Missy Ward

First Central Florida Affiliate Marketers Meetup Recap

by Missy Ward

The first Central Florida Affiliate Marketers Meetup, was held on March 1st at The Imperial at Washburn Imports.

Over 70 affiliate marketers turned out for the event and lots of networking opportunities were had. I was pleasantly surprised that folks drove from as far 2+ hours away to get there!

You can find the photos of the event, here as well as on my Facebook account.

During the event, we discussed moving forward with future meetups that will include both an educational and networking component. It was great to see so many people offer up their office space for future meetups as well as volunteer to lead educational sessions.

If you live in the Central Florida area and were not able to make the first meetup, don't fear. There's still plenty of future opportunities to mix & mingle and learn from our peers.

Both existing and future members can complete this survey, which will help shape our future meetups.

>> Join the Central Florida Affiliate Marketers Group on Meetup.com to be notified of future events.

See you soon!

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For The Heck of It

Affiliate Summit Forum Reaches 1,000th Member Mark

by Missy Ward

I'm excited to announce that the Affiliate Summit Forum has reached it's 1000th member mark today.

The online forum was created to facilitate networking and education between the Affiliate Summit conferences.

The forum features an Online Meet Market for affiliate marketers to network find jobs and ask questions; as well as an Affiliate Summit section for the latest conference information, and an area highlighting tools and services used by affiliate marketers.

There are also options for networks, merchants, OPMs, and companies selling tools and services to the industry to get branded sub-forums.

Join the Affiliate Summit forum for free at http://forum.affiliatesummit.com.

What are you waiting for?

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Affiliate Marketing

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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Affiliate Marketing

Affiliates: Tell the Community What You Want!

by Missy Ward

It’s time for the 9th annual AffStat survey of affiliate marketing statistics. The survey is now open through March 31, 2011.

This AffStat survey is focused on affiliates, so please do not complete the survey unless you are an affiliate.

Data from the AffStat survey will be published in future editions of FeedFront Magazine (get a free subscription), and the full report will be available for free.

Take the survey now.

Affiliate managers and networks – please encourage your affiliates to take the AffStat survey.

If you’re interested in the 2010 edition of the AffStat report, it is available to download or read online.

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