If  you´ve been an internet marketer for any length of time you will know all to well how difficult it is to get people to click on your links. Well, only the other day I had an email from a very well respected marketer who seemed to have a product that could put an end to this problem forever and the best thing of all Tony is offering this little beauty for FREE.

Tony Shepherd has developed a wordpress plugin that will drop a cookie in your visitors browser.  As we know people are becoming a lot more savvy when it comes to affiliate links and they can recognise a cloaked link from a thousand yards.

I’ve been using it for the last week on my other niche sites and it work like a charm.

I made a small diagram just to show you how ridiculously easy it is to use this plugin. After loading and activating the plugin you will go to settings where you will see a new sub menu called Cookie Dropper Settings. As you can see from the picture below all you do is place your affiliate link into the first box and in the second box you choose the post that you are talking about the product.

In the pdf that comes with the plugin Tony does place emphasis “on using Cookie Fire in accordance with your affiliate programs terms and conditions”

I would hazard a guess that this little tool could really increase your affiliate earnings quite considerably.To get your hands on this free tool just  follow this Cookie Fire link or on the banner below.

Anyone who uses article marketing for traffic generation and backlinks knows that it can work very well. One of the biggest drawbacks though of trying to post articles to the many article directories is the fact that you have to open accounts with each individual site and then cofirm your account via an confirmation link and this all has to be done before you have even posted your first article. 

There are article posting programmes available but non of them have properly managed to get over the problems I have just mentioned i.e confirming your account. The other main problem with a lot of these sites it the capcha that normally appears when you post.

Two days ago I purchased a new programme from a guy called Milan Kosanovic. He obviously knows his stuff as the programme he has produced gets around all the hassles I have mentioned above !

The programme is called Automatic article submitter. I used it for the first time yesterday and boy oh boy did it work =O) Out of the list of 300 plus article directories that come with the programme I was able to make a sublist specifically for the niche article I wanted to post. I them pasted the article and made a appealing bio box and then pressed the big red button to start the cogs working. Within 15 minutes 98 out of the 100  article directories I had posted to had received my article, impressive or what. The reason for two of the article directories not receiving my article was because they did not have a section suitable. This aside I think this programme will save me hours of my time by not having to do all the manual submitting that we all had to do before this beauty came along.

There are very few products that I endorse but, this one gets two thumbs up..

Hi all,

My word doesn´t time fly? I cannot believe that it´s been so long since I last posted.

I am sure that after writing this post I may well get a lot of  flack but, in the words of Clark Gable “quite frankly my dear I don´t give a damn”.  Since the end of the Alex Jeffreys training course I have been beavering away at quite a few projects and I´m pleased to say that they are all coming along quite nicely. The thing is only one of these projects is remotely connected to the IM niche. 

The main thing Alex´s course brought out in me was the ability to focus and , as he describes in his own words, not jump on and off the chaos wagon, i.e. stick with one method.

My main reasons for working predominantly outside the IM niche are as follows:

1.  Whilst we all know that the IM niche is a burgeoning market, it is one of the hardest nuts to crack and the percentage of new marketers who are actually able to break through is tiny.  Obviously there are exceptions to the rule and a couple of the students on the course appear to be breaking eggs with big sticks, i.e. Dean Holland and Garry Parkes, and all good luck to them.

2.  My main gripe, and its a very big gripe about the IM niche, is the fact that it is almost solely information based.  Taking into consideration  the plethora of new products which are hitting the market virtually on a daily basis makes one wonder how many more spins you can give to setting up the basics, a hosting pack, your autoresponder, and driving traffic?

 Fair enough each one of these new packages may have a slight twist on a specific point, but if you were to run them all through Copyscape I doubt very much whether more than 10% of them would pass as original content.   A prime example of this was a product which had a huge fanfare launch yesterday, but after reading a few reviews from various forums, the concensus of opinion was that it was 99.99% the same as another well known product with just  an extra traffic module.  

This is what annoys me about the IM niche.  Thankfully I have a bit of experience now and am able to recognise, after myself purchasing a number of different products, what is new and what is re-hashed with a Sunday bonnet, but for the thousands of newbies entering into the bear pit who know no better, will only see a very enticing sales page with funky music and videos and will think it´s the best thing since sliced bread.

 I am not naive enough to think for one moment that these tactics don´t work as it is patently obvious that they do and they are able to produce some fantastic financial returns for the authors of these products.  It just leaves a nasty taste in my mouth seeing the number of people taken in by the promises of quick and easy money, i.e. the promise of $52,000 in 48 hours!!  As anybody who has been in internet marketing for a while and knows the score, will readily know that there is no feasible way that as a newbie this can be atained.  I for one am working on my own non-IM niche sites a huge number of hours each day and all of them bar one are selling visceral products, ranging from kitchen appliances to guitars.

 I know that there are only a few IM products at the moment that I will ever feel comfortable promoting, one of them being Alex´s course because as I said, he really has set the wheels in motion for me, the other couple are Sarah Brown and Tony Shepherd´s  Kickstart course, because this, in my opinion, is probably one of the best internet marketing starter programmes.  No fluff, no flashy sales pages, no wild promises of overnight wealth, just pure content.  The other main starter product is Chris Farrell´s membership site, again, no bloated promises just a very genuine sincere guy who has made the membership site for newbies to learn the basics. There are a couple more, one being Andrew Hanson´s Firepow system, again a  superb programme for niche blogging.  I realise that by writing this post I am probably committing commercial suicide because you would have every right to question me if I ever come up with another product to promote, but I would hope after reading this, you would appreciate that whatever I do promote I believe in wholeheartedly. 

Don´t get the impression that I am sitting here seething because I am not.  As Alex pointed out in the course if you can use the IM niche as a proving ground to hone your skills you can pretty much guarantee success in any other niche.  To prove this point less than a week ago I set up a blog based around a very well searched keyword phrase for a well known brand of kitchen appliances and my blog is on  page 1, out of 1,300,000 pages.  Now this last comment isn´t to brag, its just to prove that if you are able to get the basics in place this kind of ranking is possible.  As a lot of you know my main passion is video marketing and I run in conjunction with the building of the marketing sites, a video campaign, but funnily enough with this example, I didn´t, maybe a lucky strike, I don´t know but I am not complaining.  The point I am making is that after learning the basics, if you put them into practice properly, and when I say put them into practice, I mean take proper action.  You don´t actually need to purchase every conceivable product that hits the market, because as my Mum says, if it aint broke – don´t fix it.