doing some restructuring and making better use of our time.

So what does this mean to you?  Well if you are patient the future holds a lot of great things for Affiliate Nuts.  At the moment we will continue to put useful information on the site for everyone to use.

We ill no longer be offering the Wealthy Affiliate discount and let me tell you why.  In doing so we quicky recognized that most of the people who took us up on the discount never did another thing with the site.  I did say most.  A few have still moved forward slowly.

Everyone needs to understand that Jodie and I are huge believers in Wealthy Affiliate and always will be.  The other thing you need to understand is being a member of Wealthy Affiliate doesnt automatically make you rich.  You will get every tool you need to be successful but unless you use the tools nothing will happen.

So in a nutshell the Affiliate Nuts are going no where.  We are simply restructuring in order to make the site more beneficial to everyone who uses it and to ourselves.

So for now thats all Im going to write.

Keep coming back for more useful information and watch for the Affiliate Nuts to explode in the next year.  You decide if you want to be a part of the ride.

The Affiliate Nuts

There are thousands of people who only want you around so they can keep selling you the newest, greatest program to hit the internet.  Well for earning online it really doesnt have to be that way.  Im not saying we dont sell anything but what I am saying is we take great pride in the research we do before we recommend anything.  Everything we promote is something we use and something that helps us with earning online.

This blog will eventually be full of great tips for earning online and slowly its getting there.  However the meat of our system can be found at Jodies great Squidoo lens entitles What Is Affiliate Marketing.

So keep checking back here and at What Is Affiliate Marketing for all your earning online needs and we promise you will never be steered in the wrong direction with us.

One thing we always promote and will continue to do so is Wealthy Affiliate.  Have a look and you decide if it is or not the best training provided on the internet to start earning online.

Dont forget to head over to What Is Affiliate Marketing and also dont forget to get signed up to our mailing list where you will get some great freebies and always get great tips and pointers.

What Is Affiliate Marketing

The Affiliate Nuts

So what inspired me to write about this tonight?  Well the answer to that is looking back 6 or 7 months ago and seeing that my earnings were so minimal.  I also know that 6 months ago I was in a rut with a partner who really had no vision but I was determined to never give up.  I know you will have relatives and friends always telling you that you are wasting your time but believe me an affiliate business is not a waste of time.

Then you will have the excuse that you dont have the time for an affiliate business.  Well thats just another cop out.  My partner is a full time mommy with a 2 year old boy and another boy on his way to his fourth birthday.  I dare anyone to challenge me that she doesnt have her hands full.

As for me I work full time in the oil patch which usually includes 13 hour days for 23 days straight.

What it is for us is commitment.  We understand each other and we know that we both want this enough that no excuses will work on us.  Our affiliate business is our dream come true.

Im only writing this to let everyone know that if you cant make it with your affiliate business its because you dont have the desire.

Jodie and I fought with the decision to put some screen shots of our pay on the site but for now we decided that we wont because so many people would just say we faked them anyways.  However those are the people who are definately failing in their affiliate business.

See, we both know the average $5000 dollars a month we make in our various affiliate businesses is definately very spendable money.  We both know that Jodie is making more working at home and being with her family then if she was working outside the home and also having to pay for child care.

The day the two of us decided to team up turned out to be a great blessing for both of our families.  We are just 2 normal people that have proved what really can be done with an affiliate business.  We are not gurus and we are not making $10 000 over the weekend in our pajamas. (But we do make money in our pajamas)

So dont let anyone stand in your way of building a great affiliate business, dont let anyone bring you down or stand in your way, dont associate with negative people and most importantly believe in yourself and one day at a time you can build a great affiliate business.

I know I speak for Jodie when I mention how Wealthy Affiliate is the best training course on the internet.  We definately owe a lot of gratitude to the owners of Wealthy Affiliate for helping us grow our affiliate business.

Dale

I guess this post is being written so I can vent for a second.  I just finished deleteting 20 new spam comments from the website.  Im telling you right now that my partner and I just wont allow our affiliate business to be spammed.

I have no idea how much time is wasted in dealing with spam comments on all my sites but I do know if its happening to me its also happening to everyone else trying to make an affiliate business work.

Spammers will never be tolerated on my sites.  You will never get a back link from me or even a response and better yet no one will ever get to see your site coming from my affiliate business.

You are more than welcome to leave an honest comment after reading a post and then you will get a back link from us.

Well thats enough of a rant from me and now its time to get back to work on my affiliate business.

So if you are serious about your affiliate business then you need to take a look at the best course on line to learn how to make your affiliate business work.

Affiliate Nuts

The world of your affiliate business can be not only very exciting but also very scary to the newbie. However it’s just like anything else. A newbie in anything needs to start somewhere and work their way up. So when it comes to your affiliate business bum marketing is the best way to get your money making business working for you. So what is bum marketing? Simply put it is a twist on article marketing. In article marketing for your affiliate business you write articles about a certain niche. You hope people will read your article then click on a link and maybe buy a product related to your niche.

So now you are asking why article writing is so great for your new affiliate business. The first reason is that article marketing can be done without any costs at all. All you do is write the articles and then submit them to directories. When starting your new affiliate business we all know there is nothing better than free. The thing you do need to know is article marketing for your affiliate business will cost you time. It’s very important you understand that you need to put in time to doing the research and then writing the articles.

Bum marketing is free but it is also a great way to get your affiliate business seen at the top of the search engines. No matter what you think you need to understand that if you don’t get near the top of the search engines you won’t make a lot of money. It’s too bad but that’s the way the internet works. People are looking for the least amount of clocks to get where they are going. That’s why in your affiliate business and bum marketing you will use long tail keywords to rank higher in many searches related to your affiliate business.

Bum marketing is not only free but it has some great potential to make some great money in your affiliate business. However don’t get me wrong. When I say make money I don’t mean get rich quick because that really doesn’t exist. If you are willing to put in time and effort into your affiliate business then you absolutely cannot fail.

To really get your affiliate business moving you definately want to take a look at Wealthy Affiliate.  This is absolutely the best training course on the internet.

Affiliate Nuts

Dale Mazurek

Well, the Affiliate Nuts havent really been on hold but yes a few things did come up that kind of slowed us down a bit.

I had the misfortune of dealing with a funeral of a loved one and everything that goes with that.  In turn Jodie got to deal with trying to do both my work, her work, sick children and a husband changing jobs.

Thats why I say an affiliate business has a heart beat.  I guess its not really the affiliate business that has a heartbeat but the people behind it.

I understand most of you could care less about our personal life and I dont blame you and thats why Im not going any deeper.  I just wanted everyone to know the Affiliate Nuts are still around and will be for a very long time.

Jodie and I work hard at our affiliate business and we want to help others with theirs.

I know you have heard it all before.  However if you show us your commitment then in return you will see ours.  We have helped many people with absolutely nothing in return.

As an affiliate marketer or a person wanting to be an affiliate marketer Jodie and I both recommend Wealthy Affiliate as your ultimate training space on the internet.  Have a look at Wealthy Affiliate right now and we know you wont be disappointed.

We also accept your questions about affiliate marketing through email.  I need to get blunt here though.  We will answer questions about your site, your blog and anything else to do with affiliate marketing.  However we are absolutely not interested in signing up to another internet business.  What we are trying to say is there is a time and place to market to us and in our email is not the place.

Dale & Jodie

Remember to have a look at Wealthy Affiliate for all your affiliate needs.  Also come and follow Jodie and I on Twitter by clicking on the boxes at the top of this page.  We look forward to twittering with you.

Dale

Recently, we had a Wordpress SEO Theme designed just for US!  It is the theme you are looking at on the Affiliate Nuts website right now.  See, Dale and I wanted a theme that could do a couple things that we had been unable to find on other themes.

So what’s so special about our Wordpress SEO Theme?

• For starters, we are able to change our Header to whatever we darn well like.  So rather than being stuck with a banner or top half of page that is the same as hundreds of other Wordpress Themes, we thought it was important to offer a unique look to each of our Wordpress sites.

• As affiliate marketers, you are constantly creating new websites to test out different niches.  We decided to learn Wordpress and Joomla so we could create stand alone sites on our own without using a site building program.  There are many reasons why these sites are often not the best option, but that is for another post. So you can appreciate why we would want the freedom to change a sites appearance quickly.

• The other reason we wanted this Wordpress SEO Theme is because we have a bar of adsense directly under the Header.  We have removed it for our Affiliate Nuts site as we did not feel it was appropriate for here, but it will be there when you load up the template.

If you would like to get a free copy of the Wordpress SEO Theme then visit Wordpress SEO Theme and enter your info.  The theme will be emailed to your inbox.

The only legitimate online business we have ever found is affiliate marketing.  Oh sure there are ways in affiliate marketing where you can get taken for a ride but for the most part its the only legitimate online business.

Some people will argue and say MLM, EBay, data entry and even filling out surveys constitute a legitimate online business.  Well the way I look at it is in some cases I may agree with eBay but you will be very hard pressed to convince me of any other legitimate online business.

So why is working with the Affiliate Nuts a legitimate online business.  Thats simple, we care about the newbies.  We are not just trying to get them to buy every new product and we dont prey on their emotions.

So for newbies trying to make it in their legitimate online business why wouldnt you want to sign up to our news letter.  The first huge piece of help you receive is a 3 part email explaining how to find great keywords for your niche.  Its written so anyone can understand it and its not trying to sell you a keyword tool for your legitimate online business.

So to anyone new or expert working on their legitimate online business get signed up to our newsletter and follow the Affiliate Nuts and you wont be dissapointed.

As an affiliate marketer or a person wanting to be an affiliate marketer Jodie and I both recommend Wealthy Affiliate as your ultimate training space on the internet.  Have a look at Wealthy Affiliate right now and we know you wont be disappointed.

We also accept your questions about affiliate marketing through email.  I need to get blunt here though.  We will answer questions about your site, your blog and anything else to do with affiliate marketing.  However we are absolutely not interested in signing up to another internet business.  What we are trying to say is there is a time and place to market to us and in our email is not the place.

Dale & Jodie

Remember to have a look at Wealthy Affiliate for all your affiliate needs.  Also come and follow Jodie and I on Twitter by clicking on the boxes at the top of this page.  We look forward to twittering with you.

Dale