There are many great affiliate programs to choose from. Most affiliates are members of several hundred affiliate programs at once. Via Commission Junction or Linkshare, affiliate can join a multitude of affiliate programs at once and then choose the ones they want to promote. Its hard to narrow it down to a few affiliate programs, there many excellent programs out there to choose from. Some of the best performing affiliate programs are in the industries of home improvement, health insurance, ebay items, online dating, surveys, loans and mortages, and many others. If you would like to join good affiliate programs sign up for the merchants listed on this website or ask me for recommendations.

Good SEO is not hard to attain…here are a few principles to follow to make sure your site is properly optimized for the search engines. I only concern myself with Google, Yahoo, and MSN, as this is where the bulk of the search traffic is coming from. Make sure to have good unique meta-tags on every page of your site. This is the Title Tag, Keyword Tag, and Description Tag of the HTML that makes up your site. If you site is in PHP or ASP using include files, you can have your site coded to display the article title in those meta fields. You also have the ability to bypass the header include and manually insert meta-tags in any particular page of your site. You should strive to add as much unique content to your site as possible and do so on a daily basis. Using a content management system (CMS) is vital to making daily content publishing a reality for your site. Google especially loves to see fresh new articles and posts about related topics going up frequently. The more frequently you publish, the more frequently the spiders will comeback to grab new content for their database. Republishing articles from other sources is OK but it shouldn’t be the bulk of the content being pushed live. Make sure to make a sitemap or using a linking structure so all your pages can be found by the robots and spiders. That’s it for now!