Web Marketing Strategy Update

I’ve been using the free Awstats web analytics software for years on many of my domains (I use Google Analytics on some as well now, but the advantage of Awstats is its single page format, giving instant access to the data without lot’s of clicking about).

The other day, I decided my Awstats installation was overdue an update and popped over to SourceForge to pick up the latest version.

While I was looking over the docs to refresh my memory on the upgrade process, I came across a link to a page of Awstats ExtraSection examples on another website.

Awstats ExtraSections enable you to create your own special reports not provided by default with AWStats. I personally only started putting them in my domain configuration files a few years ago, and then only as a means of tracking clicks on exit and redirect links, etc.

It seemed much easier than having separate scripts to track clicks on my affiliate links, for example.

The AWStats Enhancements and Extensions page covers quite a bit more than that though, and provides copy and paste examples of the code to add.

A few weeks ago I bought the $7 Secrets ebook by Jonathan Leger. It was a good read.

The basic idea of selling low cost reports is nothing new of course, but the killer is in the simple twists and scripts that Jon added to create armies of sneezing affiliates passing your virus on.

The $7 Secrets ebook has become so successful that Jon has set up a website, $7 Offers to showcase the growing collection of $7 products available using the scripts supplied free with his $7 Secrets ebook.

The popularity of the whole thing prompted me to create my own $7 product to list on the $7 Offers site for a slice of the traffic it’s getting.

The product is My Article Submitter. I’m sure you know the power of submitting articles to directories, right? Well this software automates the process, yet submits like a human. It doesn’t spam and comes preloaded with 163 sites to get you started.

But best of all, you can add as many other sites that accept article submissions as you want.

It’s a nice piece of software. And right now you can get it for only $7!