In affiliate marketing there are some things that you simply must do. Included in that is creating focus specific webpages, more commonly referred to as landing pages, to present the product. This is especially helpful, and even mandatory, with PPC campaigns.

The problem has always been that you have to have actually know how to create those landing pages. A lot of people don’t. However, a brand new product has been launched to help take away most of the stress of having to create your own landing pages from scratch. Unique Blog Designs has actually made affiliate marketing much easier.

If you are using Wordpress to help make your websites then take a look at this quick video.

Affiliate Theme from Unique Blog Designs on Vimeo.

What you have just seen is pretty much the coolest Wordpress affiliate tool ever created. I am stunned at the possibilities now open to people who otherwise might have given up too soon because of the demands in creating affiliate pages. If you already know how to create your own pages, then maybe this isn’t for you, but if you don’t have a clue about html, css, or other design elements, Affiliate Theme is definitely the must have affiliate product. I don’t say that about a lot of things. Only a few times in my career have I ever said something is must have.

With Affiliate Theme you can easily create your affiliate landing pages and choose from over 20 different layouts. You can change the way your site looks with just the click of your mouse! The limits to this are endless.

Affiliates everywhere have been given an amazing opportunity with Affiliate Theme. I’m done talking about it… you’re going to have to check it out to see for yourself.

I’ve held off upgrading my blog because of what happened the last time I upgraded. I was still using 2.5 and saw all the other upgrades come and go. Even living with that little annoying blurb at the top of your dashboard that says, “A new version of Wordpress is now available.”

Well, I finally bit the bullet and took my chances and went with the 2.7 upgrade. For me, because my hosting is on Dreamhost.com, the process is pretty simple. I just click a button and the upgrade takes care of itself. So, it’s not really the upgrade the worries me, it’s my database.

The last time I did this, my entire database was corrupted and I couldn’t get anything out of it. I was, as you can imagine, pretty upset. But, things worked out, and I have (I feel anyway) a much better blog.

So, you can imagine my sheer delight when nothing happened, the blog was upgraded, my plugins all work, and I just have to make some slight changes to the theme. So. Very. Happy.

Now if it would just get to above 0 degrees for a few days I’d be complete.

It’s a New Year! Today is Jan. 2nd and I am absolutely brimming with excitement about what this year holds in store. But, not just for me. I can’t wait to hear about the incredible things that happen to you this 2009!

To help you get your year started right I want to share with you a daily kick that is both very powerful, but also a little bit time consuming. Quite simply what you need to do is blog. But, not just once. Three times.

Blogging three different ways.

This is going to take a kick to get started. But, the rewards are greater than the investments.

What you need to do… today… is set up three different blogging accounts for three separate blogs. Yes, I said three. It’s easy. Trust me.

There is a reason for my madness here. By using the resources available on the internet for free promotion of your website, you are able to spread your name, brand, and offers in a much wider area than if you kept everything in one playground. I’m going to use a basketball example to help illustrate this.

In basketball there are five players on the court at a time. They must work together (passing, communicating, setting screens, moving without the ball, and other basketball terminology) in order to move the ball past the opponent’s defense and score. And not just once, but many, many times during the course of a game. Your blogging campaign is much like a basketball team. You need more than one player. You can have one really good player, but you need more than one.

Each “player” helps you to move the ball around by actively sending traffic to the “basket” (that would be your main website where your sales pitch is made). The players are the blogs, the blog posts, the guest posts, the comments… pretty much everything that happens at that blog. Only it’s not just one… there’s three. At least.

Set up your new blogs

This post is not a tutorial on how to set up a blog. What I’m going to do, though, is give you direction on where to go that will make setting up your three new blogs fairly easy and straightforward.

Blog #1. Go to Blogger.com and start an account. It’s free and it’s pretty simple.

Blog #2. Go to Wordpress.com and start an account. Again, it’s free and fairly straightforward.

Blog #3. This blog is going to be a self-hosted blog. That means it’s not free. You need to have a web host account and then set up a blog of your own. This sounds a little bit daunting, but it can be done pretty easily. Here’s how…

1. Go to Dreamhost.com and get started with a very cheap hosting account. You can get hosting for as little as $5.95 a month.

2. Register a domain name through the same account. You get a free domain name with you order so that makes things easier and cheaper. If you want to add more they are only $9.95 a year.

3. Once your account is started and your domain is registered Dreamhost has a great feature. They have this thing called “One Click Install”. Basically what it does is installs your choice of extras to your website. Even Wordpress blog platform. You don’t have to download anything. Just click it, set up some information and it’s ready.

Each Different, But The Same

Before you go off to do your merry blogging keep this in mind.

While your blogs are all teammates they should all have distinct personalities. What I mean by this is that while being the same niche, they should be different in topic. Each blog stands is basically the same niche, but are focusing on a different topic within that niche. This way you can attract different visitors than you would with just one blog. See, teammates working together for the benefit of the team.

Another consideration to keep in mind is that you should mix up the info so you aren’t using duplicate content. If you write a blog post for one blog that could be used on the others reword them and use different phrases throughout each post.

Of course, original content for each blog would be a huge benefit to your traffic, and more importantly your search engine rankings. Don’t let that scare you. They don’t all have to be 1000 word posts. Short, concise 200 word posts are just as effective.

So….

Go start those blogs. Get them set up and start posting. Stay consistent at it and you’ll begin seeing traffic coming to your main site through three different funnels.

The newest Wordpress upgrade is out and it is suppose to take care of some critical security issues as well as fixing some other problems. I have to admit, I wasn’t that excited about upgrading again after what happened last time.

But, I took the chance and everything seems to be working alright. At least I didn’t lose everything like before. That alone is a major plus. If you notice anything weird or screwed up… drop a comment and let me know.