If you’re already using Facebook, or you plan on doing so - then I’d recommend a premium wordpress plugin called Facebook Ads Manager

By the way - don’t confuse this with the new interface that Facebook has introduced - that doesn’t do the time saving stuff that FB ads manager does. 

This mega plugin allows you to automatically create & track thousands of ad variations for you, this is powerful stuff that would take you hours & hours to do on Facebook manually.

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I’ve used some premium pay per click management software in the past that does similar time saving & ROI increasing jobs for me - and some of these tools cost silly amounts of money, in fact some of them you can’t even buy - they’re so valuable that the creators of the program demand a percentage of your ongoing spend in order to use the tool!

Luckily the facebook ads manager is currently being sold for peanuts compared to it’s value if you use it properly.

By the way, if you’ve not yet tried Facebook sponsored advertising - then you’re quite possibly missing out on a chunk of potential profit.

Like all paid for marketing, you need to be careful - but Facebook ads is pretty special, due to the amazing ability to target your ads to particular demographics - and due to the fact that there is literally nowhere near the competition on facebook that there is on Google.

I’ve spoken before about the danger of Google adwords, in that quite often the minimum cost per click is too high to make profit from with most conversion rates & profit per sale - the reason the costs are too high, is the sheer amount of competition. This competition isn’t anywhere near the same on Yahoo - YET, so get in there while you can!

If you’re getting into affiliate marketing - don’t get stuck in the trap that most get caught in!

For a perfect introduction to this method, a complete step by step approach, see Simple Sites Big Profits (go watch the free video) - or read my SSBP review

DO make money fast as an affiliate - focus on making affiliate money fast, but DON’T focus on the amount, at least to begin with.

Or to put it another way:

Spin Small Plates!

I believe this is of great importance to those who’re new to affiliate marketing - or those who haven’t yet started making any money as an affiliate (which isn’t just new affiliates).

I’m talking about creating small affiliate sites which you can learn to create in an hour or so, which may only make relatively small amounts of money each month per website - but the speed at which you’ll be able to create them will mean you can churn them out, and quickly ramp up your affiliate income.

The biggest reason many new affiliate marketers never get off the ground & make any money, is that they focus on the wrong things to begin with. They focus on building BIG things, when the trick is to initially focus on SMALL things.

Put it this way - if it’s going to take you 3 months, and $1000 to complete a website in order to start making money as an affiliate, what are the chances of you ever getting started?

But - if it’s going to take you an hour or so, and you’re going to be able to see profit starting to come in quickly, regardless of the amount - what are the chances you’ll be inspired to carry on?

You may also find my other recent post of interest : Legitimate ways to make extra money

This is an honest, hype free & up front review of Simple Sites Big Profits, by Marcus Campbell.

If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you’ve seen this banner somewhere….

…. or you’ve read people talking either positively or negatively about the Simple Sites Big Profits program, on blogs or forums, and you’re wondering if it’s worth putting any belief into.

(by the way - one thing I’ll say right now, is that he offers a couple of video’s free of charge, so you can find out exactly what the program entails well before you consider buying anything or try anything, and you’ll probably find you get some good idea’s from the free video’s themselves)

I was inspired to write this review by some of the comments I stumbled upon this morning on a forum..

Someone asked the question (I’ve paraphrased) :

“hi, i have just read about  this thing called Simple sites big profit.Has anyone here tried it, is it legit or a scam? Thanks”

That’s a fair question, most of us who’re seeking the keys to make more money online are used to being disappointed, so the guy is trying to save disappointment by finding out if anyone else had tried it, that could save him the trouble, so that’s a good thing to do.

So lets look at some of the replies (again I’ve paraphrased so not to annoy anyone by quoting their exact words….)

“It looks like a scam to me, you can tell by the way the site is designed, and by how keenly the guy wants to sell…”

“I wouldn’t waste your time, these things usually end in disappointment”

“There’s no such thing as a making money online program or kit, sorry to burst bubbles, but just don’t purchase these things, regardless of how many testimonials or case studies they have”

“I never buy anything from sales websites, with tons of sales copy & stories, and testimonials, and an order button at the end….”

“I would avoid it, put some money into starting your own website instead….”

First of all - note one thing….. not one single person who replied states that they’re speaking from experience having used the program / info themselves….

It’s amazing how many people are willing to pass judgement & even give advice, based on something they actually have no direct experience with.

So let me deal with these kinds of answers one at a time ….

“It looks like a scam to me, you can tell by the way the site is designed, and by how keenly the guy wants to sell…”

Shock horror, the guy is keen to sell! ;-)  Well of course! What’s the point of spending time & effort on creating something if you’re not going to be keen to sell it?? Judging something as a scam or rip off just because it looks as if the intention is to sell the product, is crazy. You go to a car showroom, they want to sell you a car - that’s what they’re there for… You go to the web page of program / Ebook or whatever the case may be, the same is true, the website is there to sell the product.

This does of course mean you should do your due diligence before buying anything from a website & I certainly don’t suggest you believe everything you read on website which is there to sell you the product, but nor would I ever suggest that something is a scam just because it’s clear that the intention of he website is to sell a product or service.

“I wouldn’t waste your time, these things usually end in disappointment”

This sounds like the words of one of the many people (myself included) who have spent thousands over the years on programs, ebooks, systems - which claimed to be able to help me increase my online success, only to find that the majority of them fall short of their promises, some by a long long way!

So trust me, I really do appreciate the reasoning behind this answer - but just because we’ve had disappointments in the past that doesn’t mean that we’ll be disappointed by everything, and we’ll never find a product which delivers the value it promises to.

Many of us have had disappointments in our love life, does that mean we’ll stay celibate for the rest of our lives? We’ve all been out to restaurants & had disappointing meals, do we give up on eating out just to avoid that chance?

“There’s no such thing as a making money online program or kit, sorry to burst bubbles, but just don’t purchase these things, regardless of how many testimonials or case studies they have”

I agree that there is no magic box you can purchase which will automatically result in making money, of course - but the Simple Sites Big Profits website doesn’t claim to be that - look at the home page, the headline reads:

If You Could Set Up A Simple Little Three - Five Page Website In About An Hour And Profit Up To $27 Or More Every Single Day Off That One Website. . .

How Many “Simple Sites” Would You Make?

It’s not claiming to be a magic goose which lays golden eggs (if anyone knows where I can get one of these, pleeeeease tell me, I want one!!) it is stating that it will teach you how to make money online from making really simple little websites which don’t take long to create, with a goal of making a small amount of money with each on a continual basis, and telling you how to create shed loads of these little sites making small profits which will amount to decent passive income.

It’s not claiming to be some secret magic formula, it’s very simple, it’s something the super affiliates have been doing for ages, but this program is aimed at people who’re new to affiliate marketing & making money online, and offers to teach these folk how it’s done.

“I never buy anything from sales websites, with tons of sales copy & stories, and testimonials, and an order button at the end….”

The simple fact is, at the moment, the long websites full of stories & case studies & testimonials with big in your face headlines, sell. If they didn’t, why would all of the most successful online marketers still be using them?

People who’re relatively new to online marketing generally are the people who dislike this approach especially if they’ve had their fingers burned a couple of times by believing everything on a sales page, buying a product & then being disappointed - but those of us who’ve been in the game long enough realise that these kinds of sales pages are a necessary evil, people don’t like creating them - they take a long time, everyone would prefer to just write a paragraph of text & an order button, but you’d never sell anything if you used that approach.

Again, I would never suggest that you believe everything you read on a sales page, and you don’t have to - you can do what you’re doing now & search the internet to find what other people are saying. Yes, some affiliate will just repeat all the same sales messages you’ll find on the sales page, but if you look around you will find real honest & balanced reviews, like this one.

Personally, I make money as an affiliate, but I do it by writing real & honest reviews which people find valuable & helpful, so people come back & read my reviews in the future, I’m not in it for the fast buck so I don’t just fill pages full of fluff & pre-sell in an attempt to make some affiliate commission whatever it takes!

“I would avoid it, put some money into starting your own website instead….”

This clearly shows that this person hasn’t understood what the program is about that he’s advising the person to avoid…. the program IS about creating your own websites!

OK - so what is Simple Sites Big Profits?

In a nutshell, simple sites big profits tells you step by step, how to profit from very simple & easy to create websites, which you can have done & dusted in an hour or so, sometimes less (especially when you get more used to it).

The thing is - I very nearly put a video program together like this myself a couple of years ago, I didn’t because I decided I just didn’t have the time to do it - but this program includes everything that I was going to show in my video’s. I’m glad he’s done it actually, as I no longer feel compelled to do it, which is a good thing as I know in the longterm I’ll make a lot more money by just continuing to create & promote my own small sites rather than creating a video to tell others how to do it

This stuff is really straight forward - once you know how, and Marcus shows you how he does it, in some cases I think he actually goes to far as he shares details of some actual campaigns, keywords & so on thus creating himself a load of competition which may well balance out any money he makes from selling the program ;-), but he’s obviously making enough money not to be worried about that.

The idea behind it is, rather than having your eggs in one large basket, you have have many small baskets as possible.

Or put another way, instead of working & working to try to spin one huge plate, you splin lots of tiny plates which are super easy to get spinning.

I do this, most successful web marketers & affiliates do this.

I can create a site / blog on wordpress, from purchasing the domain, setting up the hosting & installing the blog, in about 20 minutes, and for literally a few quid, just the cost of the domain, and the hosting. How long it takes me to complete it just depends on how many pages, what it is, how much content is needed, but generally speaking I’ll spend only an hour or two on each new site - then I wait to see how it starts to do, if a site is making me any money at all from this initial effort, then I’ll focus some more attention on it & make more.

It depends on what the site is, what the affiliate products are, what the Google AdSense revenue is & so on, but generally speaking I focus on higher ticket affiliate products so even if I only make one affiliate sale per month with a site, it makes a noticeable dent on that months income.

Marcus goes into detail, and tells you how to do all this, how to create the sites, how to choose the niche & the products to profit from, and how to get the traffic which will produce the revenue.

Is Simple Sites Big Profits a scam, rip off, con…

Nope!!

It’s a really good program which tells you how to profit from small sites which take little time money or effort to create, and how to ramp up profits by repeating the process as many times as you can - there is nothing scammy about it.

Will Simple sites big profit Make Me Money?

Nope!!

YOU will make the money yourself IF you follow it & do what he does, which is the same thing that pretty much all successful affiliate marketers do.

If you really do follow it, then I don’t see how you can’t make money from it, it’s literally what we all do, some make more than others of course, just depends on how good you become at certain parts of the process, and the odd bit of luck when choosing Niche’s is also helpful, but if you do it for long enough you’re bound to stumble on a few websites which end up making a lot more than the rest - you’ll also make some sites which make next to nothing, so what, just focus on the ones which are making the money, and focus on creating more successful sites.

So, Apple have released their new gadget - the iPad tablet.

Some are claiming that the birth of the Ipad could mean the death of netbooks. Is this just press over reaction, or could the giant Iphone really take the world by storm & take a huge bite out of the netbook market?

I’d certainly like one, looks like a bit of fun! But, is it worth shelling out the cash for - and do I really NEED it?

This isn’t a review, as such - I’ve not used the Apple iPad, in fact most news stations etc., here in the UK are giving a reaction, rather than a review, as it’s not yet available here in the UK, and review units are like rocking horse droppings! So this is just my opinion, I can’t review something I’ve not seen - so feel free to take this with a pinch of salt, I’m probably talking rubbish…

Personally, i’m not sure - it looks cool, and it’s Apple, most things apple are cool - but is it really the ground breaking & life changing product that some are saying it is?. I’ve heard reports here that this could take the world by storm, some are predicting it will take a big bite out of the netbook market - Is that really what’s going to happen?

I don’t know - I must say at this point, I can’t see it. It looks great, but it looks effectively like a very expensive toy that many will want, but not so many will need.

It looks like a very nice looking reader, great for reading webpages, ebooks, etc -and I’m sure there will be some mega apps released for it, which will increase the appeal of this expensive toy - but it doesn’t have the features of netbooks - I can’t imagine anyone feeling that they need an iPad in the same way that they need a netbook, yeah plenty of people might want one, but how many of us can afford to blow this kind of cash on stuff we wouldn’t mind having?

It’s basically a really big ipod touch, as far as I can make out - and I’m sure having a really big iPod touch, with the iBook ap, and with the other apps that will be made available, will appeal to anyone who likes gadgets, but how many people will talk themselves into spending the money on it remains to be seen.

The great thing about netbooks, as well as being so portable & handy, is you can use them for so many different things at the same time, multi tasking, check your emails, listen to music, browse the web - if the iPad offered the same versatility, then yes, possibly it would take a large bite out of the netbook market, although having said that even then it would be on the pricey side for a netbook.

I guess it depends then, on what Aps are released for the ipad.

For instance - if there are good email aps,  good diary aps, and good aps to replace the firefox plugins I use when doing SEO work - then, actually, I might be able to survive with just an ipad, and no notebook / laptop! If that’s the case, then it’s worth the cash - for the convenience & the battery life.

I’ll see if they’ll lend me one - I’ll work on it for a while, and then I’ll write another blog post about it!

SEO Elite by Brad Callen - is it the best thing since sliced bread - the best SEO software ever invented, a revolution in SEO technology - or is it just a hyped up load of crap?

I’ve spoken here before about pro SEO software -I’ve never bothered to do proper reviews because, well, I couldn’t be bothered, and I didn’t see the need, there are loads of them. BUT, with SEO Elite, I’ve decided I will now write a review here, because there are so many (what at least appear to be) fake reviews about this software, which are written by people who’ve more than likely never even used it.

Then - as a result of these (which are to do with over excited affiliates, not Brad Callen himself) there are people writing negative reviews, stating that the fact that there are so many obvious fake reviews of this software, that the software should be discounted, and I disagree with that also. So, I decided I’d put a bit of time in & write a REAL review of SEO Elite myself.

I’m not going to spend hours writing an Essay on this - but look, if you’re contemplating buying SEO Elite, all you need to know is, is it going to be a useful & effective SEO tool for you - or not. Hopefully this review will answer that question.

Beware a lot of the reviews online for SEO elite, raving about it being the best thing since sliced bread - because you may be shocked to discover that at least some of these reviews are written by people who’ve never even used the software!!  (You won’t be shocked to hear that if you’re involved in affiliate marketing). You at least need to ensure that you’re listening to people who’ve purchased the software & used it.

Just before I continue, I want to make it clear that yes,  I am including my affiliate link in this review, and no - I’m not using any clever tools (which I could) to hide that fact, and if you do not think that I deserve the affiliate commission, then just take my aff code off & go to the site directly.  You will be able to see clearly that I am not over promoting this tool in order to make the affiliate commission, it’s a very honest review.

Personally - I’m not too bothered about the commission, I mean - if someone buys the software after reading my real, honest review of the software - and I make some cash in commission, then great - but I’m really not that bothered whether or not I make money from it, and I certainly wouldn’t lie in order to make some extra cash, ot write a fake review, it’s not worth it to me.

Anyway - getting on to the review. I’ll start by going through the sales copy, and telling you what I think is true or not, from my use of the software:

Copied from the SEO Elite Website :

“Introducing: The secret tool that tens of thousands of the top ranked Google sites have been quietly using for years…”

Is this true? Actually, probably yes. I do know a lot of decent web marketers &  SEO’s who use SEO Elite, so there is a good chance that SEO Elite is partly responsible for many thousands of websites achieving good Google rankings.

Is this to say that this is JUST due to the software? No. But to be fair, he’s not stating here that it’s SEO Elite that is solely responsible for the rankings, so that’s fine.

“Introducing the ONLY search engine optimization software product that has been 100% PROVEN to dramatically increase your rankings in Google,
Yahoo, and MSN.”

Hmm, I think this is a bit OTT to be perfectly honest.  It appears to make the claim that the use of the software alone, is 100% proven to dramatically increase search engine optimization / search engine placement, and that’s clearly not correct. It all depends on the person using the software - the software DOES have the ability to help, for sure, but it doesn’t actually do anything that you can’t do manually or using other software - yes, a lot of things it does far faster & easier than manually, and it has a lot more combined features than some other software packages, but overall I think this statement is a bit misleading (Sorry Brad!)

It is also 100% proven to do absolutely nothing for you if know absolutely bugger all about SEO, or if you just don’t use it properly, or at all.

It’s sales copy though, to be fair, it needs to be hard hitting ;-), and he’s not telling any lies here - but I feel that it appears to be making claims that it isn’t. In other words, he’s not actually saying here that buying this software will dramatically increase results, but it does give the impression that it is making this claim.

“Above is a real-life screenshot of 1 of my many websites.
The site above gets, on average, 12,783 visitors PER DAY!”

Yes, can’t argue with that, however - what you’ve got to remember - is that this is someone who really knows what they’re doing with SEO, with or without the software, so it’s not exactly a controlled experiment.

“While marketing to that industry, my website achieved
#1 and #2 Google rankings for every single major
keyword related to the weight loss niche!”

Brad continues here to talk about his massive success with his first main website, and with the SEO Elite website itself, BUT, he fails to come out & say clearly whether or not he had already created & was using, SEO Elite…

To show that he’s great at SEO is one thing, to demonstrate that he knows what he’s talking about, that’s fine - but I don’t think he makes it clear enough as to whether or not SEO Elite had anything to do with this success.

Lets face it, Tiger Woods could invent software tomorrow to help improve your swing - would that turn you into a pro golfer with the kinds of results Tiger gets? NO!  Buying this software, is NOT going to turn you into Brad Callen, it isn’t going to turn you overnight into someone who can achieve #1 & #2 Google positions for competitive terms, just through purchasing the software, in the same way that buying a fast car doesn’t turn you into an F1 racing driver…..

“Google pays much less attention to what is actually on your web page itself than what most people think. Yes, you heard me right. You don’t actually even need to mention your keyword anywhere on your website to rank highly for the keyword!”

Well……. yep I think we can all agree that offpage is more important on the whole than onpage, but I find this statement a bit misleading. YES, you can get into the serps with strong offpage with no onpage - you can also get into the serps with no offpage & strong onpage - but this only works with terms that few pages are optimized for.

If you have a site with great offpage but no onpage at all for a given term, you’re going to struggle to compete with a site with great onpage but poor offpage.

“You must know EXACTLY why the top 10 ranked sites in Google are currently ranked where they are. You can’t guess by simply looking at their web page itself.”

I agree with this, competitor analysis is important.

Once you know, and can pinpoint on each of those 3 points mentioned above, I’ll go as far as saying that you can rank in the top 1-5 for ANY keyword you choose.

hmm, again, slightly misleading.

His three points are :

1. Google ranks based on authority

2. Offpage is more important than onpage.

3.You need to do proper competitor analysis to work out exactly what the top ten sites in Google are doing to get there.

I don’t even think this statement makes much sense to be honest, I’m not sure what he means by pinpointing all three of these points, but if he’s saying that you can rank in the top 1-5 (not just page one, but top 5) for ANY keyword, just by understanding these points - then, no - I don’t agree, at all.

I understand how to outrun a top Olympic runner - all I need to do is train to become faster - does this understanding mean that I can do it??……

“what is on the web page itself has VERY little to do with the reason they’re ranked where they are. It has as little as 2% to do with their ranking…”

This is over simplifying things I think - it all depends on the competitiveness of the terms, and who you’re up against, you can rank highly for the keyword “shnateracki winkidinklerpettles” without any offpage at all just by having the term on the page - I know this is an over simplification too, but…

Overall, yeah offpage is more important than onpage, but I disagree with the unimportance he’s assigning to onpage, content. Content is very important too -  if you focus only on building authority, yet all of your content is duplicate content - how well do you think you’re going to do……

I could go on for quite some time arguing about the 100% accuracy of some of these statements, but look - it’s sales copy, I think most of us are wise enough now to understand that you can take sales copy with a pinch of salt, it’s not going to do very well by saying “OK, SEO Elite is pretty good - it may help you with your SEO if you put in the effort” 

And at least this sales copy isn’t coming out with complete lies, I can disagree with some of the statements & say that they’re possibly a bit misleading - but they’re not lies.

SEO Elite has been around for a number of years now, I first bought it  two or three years ago, and it’s still going strong, this doesn’t happen with strong marketing alone, and it surely wouldn’t happen if it was all done with lies & made up testimonials (which I have seen some people alluding to in other reviews).

FACT: Most SEOs charge upwards
of $4,500 a month!

What!!?!?!?!?!?!

Haha, if only Brad, dream on!!!!!

I am an SEO, and I can tell you, most SEO consultants do NOT charge $4500 per month per client, this is a complete exaggeration in an attempt to qualify the price of the software (and there’s really no need, it’s worth it as long as you use it).

Yes there are some clients out there paying figures like this, for competitive terms, but it’s mainly the bigger firms with bigger pockets who can afford these kinds of monthly SEO spends, and the only people who really bill an average of anywhere near $4500 per client, are the larger SEO companies.

I would hazard a guess that with most independant SEO consultants & people running small SEO businesses, the average monthly bill is closer to $500 - $1000 per month.

So to claim as a fact that most SEO consultants charge $4,500 per client per month, is one of the biggest exaggerations I’ve heard for quite some time!

So - lets now move on to the software itself.

The main question you’re probably wanting to have answered, is:

Is SEO Elite just a load of hyped up rubbish, which will leave me really disappointed….

Is it a load of hyped up rubbish? No - absolutely not - is it hyped up, Yes - is it hyped up rubbish - No!

Really, you can see this answer for yourself just by looking at how long it has been selling for, if this were the case, it wouldn’t have lasted anywhere near as long as it has. There’s no doubt, SEO Elite is a useful SEO tool, it’s not rubbish.

The sales copy is hyped up though, and a lot of the reviews out there appear to be hyped up also, motivated by affiliates keen to get the affiliate commissions, and for because of this, I can understand why some people who have used the software may say less than positive things about it….. The sales copy sets some really high expectations, some people would be led to believe from the website that just installing the software & switching it on will deliver massive results, and if you thought that, about any SEO tool, then you’re likely to be disappointed.

Will it leave you disappointed? That just depends on what you’re expecting. If you’re expecting SEO Elite to allow you to set the world on fire, making every website you touch turn to gold, with little effort required other than running the software - then yeah, you’re going to be disappointed!

But, if your expectations are more realistic - you shouldn’t be disappointed.

Is SEO Elite going to allow me to do things that I could never do with out it?

Actually No.

SEO Elite has great features, for example for analyzing competitors, and looking for potential authority sites to partner with, and has a really nifty tool for finding & emailing potential link partners. It allows you to audit your backlinks to make sure that people you traded a link with are still linking to you, and it allows you to track your rankings.

It gives you potential link partners, and it tells you which potential partners are linking to sites which are at the top of Google - again, this is great info, very powerful, a great tool - but you COULD find this info without SEO Elite. It would take longer, but you can do it.

This is the same for all of the features - they’re great (some are really, really useful) they save time, and it’s really handy to have them all in one application - but does this mean that SEO Elite will give you tools that will make you a Pro SEO, stuff you couldn’t possibly do without it? No.

Do I recommend SEO Elite?

Yes, absolutely!

SEO elite isn’t the only tool I use, I use some of the SEOMoz tools, I use WebCEO, I use the SEOBook SEO for firefox plug-in, and Quirk Search status, and I do a lot of stuff manually too - but is SEO Elite a useful part of my suite of search engine optimization / placement  software? Yes!

What does SEO Elite do?

I’m not going to go into all of the features of the software, these are all covered on the on the website, but basically it’s a suite of really helpful SEO tools which help with the most important parts of SEO, backlink generation, competitor analysis & ranking (although I tend to prefer to use WebCEO for ranking reports, I just find it a bit easier to use)

With SEO Elite, not only can you find potential sources for backlinks - but you can discover which sources are worthwhile walking over broken glass to get - and which ones are not worth bothering with.

So - if your expectations are more realistic - and you know that SEO software in & of itself is not going to get you ranking top 5 on Google for hundreds of competitive terms  - then you’ll find SEO Elite a really useful addition to your SEO arsenal.

If you’ve decided you will give it a try, go & get it here & I’ll make some commission - sweet. If you don’t want me to earn a commission (doesn’t make a difference to the cost) just type the address in manually, or type SEO Elite into Google.

With the weather as cold as it is in the UK at the moment, you may be contemplating a last minute holiday to a warmer climate - or booking a holiday for later on in 2010,  to give you something to look forward to, though all this freezing weather!

So, I went to the TravelJunky website, a low cost travel website which is reputed to be able to offer cheap high quality holidays,  usually cheaper than any other website.   (By the way, I’ll just state now that I’ve had absolutely nothing to do with the design of the Travel Junky website, so I’m not reviewing a site that I had a hand in designing.)

Obviously we can’t expect any provider to be cheapest all of the time, but I was told that Travel Junky is set up to be able to offer the best available prices for holidays to a wide number of locations.

So - I decided to give it a go.

I’m fed up of the freezing cold, so we’re going for an Easter break to  Cyprus.  I searched for flights only to Cyprus, on the British airways website, on the easy jet website   a number of other well known & highly rated websites - I then checked on travel junky, and saved a couple of hundred quid! Very impressed!

Not just that, but the site is great to use, really fast, lots of info - I found it a far better experience on the whole.

So, my brother is booking a holiday to Rome, I gave him the details - he texted me earlier to say that he thought he had found the cheapest deal on the the lastminute .com website,  including flights & hotel to the center of Rome, he went to the Travel Junky website - and was amazed to find that travel junky was cheaper - by quite a margin, for the exact same flights & hotel!

Then this eve, my brother-in-law & his partner came for dinner, and mentioned they were going to Turkey, Turkey, in summer. They had already booked a Villa so they just needed flights. They had previously found it difficult to find flights at convenient times, and from the airport they wanted to travel from. They were amazed to find that they were able to save £80 per person on the flights, and that was with much more convenient flight times, and from the airport they wanted to fly to (whereas previously they couldn’t find flights from this airport).

So, very very impressed!

Not just the prices - the prices appear to be of the lowest available, but it’s not only that - it’s the whole package, I love the look & feel of the site - it’s easier to use than any of the other holiday websites I’ve used, it appears to contain a lot more useful information than the other travel sites, they’re ABTA members so nothing to worry about there,  and they’re really friendly & helpful. When my brother was looking for flights & hotels in Spain, he emailed with a question - and they replied literally straight away with a personal answer.

I decided to do a few sample holiday searches from the UK to various resorts & countries, and tell you where you could go with Travel Junky, and how much it would cost you (Based on 2 adults).

Lets try searching for a holiday in Tenerife in easter.  Prices from just over £200 per person, including flights & hotel / apartments!

Egypt - a week in Sharm El Sheikh, easter , from £395 per person.

Cyprus - a week in Paphos in Feb, from £130 per person!

New York, a week at the beginning of Feb, from £440 per person including flights & hotel.

Florida, at the beginning of March , from £365 per person for a week including flights & accommodation - or from £493 per person for 2 weeks.

Dubai, 1 week at the beginning of March from £420 per person for a week, or £490 per person,

Lets do a search for holidays to las vegas

A week in Las Vegas, at the beginning of Feb,  from £488 per person.

Or a week in Las Vegas in summer, Sep 2010, from just short of £500 per person!

Just over £500 per person for a week in Vegas in may - or 2 weeks for just under £600.

Check out the special offer holidays:

A week in Costa Brava in May, £84 per person, a week in Algarve in May from £93 per person, a week in Paphos in towards the end of Feb. from £97 per person, a skiing package at the end of March to the French Alps from £185 per person. Even a week in New York in Mid Jan (next week) last minute special offer at Radisson Lexington Hotel (4 star) from just £559 per person.

Impressive prices or what??

So - if you don’t hear from me for a while, you know where I’ve gone!!

This is a really quick review of The Affiliate Code by Michael Jones – for those who just want a very fast breakdown (if you want a much longer review, just search Google for Affiliate Code Review, you’ll see dozens.

The affiliate code is a step by step affiliate training system made up of 39 training video’s.

Michael Jones is the guy who produced “The Clickbank Code” which made history with record sales.

The main difference between the clickbank code, and the affiliate code, is that as well as some difference in the content (focusing on a wider range of affiliate networks) TAF is aimed more at beginner affiliates, where as CBC was better suited for people who already had some experience & some cash to invest.

(For the website, see : http://www.theaffiliatecode.com)

The 39 video’s are broken down into 8 modules:

1: Picking A Profitable Niche

2: Choosing The Right Product

3: Affiliate Website Setup

4: Using an Autoresponder

5: Copywriting Secrets

6: Get Free Traffic

7: Tracking Results

8: Scaling Up

Should you buy the Affiliate Code?

Well, if you’re a fairly experienced affiliate already – then you may well still pick up some decent nuggets, but overall you probably won’t find a great deal that you weren’t already aware of (although being aware of something doesn’t mean you’ll benefit from it – you have to take action on that knowledge to see any results) .

But if you’re relatively new to affiliate marketing – then the affiliate code is a pretty darn good set of training videos, and as someone who learned about affiliate marketing by trial & error, I really do wish I’d found something like this when I was starting out. It’ll save you making a lot of beginner errors, and it may well get you onto the fast track to being a successful affiliate marketer.

Plus, relatively speaking – at the current price of $77, it’s really not a great deal of money, I have personally paid thousands in the past for training programs – and been disappointed. $77 isn’t a lot to spend, in comparison to the money that can be made in affiliate marketing – you could make this back in one or two affiliate sales!

Plus, if you buy it & you are disappointed for whatever reason, just exercise your right to request a refund.

For more info, visit: http://www.theaffiliatecode.com

Good Luck!

Which premium search engine optimization software do I use?

I’m asked this quite a bit - and the answer, it depends on what I’m doing - sometimes a mixture of free & premium SEO software,  sometimes none at all.

If you were to ask “which premium SEO software do you own”  then, my reply would be “most of them”

I’ve used SEO elite, Web CEO, Web position Gold, and quite a few others - and although they all have nice features that speed up certain parts of search engine optimization, I’ve got to the point now where I can do most of the things I need to do, relatively quickly, manually.

I do use both SEO elite & Web CEO still, but it’s not as if I’m constantly using them, I do prefer to do a lot of things manually, I’ll just turn to these if I need to, but when I was starting out I would use SEO software a lot more.

Even when it comes to checking positions, I prefer to do it manually if possible, because I just prefer it, and I get information when searching manually that I wouldn’t get with using SEO software - But, it’s just not possible when you’re doing ranking reports for dozens, or even hundreds of keywords.

When this is the case I use WebCEO mainly - SEO Elite can do this too, I just prefer WebCEO when it comes to ranking reports.

Which SEO software would I recommend?

I can only go by my own experience & opinion, but personally I would say try SEO elite & Web CEO (I think they both do free trials still) and see which you prefer. If you’re developing a career as a pro SEO consultant, then you should have the tools there for when you need them, If you’re just SEOing your own sites it’s a bit different, but still it’s handy to have some decent tools, even if you don’t use then all of the time.

Make sure you can also do everything manually though, if you’re developing your skills as a professional SEO consultant, it’s good to develop the ability to go it alone without the use of any premium SEO software - you’ll find that sometimes it’s actually more fun & interesting to do it manually. Having said that - if my PC was eaten by a giant squirrel tomorrow - I would go out & buy SEO Elite & WebCEO again.

I’m talking about premium SEO software packages here - I do recommend handy browser plugins such as SEO for firefox Ranquest, and Quirk Searchstatus.

If you want more info on SEO Elite, I’ve written an honest SEO Elite review , I’ve not written a Web CEO review yet, maybe I will do when I get the time, but basically - it’s good. I’ve used other SEO tools such as web position gold, and lots of others I’ve forgotten the names of, I found that WebCEO is the best full SEO suite - and combined with the really powerful link building & analysis features in SEO Elite, I reckon you’ve got just about as much as any Pro SEO need - in combination with the free browser plugins, and of course a decent amount of trial & error, and shouting at the monitor