Recently Halfgain released a wonderful ebook which talks about how the most successful affiliates are making money, its named as "Affiliate Marketing Ph.D" . We were among the very first to get hold of this ebook. Good part is that it's absolutely free of cost and you can download it from this link - http://blogprofitz.com/AffiliateMarketingPhD.rar (zipped) or http://blogprofitz.com/AffiliateMarketingPhD.pdf (PDF)

If you are unsure what the book covers then here is the table of contents of this book for your reference.

Table of Contents 
 
Introduction 
What You'll Find in this Book 
Why Listen to Me 
The 3 Principles I've Found Most Helpful 
 
I. Affiliate Marketing 101 
What Is Affiliate Marketing 
Why Affiliate Marketing 
A Few Money Making Guidelines 
1. Branding 
2. Speed 
3. Numbers 
4. Spending 
The Affiliate Strategy Simplified 
 
II. How to Research Your Market 
Step 1: Finding Markets 
Step 2: Think You've Found a Potential Market?
 
Example: How Scott Missed the Boat 
Step 3: Finding The Keywords That Pay  
 
III. Building Profitable Affiliate Sites 
Step 1: Setting up a Commission‐Ready Affiliate Blog 
Step 2: Filling Your Blog with Monetized Content  
Step 3: Monetizing with Affiliate Stores 
Step 4: Affiliate Blog Essentials 
Step 5: Multiple Streams of Income from Your Blog 
 
IV. The Big 12 Marketing Strategies 
1. Article marketing 
2. Free page creation 
3. Video marketing 
4. Classified ads  
5. PPC (Pay Per Click Advertising)
6. SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
7. Forum campaign 
8. Free hosted blog creation 
9. Social networking (social news and social bookmarking)
 10. Link/ad/review buying 
11. Blog commenting 
12. Press releases 
 
V. Outsourcing: Supplemental Section 
 
Final Thoughts

Dear Friends,

We recently launched a feature and we are sure you would be very interested in checking this out. We have integrated Google Adsense in your profile ... no big deal!! Now hear this, you can place your own Google ads on your profile by providing your Google Adsense publisher ID. Excited?

The opportunities are unlimited, you can earn money by promoting your profile on forums, social networing sites liek facebook, myspace and orkut or you can simply invite other people to join the site and there are good chances that they will hit your profile. The more you promote, the more you earn.

Recently many reports of Google Adwords accounts being hacked have surfaced. As soon as hackers get into your account, they start their own campaigns and set the CPC to the maximum to ensure their ads appear on top of search results. The campaigns keep running till they catch your attention or when you see your credit card bills. If you fail to notice them on time then it may result in huge losses.  

In one of the recent incident, hacker broke into a Google Adwords account, created a campaign and spent 6100 British Pound within 10 hours on a campaign. In another case, the account holder was a bit lucky, he logged in the account and found one alien campaign running and noticed 80 British Pound had been spent on the campaign with each CPC set to around 3.5 British Pound. It's difficult to say how exactly the Google Adwords accounts are being hacked since there are multiple ways in whihc hackers can break into your account, be it Google Adwords or could be your bank account. Some suggest its being done using some malware, others are suggesting that some programmed links are sent to account holder mail and when user clicks on it, it exposes the account details to hacker(Personally I doubt this one).

It doesn't really matter how these hackers break into our accounts. What is important is that how we can stop or at least minimize such risks. We have come up with a simple checklist using which you can save your Google Adwords account from being hacked.

• Login to your Google Adwords accounts on a daily basis, if possible multiple times a day if you actively use your account. Check for any unsual activity in your account like new campaign which you didn't create, increased/decreased CPC of your own campaigns, wrong destination URLs etc.
• If you are not using your Google Adwords account at present then there are chances you'll not login to your account for many days. In such a case, you better cancel the account or inform Google Adwords support to keep an eye on any activity in your account and ask them for authorization for any new activity in your account.
• Follow some basic password security guidelines. Your password should not contain the user name; it should be minimum 8 characters and should be a combination of alphabets, numbers and at least one special character. It should not be very obvious, should not contain your name. Change the password on a regular basis.
• DO NOT access your Adwords account from public places like cyber cafe or through unsecured Wi-Fi. Always access your account from your home computer or office computer (if you use it dedicatedly)

You'll notice that all above things are quite basic but using these basic steps you can save your Google Adwords account from being hacked. In fact, above steps are not applicable to only your Google Adwords accounts but for your accounts/transactions where you deal with your credit cards, PayPal and bank accounts, like online shopping.

From the very start, we have tried to provide you the best information and resources on affiliate marketing and related topics.

I continuation of our efforts, we have added an article section to our website. And the best part is, which you are going to appreciate is that all the articles are freshly written by our team and not copied or linked from other websites. Have a look at the new changed look of AffiliatePlugin.

As of now, we have posted 2 articles on the website and will continuously be adding more articles on daily or weekly basis.

We have come up with a free article promotion offer for our dear users. You send us your articles and we'll review them for the contents and originality. If selected, your article will be featured on the home page of our website. You can send us your articles at support[at]affiliateplugin[dot]com . We will allow you to embed your affiliate links in your articles given that they are relevant to the article.

Please visit the article section from the links on right hand on home page and as always, please leave your valuable feedback.


Happy Reading folks!!!