When customers want to make a purchase, they usually look for a review website or blog first. People like to read reviews on the Internet to make the best choice. If your web site or blog provides those reviews, you earn the commissions. Many super affiliates earn thousands of dollars each month month with review sites.

For example, the Award Winning Hosts website has earned thousands of dollars in affiliate commissions just by letting people review their web hosting companies. Each time someone clicks a link to a host reviewed on the site and makes a purchase, an affiliate fee of $100, $150 or more is paid to the website owner. And search engines love user reviews – just think about how many top results Amazon.com has with all the product reviews they’ve collected.

WP Review Site is flexible enough to power complete affiliate review sites, or to add star ratings to any existing WordPress-powered website, using any theme.

WP Review Site was formerly called “WP DG Review Site”. WP Review site has been downloaded hundreds of times and is the powers behind many successful user-powered review sites. The all new version 3.0 has just been released, making it easier to use, and more powerful than ever.

If you are ready to start making money with your own WordPress WP Review Site, just purchase the plugin and all the extras it comes with. You can also read more about everything this package will add to your WordPress-powered site.

>> CLICK HERE TO GET WP REVIEW SITE

The new version 3.0 also includes bonus affiliate marketing tools! These are the same abilities you’d have to pay $67 for elsewhere, adding affiliate link management to your WordPress administration panels. Specify an affiliate link for each post, an optional post image/icon, automatically add Google Maps and more.

WP Review Site, comes with a complete premium WordPress theme and bonus affiliate marketing tools.

Features:

• Add Star Ratings To Your Comment Forms. Your visitors can write a review and set ratings in any number of categories. You define the categories!

• Automatically Create Comparison Tables. Easily create “Top 10″ style comparison tables powered by your posts and user reviews.

• Flexible Display Options. WP Review Site’s display is completely customizable to fit your design.

• Sorts Your Posts by Rating or Number of Reviews. Show the highest rated listings first, not the chronological listing of default WordPress. WP Review Site can optionally re-order all your posts by weighted average rating or by number of reviews.

• Add Ratings to Your Whole Website or Just Parts You Want. You have complete fine-grained control over where ratings appear in your blog.

• Automatically Embed Google Maps For Business Listings. WP Review Site can automatically add a Google Map to the post or page showing that address.

• Rating Widgets For Your Sidebar. Add a list of top rated items to your site’s sidebar, or a list of recent reviews with the average user rating.

• Microformat Support for More Google Traffic. WP Review Site is the only user ratings plugin for WordPress with built-in support for the hReview microformat in the included themes. This is a new technology Google recently adopted to extract reviews from webpages, and highlight review sites in search results with specially formatted listings.

• Totally Integrated With WordPress. WP Review Site integrates with your WP Admin area, displaying ratings left with comments in the comment moderation lists and allowing you to configure the plugin through the settings panel.

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You may have seen the Beachbody infomercials, or worked out with some of their fitness products like P90X, Power 90, Hip Hop Abs, Turbo Jam, nutritional supplements, fitness gear and more. Beachbody has the perfect affiliate products to promote. Except for one thing: the BeachBody affiliate program ended with Linkshare on 12/15/06.

Instead of an affiliate program, Beachbody turned their business model into a network marketing company. Affiliate marketers, read on! You can still profit with this business using the Internet. With the Beachbody MLM, you can tap into a huge market! In this MLM, each person that signs up for this unique opportunity becomes a Beachbody Coach. Then the real fun starts when you start promoting the products!

They spend over $90 million per year on media and informercials. Also, BeachBody actually GIVES customers to qualified Coaches. Yes, Beachbody gives you customers!

You get a complete back office system where you can track all your customers, orders, Coaches who signed up under you, and tons of promotional materials. You would basically be running your own business from the convenience of home.

I was an affiliate marketer for many years and, just like you, was searching for the Beachbody affiliate program. If you know how to promote products using the Internet, you can do this too!

There is a huge demand for these products. Most people have seen the P90X infomercials and are already familiar with the Beachbody brand.

This business is implemented via Team Beachbody. You can start by signing up at Team Beachbody for FREE, as a member of the Team Beachbody community. Team Beachbody is a fitness meets social networking environment, where you have tons of free fitness tools at your fingertips, can work out in the virtual super gym, win cash just for working out, chat with buddies, and much more. You also get me as your free Coach, to help keep you focused on your fitness goals. If you decide to upgrade later and join the business as a Coach, I will be there to help you build your business too!

Click here to join Team Beachbody for FREE >>

How to sign up as a Coach? Get started for only $39.95. The first 30 days, you get to explore the back office, find out more about how the business works, make sales, sign up Coaches under you etc. After that, you pay $14.95 per month for your Beachbody Web site and back office system. You get 25% all products. Just think, if you sold just one P90X program per month, your commission of $30 would more than pay for your $14.95 fee. There are many more ways to earn. Click here to read about the compensation plan.
People already love these products! This opportunity is not for everyone. As an affiliate marketer I am sure you already do your research before getting involved anyway. But Beachbody is definitely worth looking at.

If you want to build a residual income (you are here so I think you do) in this economy, you should definitely check it out. Keep in mind that many people are opting to work out at home since it is less expensive than a gym.

If you can’t wait to get started as a Coach, click here to sign up or review the more information >>

I purchased Build a Niche Store simply because the creators offered me something more than words and ideas. They provide real tangible software with free updates forever and an unlimited domain license (yes, you can use BANS on as many domains as you like). I like that a lot. Build a Niche Store (BANs) is in version 3 now. FREE updates and a great forum where you can get support if you need it as well as great creative ideas on how to make your niche store even better!

But wait? What is Build a Niche Store? BANS works with the eBay affiliate program. Did you know that eBay recently brought their affiliate program in-house? Ebay pays up to 75% of winning bid revenue as well as $25 for every new active user you send their way. You can also take advantage of 12 eBay countries….and they work with BANS! The possibilities are enourmous. Even if you don’t use BANS, you should at least look into Ebay’s affiliate program!

BANS (Build A Niche Store) is a website builder that enables you to create a network of traffic pulling, money making niche websites focused around the fabulous eBay affiliate opportunity. The12 eBay marketplaces that BANS currently supports (Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Spain, France, India, Italy, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States) hold a combined product inventory of over 60 million products. Can you imagine how many different different niche markets that is?

Did I mention that you also get 9 templates that you can customize?

Here is a taste of my experience with Build a Niche Store.

I downloaded the software, which came with 2 PDF manuals: Installation and Setup. I already had a domain name that I planned to use for my niche store as well as web server space so I was anxious to get started.

I followed the steps in the Installation guide and everything went smoothly. In this step I uploaded the niche store files to my web server, changed permissions on a file, added a SQL database and user. I never created a SQL database and user but the instructions were very clear.  Then I completed the installation from an Internet web browser. The basic niche store was setup in under 15 minutes.

Next, I setup the basic framework of my niche store from the Niche Store Admin panel (this is where all the real magic takes place) with my ebay affiliate ID and ebay categories that I planned to target. I did a little ebay research to find the correct category and entered the category number in my niche store admin panel. I then setup a new eBay affiliate campaign and entered that number in my admin panel.

Voila, the store was setup with functioning categories and eBay auction listings. The menu doesn’t just include one category… all sub-categories display in the niche store menu on your niche store site so you can have a pretty long list of categories.

The category store pages are automatically generated based on eBay auctions. You can format your auctions five ways too! You can also leave the eBay store pages as the default or you can add text, your own meta tags, menu navigation text, and ads — all from within the admin panel.

You can also add your own static content pages. This is a great place to add interesting articles that will attract visitors and search engines. Again, you do this from with the admin panel.

There is also a place in the admin panel where you can place ads on the top, left, right, or bottom of your eBay niche store. You can ad affiliate links, Adsense, or anything else you want.

The generated pages seem to be SEO friendly so far too.

The technical work is fairly easy. I found the instructions extremely clear and easy to understand and follow.

My next step is to start doing a little marketing as well as adding some content pages to make my niche stores more interesting.

So, the truth is that Build a Niche Store is a great tool for me to build a store in a content management type environment. And I love the possibilities: 12 countries, 60 million products. Plus I am having a lot of fun with customization and just thinking of a new niche market to target. My niche store has already paid for itself. At just $97, it was a really good deal.

But again, it is a worthwhile investment for me because it is software that I can actually create something with (a niche store) in a short amount of time.

It truly is easy to use.

You owe it to yourself to read more about Build a Niche Store, and see how you can benefit from what BANS has to offer. You will learn more than I can ever brag about here.  Click here for more information about BANS.

eBay hosted their affiliate program with Commission Junction for years. eBay recently announced that they are moving their affiliate program in-house starting on April 1, 2008. The new in-house network is designed to give affiliates better access to revenue opportunities across eBay Inc.’s global platforms.

Although the launch date is April 1, we heard that “the eBay Partner Network and Commission Junction will run in parallel for one month through this process, so please plan to complete your migration by May 1st, 2008.”

Why should you care? If you build niche sites with Build a Niche Store, you will need to grab and make some updates to your Niche Store’s software.

Kelvin and Adam, the creators of Build a Niche Store, are well aware of eBay’s plan to launch their new in-house affiliate program and will update Build a Niche Store as required.
Stay tuned for announcements about the update!

• 1st prize – 4 night Bahama Cruise & $500 spending cash
• 2nd prize – Samsung 19? Flat-Panel HDTV, Revolution All-Inclusive Package or $500 cash
• 3rd prize – $250 cash or gift certificate to your favorite online retailer

Three fantastic prizes for the top three Revolution affiliates. Will you be one of them?

Contest Rules:

• The contest will begin on March 1st, and run until 12:00 midnight March 31st
• The people who generate the 3 highest amount of affiliate sales (in US dollars) throughout the course of the month will be awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes
• To enter the contest, you must be a Revolution affiliate
• You must post on your blog and linkback with the details of this contest
• Self-purchases made with your own affiliate code will NOT count
• You can use any of the affiliate banner images from the Revolution site

Head over to the contest and find out more!

First let me say that The Rich Jerk is not for the faint of heart! He is brash and direct, a very hardcore Internet money making guy. He tells it like it is. So if you like fluffy, cute advice about how to make money on the Internet, then don’t get the Rich Jerk ebook.

If you are new to making money on the Internet, The Rich Jerk may not be for you, although he does include a supplemental chapter for beginners (and at $9.99 for a 65 page ebook, it’s a steal). Many of his tactics assume you know a thing or two already about Internet affiliate marketing, he just gives you a few of the pieces you are missing.

I won’t (and can’t!) give away all the secrets of The Rich Jerk ebook, but I will talk here about the chapters that were valuable for me and why.

Creating an Affiliate Website that Sells Like Crazy

The Rich Jerk provides some sales letter strategies that really lit a fire under me. Writing good sales letters is paramount to your success as an affiliate marketer. How many times did you get lazy and just copy and paste someone else’s crappy text onto your affiliate sales page? I know you do it. The Rich Jerk and his brash methods will definitely get you motivated to write sales copy that SELLS! He showed me how to think outside my box that I have fallen into.

Unique Search Engine PPC and Strategies

Everyone thinks they know everything about PPC Strategies. But I bet your ads look just like the other eight on the page. The Rich Jerk provides some good strategies for PPC ads and making money with Adsense. I started using some of his strategies for my PPC ads and guess what? They work!

Websites You Can Make Profitable Right Now

If you are not already using ClickBank, then read this chapter. The Rich Jerk gives some good information about creating profitable niche ClickBank websites.

Summary

All in all, just half the chapters were useful me (I didn’t mention them all here), but again, it was well worth the $9.99 for the ebook. You probably spend that much for two Starbuck lattes or three snacks in the junk machine in your workplace breakroom.

Honestly, I would not have paid $98 for this ebook (the original price when it was first published) but at $9.99 it was worth the price of admission. Plus you get access to The Rich Jerk forums to discuss, what else, MAKING MONEY ON THE INTERNET.

If you are out of ideas, your profits have plummeted, or you just want to increase your monthly checks, The Rich Jerk ebook will definitely keep you busy thinking outside the box.

Let me introduce you to Clickbank. Maybe you are already acquainted, maybe not. Either way, read on and maybe you’ll find a tidbit or two to help boost your sales.

Clickbank is an online payment processor and affiliate marketing system. It allows you to sell other people’s stuff. When you do, you get a commission based on the terms of the product agreement.

Unlike many other affiliate programs, Clickbank is geared primarily towards digital products like downloadable software and ebooks. Before getting into Clickbank, here’s a quick detour on a couple of things to do before getting started.

If you are thinking about writing niche articles or creating a niche website, the first place to start is finding your niche. That is not what this article is about so I won’t be focusing on that. So let’s say you find some keywords that are likely to make you a profit. Now what? Well you have to find some products that match those keywords.

But not just any products. You want to promote top notch products that are going to make you a PROFIT! That’s why you are blogging, isn’t it? To make a profit.

OK. Now let’s say you have your top notch, money-maker keywords. The next step is finding the affiliate products. Clickbank is a great place to start. You can find thousands of affiliate products to sell within a variety of categories. All it will cost you is the time and energy to find the products and create your niche articles.

Take a look at how to find products that sell really well.

1. Go to Clickbank.com.
2. Click Marketplace (located at top right).
3. Type a keyword in the keywords field and click Go. You can also narrow your search by selecting a category.
4. A list of products that match your query display in a list. Each Clickbank product displays information similar to the image below.

What does all that stuff mean?

• $/sale: The amount of money you earn for each sale.
• Future $: Average rebill revenue.
• Total $/sale: Average total $ per sale, including all rebills.
• %/sale: The percentage of the product sale price that the sale represents.
• %/refd: Fraction of publisher’s total sales that are referred by affiliates.
• grav: The measure of how many affiliates are promoting the product. This is a weighted sum and not an actual total. For each affiliate paid in the last 8 weeks Clickbank adds an amount between 0.1 and 1.0 to the total. The more recent the last referral, the higher the value added.

The Gravity indicator will tell you how well a product is selling. So a gravity score of 100 means a product is potentially selling better than one with a gravity score of 20. What if the gravity score is off the charts, like 450? Maybe the product is selling too well and you can’t compete with that type of competition in an already saturated market. I like to stay within the 70 to 100 range for gravity. Occasionally I will go for a lower gravity number especially if the product is new to market.

Once you select a product, check out the sales page. What are they selling? Would you buy it? If no, then why would someone else? Think about that.

Other things to consider in your Clickbank adventure. Let’s say the percent of the Clickbank sale to you is $20.00. Sound good, huh? If you are using Pay Per Click (PPC), be careful and do your math. If you pay 20 cents per click and it takes 100 clicks before a single person buys the product, then you have not made any money. You will break even. Even it takes 120 clicks before someone buys the product, then you have lost money.

It will take the same amount of work to promote a product that pays $46.00 as it does for one that pays you $20.00 so choose wisely. Now if you are just blogging on about stuff, and not using PPC at all, then it doesn’t matter so much except for your bottom line.

I am proud to say that in January, The Success Space made $499.00 with Clickbank products. This total took into consideration one returned item. So get blogging and start your own Clickbank profitable niche!

What are your Clickbank stategies?

As a confessed, long-time affiliate marketer, I can tell you that creating lots of small web sites can be a very tedious task. Don’t get me wrong. I love getting checks in the mail as much as the next person but I knew there had to be a better, more efficient way to create these niche web sites.

I heard lots of blogosphere chatter about using WordPress to create static web sites. WordPress is a fantastic Content Management System (CMS) that is typically used for blogs and ongoing conversations with the people who read them. It’s easy to manage because once you write the articles, the hyperlinks (like monthly archives, categories, and pages) take care of themselve. Everything in a tidy neat little package.

Usually, when I select a new affiliate marketing niche, I look at profitable keywords or products, and build a site around it. High maintenance is out of the question! Who has the time for that. I like sites that bring in two things: traffic and money!

I had the good fortune to meet Caroline Middlebrook. Caroline has done the hard work friends, and written an ebook about creating the very thing I wanted to create. A low-to-no maintenance niche web site using WordPress. I like it already!

I downloaded the ebook with no expectations but was pleasantly surprised. Caroline has a technical background but has written her ebook so mere mortals can actually understand it!

She starts out introducing the subject about niche sites and then launches into a nice overview and how-to about installing WordPress. Caroline also targets the important points in the WordPress Admin panel and how to get your WordPress theme going.

It was a nice WordPress refresher but then she reveals the real gems of creating your niche static web site with WordPress:

• Setting up Adsense
• Essential WordPress plugins and how to install them
• Site subject and monetization
• Static pages
• Link structure
• And much more!

All in all the “How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress” ebook is a quick read with some great information and tips. Your mind will be flowing with new ideas when you finish this one!

Download it for FREE at Caroline’s blog.

Check out  iThemes WordPress Themes, my favorite WordPress themes for creating niche affiliate sites.

Are you one of those people who carefully spellchecks your blog or website and makes all the necessary corrections? If so, you can be missing out of my favorite kind of Internet traffic, that is, typo traffic. I know, all the “Pro” bloggers tell you to check for those typos in your blog postings. Don’t bother with corrections. Chances are, you did type something wrong that can benefit your site.

Did you know that AT LEAST 17% of all Internet searches contain typo variations of the real keywords? Wouldn’t you like to steer some of those search results to your website?

There are two types of typos:

• Domain
• Regular words

Domain Typos

Now even though we all have a Favorite menu in the Internet browser, many people still enjoy typing a domain name to reach the Internet destination. This result in lots of domain typos. Imagine if you owned a typo domain of a real domain that gets tons of traffic? You would end up getting lots of free traffic too.

Take JohnCow.com for instance. First you have to know the real domain name. Everyone knows who JohnChow.com is, don’t you? If not, scoot right over there and then come back and finish reading this post. Well, JohnCow.com is a typo domain version of JohnChow.com. The bloggers over at JohnCow.com have a had a lot of fun with this one. Do you know in their first month of owning the domain, they had over 67,000 new visitors? And the visitors just keep on coming.

How about Gamil.com? They were around about eight years before Gmail.com came into the Internet picture. Gamil.com gets tons of free, new traffic due to all of us who can’t type Gmail.com correctly.

There are two good examples of typo domains. See, typos can drive enourmous traffic!

Regular Word Typos

Now that we covered domain typos, let’s talk about regular words in blog postings, web pages, title tags, and meta description tags. I first discovered typo traffic when I typed a product name incorrectly on an affiliate marketing web page. I didn’t realize I typed it wrong and was pleasantly surprised when my sales for that particular product went up suddenly. I checked my site statistics and found that all these Internet surfers were typing the product name incorrectly into the search engine. My site was number one for quite some time due to that little mistake.

Lots of people use typos now on purpose to drive traffic to their sites. So give it some thought before correcting it next time you find a typo in your blog post or web site article. People have built entire blogs or web sites around typos (domains and words.)

Anyway, AdEngage is a service that connects publishers who want to sell ad space on their websites with advertisers who want to purchase ads on their websites. AdEngage is also particular about what publishers they allow into their network of publishers – preferably, quality sites with real content!

AdEngage serves up text and PhoText ads in a variety of customizable sizes, both vertical and horizontal formats. A PhoText ad displays a photo with text, and both are clickable.

Once you create an account, and place the HTML code in a key location on your website, your site will be listed in the AdEngage directory. Once it’s listed, advertisers browse through the thousands of sites to select one or more on which to display their ads.

Then the ad shows on your website and you make money! Yeah!

The Success Space signed up as a publisher recently and placed the HTML code in the right most column.

The amount of money that an advertiser will pay to advertise on your site is directly related to many factors. You can see in the example below of a random site that I selected from AdEngage. For this example, the fee is $320. per week to advertise on that particular site. Excellent paycheck! And that is just for one advertiser. It’s likely they have many rotating at the same time so do the math fellow bloggers!

Since I just got started with AdEngage, I am still waiting for an advertiser to purchase ads to display on The Success Space. In the meantime, they display some random ads to fill the space. I am hoping that AdEngage will prove more lucrative than Adsense. I’ll let you know how it goes.

It is very easy to sign up and get started. What are you waiting for?

Have you used AdEngage? Good experience? Bad? All comments are appreciated!