This is a sponsored post of the popular webmaster resource Triple.com. My opinions were not influenced, as this is an honest review of the program.

Triple.com is a top-notch domain name, web hosting and webmaster resource website that has long been one of my favorite companies on the net. They have some great deals on domain names, cheap $4/month web hosting and great extras that can get your website online in hours. An official ICANN domain registrar, I’ve used these guys before and absolutely love the customer service. When they came to me asking for a review of the new affiliate program, I jumped at the chance to let you guys know about this great company in a constructive way.

With the brand new Triple.com affiliate program, marketers and blog owners like you and me can make some extra commission off of our readers and visitors. The referral system works in two different ways. The first branch is referring customers that buy the actual domains, hosting, security certificates, etc. You get a whopping 30% off of every person who makes a buy. The better leg (in my opinion) is the webmaster referral system, which nets you 15% of everything any other webmaster brings in. This means that you get 15% of all the business another webmaster refers… which can make for a nice payout each month.

Ethical Profits Made Simple
Let’s be honest, a lot of the affiliate networks out there have you pushing products on people that they shouldn’t be ordering in the first place. Those of you who own blogs already know the importance of reliable hosting and domain names. Those of you who are just into making an extra buck online can appreciate the need for reliable service that any website owner will inevitably face.

Forget these shady gambling, dieting or marketing packages that you feel unethical in promoting. Triple.com is a fantastic website with a great track record and a product that people need. Now with the Triple.com affiliate program, you can get paid off of customers buying real products and from webmasters referring interested business.

Efficient and Orderly Design and Payment Management
As a former web designer myself, I absolutely hate websites that are run on unprofessional scripts and unappealing designs. I really can’t say much against the Triple.com system. The primary website (the business end) has an awesome “Web 2.0” look to it that makes things easy to navigate and clean. In addition, the affiliate managing back end has just a few basic pages to manage your income. Sure, it would be nice to see some added analytical features, but all the options you would want are there and the payment tracking system is one of the best I’ve seen.

On top of the design itself, there are some great looking banners that will fit with almost any blog theme or website layout… so your customers will catch all your links and get you the maximum potential revenue. You get two referral links, one for your customers and one for your webmasters. Clean. Professional. Nothing else to say, Triple.com is a great looking website.

Payments and Restrictions
Now that you’ve had a chance to hear about the affiliate program and webmaster company, let’s talk about the restrictions and payment scales that are set up for you as an affiliate. First things first (and correct me if I’m wrong), Triple.com seems to be open to everyone with a PayPal account. So all of you international readers looking to make some affiliate money may have better luck with the Triple.com program than with a full-fledged marketing broker like Market Leverage or NeverBlueAds.

Payments are all processed by PayPal every month. The best part about this is that there is a super low minimum balance to reach withdrawal at $20. That’s just a few domain sales or one web hosting account. I would like to see them expand their reach out into giving checks and accepting other mediums of payment… but PayPal is definitely a solid start as a lot of people like the anonymity.

Bottom Line: Triple.com is a fantastic webmaster website with a great reputation in the industry. Their new affiliate program is an awesome way to make extra income on the side… with the potential 30% per sale and 15% per referred webmaster. A low payout threshold, quick and efficient pay processing and an awesome product you will actually enjoy promoting… Triple.com is a great new program that has my recommendation.

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This is a sponsored post of the t3Leads.com network. The views expressed are my own, and have not been influenced by the promotional nature of the bid.

You all know what affiliate marketing is by now. Big advertisers pay big money for leads, and using programs like Market Leverage, NeverBlueAds and ClickBooth you can score big commissions. I know a lot of people that are affiliate marketers making $50,000+ every month just using their computers! It’s truly a lucrative business that pays well once you have your feet wet in the business.

I agreed to do this promotional review of the T3Leads network primarily because they are the running specialists for the finance niche of the market. They claim, as everyone else does, the highest pay per lead rates in the business… but being a niche focused marketing company they do have their advantages over more popular solutions such as those listed above. Truly a business dedicated to forming lasting business relationships, let’s have a look at the t3leads pay per lead program!

The T3Leads Website Design and Functionality
First things first, you know that I am a sucker for good looks… so let’s see how t3leads matches up with the best. On first glance, things look pretty decent. A nice flash banner, a few top products on the sidebar and a good description of what the website is. The only problem here is that the website really falls apart when you navigate away from the homepage.

Signing up is easy enough, and while they send you an email confirmation… I had a strange suspicion that me confirming the reception did absolutely nothing. The one good thing about the main portion of the website is that they have only a few places to go so as not to confuse anyone. There is a great contact page that can put you in touch with a representative from the get-go (before even registering), and a clear-cut FAQ. The primary website (non-members) gets a passing grade for good functionality, though it didn’t blow me away.

T3Leads clearly didn’t put a lot of effort into the members area. This thing is really all over the place, and everything is written twice… once in English and once in Russian, a trend that continues over to the forum board as well. Perhaps they are fixing this, as we company is new, but it’s a bit awkward right now. The member’s section as a whole takes some getting used to, and the functionality isn’t up to par. However, I think that the payment area is really nice… and you can organize it all pretty easily.

The T3Leads Offer Selection and Schematics
What I think is cool about t3leads that really sets them apart is that they give you a virtual army of websites to use in marketing. Here are a few examples: example 1, example 2, example 3. Point taken, the websites that they give you to market are very professional looking (save the ugly numbers on the end), and used correctly you could make a lot of money. Not only that, but all of the websites come with a list of keywords already included… so you know exactly what needs to be done with no research. These sites range from debt consolidation to home loans and everything in between. A nice addition is that they also offer the option for you to custom-make your own websites to pull in some revenue with an API of sorts to work the system a bit more effectively.

The system is a bit odd at first, but t3leads actually doesn’t operate like a standard affiliate marketing company. Instead of giving you the ads and everything where you just need to use a link to give business, t3leads gives you the entire website and let’s you market it as if it were your own with banners and creatives. This is a cool concept, but I think that it burns out a bit by the fact that you really have no clue what you are making, as the reporting system as a whole is pretty darn weak at this point in time. There is a nice way to track all your clicks each day, but it’s impossible to discern what is coming from where.

The T3Leads Support Line and Help
As I said in the opening remarks, they go ahead and give you all the contact information from the get-go. This is definitely not the place you want to go for good support, as you don’t get a personalized representative like you do with a mid or large size marketing firm. However, if you need support they seem readily available in a relatively bare (but new) forum and ticketing system.

My personal experience in talking with them has been pretty average, and that’s exactly what I would expect from a company the size of t3. However, it’s nothing to scoff at, as they will help you in the long run (maybe just not as fast as their competitors).

The Net Fool’s Final Call
Alright, after exploring the system at t3leads, my recommendation is to approach with caution as I give the network a 5/10 ranking. They have a pretty good system in place with giving you your own websites to market, but it is all pretty loosely assorted with an awkward members area and not a very good revenue reporting area. In addition, I’m a bit concerned about payment frequency. While they claim bi-weekly payments… which would be amazing… I have personally seen delays in my little time here.

This may be a solid option for those of you who are international and can’t seem to find a network to work with. There are 6 methods of payment, including popular methods like PayPal, Check and Bank wire, but the threshold is a high $100. My final call is that this might be a fun network to experiment with, but they are just too young to put any serious money into at this point in development. A nice start for a new company.

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One of the most clear cut methods in marketing a website or blog is the so-called “bum marketing” that often centers on creating unique articles for better search results.

The theory behind this goes that by submitting a ton of individual articles to several websites, you will over time increase all of your search engine term rankings. As we all know, higher search engine ranking positions (SERPs) lead to increased traffic to your website… which is always a good thing.

Thinking about “bum marketing” for promotion got me thinking whether or not it would be possible to do the same thing for revenue. Granted, writing up articles can be a good amount of overhead work; however, marketing your content can be one of the best free no-risk methods to driving insane traffic to your website. Making money by writing articles is really as simple as cashing in on high-traffic niche through Google, and collecting on the clicks that come in organically. Let’s get to work in turning ordinary “bum marketing” into a profit machine!

The Method to Make Hundreds Marketing
Before I get into the specifics, allow me to first talk about the method we are going to use to turn article writing into a steady cash flow in a simplified version. Essentially, we are going to be doing exactly what would commonly be used in bum marketing with either a referral link or monetized website on the other end of things. Since article submission services like eZineArticles allow you to attach a link in the “resource box” section that appears at the end of your posts, we can slip in a resource that is going to make us money. I’ve devised a five-step process that covers everything from researching a niche area where we can place high in Google, to finding a great product to market, to actually getting your affiliate information visited!

The Five Steps to Success: Discover/Research a Niche Area Come Up with Killer Keywords for SERPs Finding A Hot Product that You Can Market Create a Path to Profit in the Resource Box Write Unique Articles & Get Published!

The most important step in any process is usually the first one. With no exception, coming up with a niche area that offers high volume with competition that you can beat out is essential. If you are trying to penetrate a giant industry with your hastily written articles… you have another thing coming! What we need is to find an industry where you can be a big fish in a small pond to steal all of the traffic in Google search results.

Start researching a target market now.

There’s really no two bits about it, whether or not you feel you can write articles for the area you research is highly irrelevant. You simply need a market of people that are willing to spend on a product here or there… something that you can exploit for capital gains. The process is as easy as identifying a market, finding a product for the market, researching the profitability of that product and finding more markets! You will want to do this until you have about five separate targeted markets that compose one collective niche.

Example: Let’s get you through the niche process in a sample. Say I started with “sports” as a general idea. Too popular would be an understatement here… so let’s narrow the field a bit and go to “sports betting.” Still, this is a bit too heavily invested for my blood… there’s no way we’ll be hitting page 1 with this. So let’s narrow it further to “football betting.” Now that’s the kind of niche that we can penetrate with some clever keywords!

2. Come Up with Killer Keywords for High-Ranking Results
Now that we have our niche in place, we need to find a collection of keywords that are going to give us a high amount of traffic with a low amount of advertiser competition. This sounds simple, but it’s a bit trickier than it sounds… so you may want to spend a good amount of time getting acquainted. There are a lot of tools to lighten the load, so let’s talk about a few of the best while we hunt for 15-20 keyword phrases to exploit.

My two favorite tools to come up with creative keywords that you can use to get those all-important top rankings are the SEO Book Keyword Suggestion and the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. I would say that Google is now your best option, as they have all of the rankings built in for your display. Best of all, you can export all of your results to a spreadsheet for your convenience!

The most efficient way to research keywords is to simply open up a blank document in notepad, excel or your favorite data entry program so you can jot down your best ideas. Remember, we want to shoot for 15-20 terms total… so you should write down more than 30 great ones before you narrow down the field to the top tier results. It’s much easier for me to give you an example, so let’s go through our term “football betting” in a keyword adventure.

Example: Okay, so we have our text editor open and we are ready to explore some opportunities. I like to start with Google and work through a few other tools to really get the best results from my efforts. Google more than likely has the best numbers (for obvious reasons), so I’ll use them first. After entering “football betting,” I am getting 68 immediate results. I like terms that have low competition with over 2,000 in daily hits… so keywords like “football betting system,” “bet college football” and “betting predictions” would be good options. Remember, we can discover more words by searching the terms we come across in the results page. This might take awhile, but it’s worth it for getting those front page clicks.

3. Finding a Hot Product that You Can Market
There’s going to be a product for every market out there… and you really only need one to make a lot of money. We are basically going to be finding a product that offers an affiliate referral program where we can refer leads and make money. This can either be a lead-based or sales-based program, but I prefer making actual sales because of the higher commission on each success.

Once again, we turn to our favorite affiliate networks to find offers that convert well (high ratio of sales-to-views) and pay well (high ratio of cash-to-pocket). Let’s open up Market Leverage, ClickBank, NeverBlueAds and/or any other network you might be using. I would try something generic like “sports” as a search term for our “football betting” niche. Most networks have some great statistics pages so that you can see just how well these programs are paying affiliates. You’ll want to structure your landing pages differently based on which offers you choose, but right off the bat I see “Vegas Baby” and “Pure Play” betting services that offer around $2/lead a piece. We’re going to be aiming for the fast cash if we use a lead based system… so plan accordingly!

4. Create a Path to Profit in the Resource Box
The “resource box” is the area underneath every article that you publish that is going to bring in the bacon. In it, you need a way to get loads of traffic coming toward your website or affiliate link so that people who read your top-ranked article are getting you paid off. There are a few ways to sneak in your link under cover, so let’s talk about how we do this most effectively.

Unfortunately, websites like eZineArticles (the most popular) won’t let you put in an affiliate link or even a cloaked redirect link into your resource box area. So what can you do? Register your own domain name! I’d recommend the cheapest possible (as it doesn’t really matter) such as a .info name… and you have your problem solved.

Once you have your domain, you have two options:

1. Create a forward: In this method, all you need to do is have your domain name operate as a forward to your affiliate link. As long as you write your domain name in the resource box, the article service will be none the wiser.

2. Create a landing page: In this method, we are going to create an attractive landing page that hooks readers into giving us a referral commission. This is what I use especially for lead-based referring, as you can’t just dump a reader into a survey… you need to give them a set-up opinion poll or something catchy to get them interested in doing the work for you.

Link your newly created domain name with a short description around it that entices readers to click on your link to find out more, and you have yourself a high-paying stream of income!

5. Write Up Unique Articles & Get Them Published
The stage is set, so all we need to do now is put it all together in a bunch of articles and get them published on a few article resource websites. You should aim to pump out as many unique articles as possible, as they only need to be just over 400 words apiece to be effective. Remember, do not use duplicate content as Google will never let you survive. You can use old blog posts of yours if you wish, but you should be piecing together articles from no more than 2 paragraphs a post, and you need to change around some words with synonyms. Doing either this, or just jotting down some generalized information with keywords inside, will get you traffic if done correctly.

Submit Your Articles to These Websites: eZineArticles.com (REQUIRED!) GoArticles.com USFreeAds.com ISnare.com SearchWarp.com

You could try additional services, but it’s a waste of your time if it doesn’t get a top spot. eZineArticles is the one you need to be in, but the others could potentially get you some great rankings as well.

The most important part of submitting articles is having the keywords you researched in the title of the article! Remember, your list of 15-20 killer keywords are going to be in the titles, and this is how we get our serach traffic because the article title carries the most weight. Below are a few examples of titles that are keyword-effective:

• Five [KEYWORD HERE] to being a successful…
• Three keys to [KEYWORD HERE] like…
• [KEYWORD HERE]… in one week or less!

The best part of article writing is that it doesn’t even have to be good… it just needs to get ranked. A lot of the stuff you are writing is going to sound outright “street” if you are doing it quickly. That’s perfectly alright. Remember, this isn’t 5th grade English…. we just need to get hits and get out, so being effective in your writing is essential.

Bottom Line: By writing articles rich in high-grossing keywords for a niche you can be competitive in, it is very possible to start earning $100s every single day. The power of researching a product that will sell in a niche that has a high amount of volume is astonishing. After the initial struggle to put up articles on the five service I have outlined, you’ll start seeing money flowing in from your affiliate link hits day after day!

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Looking for a way to make $1,000’s in the blink of an eye? You may think I’m exaggerating, but getting sales with some well-converting affiliate programs can be as easy as riding a bike, and anyone can do it.

This is a method that has been a best-kept secret by the internet marketing community for quite some time. I know full well that they are going to have my head for letting you guys in on one of the fastest ways to make thousands of dollars on the internet… but this is just too good to pass up. By exploiting the power of the best affiliate program on the internet, you can actually make over 1,150% more than your referral pays. This translates to some insane profits on your end. So let’s get started!

The Basic Idea
You all know about the affiliate programs that exist on the internet. The basic idea is that you sign up as a referral under a company, and for every sale you refer you get X% of that sale. But what if you could find such an affiliate program that paid you a flat rate that was actually MORE than the sale itself? You could make a fair amount of money, couldn’t you?

As it just so happens, the program with HostGator offers payouts that offer over 1,150% more than what your referral actually needs to pay for the successful conversion. By getting people to sign up to just a few months of hosting, you can grab up to $125 flat-rate on each purchase. This method is fool-proof and the pros have been exploiting it for awhile. It’s time to let you in on the big secret.

The HostGator Referral Program
The affiliate program over at HostGator, one of the web’s largest web hosting companies, is the best I’ve seen. The system works in four phases, and credits you a variable flat-rate each time you make a sale. Keep in mind that there is a 60-day hold period where your earnings will be on standby in order to cut down on fraud. This is no big deal, as we just need people to sign up for 2 months of hosting. You are going to be making anywhere from $50 to $125 dollars on every sale you refer, depending on how many people you get to sign up each month. So register here if you want to be paid using the HostGator pay scale.

If you are anything like me, wouldn’t you rather skip the system and get a whopping $100 every sale from the get-go? This loophole of sorts was shown to me by Reid from MooneyQuest.com, so thank him for it. Essentially, if you sign up with Commision Junction, they will pay you $100 every time you refer a use to HostGator through your CJ account. This is by far the better way to go, unless of course you are planning on referring over 20 people every month… at which point you’d break even.

The downside? If you use CJ.com, you can only get paid in check or direct deposit. But you have your options: either you sign up directly through HostGator, or you just go for the big bucks from the start with Commission Junction’s HostGator affiliate program.

Offer Your Referrals a Discount
Before you focus on how exactly you are going to get people to sign up for two months of hosting using your referral, let’s make things affordable for them! People like a good deal, and it just so happens that they can grab the first month of hosting for just 1 cent using the coupon code “HGC25“, the second month on the mid-sized hosting package is just $9.95. This means that you can get people to buy hosting under you that will earn you as much as $125 for under $10 (or $9.96 for you math guys).

How to Get People to Sign Up
Obviously, now that we have the premise in mind, we need a game plan to pick up our sales. I think that you will find it is very easy to get people to sign up to hosting underneath you, especially if you have something to offer. If you are a blogger, you essentially have things made as you can simply leverage your reputation as a means to get people to buy hosting under your account. But even if you are just a run of the mill entrepreneur, there are plenty of methods to have people signing up!

1. Offer a Discounted Good
   Chances are, you may already have your own eBook, membership or other digital product on the market. Getting people to sign up can be as simple as offering a special discounted $10 copy of your good to people. What’s more, you can even say that with every purchase, they’ll get two free months of web hosting from HostGator. Who’s going to turn that kind of deal down?
2. Provide a Service
   Offering a service is very easy to do, and you don’t necessarily need to be talented in any specific area in order to get business. By making a thread on DigitalPoint webmaster forums or WarriorForum you can get people interested in graphic design, article writing, advertising you name it that would be more than willing to get you $10 and get free hosting along with it. Heck, maybe you could even sell them the hosting straight up!
3. Leverage Your Influence
   If you own a blog, feel free to use that to your advantage. Offer your readers something extra and give them hosting on top of it. It’s quite easy when you already have the subscriber base, so feel free to go ahead and reach out to the community you’ve already built for support.

I’ve seen people get $3,000+ every month by offering to do various things for people on the internet. Lots of these schemes have involved offering to set blogs up, giving tutorial lessons on the internet or providing a consulting service. Since you are going to be making at least 900% more than you are asking for, this is one of the easiest paths to riches around.

The HostGator Path to Riches Recap
Okay, it’s recap time. This post outlined a method of making money online using the affiliate referral program offered through HostGator. The first step is to sign up with either HostGator (pay scale) or CJ.com (flat rate). Once you have an affiliate link to sign people up with, simply sell two months of hosting with a coupon for a total order under $10.00 to people by offering discounted goods and services with a “bonus” hosting plan. It’s fast, it’s simple, and their is no potential downside.

Bottom Line: The Net Fool’s HostGator referral method promises HUGE upside with absolutely zero downside rise… making it worthwhile for anyone. Other than this, there is additionally no risk of the method ever being saturated or over used, as the affiliate program is giving you a rate that won’t go away simply because more people are doing it. I’m hoping that you guys make a lot of money doing this. Go ahead and refer your friends over to this article if you like the idea.

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If you’ve ever been interested in making money online, chances are you know of the affiliate marketing programs out there serving aspiring entrepreneurs worldwide. Fact: a slim 5% of marketers gain 95% of the revenue there is to make in this business. Harnessing the power of marketing is the biggest potential source of web revenue, bottom line.

It’s a shame that the industry has dominated for years by four players: Commission Junction (the “Google” of internet marketing), Shareasale, Linkshare and Performics. However, looking back on first quarter 2008 results shows that there is now a fifth player… snagging a whopping 17.5% of top marketers according to  a recent study done by MarketingSherpa.com. Who is it? Pepperjam. And when the CEO of this company, Kris Jones, contacted me personally about a review… I knew this high-flier was for real.

How Pepperjam Stole The Show
How exactly is it that a 5-month old internet marketing wannabe steals 17.5% of the total internet marketing industry away from the likes of Commission Junction and ShareASale? When I read this recent MarketingSherpa report on the first quarter, I was stunned. What’s more impressive is the customers that Pepperjam services. They’ve got big-name contracts with companies like Pet Meds, Roca Wear, Playboy, Countrywide Financial (bless their hearts) and even the Washington Redskins.

Even with these big names in hand, it’s tough to make the case that Pepperjam is actually going to be able to compete with these big dogs long-term. They are still a long way out, but growth has been impressive knowing they’ve only been around half a year. Biggest driver for second quarter earnings? Ebay has now signed on with Pepperjam, switching out of a relationship with Commission Junction. Will this boost them up over a 20% market share usage among the pros? We’ll have to wait to see.

Safety In Numbers
Pepperjam was one of the first affiliate networks that I ever used, mostly due to their very proactive marketing campaigns early on. I have since switched over to Market Leverage because of their awesome support, but looking back on PepperJam’s website I can see that they have made quite the face-lift. Their old website featured a dark color scheme, which wasn’t too welcoming. Along with a new look to their website, They’ve got a more active campaigning approach that I really enjoy. Considered an authority by Forbes, CNN Money, Business 2.0 & more, and now established as “one of the top 5 major affiliate networks in the United States,” you should check Pepperjam out.

Personally, I like sticking to my numbers… as you are much less likely to get burned on payment by a major company. This fact is a major part of why I am re-recommending that you sign up with Pepperjam. There’s nothing wrong with joining multiple networks… heck, the best in the business do it! In the first quarter of 2008 alone, Pepperjam launched an astonishing 175 new advertisers… making it the fastest growing network in the United States.

But How Are Internet Marketing Company’s Compared?
MarketingSherpa.com broke rankings down into four categories for judging: merchants/advertisers in network, customer service, technology and payment. What was very interesting is how little the best affiliate marketers seem to care about customer service. Apparently, most of the biggest marketing companies have been rated “average” by the clients. This leaves a lot of room for smaller “infant” networks like Market Leverage and Pepperjam to break into the rankings by providing over-the-top customer support to those that want it… and I gotta say I like the attention.

One thing that you can get from Pepperjam that you can’t get from a bloated market authority is a personal touch. PepperJam assigns each account with a unique associate to guide you through your campaigning. But you can really talk to anyone you need, as I’ve even talked with the CEO of the business. I like the personal touch. I might not be the most advanced internet marketer, but I think that everyone appreciates being treated like one.

Bottom Line: The growth Pepperjam has experienced over the short 5-months since their creation is quite impressive. By signing on with some big names like eBay and NetQuote, it’s clear that they might pose a threat to the traditional industry heavyweights. I want to encourage all of you to sign up with the fastest growing affiliate network in the U.S., there’s a lot of upside from a quick registration.

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