Affiliate Summit updates from seasoned affiliate marketing pro Missy Ward.

Affiliate Summit Meetup Groups Spread Across the U.S.

by Missy Ward

We announced a series of local meetups for affiliate marketers, and there was a tremendous amount of interest for these meetups to operate in cities in addition to Austin, Chicago, New York City, Orlando, and San Francisco.

So, we’ve restructured the meetup structure to enable anybody to start up an Affiliate Summit meetup in their area.

Please note that the previously created meetup groups will be closed down now that we’ve pulled together a single spot to organize all of the meetups. If you already joined one of the previous groups, please go to meetup.com/affiliatesummit to re-join the new group for your area.

The meetups will be a combination of learning and networking with support from Affiliate Summit for the monthly agenda and overall organization of the groups.

Contact Jim Kukral with any questions about the Affiliate Summit meetups.

Visit meetup.com/affiliatesummit to join an existing Affiliate Summit meetup group or start your own.

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Your Face Featured in Feedfront #affiliate

by Missy Ward

Do you love FeedFront magazine? You do have your free subscription right? Over 40,000 copies are sent out over four times a year to the top movers and shakers in the Internet marketing community.

So now that you've subscribed, how'd you like to see your face on the cover of the magazine? We just launched the “I Love FeedFront” contest on Facebook. Click here to enter now.

All you have to do to enter is upload a picture of yourself, or your team, or anything with a copy (any copy) of FeedFront in the picture. The winner will be chosen in July of 2011 and will grace the cover of the magazine in a future issue.

Imagine being able to call your Mom and tell her you're on the cover of a magazine? Imagine mounting a framed picture of the cover with your face on it in your lobby? Imagine how much fun it would be to show your kids how awesome you are?

All you have to do is go to ILoveFeedFront.com and click “like”, then enter the contest.

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Full Day SEO Training Course with @sugarrae During #ASE11

by Missy Ward

For the first time ever, Affiliate Summit will be hosting a full day SEO training course led by career affiliate and well known SEO, Rae “Sugarrae” Hoffman-Dolan on Saturday, August 20, 2011 in New York City.

This is the day before Affiliate Summit East 2011, and both the SEO course and Affiliate Summit will be at the Hilton New York.

Learn how to avoid duplicate issues often caused by creating websites using affiliate datafeeds and how to gather and implement “value-add” content to your affiliate website – without hiring a full time staff of writers. Find out how to develop high quality links that act as the fuel to advancing your search engine rankings.

From general SEO instruction to looking at common “affiliate site” problems (and solutions) to viewing case studies of actual affiliate websites created from the ground up by your instructor that currently receive millions of page views per month, you’ll learn how to more effectively, and profitably, market your affiliate sites (or datafeed driven merchant sites) through organic search engine optimization.

What you’ll learn by attending this course:

Basic on-site SEO and site architecture
Creation and implementation of “value-add” content search engines love
Overcoming common SEO issues created by datafeed driven websites
How to leverage social media to help your SEO efforts
How to do keyword research and the difference between traffic and conversion keywords
Why link development matters and how to build quality links for an affiliate website
How to develop affiliate brands search engines want to rank
Tracking affiliate SEO efforts

A note from the course instructor:

“I’ve been doing affiliate marketing – very successfully – through 100% organic SEO for over a decade now. And I’ll do my best to ensure you learn how to better your organic SEO efforts for your affiliate (or merchant datafeed) website. The above tells you what you will get from attending the training course, but I’d also like to mention what you won’t get:

Sales pitches – I have nothing to sell you. I’m an affiliate.
Swag – I’m here to teach you, not clothe you. The awesome Affiliate Summit East expo hall will handle that.
Theory – You won’t be hearing any untested theory or tactics that have worked for “big brand websites” that I simply assume will work for affiliates. All of the SEO information I am going to teach in this workshop has actually been implemented on my own affiliate sites – with repeated success.

I’m known for being a straight shooter and I want to make sure you have the proper expectations. If you’re looking to be “wowed” with free pens and T-shirts, you might be disappointed. If you want to learn search engine optimization for your affiliate websites and increase your SEO traffic and revenue, then you’re in the right place.

Cheers,

Rae

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Central Florida Affiliate Marketing Meetup Group

by Missy Ward

I just created The Central Florida Affiliate Marketer's Group on Meetup.com.

My goal for the group is to have Central Florida affiliate marketers get together to network, discuss industry issues and learn from each other.

Meetups will take place in the Orlando area.

Our first Meetup is on Tuesday, March 1st at The Imperial at Washburn Imports, from 6pm – 8pm.

Open bar and lite-bites will be sponsored by Affiliate Summit.

If you are an affiliate, merchant/advertiser, affiliate manager or network; incorporating affiliate marketing into your overall marketing efforts; or are simply looking to get into the business, this group is for you.

>> Join the Central Florida Affiliate Marketing Group

Hope to see you next month!

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