Saving time is your daily or weekly task is very important.

You need to learn how to perform the most common tasks as quickly as possible and save all your time as energy to promote and expand your online business.

If your promoting products from multiple affiliates networks and your want to check your stats it can take you a lot of time.

A great service called AFFMETTER will help you to decrease the time you are spending by 90%.

This service check your affiliates stats multiple network at once with just click of button.

It’s support most of the big and well know affiliate networks, you can see a full list on their website.

Unlike other services that perform similar tasks, AFFMETTER does not save your data on their server but on you own PC.

AFFMETER is desktop software which you need to install on you computer this is a great advantage.  All of your data is secured in your own computer.

Features:

Here some features that I love on AFFMETER:

• View of all your earnings from different affiliate networks and merchants
• Check revenue instantly and automatically.
• Check Google AdWords PPC campaign costs automatically. Consolidated format of revenue and cost data in one table
• Easily set up your accounts for multiple affiliate networks or Google AdWords in different channels.
• Find top revenue generating merchants
• Find top revenue losing merchants
• Make comparisons in between different time periods regarding your revenue generation.
• View your EPCs.
• Use the Customized "Merchant Monitor" to track selected merchants’ revenue streams
• Export reports as XLS files
• View detailed commission reviews complete with charts
• Easily make comparisons across time periods, affiliate networks and merchants
• Receive email alert daily at the time of your choosing
• View your statistics in USDs, Pounds, AUDs or Euros with the Affmeter Currency Converter.
• Find affiliate network or merchant revenue statistics according to their share of total revenue.
• View data from all the Major Affiliate Networks

Videos:  

Here is a short video out of many that teach how to select dates and affiliate networks to retrieve your commission and number of clicks statistics.

You can see more videos on AFFMETER website on Demo page.

Screenshots:

Here is the main screen of AFFMETER where you can the stats from the affiliates network in one place.

Merchant monitor where you see the the percents your earn from each affiliate network.

For more screenshot visit AFFMETER website.

Price:

AFFMETER service cost 14.95 a month (the price of 2 pizza’s) and it will save you a lot of time.

More then that you have 60 days money back if you find that their service does not suite you.

To find out more about AFFMETER check their website at AFFMETER.com.

If you don’t know what link cloaking is, then here is a short explanation.

Most affiliates networks give a very ugly link that include many letter and characters that make the link un-professional to you website visitors.

For example a link for a Clickbank product will probably look like this:

http://myaffiliateid.merchantid.hop.clickbank.com , others affiliates networks will  you an even hard to watch affiliate links for example: 

http://www.ecovergenerator.com/x.cgi?adminid=814&id=36353&pid=20648

What if you could change this link to something  more professional, something that will use your own domain and still save all the data of the affiliate link.

That is where affiliate cloaking tools can help you.

There are many ways to cloak you link manually but in most case is a lot of time and more important you don’t any tracking on what link did you use and how many times it was clicked.

While I have used many tools that can help me cloak my affiliate link I have found that only two of them deliver almost every aspect then I need in an link cloaking software.

Covert Affiliates Links  VS Power Link Generator

Both are PHP script that need to installed on your own server, you can one installation and manage unlimited amount of affiliates links.

Both script will almost perform identical jobs and includes very similar features. 

You can add many details for every affiliate link including: affiliate network, username and password, payment method and much more.

Both script track the number of time each link was clicked while Power Link Generator give break it into groups like day, month and so on Vs. Covert Affiliate Links that give you only the total number.

The Price

Although both software deliver the same features the is a huge price different between them Power link Generator price is 97$ while the price of Covert Affiliate Links price is almost half of it and stand on 47$ ( only for a limited a mount of time).

From my point of view there is no need to to pay twice for almost the  same product and Covert Affiliate Links will do the same job while paying only half of the price.

For internet marketers Firefox is the ultimate browser, it has a lot of add-on that can make you life easy.

One great free tool straight from the house SEO Book website  is SEO for Firefox.

Here is a great video about this extension from the creator Aaron Wall:

In order to use this great extension, first download and install Firefox, then download and install the free extension from here.

This extension got a lot of features, you can find more on SEO for Firefox homepage.

You will be surprised to see that most of them free, yes I know most blogs tries to promote one tool or or the other, but you can find a lot of free tools the do the job.

Without further introduction lets start reviews the tools that every Internet marketer need to have:

Keyword Research

• Google External Keyword suggestion tool – This tool is free from the home of big G and can be give you a lot of information including number of search, keyword idea, AdWords competition and lots more. It’s very simply to use it and in the same time it’s very powerful.
• Wordtracker – Yes I know, I promised that most of the tool will be but, you should know that although Wordtracker have a paid version, it also have a free version, that gives up to 100 words for each search.  You can find the free tool at  or buy the full version of Wordtracker.
• Keyword Discovery – Free tool that help come with new keyword ideas.

Campaign Building

After you have finished finding your keywords you will need to start building  your campaign, here are two free tools that can help with this task:

• Google AdWords Editor – In order to build you AdWords campaign you can go to the control that can be found on the AdWords website, or use the great tool from Google house called AdWords Editor.  Without even thinking I can say that tool have saved me a lot of hours building and uploading my Google AdWords Campaigns.
• Keyword List Generator – Another free tool from the SEOBook website will build long tail keyword for you. This tool is similar to SpeedPPC and can even build long tail keyword from more than two columns of words, it’s does not generate a complete files to upload but it’s build you a good long tail keyword list to put in your AdWords campaigns

All of the above tools are free to use, in most cases you don’t need to spend money on expensive tools, when you can find free ones that do the same job.

PPC as you probably know it by know can take your website to the first page of the search engines in a matter of minutes.  If your site is on the first page you can make a lot of money promoting a service that you offer or a product.

Just imagine if you sell a product for 100$ and place an ad on Google AdWords for 1$ per click you could  earn a lot of money if you only one out of 50 visitors will buy your product, and 1 out of 50 visitors is a very low conversion rate.

Before you run and start beading on AdWords you should know that it’s not that simple, you don’t need to be a genius but you should research you market before you even composed your first AdWords ad.

You market research should include:

• Identifying you competitors.
• Finding what words your competitors are are using.
• Finding which words convert more.
• Building a good landing page that will you get you a good quality score on Google AdWords system.
• Finding  who are the merchant the you competitors promote (if you are on the affiliate marketing business).

The answers to the above question can make you AdWords campaign a winner, and not knowing the answers could cost a lot of dollars .

When I first started in the online business there wasn’t  an automatic way to do this kind of research and I would spend days and even week to collect of the information.

PPCBully (You’ve got to love that name) give you and that information on a golden plate.

Building a PPC Campaign With PPCBully will remove the hard and guessing work, look at the diagram below how building a PPC campaign with PPCBully will look:

If you are not new to PPC tools then you probably already familiar with software like SpeedPPC or Efficient PPC  that can  help you building a campaign with long tail keywords. Those tools are doing a great job but a new tool called PPCBully tries to dominate this market from a different angel.

The days of manual research has been over, you can invest your time to accomplish more important tasks and take your business new places.

I’ve stated using this service few months ago when they just opened and never and I can’t imaging going back to my old methods.

Check the videos and tutorials PPCBully  have on the site and you will understand for yourself how powerful  PPCBully.

But when you try and search for your website with your main keywords, you can’t even it even after you have browsed the  20 pages !

Doing this kind of search over and over can take you  a lot of time and in the affiliate business like in all other business your time worth money. The process you need to find what is the position of your website is very simple, you need to search for each keyword and browse though the search results to find your website.

A great free tool from a company named CleverStat can automate this process. All you need to do is to fill you website URL and the keyword you want to search and this clever Google monitor will find you site.

You can adjust this software to search in a localized version of Google, and increase the number of results this program search in.

Here is al list of the main features you can find in Google Monitor:

• Monitors Google web ranking
• Supports more than 50 countries
• Supports multiple URLs
• Can work through a proxy
• Exports results to CSV
• Imports keywords from a text file
• Can work through the Google Web API ¹
• Supports Unicode

Download Free Monitor for Google

The secret is very simple in theory, all you need to find a long tail keyword that describe or related to your product.

This long tail keyword had to be popular which means people need to search for it and on the same time you should prefer that this keyword will not have many competition.

Those two basic terms are:

• High search  volume.
• Low competition

Those two terms will create a winner and with this correct keyword you can dominate the first page of Google, and I don’t mean the first result I mean the all first page !

But here come the hard part, to find this keyword can take a lot of time if your are doing it manually. That is where Market Samurai come to your help,  this tool cost 149$ but for a limited time they have a joint venture with a program called "30 Day challenge". In that period they are giving you Market Samurai for free for 40 days.

You can buy it after that 40 days if you like (and you will I know I did and I have almost any other tool that is out there).

To download the this great software go to market samurai website. On the right side you will the "30 Day challenge" announcement, just fill your name and email and download this great software.