Hi there,
My name is Matt Carter and I’m a full time internet marketing entrepreneur. I make a living from various online sources focusing on affiliate marketing and other avenues. I currently live in Sydney Australia with my wife and son.
I like to do all my marketing ethically and provide true value to my subscribers. I understand that starting out online can be difficult and not everyone has money to spend on products and software, so my blog will always provide free quality training tips for all.
If you join my email list you will receive updates from me regularly and recommendations for great products to purchase.
What Is MattsMarketingBlog.com About?
After experiencing success online in various niche markets, I decided that I would like to share the tricks that have worked for me, that’s how my blog MattsMarketingBlog came to be. The goal of my blog is to provide valuable content for free to other affiliate marketers to help them fast track their success.
I also want to build a community of people with MattsMarketingBlog and share ideas and grow together. Therefore I encourage people to participate on my blog and leave comments. Also I need to be totally honest and say if you email me, you may or may not get a response, the reason is that I get so many emails these days that I simple can’t keep up, but I’ll try my best, but paid customers will always get my time.
If you want to fast track your success then I highly encourage you to check out my indepth paid coaching product here: Rapid Profit Formula.
This blog is aimed at providing advice for a wide range of online marketing techniques, such as PPC, SEO, product development, copy writing, affiliate marketing, social media, blogging etc…however the main focus is on affiliate marketing and free traffic through SEO as that’s what I do most.
FREE 12 Part Video Course
If you haven’t already, then I encourage you to grab my free 12 part internet marketing video course from the side menu, and also my Premium WordPress Affiliate theme, as these two free products are a fantastic start to making money as an affiliate.
If your dream is to make a full time living online, then you’re in the right place because I’m here to help you reach that goal.
Thanks for stopping by.
Catch ya soon,
"Thanks Matt, we just made our first sale!!
Hey Matt,
I purchased the Rapid Profit Program but it seems that the site is down and I cannot login as the site seems down. It is rather frustrating. Please could you give me any indication as to when the site will be back up so that I could continue with the course?????????
Matt definitely knows what he’s talking about considering this blog is on the front page for “affiliate marketing”.
Hi Matt,
I’ve been following your blog for quite some time now and recently I heard something from another marketer that either a) isn’t true or b) I somehow missed.
They said you made your start selling physical products with “mini” sites. I was wondering if there was any truth to that because personally I’ve set up 100+sites and while I get loads of traffic for physical products my sales are VERY very low.
Thanks!
Matt Carter Reply:
March 18th, 2011 at 9:12 am
Hey James
Yes this is true
Thanks
Matt
Hi Matt,
I’m 14 sentences through a 33 sentence (450 words) article on my new copy of Rapid Re-writer. I can’t imagine why you would outsource this type of torture Matt!
Anthony
Matt – I’m now going through your Rapid Profit Formula course and learning a ton. I have some experience but your method and techniques are finally putting it together.Thanks for the theme and thanks for all the great material. I’m sorry but I have to go find some “buying” keywords. I’ve got some sites to launch!
Stay well!
Hey Matt,
your Rapid Profits Formula is very helpful. I couldn’t recomend it more to anyone wanting to learn the ropes the right way and forget all that hype available these days about making thousands a week with some magic, underground software with one click!. What BS.
I have completed my first webpage on my site using your methods Garmin 1490LMT Review. My site is going to be a muti product site within the GPS niche. I plan to build out the website and link to other sites I create relating to a particular gps unit. For example, I will promote a golf gps and link to another site promoting golf apparel and vise versa.
Anyway, I’m enjoying your RPF and your webinar with Mike Long and Kelly Felix today was excellent. Wow, 3 hours of information and TIPs. Glad I had the day off from work to participate.
P.S. I signed up for ‘Bring the Fresh’ and looking forward to using these methods too.
Cheers
Peter
Hi Matt
Watched (most) of the webinair from the other night can only describe it in one word….brilliant!!
It has generated so many ideas that I can produce sites for, that I just don’t have the time to get involved with any more informational advice at the moment. However I most definitely want to subscribe to Beat the Fresh in the future. Can you let me know if this is an ongoing product that will be available?
As an aside the great thing is there is so much to learn and so much info you are ‘throwing’ at us for free I personally haven’t the time to disseminate all… talk about info overload! One thing that made me chuckle was, I think it was Mike talking about ‘Rich Jerk’…I bought it! and did nothing with it!! Damn I’m kicking myself But I agree I think it was the delivery that put me off and glad he sees it that way.
I will be investing in your rewriting tool very soon, think it is a brilliant product and expect it to save me hours of work….talking of which need to crack on with my site..speak soon
Phil
Hey Matt,
I want to say a big THANK YOU for all the amazing information you are giving out totally free!
My IM skills have improved so much since joining your list and reading your posts and following your instructions in all areas of IM.
It all started with the “12 Part Video Coaching Series” which in itself is enough to get anyone started! But you go and offer even MORE free content!
Amazing!
The free WordPress theme you give out is just super. I can’t believe how easy it is to use and it makes my site look so clean and fresh. I love it!
I started my site only three weeks ago and already I am at number 4 on page 1 of Google!!
I wonder if your SEO skills used in your theme helped push my site up the ranks!
Also, I saw that very cool 3 hour marathon video with Mike and Kelly. I learned a ton of stuff from that too!!
I better stop writing now….lol
Thanks Matt, for showing me that anyone can make it online if they persevere.
Andy
P.S. Sorry for the long post.
Hi Matt!I have created my first affiliate site!I have a guy who is direct competition and I believe that it’s going to be a battle between us two for the number one spot.He has the keyword in the domain,perfect on-page SEO and it is roughly the same age as mine(his is 11 days older).I have noticed that the majority of his backlinks are no-follow, so that could be a way of beating him.Do you have any suggestions?This is the site:
how to get skinny fast
Matt Carter Reply:
March 30th, 2011 at 8:20 am
Hey Eduard
My suggestion is to build more and better backlinks than this guy and also do a reverse look up his site using SEO Spyglass and try and get as many links from the same place as he has, then get heaps more yourself.
All the best
Matt
Eduard M Reply:
April 8th, 2011 at 12:31 am
Thank you. I have just seen your reply right after I sent you another question.Sorry.Thank you for your advice and I will let you know how it goes.
Hopefully I will be one of the success stories that you could talk about and use in your future testimonials for upcoming products.
I’m just blown away by how much free stuff you offer. It doesn’t make me less interested in buying the course; quite the contrary. I’m on video #9 of the 12 part series, thanks so much so far. I’ve been a little gun-shy on buying yet another course, but I’m strongly considering doing so. For once, I get the impression that this is real.
Matt,
Do you use RankBuilder as part of your daily business? Is it part of your core tool set?
Thanks!
Mike
Hi Matt!I have created one website using your techniques.It’s about 5 days old now and have managed to get it on the third page of google,but it doesn’t seem to move up anymore. I have created many backlinks, but when I use diverse tools to check on them, only a few show up.
I have also noticed that another person created a very similar website to mine with on-page SEO just as good as mine and his backlinks seem to come up quicker.
What would you advise me to do in order to get that ranking up and make sure that my backlinks show up faster? I have created hundreds of backlinks and also pinged all of them.
Thank you.
The website is http://www.howtogetskinnyfastinfo.com
Hi Matt,
We’re looking forward to your response about the trademark infringement issue re: our product, the Anxiety Wrap®. I had sent a notice to you via your web site, but haven’t heard back. Sorry to submit a comment re: this but I’m trying to find the best way to reach you so the infringement can be resolved quickly.
Thank you,
Kimberly
Matt Carter Reply:
April 10th, 2011 at 9:08 am
Hi Kimberly
Not sure what you are referring to, I have never heard of your product before “anxiety wrap” ???? I think you have the wrong person. What site are you referrting to? Maybe someone using my wordpress theme has done something, but I can assure you it is not me. You can email me on matt [at] mattsmarketingblog.com if you want
Matt
Hey would you mind letting me know which hosting company you’re working with? I’ve loaded your blog in 3 different web browsers and I must say this blog loads a lot quicker then most. Can you suggest a good hosting provider at a fair price? Cheers, I appreciate it!
Matt, I must say :”THANK YOU”. I have followed all your instructions and I am at no 3 for a keyword that gets 3600 searches per month(exact match) . I have achieved this in 3 weeks. I will work towards achieving that 1st spot now.
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You have some honest ideas here. I done a research on the issue and discovered most peoples will agree with your blog. After that early period, the Beatles evolved considerably over the years.
I am really enjoying the theme/design of your web site. Do you ever run into any internet browser compatibility issues? A small number of my blog readers have complained about my site not operating correctly in Explorer but looks great in Safari. Do you have any solutions to help fix this problem?
Hostgator is good
Matt
hi Matt,
Very much appreciate your free vids and I love your free WP affiliate theme. Just set one up and am about to work on getting the backlinks now.
One thing I learned from another site is that Amazon does not recommend using trademark names in domains. I read a comment on a forum. This is part of a message they received from Amazon:
“Thanks for your application to the Amazon Associates Program. When you filled out our online application form, you listed the URL for your web site as: http://nikonsb-600.net
We do not allow the use of URLs that include trademarked words. This includes variations or misspellings of any trademarked words. Therefore, we are unable to accept your application. As a result of this decision, you will no longer be able to access your Amazon Associates account.
Please review our Operating Agreement for further details”
Apparently it doesn’t happen every time, but Amazon checks randomly. The person had spent 4 weeks building the site and getting backlinks before applying for am Amazon account.
This info may help some people with deciding on a domain name.
Incidentally, I personally agree with the first comment above that downunder marketers are pretty good. One is less likely to be ripped off by an Aussie or Kiwi. Generally we are pretty honest and don’t use hype.
Cheers!
Gail (another Aussie!)
PS. I set up my site using “Bring The Fresh” instructions coupled with your blog template & your videos and my intention is to use Rankbuilder for building backlinks. I’ve heard that Google has changed algorithms lately and may detect sites that build backlinks too quickly, sending them to the sandbox. What are your thoughts on auto backlinking from article spinning?
Aussie Gail
Hi Matt,
Thank you for this great blog. I’ve learned so much from all the posts. Great thing is that I’ve got some amazing results on my own website.
Thanks
Hi Matt
I have purchased the Rapid Formula Course. I’m just taking it easy to make sure I follow step by step all the way. I’ve messed up so many times and keep buying softwares I do not even know how to use.
Anyway the course itself is simple enough to follow if I have problems will let you know.
For those who are skeptical dont be I personal would recommend it.
Keep them coming Matt and cheers
ps Hope to build a website soon.
Maggie
Hi Matt:
Looks like your blog has a new look. Looks great.
Just letting you know you can teach an old dog new tricks. I’m 67 and trying to get my head around internet marketing for a bit of retirement income. After purchasing your course, I tried some of your ideas on a website I built for a golf product I’m selling.
Went from oblivion to second page on Google in two weeks. Hope it keeps climbing with more work. Think the backlinking may have done the trick.
Cheers,
Bob
Hi Matt,
My husband Gordon (Jablonski) asked me this question and I don’t have he faintest idea. I have asked Google and found a few references to it, but the question has not been satisfactorily answered. Gordon says “if anyone can answer it Matt can” so here goes.
What is the difference between Pinging and Indexing – do we need to do both and do we have to pay to get indexing done? Kind of three questions really, but it really has me baffled. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Joan
Matt Carter Reply:
May 13th, 2011 at 9:16 am
Hi Joan
Pinging is just where you use a pinging service which is something that sends a notification to a seach engine that a page has been updated and the search engine bots neeb to come over and see. Indexing is where the search engine adds that page to their index if they have,’t already. Pinging can therefore help get things indexed.
Hope that helps
Matt
Matt
Great resources and great course, made my first couple of affiliate sales due to the advice in the course.
Thanks
Jon
After being in affiliate marketing for the last 8 years, I was skeptical that I could learn more about the “in’s and out’s” of performance marketing and online marketing overall. I think the thing that sucked me into reading it and making it from cover to cover was that all the contributors to the book are well-known, authoratative, and people I know or have seen be successful. It is important to read this with an open mind knowing that each person has unique points of view. I was able to glean nuggets out of most sections that will be useful for me today, as well as when I encounter new things going forward. I read this on a plane and it was easy to get through in two 2-hour flights.
Hello Matt,
I really appreciate you and the awesome material you made available. Your training is A+++ Thank you.
Hi Matt, I’m new on this site and I want to thank you for the videos, these were very useful. I think these videos will help me a lot.
Thank you,
John
Hey Matt,
Enjoyed your latest video where you talked about website critique and used examples on the web. Any chance you may repeat this with a handful of websites that people have built following your website and back-link blueprints? I would love the chance to submit my site (i’m sure many others would too) and hear your recommendations. I’m sure this would attract a lot of attention too. Just an idea.
Regards, Matthew, M.
Am greatly enjoying yo staff.
I love your FREE 12 Part Video Course and especially almost very trainings on you blog.
Purchased the rapid forumula course and im referring to video 2.2 keyword research and guageing competition on keywords.
Well, Yahoo currently reports; Site Explorer is currently undergoing periodic maintenance which makes SEO Quake totally useless in determining backlink compeition at the present time it shows 0 all across the board.
So how can you determine keyword competition when Yahoo is shutting down their service?
How can we determine how many backlinks each site has as per video 2-2?
Matt Carter Reply:
May 29th, 2011 at 7:58 am
This message from Yahoo just means you have been blocked temporarily for a few hours for oversearching with SEO Quake, it will work again soon for you
hey Matt, this is a great website! I like your resources and how well you explain yourself and your success with internet marketing. We started this internet business in Jan of 2011 and have been putting lots of time towards it. I know in time it will pay out real big. Cant wait till that day!
Hi Matt,
Just wanted to say that I bought your “Rapid Profit Formula” course a little while ago and it has taught me valuable things about setting up an affiliate business. Many thanks for your tips!
I am putting these into practice now with my DC25 review website.
Thanks,
Bob
Hey Matt,
Do you have any idea how long it will be before your “Coaching Program”
is launched? Anxious in N.C.!!!!!
Thanks,
Ron Brantley
Matt Carter Reply:
June 3rd, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Hey Ron
I’m working on it, been planning it al out the past few weeks, so it is coming, just got so much on at the moment that I’m finding it hard to get it completed, but I think next week for sure
Thanks
Matt
Hey Matt, just wanted to say – great redesign of your blog!
Very professional, easy to read and navigate, logical, simple, and yet classy – just like your videos!
You are quickly becoming my new role model for an Internet marketer! I am glad I “found” you, and thank you very much for all that you do!
~Nat
Matt Carter Reply:
June 5th, 2011 at 9:48 am
Hey Natalia
Thanks so much for your kind words, I really appreciate that and good to have you onboard.
Matt
Matt I have been following you for a couple of years now, and I have to say you are easy to understand and complete to the end in everyone of your programs, I love learning from you and have kept every one of your emails. Keep on keeping on!
Lisa
Matt, thank you so much for all the work you do. I am an avid follower and I learn alot from you. I have a question, if I may…
Do I tell my readers that I am an internet affiliate marketer or let them think I am just writing reviews and blog for their benefit?
And if I do – should I mention that I will donate part of it to my choice of philanthropic organization? any idea what is the impact of both?
Hey I need to know how to unsubscribe one of my email accounts. (this one) I have since registered with a second one, and am continuing to receive your very helpful and informative emails on my other email account, but don’t need to be receiving doubles.
Thank you Matt. Keep up the great work!
Sincerely
Jesse
Hi Matt
I’ve got an issue with my first affiliate site and although I have searched the net for some advice – I’m still a little confused and worried, so thought I would also ask you for some advice as I am on your list and also have purchased Rapid Rewriter last year (and plan to purchase Rapid Profit Formula) and believe you to be the most straightforward and honest guy around on the subject.
About a month ago my site (in the anxiety market) was starting to rank page one for some of the lesser searched keywords – which was bringing me a little traffic but inspired me to step up my back linking (which I am still doing). I was hoping I was a lucky benefactor of the Google Panda update but a few days ago the site seemed to drop off the edge of the world.
On checking Google stats I notice that they have found 10 crawl errors (which are a result of me updating the site and foolishly leaving 10 broken links as a result of a change to the name of my index page). On reading a few posts I’m confused. Is this ‘slap’ now permanent or will my ranking rise again now that I have fixed the issue once Google crawl the site again? At the moment I rank at bottom of page 2 for my own domain name (when searched as “xxx”) – which is heart breaking.
Any advice greatly appreciated
Thanks
James
Hi Matt
I following you for awhile now love the stuff you put out and endorse that backlinks hydra was great, but as a beginner what can I do to get massive traffic I have about 8 sites four of them have been at the top of google at one time or another sometimes even double and triple positions but still not great traffic, one of those sites is making the bulk of the money I bring in and it only gets about 400 visits a month, so it’s converting but I got to get more eyeballs on that site my plan is to get 500 to 1000 visits a day but the problem is I really dont have a plan to do it, can you help!
Alexis
Thank you for sharing tons of great free on how to become a affiliate marketer and start making money now.
hi matt,
i have been looking into your blog and your infomation is the very best and which we all like is free, so i have gone and set up my own blog about getting live traffic you can fined it at
http://www.livetraffic.simonn.ws
was wondering if you wouldn’t mined taking a look for me and possibly see if you mite give a few pointers….and thanks for your info….simon n.
ps,,you can email me any tips for my blog to slims2@hotmail.co.uk
thanks matt…..simon n.
PS Actually I have submitted quite a number of emails and comments on the blog, without any reply or any more information emails. Why has everything stopped? I have paid for this course. Is anyone else being treated in this way?
Matt Carter Reply:
July 2nd, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Hi Kathleen
I can’t replay to all personal emails or comments on this blog, it’s not practical for me. If you need support with a product then you need to use the support ticket sytem and one of my trained employees will help you.
Regards
Matt
Hi Matt
after a break of about a month I am back on track and reading, doing th IM business again trying to rank for 3 websites.
I think your advice and tips and your products are some of the best I have come across
thanks again Matt
regards
Stuart
Have just listened to the $25k p/m adsense webinar and have a question: I have adsense on my website, but the site was create for America and the ads are all local. Web advertising is not used much in SA; in is mostly used by media, which use national advertising. Can the ads be channelled to other countries?
Chris Nicholaidis Reply:
July 13th, 2011 at 6:08 pm
Mo,
Adsense localises itself to the visitor. If a visitor to your site is from the US it’ll display US specific ads, from SA, SA ads etc. The ads are dynamic, not static. Thats my 2 bits and I’m sure Matt will agree with me.
PS in Google Webmaster tools you can change the targetted geographic area for your site…that might help as well
PS I’m a FGASA Field Guide in SA. Just not working there right now
Hi Matt,
Your Free video course is great – thoroughly enjoying it and has some really great info in it.
Quick questions, I am using your WordPress theme, but how do I remove/change the name of the “Home” page on the header?
Thanks,
Charlie.
Dear friend,
Thank you for your wonderful videos, truly awesome. It’s been my dream to be in the ‘real’ internet community that someday would be able to provide freedom and wealth for me and my family…
Thank you again and may GOD bless…
Regards,
Susan Wellington
Hi Matt, Been following your for quite a while… bought your Rapid Profits course – great stuff. Appreciate all the great content you provide and for injecting some integrity into IM.
Wondering if you might have some advice for me here… Each and every time I’ve ever tried to build backlinks from blog commenting, I’ve ended up with a virus on my computer from visiting “bad” blogs. In fact, I got a virus just this weekend by visiting a reputable blogger and accidentally clicking on a link from a blog post about backlinking. So it seems I don’t even need to build the backlinks – just reading about it is enough.
Is it just me? Any way to avoid this?
Thanks again.
Hi Matt,
I am an absolute newbie when it comes to affiliate marketing. I am very interested in getting the RPF; however, I have some concerns that I would like you to address:
1. I have zero knowledge on how to make blogs. In fact, I could never even dream of making my own website. Will you work me through it if I bought your RPF?
2. Realistically speaking, for a newbie who follows the RPF, what are the monetary expectations and what timeline are we looking at?
Thanks,
Rose
Hi Matt! Thank you for your extremely helpful free video series coaching. Although I just got to the 3rd but I found it so easy to understand especially for a beginning like myself. Is there anyway I can download your training series rather than waiting for you to send to my every two days?
Thanks
Matt Carter Reply:
August 23rd, 2011 at 8:01 am
Hi Nguyen
Hope you are well and nice to hear from you.
Actually there is no way to download the videos. I did that once and someone started selling them on Clickbank!!
Cheers
Matt
Hi Matt,
Recently purchased your Rapid Profit Formula, and think it is great! As a newbie to IM I appreciate how honest and straight forward everything is. I also love your Theme, as I am not a tech guy, and could not figure out Thesis. Anyway created my first site, and got it up and running thanks to your vids.
Thank You,
JP Reed
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Matt Carter Reply:
August 29th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Hi JP
Great to see you got your first site up. sorry about issues with the theme, it does work, but sometimes with different hosting account settings it plays up.
Regards
Matt
Hello Mat.
Just want to say,thank you for the free course.I am half way through,and i must say i am learning more from you than all the rest of the so called affiliate marketers put together.
I have been burned a few times by very slick and clever people but you are the real deal.I will be signing up to your program A.S.A.P.
Thank you, John Sefton.–from Liverpool England.