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

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.

Affiliate Marketing, Online Advertising, Internet Advertising, Online Money, Easy Money, Work from home opportunities and the list goes on ...

Everyone is interested in making money online but how many of us really know where to start from??? Even if we come to know about the methods, is that sufficient? I guess NO.

First of all finding out the best available options is not easy at all because of the numerous spam websites which are paying hell lot of money to Google, Yahoo, MSN and other major search engines to be on top of the search results and hence you'll rarely come across genuine affiliate marketing stuff. And unfortunately, most of us become prey of their tactics by paying some money to them some or other way and hoping that we too will be able to make money like them. Who wouldn't want to earn an easy $250 a day(as they claim) afterall? And most of us jump into it without doing any ground work.

I ask you people how many of you have tried all this and how many of you really succeeded? Hardly 1% of you or may be even lesser. So, where the problem lies?

The problem lies in the fact that there are hardly any good useful resources available on Affiliate Marketing and the few which are available do not get visibility because of the spam websites which will cover the first 10-15 pages of all search engines when you search for affiliate marketing, work from home and other ideas of making money online.

Hence we came up with an idea of a platform which will provide "absolutely free" information and guidance to people like you and me, which will make people aware about the genuine money making methods available online and how to use them.

We do not call ourself expert in affiliate marketing nor we make hundreds of dollars per day from affiliate marketing techniques. But whatever we have leart from our experiences we'll share that on this website so that other people won't have to struggle like we did for finding out the best options available for making online money through affiliate marketing.