Less than a year ago, I wrote about Rick Butts and his Twitter Squeeze product which helps you gain more followers in Twitter and also attract more traffic to your web site or blog, which ultimately leads to you gaining more business and making money online. I noticed recently, however, that there are certain issues when it comes to accessing the members' pages at TwitterSqueeze...

For example, the Avast anti-virus system displayed a Trojan Warning (HTML:IFrame-EE) when I tried to access the members' area. In addition, the old affiliate links now lead to the StarDustFactor site of Rick Butts.

There's an important lesson here for affiliate marketers. We need to review the sites we promote periodically, to see if the traffic you generate for online marketers along with the benefits that traffic creates are being equitably shared by the online merchant with you, the hardworking affiliate.

One way of salvaging the situation is to make use of redirects (instead of a direct affiliate url), so that in case the affiliate program goes poof, you can easily redirect the link you promoted in the past to some kind of update page.

Another tip you can use is to go and get any ordinary paper notebook, and turn it into an affiliate marketing diary of sorts. This will help you remember which merchants have lasted for years, and which affiliate programs disappeared after less than 12 months. It helps you move ahead, and saves you time when evaluating future offers.

In the meantime, if you want to learn how to use Twitter to augment your online marketing campaigns, check out Brute Force Twitter or the Twitter Salvation System.

There are at least two schools of thought in Twitter: Grow your number of followers in Twitter, or Follow just a manageable number of people.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages. My recommendation is for you to try both. Create two Twitter accounts where you can experiment and see what happens. Based on what I've seen, though, it's the people who have a large number of followers in Twitter that have experienced increases in their online income.

There are some, though, who manage to earn money even if they have less than 2,500 followers. There are more profitable internet marketers, however, who have at least 10,000 followers. Then again, the low-follower-count slash high earning marketers might just be flying under the radar.

Good luck with your own Twitter experiments. May it help you sell more of your services or downloadable infoproducts. Here's to your success! :-)

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"Twitter Squeeze Update"
First Posted: May 17, 2009 | Filed in: Make Money Online

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