If you’ve been blogging for a while you should know what StumbleUpon is.  If you don’t then you’re missing out on a lot of traffic… and I mean A LOT!  One of the biggest obstacles for people who submit their site or blog entry to StumbleUpon is to get some one to ‘discover’ it or give it a thumbs up.  For a while I had my friends do it for me, but after a while it’s just too spammy or it’s just not enough.   The few that actually catches regole pokerpoker gamepoker 5 drawgioco poker online gratisseven card stud in lineavideo poker on linepoker per pcpoker on line in italianogame on line poker888 pokergioco video poker gratisregolamento pokergiocare onlinestreap poker7 card stud onlinedraw poker,draw poker gold,poker 5 card drawtexas holdem calculatorcome giocare a pokerlive poker 3d,poker live,download live pokerguida poker onlineomaha poker onlinepoker downloadfree omaha pokerbet and win pokerpoker no on linescarica gioco pokervc pokergioca a poker on linegiochi streep pokertexas holdem milano3c texas holdem pokergiochi seven card studgiochi online pokercarte giocogioco poker scaricare gratisinternet pokerwww pokerprobabilit� pokerholdem poker italiaimparare a giocare a pokerpoker su internet gratispoker online osxforum poker on linegiochi poker gratis da scaricareworld tour pokerholdem poker on linegioco poker gratuitopoker tournament 2007gioco poker online gratis,poker game online gratis,poker online gratisseven card stud inlinea on I’ve seen as much as 2,000 clicks in less then an hour!

So what’s the tip?   StumbleUdon!  I had initially purchased an Invitation (for a nice chunk of my Entrecard Credits too!  But it was worth it)  and does it really work?  HELL YEA!  I submitted a few links a bought a 100 stumbles for $9, in about 30 mins I was getting mad traffic to all of the links submitted!

The previous version only work on discovered URLs, as of last week you can submit an URL and someone will discover it for you!  It just doesn’t get better and easier then that!

This was the last URL I stumbled

So you want an invite?  No I’m not gonna sell them (now that I know it’s free)  Just drop me a comment, subscribe to my RSS and  you’ll get your invite.  Simple enough?

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As an affiliate marketer I have the tendency to want to do too many things all at once. Like me you probably visit the usual suspects every day, John Chow, ShoeMoney, Uber Affiliate… list goes on (and if you don’t then you should). The problem for me is this, every one of these guys are pitching something everyday.. well almost. And that is cool with me, because that’s what affiliate marketing is all about right?

So I signed up for all these programs with great determination of becoming the next ‘Uber Affiliate’! Next I send my whole 100 clicks from my site to it.. nada, ok lets spend some of this weekend’s beer money on some kind of PPC campaign… nada! Now I’m back to square one!

What a shitty tip you might say, and you’re right! But I do have a point, and that is DON’T get sidetracked from what’s working for you because the big guys say it the next greatest thing and you feel like you have to jump on it right away (chances are the bazillion readers of their blogs are jumping on the same train)!

I’ve been on that train, as a matter of fact I’ve been on it since the beginning of the year and that’s I’m making this post. Since the beginning of this year, I’ve jumped on every program recommended by every reputable affiliate marketing blogger. And I’m sure a lot of these programs and offers are really great, but the truth is this IT DOESN’T WORK FOR THE SMALL GUYS LIKE ME and probably you!

Now that I blew the first 45 days of the year trying to become an overnight pimp affiliate, I’ve come to the realization that I don’t have a $3,000 a day PPC budget, I don’t have 10K of daily unique visitor. So one step at a time average Joes, there’s nothing wrong with having a blog that pulls in only $100–$200 a month, duplicate that 10 times and it becomes a decent chunk!

What does this have to do with the Website Magazine ? Nothing, I just put it up there because they send me a nice free magazine every month, and it does have some great info. Best part of it is I get my daily dose of information on affiliate marketing in the bathroom (guys, you know what I’m talking about… put that Playboy down and get yourself a complimentary copy of the Website Magazine)

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Most blogger don’t take advantage of this extra real estate that you already own, including myself. If your goal is to monetize your blog, this is one practice that you SHOULD use on all your blogs.

Why is this important? Like most bloggers I read through 10–20 blogs on a daily basis, but I don’t visit every site to read them, a quick scan through all the RSS pulled in on my iGoogle (about 5 via email) allows me to decide which new post deserves my attention first!

By reading just the RSS feed, I just avoid all the advertisements on these blogs. Out of the 20 or so RSS feeds that I subscribe to, I’ve only seen 1 feed that actually monetize the real estate space on their RSS footer, and that’s John Chow.

What can you do with your RSS footer?

• Copyright information
• Sponsor ads
• FeedBurner users (now that they’ve been acquired by Google, you can add your AdSense ad in the footer area)
• Showcase other blogs that you have
• Contest information
• Pre-sale of anything that you might be working on

How do you add a footer to your RSS feed? After a few searches I’ve found 3 WordPress Plugins through (Daily Blog Tip) I was only able to RSS Signature to work properly, but the other 2 plugins seems to offer a little bit more functionality, so I would give them all a try and use the one that suites your needs.

1. RSS Signature
2. PostPost
3. Better Feed

Let me know how these plugins work out for you!

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Well this weekend went by really fast, I was looking forward to my New York Jets upset the Pats but that didn’t happen.  I saw a post on John Chow (the passionate blogger) today that got me thinking!   Do I love what I do?  Do you?   I guess I’ve never realized how one would consider this ‘hard work’.

I have this little cartoon from ToothPasteforDinner.com that reminds me how lucky I am everyday.

I’m glad that is not me!  I think the day I consider this ‘hard work’ is the day I’ll stop doing it.   I’ll admit that MOST of the things I’ve tried on the web doesn’t work, but I chalk it up as another lesson learned. 

This was me 3 years ago, pimpin it and living the life….

This is where I live today… Not where I want to be

But I keep trying and lean from the mistakes that I’ve made and move on.  The most important thing I’ve learn in the 36 years on this planet is that life is full of ups and downs, and if you can keep your focus on where you WANT to go, you’ll get there and the trip there won’t be that ‘hard’!