This is an introduction post to a mini series I am putting together on affiliate marketing. Sign up to the RSS feed or subscribe via email (top right..) and stay tuned for the rest of the series. Proposed series topics are at the bottom.

So you have a blog, you are starting to get your traffic up or maybe you don’t even have any traffic yet, but you want to know what to do once you have some traffic. Affiliate marketing is a great way to draw some cash out of …

Here are two simple steps to significantly reduce you exposure to spammers.
Google Your Email
You should already know not to post your email in any comment, on any forum, or have it as a part of any contact page. If you really need to submit your email in a public place you should set up a disposable account that can be discarded once overloaded with spam. See Fake Address – Why Everyone Should Have At Least One.
If you can find your email on google so can spammers. So google your email and find …

I know your auto DMs are probably great but there are many who didn’t get the memo. It doesn’t take long to get sick of auto DMs. I want my direct messages to actually be messages rather than needing to trawl through dozens of “friendly” sales messages. No, I wont buy into your MLM scam!
Good news! Although there are many services that will provide you with and Auto DM there are two that make up nearly 90% of DMs sent, and you can opt-out of them both! This means your …

Most users even if they are on digg will tweet their new posts and use a regular URL shortener. As a result their followers who click the link will be redirected to the page and if they like what they see, I mean really like, then they may consider submitting the page to digg. Smart users will make this process easier for the reader by adding a digg this badge at the bottom of the post. But there’s a better way.
The Digg Bar
If you’ve used digg you will be familiar …

So if you haven’t caught on yet there are these things called RSS feeds that your readers can use to keep up to date with your blog. The benefit of RSS readers is that your inbox doesn’t get overloaded with subscriptions. Many readers choose RSS over email. On this blog only 15% of subscriptions are by email the rest are RSS subscribers.
Here is a walkthrough for setting up a FeedBurner account right through to adding cool RSS buttons to your blog.
Set Up FeedBurner
FeedBurner is owned by google and will track your RSS …

This is something that many wordpress users overlook and the sooner you get it right the better. Search engine results are influenced by the URL so make sure you have good ones!
Permalinks
I have seen so many wordpress accounts lately who are using the standard permalinks. Permalinks are the way your URL is set up when you publish a post. The standard permalink structure looks something like http://yourblog.com/?p=5. And I am sure you can understand that ?p=5 isn’t very search engine friendly (or people friendly for that matter).

To set up great …