I have been actively working with the N1Way system since around the beginning of August.  Since that time I have followed along on their site to do my niche selection, site building and promotion.  I have really learned a lot that I wasn’t paying attention to before because I didn’t know it mattered.  Here is a brief summary of the progress I’ve made.

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Learning Affiliate Marketing Is Hard Work

Ok, I admit it.  In the 2 plus years I’ve been working in affiliate marketing I’ve been learning my craft in parts.  I know I’m not alone.  I hear from affiliate marketers all the time that they need an all in one resource for researching, building and monetizing websites.  Like me, they learned a little about keyword research from this source, a little about site building from that source and building an affiliate business from yet another.  The problem is the parts don’t always fit together.  This is the key source of frustration of many affiliate marketers.
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Take a look at your online portfolio and what do you see?  If you’re like most people trying to make a living online, you’ll see a quality continuum that dates back from your first efforts to the present.  Hopefully, it’s a linear progression but often it’s not.  What I mean is that all of us have been constantly bombarded since we’ve gotten into this business with every money making scheme known to man.  Consequently, we’re more likely to have sites that reflect more what was the hot thing at the time it was built than a steady improvement from one site to the next.
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For those of you who don’t know, I’m a huge Roger Federer fan. Today, Roger made history by, among other things, surpassing Pete Sampras’ 14 Grand Slam titles.

This got me thinking about the post I made last year about this and that I can still improve on each of the lessons I wrote about back then.
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I came upon an excellent article today written by Rosalind Gardner at NetProfitsToday.com. In it she discusses the differences between the Google keyword tool and WordTracker. It’s an excellent read and I highly recommend you click right over there to check it out.

Here are some quick facts you should know:

• Google uses broad match by default and WordTracker uses exact match
• Google has a vested interest in the search numbers being larger than they possibly are
• WordTracker uses DogPile.com and MetaCrawler.com to compile their data and nobody knows what Google uses
• WordTracker allows you to get results for the searches that Google returns “not enough data” for
• Google is best for quick and broad keyword searching while WordTracker is best for fine-tuning

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