Enter AffiliateRoyale

AffiliateRoyale is the new guy on the block and came out swinging, it’s from the makers of the popular PrettyLink WordPress plugin which I use on all my sites. From right out the gate these guys offer a full API that allows you to do deep custom integration to fit your needs, I find it ridiculous that so many premium plugin developers don’t do this.

AffiliateRoyale automatically works with third party payment processors like PayPal and Authorize.Net, as well as the most popular WordPress membership plugin WishlistMember. It also automatically works with popular WordPress eCommerce plugins like Cart66 and Shopp.

AffiliateRoyale can also be manually integrated with the following:

• 1ShoppingCart
• 2Checkout
• 3DCart
• Actinic
• aMember
• AspDotNetStorefront
• Cart Manager
• ClickCartPro
• CS-Cart
• DL Guard
• eCartSoft
• eCommerce Templates
• Foxy Cart
• H-Sphere
• Iono
• Mambo-ChargePlus
• Mambo-phpShop
• Volusion
• Plus More

Below are some screen shots from  AffiliateRoyale demo.

I like the plugin, and it’s the most feature filled Affiliate Program plugin currently available for the WordPress platform. I’ve been in communication with Blair Williams the creator of the plugin and about doing some integration with my in-house plugins that will be going public soon. One of the plugins will allow you to easily start a Pay Per Lead affiliate program using  Affiliate Royale. My programmers are currently working on some cool tools that you’ll see soon.

In the meantime, if you’ve been looking for a solution to run an affiliate program on WordPress then this is it.

Check out AffiliateRoyale

All you really need is some knowledge in the basics of SEO and a really reliable SEO software to do all the heavy lifting.

They are 3 things you need to know to rank for any keyword in the search engines.

1. Links: The life blood of the so called SEO industry, the basis to this is simple the more links you have pointing to your site the better. You’ll hear people say well you have to make sure it’s quality links from related sites, that’s crap. For example I have a video sharing website (ComeWatchMe.com) that covers all topics so does that mean only links from other video sharing sites will be quality links? No, the same way I have a Hip Hop Music site that has links from CNN does that mean the CNN link doesn’t count? Of course not. Do your self a favor, don’t drive your self crazy trying to figure out a site’s quality score before you have them link to you, Google, Bing and Yahoo make changes every day and you won’t be able to keep up.

Here’s a good rule to follow, any site with a page rank of 3 or better is a good site to have linking to you. If your not sure what page rank is it’s how Google scores your website, it’s the little green bar that in the Google toolbar. That’s all there is to it, just keep getting links and you’ll be fine. In fact if you master link building you can mess the other two things and still be fine. Take a look at how many links I’ve managed to get pointing to 2 of my websites, which you can view live using Yahoo site explorer.

That’s 148,854 back links for HipHopMusicDotCom.com and 136,939 back links for MusicVideoCast.com, now that type of link popularity doesn’t happen over night but if you work at it it’s definitely possible. You can manually go out and find link partners or you can use a software like SEO Elite (which is what I use) and have it search the web and in a few minutes to find you hundreds of link partners, I don’t use it for link building that much anymore because my sites have become so popular that I build links on auto pilot now plus link partners come to me to make me offers.

2. Keywords: The next important thing to rank well in search engines is to make sure you have the right keywords on your site, I’m not talking about the keywords in the content that you write but in the title of the pages you create or if your blogging the posts that you write. You must be realistic about the search terms your trying to rank for, for example I’ve been trying to get top 10 rankings for the search term”music videos” for almost 2 years now and still I ‘ve not been able to pull it off, why? Because I’m going up against sites like MTV, Yahoo, AOl and even Wikipedia for that search term, so it’s hard battle since those sites have millions of back links compared to my mere 130,000. But going for a search term like “hip hop music videos” isn’t as hard which is why I have not one but two listings in the top ten for that search term.

The problem with trying to find good keywords to use with on your site, is that you don’t know which keywords are more competitive, I use SEO Elite’s “keyword competition” feature to check what keywords are the best to go after in my particular niche. SEO Elite basically gives you a road map of what to do, it shows you how competitive a search term is, how many links you will need, the page title you should use etc. This way you can copy what other websites are doing and do the same and even better.

In the Hip Hop niche, I’ve dominated search terms like hip hop music, new hip hop music, hip hop music 2010, hip hop songs, new hip hop songs, hip hop mixtapes and hip hop music videos. Most of which I’m in the top 3 for and for “hip hop music” I’m number one all of which brings 250,000 visitors to my site every month. All of this was not by mistake it was by using SEO Elite to methodically find new link partners and keywords to go after.

3. Anchor Text: This is the final phase to the whole thing, so you have your link building campaign going and you have your pages set with the proper keywords aka search terms, so now what? Well since you have all these different sites linking to you there is one last ingredient you need for success and that is Anchor Text or Anchor Link. A anchor text is simply the word used in the link pointing to your website, and believe me it sounds like nothing but it makes all the difference. For example if you have 100 websites linking to you and the word in the link is “how to build websites” well guess what, depending on how competitive that search term is, you could quite possibly end up holding the number one spot for that keyword in the search engines or at least achieve top ten. This is what leads to number one rankings, one of the best best ways to get the anchor text you want in the links pointing to your website is to try and find a domain name with the keywords in it.

For example look at my hip hop site (HipHopMusicDotCom.com), it sounds stupid when you say it out loud but that didn’t stop it from being number one in Google for “hip hop music”, you see most of the people that link to me don’t pay attention to the Dot Com part of the domain, I’m not sure why they just don’t. They simply put “hip hop music” for the link and this shot my site up to number one in less than 6 months. Another example would be MusicVideoCast.com, now even though when people link to me their links will have “Music Video Cast” in it, Google will still score the site for “music videos” or “music video” because it’s in the domain name so naturally it’s gonna end up in the Anchor text of the links pointing to your website.

Those 3 things I mentioned above are all you really need to rank for whatever search term you’d like, of course there are more details on how to get that done but that’s not what this post was meant to do. The first thing you’ll need is to get SEO Elite, without it your gonna be fighting a uphill battle and what should take days will take moths to achieve. Once you you’ve gotten SEO Elite just read through this post again and follow the steps plus the maker of the software Brad Callen is a 10 + year vet in Internet Marketing and SEO and has written a step by step in depth course on SEO and he’s giving it away for free on the SEO Elite website.

I hope this was helpful to you in figuring out SEO and what you need and don’t need.

Visit SEO Elite website.

Thanks for reading, Chozen.

First of all I’m not big on Joomla, WordPress is my weapon of choice when it comes to building websites not because WordPress is better but it’s just the tool I started with on the web and I’ve always been satisfied with it so I have no reason to change it. Since I run a website called Site Builder Tips I can’t make it all about WordPress, Though I don’t use Joomla for any of my projects I do use some there theme designs, meaning I’ve seen some great CMS themes for Joomla that I then convert to WordPress themes, I have a membership at Joomlart which is a Joomla premium themes site that has some really great themes that I convert to WordPress themes.

It’s on Joomlart where I discovered a site called JomSocial which is a Joomla social network website builder plugin, I have to say this is the first time I ran into a tool that I couldn’t find for WordPress, I mean there is BuddyPress but JomSocial is a whole other level. The cool thing about JomSocial is that the site it self is a social network that allows you to see the extension in action, a couple months back I joined the site and I completely forgot that I was trying out a demo because It was a real social network where I was interacting with other members. I think that’s a great way to sell a tool, the look, feel and functionality of JomSocial reminds me of being on Facebook.

JomSocial does a good job with this tool and they’re quite a few successful sites powered by JomSocial, 3 of which are GibLink.com that has 113,380 + members, OnlineRadioStations.com with 49,500 + members and KenyaHub.com with 120,583 + members just to name a few.

A few features and Specs that stood out for me.

Facebook Connect

Facebook has now eclipsed MySpace as the #1 most popular social network on the planet. With over 350 millions active users worldwide, chances are someone registering at your community will already be a member of Facebook.

To make the registration process hassle-free, JomSocial even included our new Facebook-Connect login-module in JomSocial, so your members can log-in to your JomSocial-powered community using their Facebook account details.

Profile pics, status updates & more are “pulled” in safely & securely from Facebook, making it easy for new and existing users to sign up and stay logged into your community.

Twitter Integration

If Facebook Is the king of social networks then Twitter is the prince, I’ve watch the service bloom from the very beginning (I was one of the first to use it back in 2006) when it was just a side service to Odeo to now being one of the most talked about services on the web, I mean you can’t even go a day on the internet without seeing something regarding Twitter.

JomSocial allows you to integrate your community with Twitter allowing your members to show there Twitter updates as well as there friends updates on your JomSocial community profile pages, also members of your community also have the option of automatically updating there Twitter account with status updates they make on your JomSocial community.

External Applications Support (Apps)

This is a really important feature for tools like this because it allows you to integrate your community with pretty much any third party service out there, thus giving you more flexibility with your community.

I’m really considering building WordPress plugin that does exactly what JomSocial does for Joomla because there is nothing out currently for WordPress that does this and I think a tool like this would be great for WordPress.

Anyways check out JomSocial, sign up to there community to get a real life demo of JomSocial in action.

Check em out, JomSocial.

Procaster.com is a easy to use live broadcasting software created by the live streaming service Mogulus that only requires you to have a computer in order to create a live broadcast from your desktop to your website or channel on Mogulus.

This technology is definitely not new but this is the first that a service has come along with this level of quality and amount of features. The most attractive part of the service is that it’s free and is full featured with no limitations.

Record & Play
Whatever you record, Procaster records it directly in the streaming service so your recordings are available immediately for on-demand viewing.

Broadcast Your Camera or Webcam
You can use any camera that is connected to your computer and the same goes for the webcam connected to your computer or built in. It supports Firewire, USB and video input cards.

Broadcast Your Screen
Many other services and software out there that record your screen can cost upwards of $200. Procaster does the same thing for free, if it’s on your screen Procaster can stream it live whether it’s Powerpoint, web browser, video and audio.

Live Chat and Twitter
Easy integration with Twitter as well as easy moderation Chat service.

Broadcast to 100,000+ viewers
With the use of the software and the Mogulus streaming service, you can reach a massive audience.

There is a boatload of other features that you can see for your self.

visit Procaster.com