Written by: Beau Blackwell, Community Manager

A common fear among Internet marketers these days is the dreaded “Google slap.” If you’re not familiar with the term, it refers to Google significantly lowering the Quality Score of AdWords ad/advertisers, or banning them from advertising on AdWords outright.

Since Google slaps can be a big concern for ClickBank affiliates and vendors, we’ve made a concerted effort to work with Google to identify what causes them to lower the Quality Score of particular ads or landing pages. Now we’d like to share what we’ve learned with you so you can ensure your advertising and landing pages meet Google’s quality guidelines and maintain a positive Quality Score.

We’ve condensed the information we’ve learned directly from Google into the following videos, which discuss topics like the purpose of Quality Score, what goes into Quality Score calculation, specific techniques and page elements that Google frowns upon, and what to do if you’ve been “slapped.” As we learn more about this issue, we’ll continue to share it with you. Feel free to leave comments with questions or concerns, and we’ll try to get them answered for you.

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An effective way to improve your learning experience is to teach what you learn to others.

Advantages:
• Teaching can enhance your learning
o When you see yourself as a teacher, you take a far more responsible attitude toward the learning. You are a lot more motivated to learn when you are responsible to teach.

• You promote bonding in the relationship when you teach what you learn to your peers
o An authentic teaching experience causes both teacher and learner to become more bonded. People who have been influenced by great tutor tend to feel very close to them.

What is a suitable moment to teach?

It is time to teach when…
• People are not threatened. You should create an atmosphere in which the person feels more secure and receptive.
• You’re not angry or frustrated.
• The other person needs help and support.

Effective teaching method in order to accelerate learning:
• Be involving
o Instead of giving one-sided lecture, try to get your students involved. Teaching is not simply talking and writing. Try to engage your students by asking them questions, presenting scenarios, asking them to create a scenario, etc. Remember! Information presented in just one direction is often forgotten easily

• Tell stories & Role Play
o Instead of giving out plain and dull information, try to make it interesting. Convert your information into stories or try to edit an existing story with new information added in. If you think telling a story is not engaging enough, ask you students to do a role play or even do the role play with them.

• Use applied learning
o If people ask me how to accelerate learning, the first thing I think of is to use ‘applied learning’. Let me convince you why…
o Information/knowledge itself might be abstract, hard to understand, or hard to remember without any application. We all know that the best way to learn maths is to practice and do exercise. However, I’d say that doing practice exercise is the best way to prepare a maths exam, not to learn maths. I tend to forget about it after a one month holiday. I believe most people do. However, people never forget about the basic of mathematics: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Why? Because we encounter problems about them almost every day. We are applying these techniques in a regular basis. So using applied learning is really important. To maximize the benefit brought from applied learning, you should tailor the applied learning experience to the interest of the student.

Now that you have learn more about how to accelerate learning, try it out! Make the most out of this post. Good luck to your study and teaching.

Gain realistic tips about free traffic – study the web site. The times have come when concise information is really only one click away, use this possibility.

Written by: Beau Blackwell, Community Manager

Brad Wiskirchen, CEO of ClickBank, as well as its sister company Kount and parent company Keynetics, was recently interviewed by Susan Bratton, host of the popular DishyMix podcast series on Personal Life Media.

In the wide-ranging interview, they go in depth on topics like ClickBank’s growth and success, opportunities and challenges facing affiliate marketers, secrets to success that Brad has learned from our clients over the years, and much more. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about our CEO and his insights into ClickBank, be sure to listen.

Check out the interview with ClickBank CEO Brad Wiskirchen now!

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Written by: Beau Blackwell, Community Manager

We’ve talked a lot recently about the emergence of online video in affiliate marketing, and how powerful it can be for selling or promoting digital products. It seems like everyone’s using it and having great success, but we’re aware that a lot of people still don’t know where to get started with creating, filming, editing, and uploading online video to their Pitch Page or affiliate page.

To help make online video marketing easy and accessible for everyone, we asked long-time ClickBank vendor and web video expert Gideon Shalwick to make a series of videos for ClickBank affiliates and vendors who need help getting started, or want to make their videos more professional and effective.

He created 3 easy-to-follow videos, each under 10 minutes, that cover extremely important topics like what camera, software, and equipment to use, how to plan and write the content for your video, how to make it look professional, and much more! If you’ve wanted to get into the profitable world of online video but don’t know where to start, these videos will show you exactly what you need to know.

Video 1 – Equipment you need for creating high quality online videos quickly

Video 2 – Preparing for the recording and planning out your content

Video 3 – Recording & editing your video, and uploading it to your site or Pitch Page

These videos contain lots of great information and detail, so be sure to check them out! Gideon regularly updates his online video marketing blog with the tips, tricks, and techniques he’s used to succeed in Internet marketing, so it’s a great resource for anyone looking to make a splash with online video. He also encouraged anyone who still has questions to leave comments on the videos and he’ll help answer them. You can also leave comments here with any additional video-related topics you’d like to see in the future.

Thanks Gideon!

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Written by: Beau Blackwell, Community Manager

Recently, PayPal announced that they are increasing their processing fees on all PayPal accounts by keeping the fixed portion of their transaction processing fee in the event of a refund. This fixed-fee portion is typically $0.30 per transaction. The fee change is slated to take effect in August of this year.

We’re pleased to tell you that ClickBank is not increasing any of our own fees as a result of this PayPal change, nor will we pass this fee through to our clients for PayPal transactions processed through ClickBank. We appreciate your business, and are committed to providing you with the best e-commerce platform possible. Thanks for doing business with ClickBank!

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Written by: Beau Blackwell, Community Manager

The latest episode of Affiliate Marketing Today, hosted by Dush Ramachandran and yours truly, is now available for download or streaming. It’s called Building Relationships in Affiliate Marketing, and talks about how important it is to establish and grow strong relationships with your customers, partners, and even your competitors.

Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think!

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Written by: Kelly Kingman, Guest Author

Last month, Apple sold its one millionth iPad, just 28 days after the device was introduced.The Consumer Electronics Association projects that 5 million eReader units of all stripes will be sold this year, up from 2.2 million in 2009. Apple’s iPad is just one of a dozen new devices on the market. This past January, two dozen companies that either make or deliver material to eReading devices attended the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — the industry showcase of cutting-edge technological gadgets. It was such an increase from the previous year that a special eBook section was created for the first time. The age of the eReader has dawned.

Getting your eBook onto eReaders

From a seller standpoint, you’ll want to know how to convert your content into the most widely accepted formats. As eReaders are really just becoming mainstream, the industry is still sorting out standard formats. Just as when MP3 players arrived on the scene, creators and distributors need to find the technological means to protect their work while allowing users to share across devices and platforms. The result has been a plentitude of eBook formats which potentially complicates the production process. In my opinion, there are only a handful worth worrying about.

PDF

It’s very likely that your product is already in Portable Document Format (PDF). The good news is that PDFs are widely supported by eReaders, though they become awkward on smaller devices like the Kindle (its screen is 4 x 6 inches, the Kindle DX is larger) or a smartphone. The device will shrink a PDF page to fit the available space, which, if the user cannot zoom in, may render the document unreadable.

With the release of OS 4 for iPhone and iPad this summer, PDF-viewing will become native to the iBookstore (basically iTunes for books). The PDF-viewer application will let you upload eBooks you already own to your iPad as well as display the first page as a book on a virtual shelf. This will allow a buyer to easily add eBooks they’ve purchased elsewhere online. Currently available apps like Stanza and Fast PDF allow iPhone users to view PDFs by drag-and-dropping them into iTunes or downloading directly from a URL.

ePUB

ePub is quickly becoming the universal eReader standard format, the only exception to which is the Kindle, which instead uses Amazon’s proprietary AZW format (see below). ePub files are currently supported on: Apple iPad, the Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader and many, many more devices. The Stanza application for iPhone and iPod Touch also reads ePub files.

If you work with a designer, they are likely using Adobe InDesign, which has an ePub export feature. Otherwise, there are numerous open source software options for converting files to the ePub format. Beware when using converters that simply extract text from PDFs, as ePub preserves content but not formatting. The ePub language is very similar to HTML or XHTML and most conversion programs will preserve HTML formatting.

AZW / Mobi

These formats are only worth mentioning because, aside from a plain text file, an AZW or MobiPocket format is one of the few options available for reading an eBook on the Kindle. As with ePub, there are numerous conversion services and software options too numerous to go into here. Amazon provides document conversion using their Digital Text Platform. After conversion, you can take the .azw or .mobi file and distribute it yourself, as part of your total eBook package.

The Bad News for Worksheets, Tables and other Graphics

Because of the fluid nature of a non-PDF eBook (the text re-flows to fit the size of the screen) it’s difficult to preserve specific formatting. The formatting languages do not yet have the ability to resize images and graphics accordingly. Here is a rough list of formatting that is not supported when converting your document into and ePub or AZW format:

• Tabs
• Tables
• Extra returns between paragraphs
• Fonts other than Times New Roman, Garamond and Arial
• Type larger than 14 points
• Columns
• Multiple text or paragraph styles within the body

For a more in-depth look at formatting for non-PDF eBooks, check out the Smashwords Style Guide.

Join the eBook revolution

No doubt in the next few years the process will get a little more streamlined — let’s hope so. But in the meantime, take advantage of every opportunity to get your eBooks in to the hands of your readers, in whatever form that takes.

About the Author

Kelly Kingman helps people take their eBook from idea to reality. She is the author of the Sticky eBook Formula and blogs about creating awesome eBooks at StickyeBooks.com.

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The second episode of the Affiliate Marketing Today show, hosted by Beau Blackwell and Dush Ramachandran of ClickBank, is now available.

In this episode, we interview Kyle Wakefield, long-time ClickBank super affiliate and creator of The A to Z Guide, and get some great tips from him on how to be successful as an affiliate. He shares some powerful and unconventional wisdom that you don’t usually hear from affiliate marketers.

Check out the episode now!

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Finding Causes

Finding the cause of sleep disorders is problematic. The challenge is to figure out the reason why a person has the problem that they do, and how it is consistent with all of the other people who suffer from the problem. For this purpose, you can actually help sleep disorder researchers by being a patient for them. Let them know exactly what your symptoms are and, possibly, allow them to run tests on you to see if they can pinpoint the cause. Additionally, you can help them by supporting their research financially. Because most of these groups are not-for-profit, they rely on donations to pay for the research they do. The more actively involved you are, the higher the chance of these organizations finding the causes. Once the causes are found, they can begin finding cures.

Finding Cures

Finding cures to sleeping disorders can be a great challenge. When causes are unknown, it is difficult to find a solution. Some diseases, like sleep apnea, are very challenging to find cures for because a person can’t necessarily take a drug to cure a physical ailment. It is difficult to simply find a sleep apnea symptom (until it is too late). Then, there are also sleeping conditions, like psychological insomnia, that doesn’t have a physical cure: it is purely a problem in a person’s mind. The best thing a person can do is, again, to participate in an organization like the ASDA and assist them in finding cures to sleep problems.

Offering Support

Because sleep is so crucial to a healthy human being, losing sleep can cause more than just restlessness. There are many sleep-related problems, such as day dreaming, that can be crippling to a person working full time. When you don’t get enough sleep at night, your brain has a harder time performing neural synapses, you are more prone to stress and depression, your body has less opportunity to eliminate toxins, and your eyes are overly stressed from allowing too much light in without sleep. Therefore, it is nice to be able to go to a group that will allow you to discuss your problems in a friendly, confidential environment.

Additionally, it is especially beneficial because all of these people share your problems, so they can not only relate to you, but they can potentially offer you advice. Finally, it is a great opportunity to make friends and acquaintances.
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Written by: Beau Blackwell

Last week, ClickBank sponsored and exhibited at AffCon 2010, a premier affiliate marketing conference held in Denver, CO, a short distance from ClickBank’s Colorado offices.

The show was jam-packed with great opportunities for networking and learning, including many great panels and sessions run by industry veterans. ClickBank’s VP of Business Development Dush Ramachandran participated in a panel on working with affiliate networks, as well as hosting a workshop entitled “Secrets for Affiliate Marketing Success” alongside ClickBank superaffiliate and vendor Kyle Wakefield, creator of The A to Z Guide. They gave audience members some great tips on getting started and succeeding in the affiliate marketing business.

Throughout the show, we raffled off thousands of dollars worth of affiliate marketing-related products from some of our top vendors. A few of the prizes we gave away included memberships to IMeye and The A to Z Guide, copies of CPA Arbitrage, Affiliate Silver Bullet, Niche Blueprint, CB Pirate, Cash Making Power Sites, Banner Ad Blueprint, and much more.

In addition to all of the great prizes, everyone who entered our raffle got access to a free Lite version of The A to Z Guide, which includes several chapters on a variety of Internet Marketing topics. Since we know not everyone who wanted to could make it to Denver for the show, we’re giving all of our clients a chance to get the Lite version, too!

To get access, just fill out this quick form letting us know a bit about your affiliate marketing efforts, and you’ll be able to access the guide for free.

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