Clickbank HopAd Builder and Wordpress Plugin

In my review of ClickBank a week or so ago, one of my complaints was that they really don’t offer much in the terms of links or creatives to promote the products and programs that are offered.  That is still a big weak point but they have made some improvements in this area over the last month or two.  Last month they announced the addition of a brand new Hop Ad Builder that allows you to create a block of rotating text ads, similar to the Google AdSense format.

It’s certainly an improvement over what they offered before (which was next to nothing) but it’s not great.  You can’t specify a list of offers you want rotated in the mix, you can only provide keywords that you want it to use to find and rotate offers.  If you remember, one of my other complaints with Clickbank is that they have a lot of crap offers and you will only hurt your reputation if you are reviewing and pushing items that have little value.  I don’t like that I don’t have a lot of control over what ads will be rotated through using the hoAdBuilder.  I am testing it out on the Blog so I can see what offers are passed through and what kind of interest my readers will have in it but I will likely remove it after my 3o day test.  You can check out the details at ClickBank Hop Builde

More recently, someone created a Wordpress Plugin that allows you to quickly utilize the new ClickBank feature.  It’s called the Hod Ad Plugin.  It works pretty well, allows you to create the hop ads right inside wordpress and then create a widget to place it on your blog.  Check it out by clicking here

SEO Elite Software Review

If you have been trying to make money online for any length of time, you know that SEO and SEM are big pieces of the puzzle.   It is an area that many people struggle with before things finally start clicking and they start to understand the basics.  Amazingly enough, for both SEO and SEM, the basics are the most import keys to success with the search engines.  There is always more to learn and you are certainly going to have an easier time of ranking if you have the more advanced techniques down but if you don’t have the basics, the foundation, nothing is going to happen for you.

So, if SEO basics are the most important thing to learn for getting ranked, what is the second most important thing?  For me, that’s a no brainer, it’s data.  If you don’t have the data, if you don’t know what keywords are being searched for and which ones drive conversions, if you don’t know what your competitors are doing, you are just stumbling in the dark with nothing to really focus on.

SEO Elite is one of the best tools I have used to get that data when I am optimizing a new mini site (if you don’t know what a mini site is, read my review of The Mini Site Formula from last month).   Unlike a lot of the software and tools that are sold for SEO, it’s inexpensive and pays for itself in no time if you follow through and use it.   The creator of the software shows you exactly what he has been able to do with it, he has used his tool to rank #1 for some very competitive keywords.

The SEO Elite software will show you the top ranked sites for the keywords you want to target and why they are ranked that way.  It gives you a ton of info that can actually be a little overwhelming at first but they have created some great tutorials that teach you step by step on how to use the software and how to use the data.  It will tell you what changes you need to make to your own web site in order to compete for rank with the sites that you are competing against.

It also has link building tools that will help you get those very valuable inbound links.  Make sure you are careful with that tool, it is going to give you a big list of sites that you can approach for links, don’t use that list irresponsibly and start SPAMMING people, use it as a starting point.  One thing I think SEO Elite should emphasize a little better is to communicate to customers that getting the most inbound links isn’t what is important, what is important is getting the highest quality inbound links that you can.  Getting 100 crap quality links to your site is not as good as getting 1 or 2 high quality.  So if you use this tool, don’t focus on mass quantity, focus on quality.

I have seen better tools, tools that are a bit more pretty but those tools cost significantly more than SEO Elite and the added features don’t justify the increased cost for me.  They offer a 2 month money back guarantee and two months is plenty of time to test drive this software and see if it’s right for you.  Check it out for yourself and look at the proof behind their claims by clicking here.