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Rosalind Gardner

Super affiliate, blogger, and speaker, Rosalind is best known for her affiliate marketing training in the Super Affiliate Handbook: How I made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other Peoples' Stuff Online. You can connect with her on Facebook.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

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What is Affiliate Marketing?

In simple terms, affiliate marketing is the promotion of products and/or services to earn commissions through an affiliate program.

An affiliate program is a program that facilitates the relationship between online merchants and their affiliates — allowing the affiliate to promote that company's products or services for a commission.

Affiliate programs may also be referred to as:

  • Associate Programs
  • Referral Programs
  • Bounty Programs
  • Partner Programs
  • Revenue Sharing Programs

The merchant provides the affiliate with a link to their site or a specific product that credits the affiliate with the sale or lead when one is successfully concluded.

To help you learn more, I've prepared some videos for you:

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sig-ros

WordPress Plugins and How I Use Them (2019)

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Wordpress Plugins

WordPress plugins enhance the capabilities of your WordPress blog. There are literally tens of thousands of WordPress plugins from which to choose, but I'll make this easy on you.

Below is a list of my most frequently used WordPress plugins, along with descriptions of how I use them. Each of these plugins can be accessed through your WordPress Administration Panel by clicking Plugins > Add New and then entering its name in the resulting search bar at the top right-hand corner of the page.

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Is Your Blog GDPR Compliant?

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GDPR compliant blog

GDPR, which stands for General Data Protection Regulation, is a law covering data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and also the export of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas.

Although the GDPR regulation was implemented on May 25th, 2018, I’ve seen many blogs that are NOT GDPR compliant.

My guess is that bloggers outside the EU simply assume that they don’t need to be GDPR compliant.

Those bloggers would be wrong.

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WPForms: A Better Contact Form

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I was more than tired of seeing the ‘configuration errors detected' on my Contact 7 contact form.

It didn't matter what I did to try and fix the errors, I still got the notification.

Granted, the form actually worked, but the error notice bugged me.

Contact Form 7 Configuration Errors

So, I decided to find a new plugin and the WPForms Contact Form came up second in the search results.

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Super Affiliate Handbook Updated for 2019

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A lot has changed since I started affiliate marketing in 1999 and wrote the first edition of the Super Affiliate Handbook in 2003.

Super Affiliate Handbook cover

Back then, there were no blogs and no Google.

I coded every bit of my first web site in Notepad. Dancing babies, spinning globes and the whole nine yards of ugly elements.

In 2019, new webmasters can install their first blog in just minutes and creating content is now as easy as playing with kids’ building blocks. Indeed, WordPress has moved to using block content to make content building easier for every webmaster.

Granted, getting ‘found’ online nowadays isn’t quite as easy as it was when I started my 1st website back in 1998. Back then, I submitted my site to Yahoo! and umpteen other directories with site submission services just to get my site noticed and it worked.

Now, Google is King of the Castle and webmasters MUST abide by his rules.

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Is Your Blog Showing a “Not Secure” Warning in Google Chrome?

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Have you noticed that your blog is showing a “Not Secure” warning in Chrome browsers?

Mine was.

'not secure' warning
Site with ‘Not Secure' warning

I was concerned about what that “Not Secure” warning label meant and how visitors would perceive my site by result, so I started doing a little research to find out why that was happening and what I could do about it.

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My Dog Knows How to Make Money on YouTube

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Jasper the Chocolate Labrador Knows How to Make Money on YouTube

When YouTube changed its Partnership Program eligibility requirements in January 2018, and I received the dreaded email confirming that I'd been kicked out of their program, I figured that I would no longer make money on YouTube, or more accurately, through Google Adsense.

Here is a portion of that dreaded email…

“Under the new eligibility requirements announced today, your YouTube channel, Rosalind Gardner, is no longer eligible for monetization because it doesn’t meet the new threshold of 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. As a result, your channel will lose access to all monetization tools and features associated with the YouTube Partner Program on February 20, 2018 unless you surpass this threshold in the next 30 days. Accordingly, this email serves as 30 days notice that your YouTube Partner Program terms are terminated.”

The Rosalind Gardner YouTube channel is my business channel. It didn't occur to me to check and see what my personal YouTube channel, RoamsterRos was doing… until just recently.

Well, surprise, surprise, surprise! (I can hear Gomer Pyle's voice as I write that! LOL.)

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