I enjoy promoting TBHost.com.  The company has a well designed web site that sells, so there is a better than usual chance of getting the sale from visitors who click through from my site. 

Also, the people working there are dedicated to their customers AND their affiliates equally, so I feel I can work with TBHost with long term confidence, unlike other web hosting companies who suddenly change their affiliate program rules or just disappear without paying commissions owed.

Getting web site visitors, especially targeted visitors, is an eternal preoccupation for all webmasters. And getting them at a reasonable price is an increasing challenge.  After many mistakes I've found the most rewarding strategy is to go for what I call "MiniMax". What's MiniMax? Simply put, it's a way of getting the maximum revenue for the minimum cost and effort. My budget is limited and so is my time, so I concentrate on the biggest search engine of all - Google, which today accounts for well over 60% of all web searches. Get your site indexed in Google and it's automatically indexed in Yahoo!, AOL, and many other search engines with no extra effort! Plus, it's the last important search engine which allows you to submit for free.

 To get well ranked in Google I concentrate on 3 things: 

1. Content.

I try to have as much good, original textual content as possible, each page focusing on one or two selected keywords or key-phrases. Good places to find suitable keywords are Overture and WordTracker.

2. Internal linking.

Internal links are the way the pages of a web site are linked together. Even if a site of mine has only one page, I add other pages called, say, "About Us", "Contact Us", "Links", "Site map", etc. with suitable content, and I make sure each page links back to my home page as well as linking to each other. That way each page benefits with inward links. And inward links are one of the things Google loves. Google provides a lot of useful free advice to webmasters which is well worth studying and following.

3. Inward links.

Inward links are the links from other web sites which increase your site's link popularity, an increasingly important factor now used by nearly all search engines in the ranking process. I concentrate on text links only. That's because banners are graphics which Google really doesn't understand. Plus banners on a page slows down the loading speed in the visitor's browser, tempting him to click away. I don't use any automated linking programs like linkstoyou.com. Google hates these link farms and has been known to ban sites that link to them.

Instead I work on getting link partners manually, one by one. Yes, it's time consuming, but the nice part is you don't actually need a huge number of links to substantially improve link popularity. So I concentrate on exchanging links with a relatively small number of sites that have related content and which have high Google PageRank values of 5 or more. What is Google PageRank? Well, it's Google's way of ranking the importance of any web page and you can see it for yourself when you have the free Google Toolbar installed in your browser.

Finding link partners which have high Google PageRank is very time consuming so I use a time-saving online tool called Desktop Spider. With this easy-to-use software you just enter a website url or a keyword. Then Desktop Spider queries the search engines and finds out which sites link to the site you entered or which match your keyword. Then the Spider queries again to find out how many inward links each site has and returns the results in order from most links to fewest. Done in seconds. The sites with the most inward links are the ones I contact for valuable reciprocal links to improve my site's link popularity and search engine rankings.