Affiliate Marketing Blog

Whenever you’re building a new site, you always run the risk of having Google (or other search engines) indexing your site before it’s completed. While it’s not a death sentence for your site if this happens, things go so much smoother if you can prevent indexing until your site is ready.

So how do you prevent Google and the other search engines from indexing your site until you’re ready?

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If you’re an affiliate marketer or just have a web site, you probably have a Linux based web host that uses cPanel. You probably even host multiple domains from the same cPanel account. However when you setup those domains, did you setup your domain’s e-mail properly? Chances are you haven’t. Let me explain…

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Daniel Scocco wrote a great post titled Blog Setup: 40 Practical Tips over at the DailyBlogTips site. While the post is nearly a year old (which can be an eternity when it comes to blogging), most of the tips are still valid and practical. If you’re setting up a new blog, or just want to improve your existing one, then it’s a worthwhile read.

This is the long overdue follow-up to Step Two - Part 1: Getting in the Customers’ Heads. In part 1 we discussed the process for understanding the customer, and hopefully why that’s important. Then I left you hanging with the promise that I would research the cordless drill niche and get back to you with the results. Well here they are…

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Today I’m going to continue the Niche Blog Series with Step #2: Getting inside your customers’ heads. Or put another way, understanding the people in your niche.

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Tomorrow is Memorial Day here in the United States. It’s a day to honor our nation’s fallen soldiers… those brave men and women who died in service to their nation.

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I just wanted to post a quick note to let everyone know the site move has been completed. The domain name has been transferred from GoDaddy to NameCheap, and I’ve successfully moved web hosting providers.

I do need to apologize, because during the transfer to the new web host, I lost a couple of the comments that you left on some of the posts. Actually they’re not lost… if I log into the “Comments” section of the WP admin interface, I can see them, but they don’t show up under the posts. Very strange…

Aside from that hiccup, we’re back in business and I appreciate your patience along the way.

Quick update on my site move and domain transfer…

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If you’re into affiliate or internet marketing, you know there’s a ton of bloggers out there ready to give you advice, and a lot of it is good… but a lot of it is crap. What’s the worst piece of advice I read everywhere?

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What happens when you transfer your domain to a new registrar at the same time that you’re moving to a new web host? Nothing, which is the problem.

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