It has been a month since I took over the management of the Exotissimo affiliate program. The travel vertical is of great interest to me as I am presently based in Southeast Asia, write travel articles and promote travel merchants as an affiliate on some of my websites.

Exotissimo Travel organizes quality tours in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and Laos that are different of other travel agencies in the region. They can tailor a tour according to your requirements and make your experience unique and memorable. You may click on the banner to visit their website.

The Exotissimo affiliate program is a Pay Per Lead (PPL) program run in the ShareAsale Network. As an affiliate, you do not earn a commission when a sale is made but when a legitimate inquiry is sent through one of their online inquiry forms. The program offers a payment structure that starts at $6.50 per lead, with a cookie duration of 90 days, which guarantees that affiliates are credited for the lead within this period.

This affiliate program is a good fit for websites or blogs in the Travel vertical and a great complement and non competitive option for those who already promote Hotel booking, travel insurance, flight booking, and car rental affiliate programs. Text links, banner links, data-feed and widgets are available and easily implemented. I would be glad you join.

More information on the affiliate program: http://www.amwso.com/exotissimo.php

Sign-up page: http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=22113

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There are many different methods to build back links and drive traffic to a website, article marketing being one of them.

This method consists in writing articles on a topic related to your website and make them available for reprint free of charge on the Internet via article directories. Each article has an author resource box located at the bottom of the article that contains a short author bio and one or two links to a website.

Articles submitted to article directories receive not only immediate exposure, but a multitude of exposures when republished in the websites of other online publishers. Publishers who use contents from article directories are required to keep the author resource box and it is how you can effectively build links, drive traffic to your website and improve search engine ranking.

For those who would like to read more in details about the topic:  Article Marketing

Below is a list of 6 reputable Article Directories that only accept good quality articles and will give you good results over time:

1. ArticleAlley.com – Register

2. ArticlesBase.com – Register

3. EzineArticles.com – Register

4. GoArticles.com – Register

5. IdeaMarketers.com – Register

6. SearchWarp.com – Register

Automatically submit your articles to thousands of publishers

My two favorites article directories are: Ezinearticles.com & Searchwarp.com

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The “No Follow” tag (rel=”nofollow”) was created by Google to fight Spam in blog comments in 2005. There have been confusion among webmasters and bloggers whether the tag should be used or not. One thing is sure, it did not stop spammers who found other ways to abuse the system and post their links anyway. Basically, a “No Follow” tag tells Google not to count the link in their calculation of Page Rank for the linked site. Paid links and affiliate links should have the tag.

A site that “Do Follow” with lots of external links will have difficulty to increase its PR as the juice flow is transferred to the sites linked. Consequently, more back links that also “Do Follow” are needed. It is then important not to go from one extreme to another and balance the site with “No Follow” and “Do Follow” links. “Do Follow” blog comments may ensure participation from visitors in writing content, but all comments have to be reviewed manually to delete Spam comments.

For this blog, I will “No Follow” some links I have in my posts but will “Do Follow” comment posts. I have installed the “NoFollow Free” plugin and hope that this will encourage comments. I will publish comments that add something interesting to the blog and delete the others.

My 2 favorite links on the subject:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow
2. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/13-reasons-why-nofollow-tags-suck/4410/

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As from 1st February 2010, I am taking over the affiliate management of Trend To Go run on Shareasale.

I used to manage other jewelry programs, and I am glad after a year working on a B2B affiliate program to be back in this vertical.

TrendToGo.com is one of the fastest growing merchants on the Shareasale affiliate network, featuring a vast selection of sterling silver jewelry, stainless steel jewelry, authentic designer watches, authentic fragrances, designer handbags and apparel at 30-50% discount on retail prices.

The Trend To Go Affiliate Program pays a 10% – 25% tiered commission on products sold when placing text links, banners or widgets on your website. Cookie Tracking is 120 days, which is better than most other affiliate programs in the same vertical.

If you have a website or blog about jewelry, fashion, celebrities or other complementary products, this would be a good fit. For those who are making niche affiliate sites with a 3% commission + 0 day cookie, think again…

Check out more information about the TrendToGo.com affiliate program right here:
http://www.trendtogo.com/Articles.asp?ID=8 or http://www.amwso.com/trendtogo.php

Sign up for the program here:
http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=23874

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My name is Michel Gerard and this is my first post. In this blog I will be discussing affiliate marketing, traffic generation, Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing, CPA marketing and other methods to Make Money Online. I invite you to visit my “About” page for more details.

I will explain in simple words how to start an Internet business and implement different marketing methods to start making money online. I would like to say right away that there is no such thing as getting rich online without working hard. Making money online is possible but like every profession there are things to learn, and work to be done.

It is also important to take action and consider Internet marketing as a business where some money and time as to be invested in order to see the rewards. At first, it seems that work is done with no immediate gratification. Persistence will pay off and the process will look like reversed to you, more money and less work.

Many Internet marketers are making money, some a few dollars, some pay their cable TV bills, mortgage or car lease, others make a real part or full time income. As a warning, all information in this blog is for educational purpose only as there is no guarantee that you will make any money, results vary from one individual to another.

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