What is Romow?

Romow is one of the most reputable web directories in the industry. According to Wikipedia: A web directory specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links. Romow directory has been around since 2006 with strict editorial guideline. They regularly add (both old and newly emerging) authority sites in various fields on an ongoing basis. Informational articles are published to keep the category content fresh and useful for users. The navigational structure of the entire directory has been optimized for the best user experience.

In short: This is like the Yellow Pages on the web where you can submit your websites and businesses to be found by other users who surf through Romow.

Why submit to Romow?

Many webmasters and SEOs use web directories to get a credible backlink and exposure for their sites. Romow is one of the top web directories on the web. Some of the facts that you should consider:

- Google Pagerank 5
- 650,000 page views per month
- 150,000 unique visitors per month
- 570,000+ inlinks according to Yahoo site explorer
- All listings remain permanent (as long as the sites remain operational)

By submitting to Romow, you are getting a backlink from the category page, and your site’s detail page. You can also get a featured listing, which will be featured at the top of the category above all other listings to increase your exposure. (Submit to Romow Now)

Romow Affiliate Program

Romow has a very generous affiliate program for webmasters. They pay a 25% commission for each paid directory submission you referred to them. So for each regular listing, you will earn $15, and for each featured listing, you will earn $30. Payment is made via PayPal once your balance exceeds $50.

This could be a good campaign if you have a website in a webmaster niche. They have numerous banners that you can find once you signup to be their affiliate. (Become an Affiliate Now)

I joined their affiliate program, and I think the affiliate backend is easy enough for everyone to follow. All the traffic and paid submission referrals are monitored by their affiliate software in real time. Once you log in to your affiliate account, you can check your paid submission referrals, commission balance, as well as detailed traffic and conversion statistics.

Romow Blogs and Guest Posts

Romow has integrated their blogs and directory into one big platform. Their blogs contain informational articles on wide range of topics. If you are interested in Guest Posting to get some exposure to your writing skills and website, then you are in luck because Romow accepts guest posting. Their guidelines are strict to ensure quality control. (Submit Your Guest Posts)

My Review

I have been a big fan of Romow web directory since my early days in the directory industry. I have seen many directories come and go, but this is one of those sites that have continued to grow. Definitely Check out Romow.com to submit your sites to their directory.

WPBeginner offers a free wordpress setup service for all our users. Now this offer is available for new users and experienced users who don’t have the time to do the setup themselves. The setup will contain all plugins, tools, and necessary advices that you need to start a successful blog.

I want WPBeginner to be a community site where anyone can contribute, therefore I have left the option for anyone to contribute their resources. There is no possible way that I can collect all plugins, or new themes releases, therefore developers are welcome to write about their products on WPBeginner. This is advertising for them without any cost, and resourcesful information and tools are being offered to new wordpress users.

The goal of my team is to make WPBeginner a one stop shop for all WordPress users. It will take time and support of our audiences. So if you have any feedback to give us, please feel free to do so either by using the contact form at WPBeginner, or the comments on Balkhis.

WPBeginner is powered by wordpress and I have to say I love WordPress because it has infinite possibiltes. Please check out WPBeginner and follow us on twitter.

What is BlogProfitz?

BlogProfitz is a system that brings Blogging and Affiliate Marketing together in a WordPress blog. From the demo, it looks like a store that is running on WordPress.

How does BlogProfitz Work?

After setting up a WordPress Blog, you start the BlogProfitz engine. BlogProfitz system injects your blogs with ten, hundreds or even thousands of affiliate products (complete with images, descriptions and affiliate links), all targeted to your blogs’ subject matter and niche. Products are organized in a ‘store’ format so your readers can then browse, read about and purchase the products they want, directly through your site. These products are being extracted from affiliate networks like CJ, Amazon, Ebay and more. With the combination of 10 Networks, BlogProfitz provide you with 24,000,000 products at your disposal.

Basically what it is doing is making your job easier for finding content. Now you can have 10 and even 100 blog if you choose to do so filled with affiliate products that are allowing you to make money. The system is providing automated content like ebay, and amazon stores does, and all you have to do is promote your site and get targetted audience to your website. To help attract the audience, BlogProfitz has incorporated Youtube Video feature in the site which lets you add videos to your articles. Along with the youtube feature, they also has a database of 15,000 articles which you can use on your website. Don’t stop here, BlogProfitz lets you add any RSS feeds to your blog which will automate the content to your affiliate site.

It comes with multiple different themes and more to come. It is very easy to setup the website claims 5 minutes. Since it is all done online, there is no need to install anything on your server which saves you the resources.

All you have to do is SETUP a WordPress Blog! And follow this form.

If you didn’t get what I was trying to tell you then check out their How to Page and it will show you a step by step process.

Pros of BlogProfitz

• It brings together all affiliate network products together maximizing the possibilities for you.
• It automates the process of adding the affiliate product to your websites.
• It eases the process of adding content to your blog easily by automating the process.
• It is web based and does not require you to install anything on your site.

Cons

• Where there is automation, there is duplication. You will have duplicate content on your website at all times whether you use 15,000 of their articles, or you parse the RSS Feed of another website.
• Since it is an online service, it is not a one time fee product. Rather you would have to pay monthly.

Basically after evaluating this, what you have is a Huge Store Script put together with WordPress which they call BlogProfitz. Now duplicate content worries those who are in the business for SEO and Long Term. Store sites are not long term business for the most part because they provide no useful content except for having a collection of related products. You will not naturally get visitors to these sites, and you will have to run PPC Campaigns. So duplicate content should not be your worry at this time.

What you should be worried about though is duplicating content from the RSS Feeds of other bloggers because you might piss off some of these guys and burn your bridges for the future.

Other than that it is a great product if you are just thinking of using it as a store and getting quick bucks in your pocket. Yes I said quick bucks! The system seems promising, but it will only work if you know what you are doing meaning if you know how to run PPC campaigns.

It is doing half the job for you which is getting you the content, so you can spend all your energy on marketing the site and maximizing your earnings.

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What is Ekey

Ekey is a competitor site of tinyurl.com and many others which allows you to make your long URLs into a shorter url. The website was created to serve the twitter community and make the URLs fit into your tweet and give you enough room to write your message. But it is not limited to twitter community. Affiliate marketers, webmasters, and normal internet users may use this site for their advantages also.

Every affiliate marketer should hide their Affiliate URL if they want to maximize their revenue. Well a lot of them are not using wordpress, or don’t have enough money to buy MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate so what should they do? Well they should just head over to eKey.us and hide their URL with a smaller and anonymous URL. Since this service is by me, you know that I won’t be dishonest with anyone. I will guarantee you that your URLs are safe with us and You won’t have to worry about getting your commission stolen or lost.

Every Webmaster should use eKey if they are posting on forums. Often forums don’t allow you to keep linking to your own website. Well half the times moderators just run the query for the term balkhis.com or any other url. All they have to do is ban the user. I have been a moderator and admin of a few forums, so I know this. Well when you use a Url Shortening service like Ekey, you are getting yourself saved from one barrier. Not that I am saying that you should spam the forums with your own URL, but this is a way that you can use if you post your URLs. It is also good for your signature links because most sites have a limit on characters. By using a URL Shortening service you can simply have more links in your signature.

Every internet user should eKey.us because it helps you keep your email links safe. Have you ever received an email with a broken map link. Usually mapquest links are really long, and they usually break in the email. You can prevent that by simply heading to my website and making it shorter.

Features

We have added a Decompress feature on the site that allows you to put in a random ekey.us URL and find out the real URL. So far aside from the redirection service, this is the other feature that is in the website.

We are working on the feature of tracking URLs, so it shows you how many hits your URL has received.

Why eKey instead of Others

One thing is that eKey is well designed and much more cleaner and easier to use than others. Second is that eKey does not put the annoying toolbars on the new opened links. If you were going to use tinyurl.com eKey is way shorter. First our domain is shorter and we only add 5 random characters after the ekey.us domain. So your links will be very small. Lastly because you want to support me and make eKey popular.

I don’t think I need to ramble about eKey anymore, try it use it and love it. I would like to hear what you guys think.

Well first I thought it was spam, but I decided to check it out. I saw the website and basically what was going on is Corey is reviewing your design in a video. I said sure go ahead. She put out a review of Balkhis. I liked it and it was definitely more helpful to me. Not that I have plans to change Balkhis anytime soon, but I will surely use her advices and reviews into my future designs.

OK Now you are wondering well this is a review post, so It must be paid. No I found this the most suitable category because I am technically reviewing her services. Now what do you get… How is it free advertising for every blogger…

Well she is not just targetting top blogs. Because than I wouldn’t be in the list eh. But what she wants to review is a unique theme. A theme that is not a free theme. Some what modified version at least. She will review your website as what a first time user would see it.

From her about page, these are the things she would review: Layout, Colors, Branding, Number of ads, Positioning of ads, Content hierarchy, Overall Organization, Overall Presentation, Flourish. More on her about page.

I think this is a great way to get some link backs from a website which I see some potential in. All you have to do is fill out a simple Submit form.

I am not saying you will get 100s of visitors from her site, but the 20 visitors she do send you are 20 visitors that you wouldn’t have gotten if you didn’t get that review.

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Balkhis Review on Blog by Design

Recently, I saw multiple blogs on the web writing about UBD’s theme, so at first I ignored it because the last premium theme they released, Citrus theme was crap. I didn’t like the looks of it, didn’t like the organization. But this time they really impressed me. They came out with the ultimate solution for affiliate marketers. We work hard on creating landing pages. Customizing it and it eats up a lot of our time. I don’t know about you, but time is important to me. And this is exactly what Affiliate Theme does. It uses WordPress as a platform to make your landing page. It lets you customize the theme, change headers, fonts style/size/color and so much more. I just don’t know how much I can write about this theme.

I will let the video explain it to you guys.

Well now what do you think? I think it is an awesome product with a lot of value for new and experienced affiliate marketers. I don’t even think I need to tell experienced affiliate marketers how good this theme is. But to some of the folks who are new at this and might be reading this post, you guys need to spend some money and get this theme. Trust me, that it would be a worthy investment.

Single-Use Package – $97.00 (one time payment)

• Use Affiliate Theme on a single domain/website
• Six (6) unique page templates
• Access to Video Tutorials, Knowledge Base, and Support Forum AND Affiliate Interviews

Multi-Use Package – $147.00 (one time payment)

• Use Affiliate Theme on a UNLIMITED domains/websites
• Six (6) unique page templates
• Access to Video Tutorials, Knowledge Base, and Support Forum AND Affiliate Interviews
• Free Lifetime upgrades
• BONUS Ten (10) pre-made UBD Niche Header Graphics for various affiliate marketing niches

Affiliate Theme – Super Affiliate Package – $197.00 (one time payment)

• Use Affiliate Theme on a UNLIMITED domains/websites
• Six (6) unique page templates
• Access to Video Tutorials, Knowledge Base, and Support Forum AND Affiliate Interviews
• Free Lifetime upgrades
• BONUS Thirty-one (31) pre-made UBD Niche Header Graphics for various affiliate marketing niches
• SUPER AFFILIATE PAYOUTS! Super affiliate payouts! Earn 50% (compared to the normal 30%) of all Affiliate Theme sales you refer to us.
• BONUS Get access to new UBD headers graphics, every month!

Above are the packages that you can get it in. For more details check out their site at Affiliate Themes.

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WordPress 2.7 was out, and Balkhis wasn’t upgraded. And the reason for that was because my WP-Affiliate Plugin will not work. So I had an option of losing a great chunk of my income from Balkhis, or upgrade. You can check out the reasons why I downgraded from WP 2.7.

I was in a search for a perfect plugin, that would replace WP-Affiliate without me changing a whole lot to the posts. It was a tough process because I wanted to use the features of 2.7 and I couldn’t. I am making quiet a lot of money from Balkhis Affiliate Links, and I didn’t want to lose that all. I tried out a lot of plugins in the meantime that would help me, but none of them worked. Few days back, I saw MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate Ad, and I clicked on it. Next thing I know, I ended up buying a $97 WordPress Plugin.

You might be wondering what type of idiot buys a wordpress plugin that is worth $97. Well let me tell you why I ended up buying this wordpress plugin. First, as I mentioned, I have been looking around for a while and comparatively, Ninja Affiliate had a lot more functions to offer which I will go in details. So I would rather spend the money to get the best thing for myself. Now I could’ve set it all up manually, but I don’t have enough time. I have two businesses running, I am a full time student, so time to me is more valuable than money. Because in the time I would save from making those individual manual links, I can start a new product promotion, and get twice the amount. I read the reviews from people, but I wasn’t satisfied. I mean you can never believe something unless you try for yourself. Plus, I had 60 day money-back guarantee, so I said it is worth a try. So I hit the buy now button, and I am going to tell you now that I am truly impressed with it. My earnings have gone up in the past 3 days that I put this plugin to work. So read below and I will show you how this plugin is different, and why my revenue has increased.

So this plugin enriches you with insane amount of control. I have tested quite a few free ones, almost none worked with WP 2.7. But neither one of those offered you this much link control. This lets you track your keywords and choose your own link. Here is a just a screenshot for you that will show you the adding link process. So you should see that I can literally give my url any keyword that I want. It is called branding. I mean why not just use tinyurl that will work also. Now I can put my own brand just about everywhere. Balkhis.com/xxx

As you can see in the picture above, I am making an auto link for the plugin I support, OIO Publisher <- This keyword should convert into a link. I have set the global control that each link should open in a new window, but you can see that I can change it in each post. I didn't change it for OIO though. This is one of the controls that MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate gives you. If you think this is all well you haven’t seen anything yet.

Above is the screen shot that shows you an option page that lets me control, how many keywords do I want to be linked on each page. So I say 3 per keyword, and 5 total links per page. But you can change it to just about whatever you like. This is the control MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate gives you over your blog. Now I don’t want to be one of the guys talking all good stuff about this plugin, but I haven’t seen anything that tells me that this plugin is not a worthy investment. I mentioned above that Balkhis affiliate commission went up and that is because of this keyword option. There were posts that I never linked the keyword to any affiliate link. Now it just automatically links them, so I am getting more money at least the past couple days. So I will let you know when I recover all the money from this plugin.

This plugin saves me a lot of time in more ways that other plugins do. Well I get to make a link and it links all the keywords automatically, so that saves me time from linking keywords that I want. But not only that, it have a tab in the write post section.

You can see that I can just click on any keyword and it will automatically link it there. I won’t even need to type the url anymore. That itself saves me a lot of time. This is just a super feature in this plugin. I absolutely love it. So this will save me time whenever I write a post until this blog exist. So this investment is a long-term investment.

Another cool feature this plugin has is change status bar text, but sadly I have noticed it is not working in my FF browser and I am using Firefox 3. So that is something that needs to be fixed, but knowing the author’s credibility it will be fixed soon. Yes this is Pawan Agrawal, the same guy who have strip ads and bunch of other wordpress plugins.

I know that when I was in the trouble of not being to upgrade a lot of others emailed me as well asking me what I am going to use because they were having the same problem. Well this is the solution for all of you guys.

Some settings I would recommend,

Make all affiliate links no-follow. Pretty easy just change the global setting. Make them open in a New Window. Do not change the style for the link because it makes your site looks hideous. Cloak your links to avoid someone from stealing your profit. And change the status bar text. Use keywords!!! Hope you guys will like it. Let me know if anyone of you guys buy it. Once again it is MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate.

What is Store Stacker?

Basically Store Stacker takes a lot of affiliate programs in consideration rather than just ebay auction. It takes all the products related to your niche from all the different places and put it all together. Putting it together with a good/informational look to your users and an excellent SEO Friendly layout for the search engines.

Why Store Stacker?

If the image doesn’t explain, let me explain a little more. It is simple fellas. You have more options then any other niche store. Most are just individual stores either offering ebay auctions, or amazon stores. But with Store Stacker, you have all the companies above as an option. You can maximize your profit by making even bigger store by getting a certain niche products from all different places. More options for your users equal to more money for you.

The second best thing about Store Stacker is that it is SEO Friendly. Now you will probably wonder how is that. Well aside from having individual product page for each product, you now have an ability to extract related videos from youtube to your site. You can extract related articles using RSS. So you have content all over your website to support the products. You can infuse keywords in the url, add keyword tags on every page, you have related product listings on each page, google sitemaps are automatically created and a new site page is created for every product, video or article that the user promotes on your site. So, this means that if you pull 3000 products from your affiliate sources, your website will grow to 3000 plus pages. So you have more ways to rank high in search engines.

Most important thing is that you get to control how your site looks. You can organize the content in any way or form. It is very easy to set up. Old offers automatically expire, so no need to worry about removing old content. This is basically everything put into your hand to make money, so take advantage of it.

Store Stacker is very user friendly. Your users can surf and sort products using the search bar that is already embedded in the script. You don’t have to start a website from scratch. Just add it to your niche site, and increase your traffic by giving your user extra resource, and put some more money in your pocket.

What do you get when you buy Store Stacker?

Well you get a chance to make tons of money. But aside from that the package includes:

• 12 templates, user manuals, and video tutorials.
• On-Call Email Support
• Unlimited License to the product meaning you only have to pay once for this. This is not some kind of a trap that you have to pay monthly or yearly for the license. Buy it once and upload it on as many sites you like.
• You get a lot of options with choosing affiliate networks. They have local ebay stores available as well along with more coming.
• A very SEO Friendly shopping script.

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Store Stacker Videos

As you read above, that Store Stacker offers video tutorials. Well I thought you should check out the link above to see all aspects of this product. I am sure you will love it, but you can check for yourself. For the quick intro check out the video below.

How much does Store Stacker Cost?

After this awesome review, you might be thinking this will be something outrageous. But it is only $97 that includes ebay, amazon, and youtube plugins. There is no monthly fees. The requirements aren’t very high. If you are looking for good hosting, then check out Balkhis Recommendation. You can buy other plugins such as Overstock, Clickbank and others for $25 each. Which might be a turn down for some of you, but I think of it is a net investment because you will be making a lot more.

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Seriously Balkhis what do you think?

Well guys I think this is the product that is worth your money. Reason? Why pay BANs or any other script that only targets ebay auctions. Take your stores to another level with Store Stacker. This industry is not a piece of cake, but it is not rocket science either. If you have been making money with affiliate marketing and stores. Expand your profits by using store stacker. All I will say is that this is by far the best one that I have seen. I have had run an amazon book store, and ebay auction both individually, and it has done well. But I think using this will be even better. Now there was one thought that you could be thinking that only 12 themes. The theme system is using smarty, so you can easily get a new customized theme. If you need a cool theme, you can always hire my company to do the work for ya.

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Well there are multiple form of advertisements. I am sure you guys know about CPM, click per impression where you get paid for the more impression you have. I am sure you guys also know about CTR which is our good ol’ Adsense where you get paid when a user click on your ad. Pay per lead is when your user clicks on your ad and fill out a form, or in other words complete the offer.

T3Leads claim to have the highest payout. But that is a normal thing you will see as you enter affiliate marketing. So Balkhis, do they really have the highest payout? Well gee, I don’t know to tell you the truth. It is not like other affiliate marketing companies where you can just log in to your account and start comparing the lead payout. Instead at T3Leads, they have their own method.

T3leads.com generate leads through a unique auction system that allows you to earn maximum profit. So in some cases you might be earning $2 per lead, and in others you will be earning $20 for that same lead. That is because they let the advertisers bid on how much they want to pay for that lead. T3leads contains mostly financial related products, so you might get paid $2 per lead for a person who got loan in Montana, but you might get $20 per lead for a person in New York.

What set T3leads aside from the rest?

They have multiple payment options. That is what a lot of companies lack. They either offer wire transfer, or check. But T3leads have more than just that.

As you can see above that they pay through paypal, and any other way that you could possibly want. The downside in that is that they take away a few % for sending you other ways. So if you get paypal, you will get $97 instead of $100.

Another good part about T3leads.com is that they offer payments biweekly. That means every 15 days whereas other affiliate companies take 30 to 60 days. So this way you get your money more quickly. Who like to wait for money to get in their pocket? Not me, that is why people should join this company.

Control Panel

They kept this very simple. There is news displayed right when you login the account. Referrals, total earning and everything else is included in there as well.

Organization of the offers is very simple as well, so anyone can pretty much use it.

Bonus

I noticed that they are offering their most active affiliates with some nice gifts like sony vaio and more.

So all to all, I think this is worth a try. The only issue I see is the pay per lead auction thing because I think they should be more clear about it. So I know which offers work best. Other than that, I don’t find anything wrong with them. They are like another affiliate network. So Join T3leads.com Now

Let me tell you how. The answer to this problem is Just uptime.

Just uptime is a service that monitors website and server for uptimes, and if your site happens to go down. They will notify you through email notifications, and through text message alerts.

Features

• Alerts via SMS text message + email
• Monitor uptime and response time
• Detailed reporting
• Multiple check locations
• HTTP, TCP, Ping, & UDP checks
• Uptime & load reports
• and much more….

Now you might be thinking that it is some type of developer tool, and you won’t get half of it because you are not very tech savvy. Well no. Just uptime have a user friendly interface that doesn’t require you to have a techy background. As soon as you login, you see a dashboard that tells you the update on all of your sites, latest notifications. Your credit summary. It also have a graph that tells you everything that you need to know in a short form. Now you are thinking man this service sounds good but I don’t want to pay a whole heck alot. Well than just sign up for the trial version.

Aside from the report that you get on the home page, you can get a detiled report:

If you are thinking, this is some type of service that will try to trick you with their credits, and if you hit one count over, you will be charged more. Well no think again. Because they give you full control of your credits, so you can manage them the way you want to.

The bottom line is that this service is terrific. Obviously something that is this good doesn’t come free. But they do have a trial version, so you can try it before hands.

They have two plans which are at a relatively cheap price:

Just Uptime Basic – $9.95 / month

• 5 checks included
• 20 SMS text message alerts
• 100 E-mail notifications
• Unlimited contacts

Just Uptime Premium – $39.95 / month

• 30 checks included
• 200 SMS text message alerts
• Unlimited E-mail notifications
• Unlimited contacts
• Discounted Credits

So now it comes down to do you care about your site? If you do, and you don’t want it to suffer downtime when you are out of town on a vacation. Then make your vacations safe by joining Just Uptime. If you don’t want to pay remember a 30 day trial waits for you. All free. Take advantage of it. Sign up for the trial version now.