Search engine optimization is a multi-faceted endeavor, so you need to explore many different strategies and tactics in order to achieve the best possible results. This involves both on-page and off-page SEO techniques.

One method that you may or may not considered is article marketing. This mimics the process of organic link-building, generating backlinks from around the Internet back to your site using targeted anchor text. The process can be time-consuming and complex if you do it on your own, so that’s why there are services that can help do this for you.

One such service is Unique Article Wizard, which serves as the subject of today’s review. How is UAW different from other article marketing services? Let’s find out.

Not Really a Magic Wand

Rather than going after individual siteowners, hoping that they’ll publish your article (and thus provide you with a little link juice), you can use Unique Article Wizard to automate the process.

In short, you submit three different versions of basically the same article and these are then distributed among the UAW network. This independent network of over 20,000 article directories and blogs uses an “opt-in” mechanism. UAW doesn’t actually own any of these sites.

This can have several advantages. It means that your article is better distributed all across the Internet, instead of just within sites owned by UAW. By doing so, the links look much more “natural” to Google than if they all appeared on the same server.

Really More Than Three Versions

While you could submit three articles that are basically paraphrased versions of one another, you can go even further by adding in the ability to spin at the paragraph, sentence, phrase, and word level.

When you use Unique Article Wizard, you can use a syntax like {car|vehicle|automobile} and the generated article will select one of the three words at random. Use enough of these and you can have many more than “just” three versions of the article.

The full team of human reviewers help to get your article accepted at the most places possible. You’ve probably seen some bot-generated content that is basically gibberish. UAW doesn’t do that.

Your Choice Of User Interface

Unique Article Wizard offers you four different ways to set up your article projects and to submit them to the network of directories and blogs. The default option is the Easy Wizard, which is accompanied by video tutorials all along the way. Alternatively, you can choose the Easy One Step, Step-By-Step Wizard, or One-Step Wizard.

They all effectively do the same thing, but after you get used to how the system works, you’ll probably stick to the One-Step Wizard shown above. This gives you access to all the fields, like the author byline and resource box, on a single page.

Closer to the bottom of that page, you can select your preferred category (for posting), when you would like the article sent out, and whether you would like to “throttle” their release. Bombarding the Internet with (almost) the same article all at the same time can raise some flags with search engines.

Getting the Article Written

You could write these articles yourself, but it is probably more efficient to outsource them at a reduced rate. Unique Article Wizard works closely with My Article Express specifically for this purpose.

In fact, you’ll see that they have special pricing set up for Unique Article Wizard article sets, providing three unique articles based on one keyword or keyword phrase.

How Much Does It Cost?

In addition to the cost of getting the articles written by My Article Express (about $10-$15 per batch of three), you’ll need to subscribe to the Unique Article Wizard service to access its utility and its network of over 20,000 sites.

I wouldn’t suggest relying solely on article marketing for your SEO efforts, but it could prove to be an affordable way to get quality backlinks around the web. The subscription price is $67 per month and this can be facilitated through PayPal.

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One of the keys to having a successful career making money online is to generate income even when you’re not working. That’s the critical difference between a regular job and being an Internet entrepreneur.

While it can be challenging and time-consuming to publish an actual book, the ebook market can be considerably easier to crack. Even then, the process can seem daunting and confusing from the outside. Can you make money from writing an ebook?

Helping you achieve this goal is Ebook Profits Unleashed, an e-book on how to make money writing and selling e-books. Go figure. Over the course of this review, we’ll take a look at what this e-book has to offer and whether it’s worth the asking price.

Who Is the Author?

There are many people out there who claim to be experts when they have no real knowledge at all. While it’s possible that author Jesse Regan has the experience and skills to create successful ebooks, he doesn’t really “sell” this in the “About the Author” section of the ebook:

Jesse Regan is fun loving, positive thinking family man who truly believes that anything is possible with the right mindset and a whole lot of action. In his spare time he enjoys rock climbing, biking, skiing, weightlifting, hunting, fishing, reading self development books and spending as much time as he can with his loved ones.

Personally, I think the section is better served by telling us why we should trust and believe the guidance being given by Regan. At this stage, I’m much less interested in his biking and fishing habits.

Make Money Writing and Selling Ebooks

So, the core product is called Ebook Profits Unleashed and it gives you a step-by-step guide on how to create a successful ebook. It has been written in such a way to be accessible even by newbies.

The ebook itself is 142 pages and it really goes through every phase of the e-book writing process. It starts by describing the importance of researching your topic and progresses through to designing book covers, finding hosting and a domain to sell your book, creating an opt-in page to capture email addresses, and developing the sales copy to market the end product.

Oh, and it talks a little about the actual writing process itself. Regan says that you could write the ebook yourself, but you could just as easily outsource the work to someone else. He says that he has writers that can produce ebooks at about a buck a page, though I question the quality that writers can produce at that price.

Writing Style and Approachability

Regan also encourages the use of PLR ebooks and other sources that can then be “tweaked” to create your own original content. In terms of his own e-book, Regan outlines the information in a clear and easy-to-understand matter.

For instance, here is a brief section on how you can go about creating a good e-book e-cover. Throughout the e-book, Regan has included links to several useful resources.

Some of these are affiliate links, providing Regan with additional supplemental income. You could just as easily do the same should you choose to write and publish an e-book of your own.

Your Free Bonus Materials

As an added incentive, Regan is providing a free bonus if you sign up for his mailing list. This is an online rolodex of free (or cheap) online resources that you can use. The document itself is 180 pages.

I suspect that, like the main ebook, the bonus also contains a few affiliate links. Nice work.

Should you choose to purchase Ebook Profits Unleashed, you are also provided with at least four other bonus materials: Rocket Launch Video Course, Video Marketing on Steroids, Email Marketing Demon, and Easy Squeeze Page Templates.

How Much Does It Cost?

Even people who are already familiar with Internet marketing will find some value in Ebook Profits Unleashed. It doesn’t really reveal much in terms of industry secrets, per se, but it does bring together many useful resources and quick guides on how to produce an ebook. The onus is still, however, on you to produce a valuable ebook and to market it successfully.

Ebook Profits Unleashed sells for $47 and comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee.

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If you’ve been spending some time on the Internet learning about how to make money online, then you’ve probably discovered that there can be some good money in search engine optimization. However, not everyone is particularly knowledgeable or skillful in this field and it can take a while before you develop any sort of expertise in this area.

However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t make a good deal of money helping individuals and businesses achieve better search engine rankings and better traffic numbers through SEO and PPC. That’s because you can take advantage of the Loveclients affiliate program.

Over the course of this review, we’ll take a look at the services being offered by Loveclients, as well as how the affiliate program works.

What Is Loveclients?

Based on the name, you’d almost think that Loveclients was in the dating or matchmaking business. Some of you may even be thinking about the escort business with a name like that. However, that’s not at all what Loveclients does.

Instead, Loveclients is an SEO agency that aims to help its clients ascend the search engine rankings for their target keywords and keyword phrases. Accompanying the search engine optimization are services catered to optimizing your pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns as well.

It’s very clear that Loveclients is aiming to be a premium service. Looking at the pricing page, you’ll find that the core SEO service is $599 per month. The PPC campaign management can also be $599 a month, though you can opt to pay 10% of your “monthly PPC spend.” Combine the two services for $997.

Make Money with the Affiliate Program

Now that you have a basic grasp of the program you will be promoting, you probably want to know how much of that $599 a month will end up in your pocket. While it would have been nice to get a 50% commission, that’s not the case. However, the Loveclients affiliate program still looks quite lucrative.

Rather than pay you a one-time commission for referring a new signup, Loveclients offers an ongoing commission for however long your referred client continues to subscribe to the Loveclients SEO or PPC program.

The payout level is comprised of three tiers and these are based on the number of your referrals that are currently active with Loveclients. For instance, if you sign up 40 people in April (and they stay) and then 20 more in May, that means you have 50 tier-1 signups and 10 tier-2 signups for May.

The payment configuration seems to be very good too with weekly payouts and your choice of PayPal, Epassporte, cheque, or wire transfer. The minimum payout is $50, so you only need one signup to get your first commission payment.

And the Affiliate Control Panel?

The user control panel for the Loveclients affiliate program will look familiar to many. This same template is used for many affiliate programs on the Internet.

Through the dashboard, you have at-a-glance access to your standard earnings, recurring earnings, total transactions, and so forth. The left sidebar gives you access to marketing materials and additional tools.

Loveclients has done a good job with providing a decent variety of marketing materials. There are 20 different banners using standard ad sizes like 300 x 250, 125 x 125, and 768 x 90. They’ve also included a page peel, text links, and email links.

While it is not mentioned on the main affiliate program page, it seems you can make additional income by referring other affiliates. Using the “tier linking code,” you can earn 10% of each commission generated by an affiliate you refer.

Optimize Your Cash Flow

Considering the amount of money that Loveclients is charging its clients, it’s good to see that the associated affiliate program can be quite lucrative for you too.

This is a service that they are offering, after all, and not a product, so it wouldn’t really be fair to expect a 50% commission rate. You are making between $50 and $75 per referral, so if you can develop a good campaign to promote the program, you could be making some good money. The onus, of course, is on you.

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Setting up a successful and lucrative website can be costly, time-consuming, or both. It can be difficult getting al the content to populate the site and it can be even more challenging to get ranked well in the search engines to attract a good level of traffic.

While this product may not appeal to all audiences, EZ Empire Builder could be a great tool in your quest to make money online. Over the course of this review, we’ll take a look at what EZ Empire Builder does, how it works, and whether it can actually be effective in generating a good level of online income.

Automatically Populate a Blog

One of the first hurdles you will encounter when trying to build a website is finding the appropriate content to fill it. You could write the posts yourself or outsource to a freelance writer like me, but that takes time. You could use some auto-blogging software to scrape content, grab PLR articles, or syndicate RSS feeds, but those articles are anything but unique.

EZ Empire Builder, a premium WordPress plugin, takes on an entirely different approach. The way that it works is that it allows you to import any kind of database and use that as your source material.

Import any Database as Source Material

You know those websites that list song lyrics? The webmasters probably didn’t type in those lyrics themselves; the information is pulled from a database. In like manner, you may be able to grab CSV databases from affiliate networks and the like.

In short, this blogging tool can import the database and use the information contained within as source material for hundreds or even thousands of posts. For this example, we use a database of restaurants in and around San Francisco.

You can upload the database from within the WordPress dashboard utility itself or you can use FTP to upload the database files manually. Both methods work with this tool.

Manipulate Fields to Create Unique Posts

After the database has been imported, you go to the post configuration tab in WordPress. It is here that you really get to see what EZ Empire Builder can do. Each field in the database is converted into tags. These, denoted as [[keyword]], can then be dragged and dropped into the post title, post description, and post excerpt areas.

You can also use spinner text, like {hello|hi|hey}, and it will “spin” the text to use each of those three words for different posts. After entering some filler text to allow for grammatically correct sentences, you can effectively generate hundreds or thousands of unique posts. You can insert highly targeted affiliate links and other advertising too.

The resulting blog posts can publish all at once or you can define how they “drip” onto your blog over an extended period of time. You determine the total number of posts, number of posts published each day, and the date on which to start posting.

In effect, you can have a fully populated WordPress blog with thousands of unique posts in a matter of minutes. You just have to find the right database, define the post template, and let EZ Empire Builder do its thing.

This wouldn’t be appropriate for blogs like Beyond the Rhetoric or John Chow dot Com, but it can be great for affiliate marketing or resource-based sites, among others.

How Much Does It Cost?

I went in expecting EZ Empire Builder to be like any other auto-blogging software. I expected it to translate PLR articles into a foreign language and then translate them back to English for unique content. It doesn’t do this.

The ability to import just about any database (CSV, mySQL, etc.) and then manipulate the resulting fields sounds like it could be a very powerful endeavor. Implemented and monetized correctly, you could have a great resource-style site that ranks well in search engines.

EZ Empire Builder currently sells for $197, but you can enter the coupon code JCHOW15 for 15% off the purchase price. It also comes with a 30-day 100% money back guarantee.

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Branding is incredibly important and one of the most pertinent aspects of your brand is your logo. Can you imagine where Nike would be if it did not have the swoosh? Whether you run a brick and mortar store or you want to brand your popular blog, you should get a unique logo.

Normally, hiring a custom logo designer can prove to be a pricey endeavor, but such is not the case if you go with a service like LogoMyWay.com instead. In this review, we’ll take a look at their standard logo contests, as well as a new logo marketplace that was recently launched.

Host a Design Contest

Rather than relying on a single designer with a single vision, LogoMyWay.com lets you tap into a growing community of designers. This way, you can gain access to the widest variety of options for your company logo.

This is done by hosting a custom design contest. You give the community any guidance that you would like to provide, like your company name and preferred color scheme, and you wait for them to come up with some beautiful logos for you.

Shown above are some of the recent winning logo designs. As you can see, the scope of the logos is quite varied. To ensure that you get what you want, LogoMyWay.com guarantees that you get at least 40 logo concepts. If you don’t, they’ll refund your payment, no questions asked.

How Much Does It Cost?

So, how much money do you need to put forward in order to get a custom logo design? Well, that’s partly up to you.

You need to define the “prize” amount associated with your logo contest and this prize must be somewhere between $200 and $1000. In addition to this fee, which will be awarded to the winning designer, there is a 10% administration fee and that’s where LogoMyWay.com makes its money.

If you’d like, you can also pay the $50 upgrade to launch a private contest. This way, the contest is only visible to registered members of the LogoMyWay design community and not to search engines and competitors.

Get a New Logo Right Now

Logo contests can last anywhere from five to fourteen days, but you may not want to wait that long for the designers to submit their concepts. Perhaps you’d prefer to see some ready-made logos instead. That’s where the new logo marketplace comes into play.

This is an entirely different kind of transaction. What you do is browse through the existing marketplace of logos and select the one that you would like for your company. The text is changed to your company name within 24 hours, making for a much faster process.

You don’t have to worry about everyone else getting the same logo when you use the marketplace approach. Every logo design “is rigorously approved for uniqueness, high quality, professionalism, and customizable before it’s available for sale.”

From what I can see, the going rate for a unique logo from the marketplace is $295. That’s the case with this robotic logo design, for instance, that may be appropriate for a sci-fi company of some kind.

A Professional Logo at a Reasonable Price

Your brand is one of your most valued assets and a good logo plays a very critical role. You don’t want to leave something like this to chance.

Whether you opt for a logo contest or you choose a ready-made logo from the marketplace, you are assured of its uniqueness. It might sound like a lot of money to spend $200+ on a logo, but you should view this as an investment in your company’s future.

In fact, the logo on John’s new business card was actually created by the LogoMyWay design community. There are over 5000 designers creating these unique logos, so one of them is bound to make something you like.

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Are you looking to make money online? Of course you are. That’s probably why you find yourself reading this blog post on John Chow dot Com in the first place. However, you may have found that your current methods have been underperforming.

Standard practices can only go so far. That’s why you might be interested in this review of Rogue Marketing from the Profit Smart team.

Moving to Alaska?

While the term has certainly existed for many years, it seems that “going rogue” came into fashion with Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. It’s unclear whether the Profit Smart people are trying to cash in the Wasilla soccer mom, but the product does seem to evoke that imagery. They even use bullets and red (like lipstick) font in key places.

The primary product being promoted through this review is an e-book called Rogue Marketing. It is 134 pages long and it describes a way that you can make money from affiliate marketing that you may not have considered: media buys.

Rogue Marketing: First Edition

Rather than invest your money in AdWords, pay-per-click and search engine optimization, Profit Smart says that you can be very effective with media buys instead. That doesn’t mean you have to burn through your budget with radio ads and TV spots. Instead, they recommend buying advertising from related websites.

Maybe it’s because I make my living as a freelance writer, but I’ve always been a stickler for good spelling and grammar. The occasional typo is forgiven, but the e-book is littered with all sorts of mistakes.

Over the course of the Rogue Marketing e-book, you’ll learn about demographic research, keyword research, using self-serve networks, optimizing for results, and building a campaign. You get plenty of text, instructions, screenshots, and more.

Unfortunately, in addition to several grammatical errors, there seem to be some formatting issues with the e-book as well. Images have not been resized in many instances and this can sometimes cut out pertinent information.

(Edit/Update: I should note that this is the “first edition” of the e-book and they are working on cleaning it up in preparation for the relaunch.)

Find Websites in Your Chosen Niche

When you sign up for the members area on the Rogue Marketing site, you can download the PDF e-book to your computer or you can view it with Flash. Supplemental materials, OpenX training videos, and GIMP training videos are also provided.

Perhaps more importantly, you gain access to the beta version of Ad Seeker utility from the Profit Smart team.

It can be time-consuming finding the right blogs to buy your “rogue” advertising spots. Using this tool, you can type in your chosen keyword phrase and many sites offering ad space are then listed. You can get their traffic ranks and detailed statistics, as well as direct links to their advertising information pages.

For instance, the list above was generated when I searched for “make money online.” For better or for worse, John Chow dot Com didn’t make the cut.

Getting More with Platinum Rogue Status

If Google goes “on the offensive,” then it may be time “to go rogue” with your marketing efforts. I’m not sure if this is really the right kind of branding for this product, but it does solicit an immediate emotional response.

Getting beyond the basic e-book on media buys, you can consider the Rogue Marketing Platinum Subscription. This includes over 12 hours of video, access to the aforementioned members area, and access to Ad Seeker.

The regular price for the platinum package is $500 plus $25 per month, but a “reserved price” is “just” $300, plus a $25 monthly fee. Is this worth the somewhat hefty price of admission? I’m not quite inclined to say, “You betcha” just yet, but that’s up to you to decide.

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Making money online can be a tough endeavor, since there are so many other people on the Internet trying to do the same. There is so much competition, so it pays to be as far ahead of the curve as possible. You need to capitalize on opportunities before everyone else.

How, then, can you find the fastest growing trends before the other guy down the street? One tool that you might want to consider is the Internet Time Machine, which serves as the subject of this review. According to its developers, you can use ITM to “find risk-free profitable niches before anyone else does.”

Know Today What People Will Buy Tomorrow

Just as with traditional businesses, it pays to be the first to market when it comes to the Internet as well. By being an early adopter, you have the opportunity to make as much money as possible before the niche becomes saturated with late adopters and other stragglers.

In short, the Internet Time Machine collects data from over 40 million sources worldwide every 24 hours. In doing so, it can find new niches and trends before anyone else.

Serving as a backend to the Internet Time Machine software is a new search engine called NowRelevant.com. As you can tell from its name, it culls the web for the topics that are increasing in popularity and becoming relevant today. This is similar, in some ways, to the trending topics you find on Twitter, except it is pulling information from many more sources.

To better understand how the system works, you can watch the 35-minute training video. It describes how ITM works and how it finds the niches.

Finding the Relevant and Rising Trends

The Internet Time Machine offers three separate but related utilities. One finds the most recent mentions in the last 24 hours, the next searches for potential trends, and the last is the core trend analysis.

Shown here are the results using the second utility. Based on this analysis, it seems that people are increasingly talking about ab workouts, ABBA songs, and AC Schnitzer accessories for BMWs. This is based on mentions in blogs, newsgroups, mailing lists, and so on.

This information can be useful from an SEO perspective, because you can know what the “hot” topic of the day is or what will be a hot topic soon. This way, you may be able to find valuable keywords and keyword phrases as part of your search engine marketing campaign. Affiliate marketers will tell you that their keywords can be their lifeblood.

More Info from Blogs and Videos

To further assist you in your online endeavors, the Internet Time Machine also offers some useful information in the form of blog posts and videos.

These brief articles can be of general interest, but they can also be indicative of increasingly popular trends and topics on the web. For instance, there is a brief post saying that quinoa is here and it’s the latest health craze, possibly outperforming acai berry in the near future as a (lucrative) super food.

Going Back to the Future

In order to make money in the present, sometimes you have to look ahead to the future. The Internet Time Machine can help you stay ahead of the curve, keeping you informed of emerging trends before anyone else. That could translate into money in the bank.

If you go to the main landing page, you’ll find a brief video (which is set on autoplay) and an opt-in form where you can get a free report on the best five ideas for 2010.

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Do you know the key to success? Do you know the best way to bring greater happiness into you life? Well, it seems like Bob Proctor does and he wants to share this information with you.

His name may already be familiar with many of you, but if it isn’t, you’ll learn a little more about Proctor and his latest program over the course of this review. Don’t have a lot of time on your hands? Bob Proctor says that he can transform your life in just six minutes a day.

Who Is Bob Proctor?

For those of you who are not as familiar, Bob Proctor is one of the people behind The Secret, the popular book that was later made into a 2006 movie by Prime Time Productions. In it, we learn more about the power of attraction and positive thinking.

Continuing along this train of thought, Bob Proctor is now prepared to offer a new product that he calls Six Minutes to Success. From what I can see, the launch is set for April 4, but you have the chance for an early bird preview.

Get Three Free Preview Videos

The idea behind Bob Proctor’s new program is that he will provide you with daily instruction on how you can achieve personal growth and transform your life for the better. This is done through a series of six minute videos, hence the name of the program.

If you sign up for the early bird list, which closes in just a couple of days, you will be granted access to three sample videos of six minutes each. This gives you a sense of what to expect when the actual product launches.

The video embedded in the preview page appears to a Skype video call and I personally found the pacing (and information) to be quite slow. However, that’s not to say the mailing list isn’t valuable. Six Minutes to Success, in many ways, can be seen as a great supplement and follow-up to The Secret.

The Bonuses for Signing Up Today

People who were interested and had a lot to gain from the Secret will likely enjoy and find value in Six Minutes to Success as well. Beyond the actual product itself, you also gain access to some free bonuses.

After watching the main video, you can sign up for the program and be provided with the bonus offers.

First, Bob is hosting the Six Minute Summit in Los Angeles this fall and those who maintain their program memberships until September will be given a free ticket to attend. While there, you can meet Proctor in person.

Second, Frank Kern will also be at the Summit as a guest speaker. Kern is known to charge as much as $10,000 for his speaking sessions, so this can be a valuable free bonus.

Third, Proctor will soon be retiring. His final seminar, the Matrixx Seminar, will cost $18,000 per seat to attend, but Six Minute to Success members will be given a free recording after the event.

How Much Does Success Cost?

With Six Minutes to Success, you get daily six-minute videos from Bob Proctor that are designed to change your life for the better. Along with the videos, you get a workbook to write down your commitments, goals, and progress. So, how much does this cost?

For an unspecified length of time, you can gain access to the daily Six Minute videos for just $1. That’s the price for the first month and, if you are not satisfied with what you get, you can cancel and get your buck back. If you do like what you see, your subscription will continue at the regular price. From what I can see, the regular monthly charge is in the $90 range.

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Some people have come to believe that Google is the be-all and end-all of search engines. Yes, many of us turn to the big G for most of our web search needs, but we still turn to other sites for other purposes. We search Amazon for books, LastFM for music, and Wikipedia for answers, for instance.

Rather than opening multiple web browser windows and going to each of these sites individually, it is much more convenient to go to just one place and get all the search results aggregated for you. Favitt addresses this precise concept, making your online life just a little bit easier.

As we go through this review, we’ll take a look at what Favitt has to offer and whether it should become your search engine of choice.

Search Everything with Favitt

When you go to the main Favitt homepage, you’ll be presented with a rather familiar interface. It almost looks like Google, except the background is black and the tabs above the search bar offer different options.

The main idea, as you can probably fathom, is that you can enter your search term once and be presented with the search results from all these different sources. Even though only five search engines are shown as tabs above the search bar, there are more available when you hit the “more” button to the left.

It should be noted, however, that not all the search engine results are shown on a single page. Instead, you toggle between the results by clicking on the appropriate links.

Monetizing the Search Engine Results Page

Favitt has to make money somehow, since it is a free service. That’s why there are sponsored links and other advertising on the search engine results page.

This is the page that I got when I searched for “michael kwan” on Bing using Favitt. There is a Google AdSense banner at the top, as well as one at the bottom of the page. The search results themselves could be monetized as well.

In addition to the Bing results, I was also shown truncated search results for YouTube, Twitter, and Google News along the right sidebar. Going further, I could click on any of the search option links on the left to access more results from Digg, Yelp, Answers, and so on.

Customize Your Links Too

If you want to use Favitt as your main homepage, you can also sign up for a free account and start the customization process. Beyond the search engines, you can also add your own bookmarks and “favorite sites.”

The default links include Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter, but you could just as easily add John Chow dot Com and Beyond the Rhetoric to your list of frequently visited links.

Ditch the Black for Something More

Whether or not you choose to sign up for a free Favitt account, you can customize the background image to suit your personal preferences. To try this out, I created favitt.com/michaelkwan and swapped the background for an image I created during my trip to Banff.

That certainly adds some personality to the page. Further still, you can adjust the position of the search bar to your liking too. The default is to have it in the center, but you can move it to any of the four corners instead. In this instance, I placed the search bar in the top-right.

Possible Branding Problems for Favitt

On more than one occasion as I prepared and wrote this review, I misspelled Favitt as Favvit. This is probably going to be a common instance until the search engine becomes a better known brand in its own right. Maybe it’s just me.

As it stands, the functionality of Favitt is quite good, giving you access to multiple search engines from one convenient location. The search results page feels a little clunky with so many “widgets” in different positions, but it is still easy to find what you need. It is free to use, so there’s no harm in giving Favitt a try.

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Unless you’ve decided to hide in a cave for the last ten years, there’s a good chance you know about this whole Internet poker phenomenon. It’s not like poker is a new game, per se, but it has rapidly grown in popularity thanks to televised events like the World Poker Tour.

How can you cash in (no pun intended) on this growing industry? Well, as you’ll learn from this review, Full Tilt Poker actually has one of the most lucrative affiliate programs on the web today.

Affiliate with Full Tilt Poker

With big names like John Juanda and Gus Hansen, you already have a highly recognizable brand on your hands. Full Tilt Poker is one of the most popular online poker rooms, offering a wide range of different poker games and formats, but it also gives you an opportunity to “play with the pros.”

Even if you don’t play poker yourself, you can still make money with Full Tilt Poker.

That’s where the affiliate program comes into play. You can make affiliate income by referring new players to the site who go on to play for real money. It doesn’t matter if they choose to play cash games or tournaments; you get paid both ways.

From what I can see, registration requires filling out a short form and submitting it online. There does not appear to be an approval process, so you can start earning your commissions right away.

Choose from Two Payment Plans

When you sign up for the Full Tilt Poker affiliate program, you can choose from two different payment schemes. These are mutually exclusive, so you can’t double-dip on your earnings.

The first payment plan is CPA, so you are paid a one-time commission for each new player that you refer. This is based on the number of qualified referrals each month and you can earn a bonus if they are particularly active on the site. These payouts range from $75 to $215 per player.

The second payment plan is a percentage revenue plan, giving you a percentage of the money Full Tilt earns each month from your referred players. This is on an ongoing basis with commissions ranging from 20% to 35%, depending on the net revenue generated by the players you refer.

You can’t really say that one payment plan is more lucrative than the other, because it depends on the behavior of the players you refer to the site. If you send people who play regularly and spend lots of money, the PRP is probably better. If you send people who may not play as much, the CPA model may be in your best interest.

The Importance of Full Tilt Points

You’ll notice that the way Full Tilt “qualifies” a referral is based on the number of “FTPS” that the player earns. These Full Tilt Points are earned by players for participating in ring games and in tournaments.

For the former, each dollar raked from a pot results in one point being given to every player dealt into the hand (to a maximum of three points). For the latter, seven points are given for every dollar paid in multi-table and sit & go tournaments (with no maximum).

Make Money by Referring More Affiliates

What if you have an audience like John Chow dot Com where there are more people interested in Internet marketing than in Texas Hold’em? You can make money there too.

The referral program rewards you for referring other affiliates too. It seems that the “sub-affiliate” system only runs one level deep, but you can earn either 3% of net revenue or a $5 fixed CPA, depending on the payment plan you chose.

Put on Your Poker Face

You don’t have to have a website to promote Full Tilt Poker. They welcome other forms of marketing too (like ordering reviews on popular blogs). You can also remind your readers that Full Tilt offers an automatic 100% initial deposit match (up to $600) for new accounts.

What about getting paid by the affiliate program? Instead of sending your earnings via PayPal or sending you a cheque, Full Tilt deposits the money into your Full Tilt Poker player account. They want you to put the cash back on the table, you see.

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