But alas, since no SEOs control the search engines, we cannot guarantee to any client or to our boss who’s demanding that we give some hard factual numbers that he can pump at his next big-important-guy meeting where your site will end up in the search engines and even if you’ll make a return on your investment.

However, all that aside (as invigorating as it was), we CAN determine a close-as-accurately possible number using a method of approach explained by SEOROI.com.

The author of the site, Gab Goldenberg also made a very useful and relevant guest post at Wolf-Howl.com, the website ran by Michael Gray.

What Gab offers within the guest post and his outline on how to forecast SEO ROI, are both must reads if you’re tasked with the job of forecasting SEO for your company or for your clients.

Enjoy!

They track what they’re doing….to the detail.

Super affiliates don’t get to where they’re at overnight.  Nope.  They start off their careers just like you, with almost no money to spend in advertising.  The difference is, they realized early on that if they don’t keep track of what’s doing well and what’s not, they may as well throw money out the window.

We’re talking about people like:

• Jeremy Shoemaker of Shoemoney.com.
• Jay Stockwell of SpeedPPC.com
• Aymen from the ArbitrageConspiracy.com
• and Tim Houston from AffiliateLifestyle.com

You should know by now that I don’t recommend things lightly.  And what I’m about to tell you will save you thousands of dollars.  Literally.

The program I’m referring to is StatsJunky and it will change your affiliate life!

Why?

Because you’ll know in an instant if what you’re promoting is making you money or just pulling it out of your pocket.

As an example, there’s one affiliate in particular who set up a StatsJunky account and found that one of their neglected sites was actually converting at over 14% (which is unheard of by the way). Without knowing how well this site was converting, they very well would have overlooked it and lost out of thousands of dollars in sales.

What StatsJunky does is automatically download and update all of your affiliate stats.  If you’ve been doing it the “old fashioned” way your typical day may have gone like this:

1. Visit your affiliate site such as Clickbank.
2. Login to your statistics area.
3. Download the information.
4. Add it to a spreadsheet.
5. Visit another affiliate site.
6. Get your stats.
7. Download your stats.
8. Add it to a spreadsheet.
9. Continue this process until all of your program statistics were updated (including PPC ads).
10. Place all of this into a spreadsheet.
11. Try to figure out what was making you money and what wasn’t.
12. Do this every day.

With StatsJunky you’ll never have to do this again.

Every last one of the programs that you’re promoting as well as the way that you’re promoting them (AdWords for example) is stored and updated within StatsJunky on your own computer in its own encrypted file.

There are over 200 (and growing) programs supported by StatsJunky including:

• ClickBank
• AdWords
• Ad On Network
• Facebook
• 1ShoppingCart
• Aweber
• Azoogle
• CPA Empire
• Profit Center
• Yahoo Publisher
• and tons more!

And in the event your program isn’t listed, just request it and they’ll get the data for you.

Ok, that’s great but now what?

The best thing about StatsJunky is that you can see at a glance what’s making you money and what’s not.

You can sort by things like:

• Impressions
• Clicks
• Sales
• Leads
• Rebills
• Refunds
• EPC/CPC
• Conversion Ratio
• Earnings
• Projected earnings per year
• and more.

Additionally, for those of you who use PPC ads, you can even drill down to the keyword level on your campaigns to see which keywords are giving you the most return on your investment.  Then you can simply get rid of those under-performing keywords and move that traffic to the higher performing keywords.

While all this is fantastic in and of itself, I haven’t even touched on all of the different statistics you can get by using StatsJunky.

Now, I promised you that I’d tell you how to save thousands of dollars on this product…well, here it is…

For a VERY LIMITED TIME, until July 31st 2009, or until all 1,418 spots have been taken, you can get StatsJunky for only $297 FOR LIFE!

Why are they doing this?  Well, it’s their birthday sale.

Why is this such a big deal?  Because this NEVER happens.  “Regular” customers have to pay $99 a month!  But during this promotion you get StatsJunky for only $297 for LIFE!

That saves you over $1,000 a year!

Remember, you will never become a super-affiliate if you don’t understand where your traffic is coming from, if it’s taking money from you or making you a bundle without tracking statistics.

Every successful affiliate marketer knows where they’re income is coming from and where their money’s going.

If you don’t, you are just throwing money down the drain.

Again, you can get lifetime access to StatsJunky for only $297 but ONLY until July 31st, 2009.

And like all quality products, they offer a 30-day, no questions asked money back guarantee.

Visit the site and click the green button that says “Limited Time Offer – Only $297 for Life”.

*Click on any of the affiliate links above to get the $297 Lifetime Offer – but only until July 31st, 2009.*

With all of the “promises” and “quick schemes” there are online it’s very, VERY hard to know who is telling the truth and who is just after your money.

One of those people that I DO count on that one hand of mine, is Mark Ling.  I have known Mark for well over two years and he’s the creator of the Affiloblueprint product.  If you want to follow someone who has actually figured it out…this is the guy.

He is not just someone who teaches affiliate marketing, he has done it himself since 1999 and he’s widely known as a “super-affiliate”.

I remember distinctly back when he first started up his original Affilorama program, where he showed people screenshots of what he at the time paid in Pay-Per-Click costs and it was well over 200,000 a year.   That’s more than some people pay for their homes!  But he didn’t start off that way.    Here’s how Mark tells his story:

“What Makes Me an Expert?

I first started out in internet marketing back in 1999 when my friend Charlie showed me how he was earning paychecks for $50 a month from a website that he set up in the space of 2 hours.

I thought, heck that sounds pretty good, not bad for only 2 hours work! And I asked Charlie if he minded if I tried to do the same thing.

Being the good friend that he is, he was more than happy for me to do so, and after a few months of skipping a lot of classes at college, and sleepless nights, I was earning over $1000 a week from affiliate programs.

And it didn’t stop there, I proceeded to employ students working from the back of my garage, so that I didn’t have to do the tasks that I found super boring.

Within just a few years I was earning over half a million a year in affiliate commissions (and now it is A LOT higher than that).

Over the years as a super affiliate making money online, I have traveled the world, bought my own house, given my mum a job, helped numerous people get ahead online and a lot more.”

Mark is set to again release his Affiloblueprint product on Tuesday April 28th at 6 PM EST.  If you’re interested, you can also watch a short video (about 11 minutes) on how $10,000 in commissions are made.

The AffiloBlueprint product is a 12 week program with 55 video lessons. It starts out with how to find a profitable niche and market research, you’re taken through picking keywords, creating content, building a website, search-engine-optimization, creating newsletters, analytics and troubleshooting, and pay per click. So as Mark usually does, he gives you everything you need to know.

But there is a downside.  There’s so much information that you could be tempted to rush through or skip parts. Don’t do it! Everything in this course is there for a reason, and if you follow it as it is laid out, you will almost certainly be able to make a successful site.  It just depends on what you’re willing to put into it.

AffiloBlueprint also comes with a custom made WordPress template, so if you haven’t made a website before, you can just use the template created by affiliate marketing experts to build your site.

This product is about as newbie-proof as it gets. Everything is clearly explained and there is no assumption of knowledge, so if you’re just starting out, this product is for you. If you do have some experience with affiliate marketing however, you will still find the systematic structure of AffiloBlueprint useful.

If you’re in the affiliate marketing arena or have ever thought about doing so, this is the ONE person I would recommend.  He’s honest, hard-working, and a very easy-going guy.

He’s also offering a couple of bonuses if you do decide to purchase the product.

The first one is “Affiliate Marketing Extreme” which is a $197 course (yours free by purchasing the Affiloblueprint product).  This is the same course that made $119,427.95 in affiliate commissions in two weeks.

Additionally you also get a 1 and 1/2 hour interview that Mark did with another super-affiliate who wishes to remain anonymous.  He’s called “Mr. G” and he brings in $1.2 million dollars a year.  Again, you get this for free when you purchase the Affiloblueprint product.

If you’ve ever struggled with affiliate commissions and want to learn from someone who has been in your position and found out how to achieve success, then this is the link that you want.

- Kristine