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These days, it seems like everyone is jumping on the Affilate Marketing banwagon and trying to get their hands in the money pie. The truth of the matter is, 90 percent of affiliates make a total of 10 percent of all the affiliate revenue generated. The remaining 10 percent of affiliates make the rest of 90 percent of all affiliate income!

Those top 10 percent affiliate earners can be classified as Super Affiliate and this British gentleman, Kieron Donoghue surely belongs in the upper class. Kieron is the owner and director of UK Offer Media Ltd, and he specializes in making money online through affiliate deals in his many diverse websites and blogs.

Kieron’s official Affiliate Marketing blog can be found here, or rather strangely named here.org.uk. For all his expertise and track records in affiliate marketing, Kieron could do well to nail a more relevant key term in his domain name to better optimize search engine traffic. I really can’t see any connection between “here” and affiliate marketing.

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A BIG hello to all CashQuests readers!

If you were directed here after reading Kumiko’s review to help a Nice guy make money online, I want to extend a warm Welcome to you onboard Betshopboy.net! My name is Chee Wee and I am a freelance writer and blogger from the tropical island call Singapore. When online, I go by Betshopboy and it had stuck as a personal brand. To find out more about this Singapore boy, you may want to read 8 interesting facts about Betshopboy.

My blogging journey has been inspired by many of the “Pro Bloggers” out there, including the very talented Kumiko, whom I’ve been a fan since her blogspot days. I’m sure you, like me, can’t get enough of her unique sense of humor peppered in her well-written opinion on make money online topics and her guts to call out online scams in their face.

This blog owed its beginnings to blogspot land since July 2006 and has just migrated to Wordpress with my own domain name in mid Aug 2007. For more insights on why I embarked on this online journey, I recommend you read my “5 Reasons Why I Blog” post. Over the course of this online adventure, I plan to share what I learn about blogging, marketing and monetization resource, without taking the fun out of blogging.

Thanks to the fantastic support and valuable feedback I’ve received from the many friends and readers I’ve gained, Betshopboy.net has been growing from strength to strength. Please take a moment to read some of my Popular articles or sieve through the archives for my earlier works and do consider subscribing to my full RSS feed so that you don’t miss out on future posts. I hope you have enjoyed your visit and your continuous visits, comments and valuable feedback are always welcome here.

During the past week, Google had gotten into the skin of a bunch of A-list bloggers and business folks at big-name news sites by dropping their PageRank. This weekly review roundup will thus focus on the negative buzz generated.

• With no official statement from Google explaining its intent and actions, this had even the best search engine optimizers dumbfounded in attempting to determine an explanation for the penalties handed out. For the sake of discussion only, Yaro of Entrepreneur Journey had thought up a few possible explanations that could possibly be the cause for the recent PageRank sweep hitting the blogosphere and beyond.

• John Chow was first to find his blog in the Google penalty box a few months back when he no longer rank page one for his own name! For this latest round, his blog wasn’t spared the Google iron fist. John is a master of turning a Negative into a Positive and a man in control of his blog’s destiny. He didn’t bend backward and allow Google to dictate terms but instead, turned adversity into an opportunity to propel his blog to greater heights. This is as good a time as any to remind everyone that if you live by the Google, you’ll die by the Google. John does not depend on Google for his blog’s traffic and neither should you. Read the rest of this entry »
  
  
  

It has been a while since I last told you about WidgetBucks and now is a good time to do an update since I got an email from the WidgetBucks team. One very common complains about WidgetBucks I’ve come across since its launch is the slow loading time of the ad widgets. The WB team had been listening and had addressed this issue by rolling out new code that promises to deliver faster loading widgets.

For the speedier widgets load times to take affect on your sites or blogs, you will need to update code of your existing widgets. Log into your WB Dashboard and go to My Widgets to edit each active widget. Simply re-copy the code block into your sites or blogs (the same steps you went through when you created the widgets originally). You can put your mind at ease knowing that changing the code will not impact earnings for any of your existing active widgets.

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Google had been strutting their stuffs lately and setting the web abuzz the past couple of days. After making a no show on the last “PR update” online date with many bloggers and Internet marketers back in August (as many had predicted the last update to be in), the big G had taken a hardline approach and sending a strong message across the world wide web by downgrading PageRank of many influential sites and prominent blogs.

Speculations abound for this latest round of visible PageRank penalties applied on the Google toolbar from selling text links, interlinking among blog networks and posting of paid reviews. Many high profile and influential blogs had taken hits overnight and even some mainstream websites were not spared the Google bitch slapping spree!

We are not talking about any Tom, Dick or Harry’s websites that had their PR strip back. Those hit were authority bloggers and thoughts leaders who have all seen their PR drop by between 1-3 points! Barring any coincidence, and strangely enough, most of the blogs that got hit were focus in the Internet Marketing niche.

Search Engine Land had compiled a list of sites which suffered the PR strip back and the list is by no means exhaustive.

Is this a conspiracy to bring down an entire sub-industry? Is this just icing on the cake or can we expect more fireworks to come? Obviously Google has got the buzz and limelight they wanted with many online debates started and no doubt more speculations will follow in the coming days. As for the real reason, and the implications, to this Google axe wielding exercise, only time will tell.