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The following is Andy Crofford’s guest opinion of MarketLeverage, an up and coming affiliate company. Andy wrote his review of MarketLeverage as an entry to my MarketLeverage Contest. There are three ways to enter the contest, and writing a review was one of them. If you are interested in joining, there are two $179 Flip Mino video cameras, $100 in giftcards, and 10 2GB USB pens up for grabs. (Read more about the contest here) With that put aside, here is Andry Crofford’s opinions of MarketLeverage.

MarketLeverage was the first affiliate program I ever signed up with. This review will look at the application process, affiliate manager, control panel, and offers.

This guest blogging post was submitted by Patrick from Piggy Bank Pie.

If you are not yet very familiar with affiliate marketing, you may have noticed that bloggers are constantly using acronyms and terms, assuming their readers are all up to speed with the lingo. While you may have figured out the most common ones, some may still be unclear. The following article is a glossary of affiliate marketing acronyms related to pay per click ad campaigns for the Upcoming Super Affiliate in you.

This post was guest written by Salwa, who blogs over at Blogriffic.com

Search engines were created for a purpose – to give people fast access to information. Individuals, who are trying to place products such as websites, writing, and other content on the internet, need to follow certain guidelines when placing information on the internet. The two primary search engines today are Yahoo and Google. There are also thousands of smaller directories on the internet so that content can be viewed.

This post was guest written by Tom from StandOutBlogger.com. If you are looking at improving your blogging, then head on over to Stand Out Blogger.

I was thinking the other day about a few of my projects, some past projects, others current. I was thinking about what I had done that had been successful. And to be honest there were quite a few things that were successful - but now the project wasn’t anymore.

This guest post was submitted by Matt Smith who blogs about The Art of eMarketing. You can check out his RSS feed here.

If you are in the affiliate marketing or Google Adwords business, then you should know that having a lot of clickthroughs is not the only thing important if you do want to make money out of the PPC (pay-per-click) industry. Having an effective landing page (the page where you send your visitors to) is equally important and would actually make or break on the result of either having a potential customer sign up or purchase your product or service. Without a good landing page, then your business is useless. Below are a few tips on how you could create an effective landing page:

This is a guest post by Prem Shashi, who is running a contest with over $1000 in prizes. You can subscribe to Prem’s RSS feed here. If you would like to submit a guest post to be featured on my blog while I am in Nebraska, please visit the contact page.

Are you one of the many bloggers who want to stamp your name in the blogosphere some day? Do you feel like you have too much work to do everyday and you don’t find or have time to do some of the basic things in life because of your blogging career?

This guest blogging post was submitted by Sharon Hurley Hall from Piggy Bank Pie.

Who doesn’t like to get something for nothing? If you own a blog or website, the idea of free traffic is tremendously appealing, and many of us are willing to do whatever it takes to get a few more visitors to our websites. If it’s as easy as putting a widget on your blog, so much the better. It doesn’t take a lot of effort and you stand to gain a lot in return, or do you? I’ve tried a few of these widgets - TheGoodBlogs, BlogRush, Entrecard and others, and I’m beginning to wonder if they are really worth it.

Photo by Jurvetson

This guest post was submitted by Patrick from Piggy Bank Pie Writing Services.

You’ve probably heard of Search Engine Optimization hundreds of time. But bloggers these days are looking at more efficient ways to drive traffic instantly. The answer resides in Social Media Optimization.

There are numerous social media sites on the Internet. Some are specialized in news feeding, others in bookmarking, but the main point is, they are tools you can use to promote quality content published on your blog. Now, I cannot stress how important this last sentence is. Promoting every single post that comes out of your blog may put you in trouble. You will be seen as a spammer, and users will simply ignore you. But if used wisely, social media sites can really boost your traffic and give you high, very high visibility.