I’ve been thinking about all the affiliate and internet marketing courses I’ve bought and learned from over the years. And how many just languish on my digital shelves now and how many I actually used and still use.

Many had short lifetimes because they exploited a loophole or trick to achieve their aim and, once that was plugged, whatever the course taught didn’t work any more.

Then there’s the simple reality that the internet is an incredibly dynamic entity.

Google changes the rules on a what – daily, weekly, monthly basis? We get to hear about the big changes like Panda and Penguin algorithm updates but the knock-on effect of these changes …

I know many of you who read this blog build and try to rank your websites in order to generate income online, whether that’s as a supplemental income or a full-time income.

Ranking sites has certainly become more difficult in the last couple of years with the various changes in how Google assesses the value of sites. So here’s a list of resources that may make your job easier as well as providing other means of earning income from your sites.

Building Websites

The most popular site building platform online is WordPress. Most people who build websites for profit use it. It’s also free but does require some time to learn if …

UPDATE: Flipping Paradise and Flipping Maverick Are No Longer Available

My current recommended domain flipping courses are DomainFlipping and Flipp Me.

Most of my income is derived from revenue from my websites. That’s a mix of Adsense and other passive income streams like Infolinks, Chitika, Viglink, Skimlinks and some others, along with sales of products through the sites. I also sell my own software products for additional income.

Something I’ve come across several times over the years is the idea of selling on websites ot other people (domain/website flipping). Websites are simply virtual real estate and, like their physical counterparts, have value and that means someone else might …

It’s now been 6 weeks since Andrew Hansen launched his Forever Affiliate affiliate marketing blueprint, so I thought it was time to provide a progress report on how I’ve been doing with it.


Andrew Hansen’s Forever Affiliate Course Members Area

Getting Started

The first couple of weeks I spent just going through the course materials, familiarizing myself with Hansen’s approach to product research, site structure and layout, competition analysis and promotional techniques. There are quite a few videos in the course (about 60) so it takes time to go through them.

If you’ve been reading my recent posts you’ll know that I was humming and hawing about whether to sign up …

UPDATE: Profit Marketer has now morphed into WP Toolkit.

Introducing the most comprehensive WordPress integrated, passive profit system ever developed! With over 12 months and $250,000 in development and over 7,000 current members, for the next 4 days you have the unique opportunity to get everything you need to succeed in one complete All-Access package at an incredible price!

Welcome to Profit Marketer! Over 90 training videos, over 80 premium WordPress plugins, over 100 premium WordPress themes, and 2 power-packed services that put the icing on the cake!

If you are still wondering what Profit Marketer is:

It is the most complete Integrated WordPress-Based site building and “Make Money Blogging” …

I just released the latest edition of my site building tool, SiteBuilder Elite.

SiteBuilder Elite is a PHP script that builds affiliate websites with ease, so if you know nothing about how to build a website, HTML or PHP, it’s a tool that will suit you.

The script runs on your webserver, so it doesn’t matter if you use a PC or a Mac. All site building is done online, through your browser. Any changes you make to a site are site wide and instant, so there’s no need to modify multiple files to ripple a change across a site.

In the new version, I’ve added support for more article directories …