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		<title>Find Your Niche and Make Cash for Life!</title>
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There is a new system that affiliates can use that enables them to choose their niche and copy the blueprints that others have successfully used in that niche to make thousands of dollars.
The Profit Miracle system is so easy to use and is utilizes free traffic so that the affiliate does not have to spend [...]]]></description>
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<p>There is a new system that affiliates can use that enables them to choose their niche and copy the blueprints that others have successfully used in that niche to make thousands of dollars.</p>
<p>The Profit Miracle system is so easy to use and is utilizes free traffic so that the affiliate does not have to spend any more money out of pocket to do the <a href="http://daveovendenshq.com">marketing</a> campaigns involved with affiliate <a href="http://daveovendenshq.com">marketing</a>.  The Profit Miracle system has it set up so that an affiliate can get set up in two easy steps.  The third step is watching their profit margin grow day after day as their income rolls in from their niches.</p>
<p>Many affiliates get frustrated because they create article after article and submit them but still come up short in the search  engines.  The Profit Miracle system teaches them how to take their articles to the top of the searches and make their conversion rate skyrocket.  Other affiliates do not have the writing skills to write their sales copy and SEO articles so that they can drive this free traffic to the offers that they are promoting, which also leads to frustration.  The Profit Miracle system can automatically create this copy based on the articles and techniques that have worked in those niches in the past.</p>
<p>In this way, Profit Miracle takes this burden off of the affiliates forever.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://daveovendenshq.com/blog/r/Click_Here_To_Download_Your_Free_Miracle_Profits_Report/322/2" target="_blank"><strong>Click Here To Download Your Free Miracle Profits Report</strong></a></p>
<p>Profit Miracle is the perfect system for people who are interested in affiliate marketing but do not have high technical skills and/or do not have much business experience.  This system has been set up as a no-fail method for people to use to make residual income month after month.  The affiliates can choose a niche that they are interested in, and then they activate the system so that it begins to create what is needed for that affiliate to</p>
<p>be successful in that niche.  Then he can sit back and let his money grow!  Get started today!</p>
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		<title>Ah-ha! I&#8217;ve Finally Discovered Why I Wasn&#8217;t Making Any Sales With Affiliate Marketing!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right, I spend a lot of time making perfect sales funnels that entice visitors to opt-in and eventually get sold to products. Unfortunately my sales recently plummeted and I was barely making a fraction of what I was used to. I was asking around and it turns out that this is actually a pretty [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://daveovendenshq.com/blog/r/link/277/1" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Cloak And Dagger Affiliate Secrets" src="http://cbpirate.com/banners/phantom_250.gif" alt="" width="250" height="250" /></a>That&#8217;s right, I spend a lot of time making perfect sales funnels that entice visitors to opt-in and eventually get sold to products. Unfortunately my sales recently plummeted and I was barely making a fraction of what I was used to. I was asking around and it turns out that this is actually a pretty common problem and that most people really have no idea what they&#8217;re doing wrong.</p>
<p>The truth? They aren&#8217;t doing anything wrong!</p>
<p>There&#8217;s actually a quite possibly MORE disturbing thing happening. A large percentage of computers now have some sort of spyware on them and more recently there are spyware programs that will change affiliate links on the host&#8217;s computer from your affiliate ID to the spyware creator&#8217;s. That means you&#8217;re doing all of the work and they&#8217;re STEALING your sales!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re making less sales that you expect to &#8211; or more than you normally make &#8211; it is very possible that this is your problem. With your current links there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop this problem either. The solution?</p>
<p><strong>CLOAK YOUR LINKS!</strong></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://daveovendenshq.com/blog/r/Click_Here_To_Download_Your_Free_Cloak_and_Dagger_Affiliate_Secrets_Report/277/2" target="_blank"><strong>Click Here To Download Your Free Cloak and Dagger Affiliate Secrets Report</strong></a></p>
<p>Normally people run off to a URL shortening service or something and get a different URL so it can&#8217;t be edited, but I would NOT recommend that you do that. More than likely you&#8217;ll pick one of the many services that will break affiliate cookies and you won&#8217;t get the sell anyways. More recently though there have been a few link cloaking services that are directly related to affiliate <a href="http://daveovendenshq.com">marketing</a> &#8211; these are the ones that you want.</p>
<p>The best ones of these will be hosted on your own site and allow you to change the links, etc. You probably shouldn&#8217;t try and make your own redirect script (unless you&#8217;re a programmer) &#8211; you might end up not having affiliate cookies still.</p>
<p>I asked around for a program that can do just this and was instead redirected to a report about link cloaking. It&#8217;s over 15 pages of information about link cloaking and why you need to do it. If you&#8217;re serious about getting the sales that you deserve and stopping thieves in their track, I recommend you download it as well.</p>
<p>The report is titled &#8216;Cloak &amp; Dagger Affiliate Secrets&#8217; and you can find it right here: {!reportlink}. This will take you through the reasons to use link cloaking, as well as the different ways that people can hijack links.</p>
<p>It recommends &#8216;Phantom Link Cloaker&#8217; (PLC) which is a great cloaking service that runs on your website. Recently &#8216;PLC&#8217; was upgraded to version two and a ton of new features were added. You can find &#8216;Phantom Link Cloaker&#8217; here if you have already read the report or are already convinced to look into a link cloaking service.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://daveovendenshq.com/blog/r/Click_Here_To_Download_Your_Free_Cloak_and_Dagger_Affiliate_Secrets_Report/277/3" target="_blank"><strong>Click Here To Download Your Free Cloak and Dagger Affiliate Secrets Report</strong></a></p>
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		<title>How Affiliate Marketers Can Give Google the Slap</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve used a lot of different affiliate marketing methods and find one of them to be the most effective.
Article marketing is cool, except the article directory gets to keep all the ad revenue and they are getting more particular about what articles they accept.
Review sites are OK, but does anyone really trust the reviews they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://daveovendenshq.com/blog/r/link/266/1" target="_blank"><img class="alignright" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Boost Your Blog Profits" src="http://www.wpaffiliate.net/image/banners/wpaffiliate-300x250.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="250" /></a>I&#8217;ve used a lot of different affiliate <a href="http://daveovendenshq.com">marketing</a> methods and find one of them to be the most effective.</p>
<p>Article <a href="http://daveovendenshq.com">marketing</a> is cool, except the article directory gets to keep all the ad revenue and they are getting more particular about what articles they accept.</p>
<p>Review sites are OK, but does anyone really trust the reviews they read on those sites anymore? Most people know by now that review sites are just disguised sales pitches and aren&#8217;t honest reviews.</p>
<p>Social media is fun, but it has its limits. It&#8217;s more about socializing, less about doing business. Sure, you can make connections there but at the end of the day the lion&#8217;s share of your profits likely isn&#8217;t coming from social media. Social media sites are not the most important place on the web.</p>
<p>So what is?</p>
<p>Your own blog. In my opinion, there&#8217;s nothing like having your own blog, especially if you use WordPress. WordPress makes blogging much easier and more effective.</p>
<p>Your blog is your castle. <strong>YOU</strong> get to decide which content to put on it and don&#8217;t have to wait a week for someone else to approve it.  <strong>YOU</strong> get to keep your ad revenue. If you use Google Adsense, however, chances are it&#8217;s more like Google Adcents. And don&#8217;t get me started on Google slaps.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s more effective to promote affiliate products on your blog rather than rely on Adsense. Affiliate<br />
commissions have a much higher payout than ad clicks.</p>
<p>One option is to have a &#8220;blog sponsor&#8221; section in your sidebar. Place ads here (preferably with eye-catching graphics rather than just text) that link to select affiliate products and also your own products if you have any.</p>
<p>Another option is to occasionally write a blog post that promotes an affiliate product. The posts should contain solid content in addition to the sales pitch. Write the post as if you were talking to a friend so that it doesn&#8217;t come across as too sales-y.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget to have an opt-in form on your blog so that you can collect the email addresses of your blog readers. You can occasionally promote affiliate products through email to your list. You should also send out emails that contain helpful, engaging content. You can use your blog posts as content but you should also use original content in your emails too. Mix it up.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s one type of text ad that I highly recommend and that&#8217;s WordPress Affiliate plugin that automatically<br />
inserts professional-looking ads for Clickbank products on your blog. Check it out here:</p>
<p>=&gt; <a rel="nofollow" href="http://daveovendenshq.com/blog/r/WordPress_Affiliate_ClickBank_Plugin/266/2" target="_blank"><strong>WordPress Affiliate ClickBank Plugin</strong></a></p>
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		<title>FTC Changes: Affiliate Email Marketing Disclosure Freebie</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start by saying that I&#8217;m not a layer and you should not consider any part of this post as legal advice, but, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard of the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines coming into effect on 1st December 2009?
Well, one of the changes being introduced is the need for affiliate marketers to disclose [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me start by saying that I&#8217;m not a layer and you should not consider any part of this post as legal advice, but, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard of the new <strong>Federal Trade Commission (FTC)</strong> guidelines coming into effect on 1st December 2009?</p>
<p>Well, one of the changes being introduced is the need for affiliate marketers to disclose the fact that their <a href="http://daveovendenshq.com">marketing</a> emails contain affiliate links for the products they are recommending.  Now I was wondering how to do this, what words I should use etc. when I came across this free resource from attorney Mike Young that shows you how to add an <strong>affiliate disclosure to your email <a href="http://daveovendenshq.com">marketing</a></strong> messages. Perfect!</p>
<p>This is a <strong>&#8216;must have&#8217; resource</strong> for anyone doing email marketing and so I thought should share it.</p>
<p>You can download it for free by right clicking and choosing &#8216;Save Target As&#8217; here:</p>
<p>=&gt; <a href="http://daveovendenshq.com/downloads/affiliate-email-marketing/affiliate-email-marketing-do.zip"><strong>Affiliate Email Marketing Disclosure</strong></a></p>
<p>In addition, Mike has another great product which ensures your website  has all of the correct <a rel="nofollow" href="http://daveovendenshq.com/blog/r/website_legal_forms/242/2" target="_blank"><strong>website legal forms</strong></a> so that you are fully FTC and legally compliant. I picked this up straight away andyou can see all of my new legal forms in the footer at the bottom of my blog.</p>
<p>Whatever you think of the new <strong>FTC regulations</strong>, can you really afford to ignore them?</p>
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