The first time you log in to your affiliate account and see that first commission you made is one of the best feelings you will ever get when starting out your affiliate marketing journey.

If your looking at getting into blogging the most common type of platform to use is Worpdress. WordPress has over 32 million active blogs and are the most user friendly content management system there is out there. In some cases a blog doesn’t even need to look like a blog, with the customization capabilities that are available with theme and frameworks that are out there you can make your blog look like a directory, classified site or even a corporate website.

Amazon is terminating affiliate accounts if the new sales tax measure passes in California.

Google is finally rolling out the ability to target ads to users by interest — based on their previous browsing activity, or behavior — to all of its advertisers. The company first announced a beta test of this capability more than two years ago, back in 2009, and it has slowly been introducing it to larger groups over time. The company says the capabilities are available today.

PPCIan Gives some valuable tips on how to get a good more facebook fans using a little investment.

This very powerful link building software gets you high quality, high PR backlinks on autopilot directly to your websites.

A guide to things that you should and should not do when you are trying web pages to improve conversions and user experience.

Did you know Google highly values Contextual Links? For those of you who don’t know Google loves links within content of articles and blog posts etc. I am not talking about author links or links in sidebars, I am talking a backlink from within the actual content.

If you are building niche sites and want to bring in traffic through to your HOME PAGE and to your affiliate offers to gain commissions on products or want to rank quickly for a keyword of your choice for a service you or your company offers then finding profitable keyword match domain names is very important.

If you have heard before that building niche sites that generate a passive income is the way to make money online, don’t believe the hype that this is the most practical approach, particularly if you are looking at this on a long term business scale, although it sounds great in theory, there is definitely plenty of down sides and you should not be surprised if all your hard work hasn’t gone to plan.