Archive for May, 2009
Free Shirt Friday – Affiliate.com
May 22nd, 2009 by 
kim
Okay, so my free tshirt from Affiliate.com is not near as cool as Shoemoney’s Affiliate.com tshirt, but it’ll suffice.
Affiliate.com, formerly known as CPAEmpire (and other names, ie Optin Real Big) is a CPA Network out of Denver with hundreds of available offers (lots of email and zip submit campaigns if that’s what you’re into).
P.S. If you’re looking for a specific CPA campaign for your niche (with the highest payout), check out OfferVault.com that searches thousands of offers from over 30 different networks (Affiliate.com included).
TheSpew Gets Pearsonified
May 21st, 2009 by kim
As I mentioned yesterday, the podcast is now alive and kicking…
TheSpew TheSpew, Episode 9: Chris Pearson – Naked and Covered in Honey http://cli.gs/theSpew9 w/@pearsonified @karengarcia @kimarketing & @missyward
Highlights from the show can be found over at Geekcast.fm.
One topic we discussed was the FTC taking on paid posts. Should bloggers disclose when they’ve been wooed for cash or freebies from companies?
I used the example of when I was sent a Sumo Omni to review. I didn’t like the thing, so I asked the company if they still wanted me to write about it as I’m not gonna lie. Nope. They still got some advertising from my pre-review. And I used an affiliate link to their store. Should I have to disclose that I may potentially earn commission if they purchase through my link? I think not.
What are my favorite things to review? Send me shoes!
Recommended Wordpress Plug-Ins
May 20th, 2009 by kim
I just got done recording TheSpew.fm podcast with Missy Ward, Karen Garcia and special guest Chris Pearson creator of the Wordpress Thesis Theme. Follow @TheSpew on Twitter to be notified when the episode is produced and uploaded online to listen!
On the show, we talked about various Wordpress Plug-Ins that we recommended. Chris, on the other hand is “anti-plugin” and stated you don’t need plugins if you use the Thesis Theme from DIYThemes (hint, hint). Chris gasped and had to pull the sword from his chest after I said I currently have 36 plugins activated on my shoe blog (obviously I don’t use Thesis Theme…. as of yet anyway…)
I picked 8 of the plug-ins I recommend to highlight…
1. Aggregate – Allows you to place the contents of an RSS feed into your posts, pages &/or sidebar.
2. All in One SEO Pack – Out-of-the-box Search Engine Optimization (I actually forgot to mention this one, but Karen brought it up!)
3. Google XML Sitemaps – Generates a Sitemap.xml for search engines (Chris recommends submitting your sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools.)
4. Link Cloaking Plugin - Cloaks outgoing links (ie masks affiliate links). Missy recommended the MaxBlogPress Ninja that Shoemoney has been pimping, so I may have to give that plugin a try.
5. phpBay Lite – Adds eBay auction listings to your posts with just keywords.
6. Post-Plug Library Supports Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins.
7. Subscribe to Comments – Allows readers to receive an email when new comments are posted to an entry. This is the only plugin that Chris recommended!
8. Youtuber – Adds YouTube videos to posts easily.
Other Wordpress Plug-Ins we discussed were…
AdRotator – Rotates Ads (duh)
Adsense Deluxe – Inserts ads into posts
Category Visibility – Post only certain categories (Karen recommends this for “hiding” personal stuff from the main category line up)
Linkshare Link Lookup – Shawn Collins reviewed this.
Do you have a favorite plugin for Wordpress not listed above? Please leave a comment and tell us!
