Frank Kern infamously said there are only three ways to get more money. Kern is not the first to say this, and won't be the last, and everyone who says it is dead wrong.

Here we go:

1. Get More Customers

2. Sell More to Existing Customers

3. Increase Frequency of Purchase

Frankly, in my book #2 and #3 are essentially the same. So Frank Kern really only has a couple ways to make money.

I have another - and it's a lot...

Everyone wants to make money online. A lot of money and have specific goals. Such as, I need to make $10,000 a month, or $100,000 a year Most fall short.

Something I have seen after 20 years online and helping thousands of marketers is many fail because their expectations are unrealistic based on what they are doing.

It really comes down to math. If they had realized their strategy was wrong they could have taken action to correct it.

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If you receive a "thin site" penalty from Google this means your website was reviewed and:

1. It is an affiliate site.

2. The reviewer did not see sufficient value.

This can be rough, as you may have spent a lot of time creating your content.

Keep this in mind: Google's internal website rater guidelines instruct that affiliate sites by default are to be considered spam, regardless of their content.

So what are we gonna do...

Wordpress is an easy to use content management system. You do it all online. Install it, add posts and pages, use plugins, and so on.

Easy smeasy.

Until you need to do something outside of Wordpress. Such as modifying a .htaccess file. Editing any file. Uploading a file to your website outside of Wordpress.

Suddenly, many Wordpress users panic.

This really is an important skill to learn. And not difficult. Or, you can fork out money every...

Here is an issue that bites virtually every new affiliate marketer: structuring affiliate links for easy changes.

Once you've hit by this you learn a quick lesson. It was recently mentioned to me by one of my Elf Links customers and it is a hidden benefit to using Elf Links.

Here's the Problem

You create a bunch of affiliate links on your website. Great! Until the merchant goes out of business, changes their links, you want to use a different merchant, you...